The Rotary Club of
New York
Fellow Rotarians,
The speaker
at our next meeting on November 5th is Jonathan
Rose, Chairman
of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Chairman of its Building Committee, responsible
for developing new state-of-the-art performing, broadcast and education
facility. You can read more about Jonathan Rose in the latest Bulletin
on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin110502.pdf.
Suzanne Sebert has written our latest Reporter of the Week (in the Bulletin). Thank you Suzanne, she has been a member since 1999 and her classification is International Education Exchange.
You can also read in the Bulletin Bill Currie’s latest update of our Gift-of-Life Project with progress reports about Katherine Espinosa from Ecuador, Karina Viuskina from Uzbekistan and Jovan Pejcic from Yugoslavia. I want to thank District 7250 on Long Island for helping us with Gift-of-Life.
Happy birthday to Pat Mellea on November 3rd and Howard McPherson on November 4th. Howard celebrates his 99th birthday. He was born in 1905, the same year as Rotary was founded.
Rotary’s Global History Project, where I am Vice Chairman, at www.RotaryHistory.org recently published the following information about how Rotary in the early days decided to ban religious and political discussions:
"The 1905 members of the
Rotary Club of Chicago, so valued the friendship of their fellow-members that
they put a ban upon religious and political discussions, fearing that they
might become disturbing factors, and they were richly rewarded for their
foresight. There was plenty of dynamite in questions, which might have been
raised; but they were not raised. The formula was very simple; it read, `Go
about your common tasks together, avoid discussions of dissentious subjects,
and your reward will be friendship.' The formula was worthy of adoption in much
wider circles." Paul P. Harris, Page 59 from "This Rotarian Age"
1935
Now 97 years later Rotarians
still follow this tradition. There are many traditions, born of inspiration
that brought about one of the world's greatest organizations. In Paul Harris's
1935 text book on Rotary, "This Rotarian Age," there many such
examples to share with our readers.
This is a
major reason why Rotary has grown to 1.2 million members in 30,000 clubs around
the world. Rotary is based on compassion, tolerance and fellowship. Rotary’s
founder Paul Harris used to say, “If you have love for mankind in your heart, you too could be a
Rotarian.” You can read more about “What Paul Harris
Said” at www.rotarylibrary.org/minute/.
Don’t forget to reserve your table for our next meeting. You can
do so via e-mail to our office at ny.rotary@verizon.net, or call Andreas or Ana at
212-633-1311. You can also fax in
the RSVP form, which you can download at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/rsvp110502.pdf.
Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s
culinary staff will serve Salmon at our next meeting.
Rotary is about having fun
and perform good deeds!
Internet
Communication Officer
The
Rotary Club of New York
Vice
Chairman
Rotary’s
Global History
This
newsletter has also been posted on our website at www.NYRotary.org.
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You can find the
following interesting websites at:
1.
New York
Rotary Club at www.NYRotary.org/.
2.
Rotary’s Global History
at www.rotaryhistory.org
3.
Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards at www.rotaryryla.com
4. Rotary
Radio every Tuesday 5-6 PM EST or 2-3 PM PST at http://12.162.161.64/cart/ProductList.asp?SearchFor=Rotary+Radio&x=36&y=6
5. Matts
Ingemanson, Helen Reisler and Jim Thompson from the New York Rotary Club were
interviewed on Rotary Radio Tuesday July 9, 2002.
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