Springfield Rotary - The Spokesman - Archive (Jul 20, 2007)

The popular Janet Edwards of Edwards Books, will return on July 27th to introduce us to her favorite picks for summer reading. Her choices are always on target and always a good read.

The West Springfield Rotary Club is expected to join us at this meeting. Let's welcome our fellow Rotarians.

JULY BIRTHDAYS WILL BE CELEBRATED AT THIS MEETING

ROTARY SHARES: The Pioneer Valley Girl Scouts send their thanks for the club's recent Service Fund Grant presented to CEO Jill Paul on June 15, 2007. Their letter states, "This gift ensures that girls will have the opportunity to develop courage, confidence and character and help to make our world a better place." The RI theme, Rotary Shares, is a reflection of RI president, Wilfrid J. Wilkinson's "commitment to share Rotary with others through service and recruiting new members."

OUR OWN Sergeant-At-Arms, Steve Jablonski, is participating in the fourth annual Littleton "AppleMan" Triathlon, Sunday, July 22. This Littleton Rotary Club Fund Raiser helps support that Club's many community and international projects. This half-mile swim, 10-mile bike, and three-mile run event is expected to attract more than 500 individual and relay team triathletes from all over New England. We're rooting for you, Steve!

RYLA Leadership participant, Esther, spoke to our club Friday, July 13th about the insights she gained at the RYLA training session at Springfield College in June. She was clear that a leader must be a communicator, build trust, and have a strategy. Not often heard in such a report on leadership, Esther told the Springfield Rotarians that a leader must also know how to ask for help. Esther stated that her many learning experiences brought her to the conclusion that we need to focus on the things we have in common rather than our differences. If you missed the 13th meeting, you missed a great opportunity to feel confident about the future and to meet a young woman who is a leader-in-progress. Thank you Esther..

DID YOU KNOW by listing the Springfield Rotary Club's web site (www.springfieldMArotary.org) as one of your computer's "favorites," you can access the Welcome page with current dates and happenings of the club "quick as a wink."

UPCOMING EVENTS:

August 03 -- Mark Mason, President Mass Bar Association

August 10 -- Nathan Davis, United Way

August 17 -- Jason Turcotte - Turcotte Data and Design

August 24 -- Erica Walsh, Speak Easy

August 31 -- NO MEETING.

September 7 -- Rotary to meet at Hilton Garden Inn across parking lot from Basketball Hall of Fame (next to Uno's).

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Spokesman, July 5, 1940: "Going, Going, Gone -- Don't be surprised or confused when you reach the door this Friday to find the old familiar attendance card files gone with the wind. In order to avoid confusion at the door and relieve the three men formerly necessary each week to handle these cards, it has been decided to allow the members to record their presence at the meeting by signing specially prepared cards which will be found on each table. We hope the members will like this change and cooperate by writing their names as legibly as possible." [Guess the members liked the change...we still do it this way 67 years later!]