The Rotary Club of
Fellow
Rotarians,
Rotary has always been closely involved with the United
Nations. It started at the foundation of the UN when Forty-nine Rotarians
helped draft the United Nations Charter in
"The
invitation to Rotary International to participate in the United Nations
Conference as consultant to the
You can read more about
this at the History of Rotary website on the Internet at www.historynewsletter.org/library/myroad/index.htm#why-rotary-played-un-role.
We are now
experiencing another important historic milestone in Rotary’s relationship with
the United Nations where the Rotary Club of New York's International
Service Division is helping the UN to develop United
Nations Public Private
Alliance for Rural Development! We had the first
meeting on Wednesday, June 18th, 2003.
The purpose of the
meeting was to create a change of direction in the United Nations to be more
entrepreneurial, which means that instead of just donating money and goods to
the poorest countries, the UN would like to encourage for profit enterprises to
develop profitable business ventures that at the same time contribute to the
development of the economies in the poorest countries. When Paul Harris founded
Rotary in 1905, his idea was that successful business leaders would use their
business skills for humanitarian purposes. Paul Harris used to say, “If you
have love for mankind in your heart, you too could be a Rotarian.” We Rotarians
have been doing it for 99 years, which is 40 years before the United Nations
was even founded. The UN is therefore coming to Rotary to learn.
You can read the meeting
notes on our website at www.nyrotary.org/united_nations/un_alliance_meeting_notes_06-20-03.pdf
The
Rotarian’s “four-way test” in
making business decisions is relevant here as well, as it promotes a standard
of excellence by asking: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better
friendships? Will it be beneficial to
all concerned? Such elements are among the basic
expressions of corporate social responsibility.
You can read the whole Concept Paper on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Foundation/un_alliance_concept_paper.pdf.
Leading the effort with the United Nations from our Rotary Club
are Sylvan “Barney” Barnet and Giorgio Balestrieri. Barney is also Rotary International’s
Alternative Representative to the UN and Giorgio is a Member of our Board of
Directors. Our District Governor Bob Benson and I participated as well.
By the way Rotary International President 1999-2000 Frank Devlyn
recently wrote the following message to Giorgio:
Dear Giorgio,
Congratulations! It is good to see that you
have so many Ambassadors as Honorary members. I encourage you to try and have
all the heads of the UN Mission to also be Honorary Members, I assume the
ambassador of Mexico would also accept being an Honorary Member if invited to
give a talk and being recognized as such.
Keep up the good work.
All the best,
Frank Devlyn
As you can
see, Frank is keeping a close eye on the activities of our Rotary Club.
The speaker
at our next
Filiz Akkaya Gray, who recently became a member of our legendary
Rotary Club, has written the Reporter of the Week in the Bulletin. Thank you
Filiz for a very informative report!
The Bulletin
announces the birthdays for Peter Connors on June 25th, George
Kendall, Craig Penn and Bernie Wytko on June 27th. Bill Currie of
June 28th, Jack Haikala on June 29th, Allison Alessi on
June 30th and Kemal Peker on July 1st. Happy Birthday to
all of you!
The Board of
Directors has approved Sandra Navidi and Alessio Cloni as new members. Sandra’s
classification is Attorney/German-American and Alessio’s classification is
Commercial Banking Italian. Welcome to our club! You bring new valuable skills
to our fellowship.
The Rotaract Club at the United Nations has
invited all of us to
their Annual Changeover Party on
The Rotaract Club at the United Nations was chartered with Rotary
International on
I was very sad to hear that Ade Majiyagbe, the
wife of incoming Rotary International President Jonathan Majiyagbe has passed
away. Jonathan has written the following message to all Rotarians:
Dear Fellow
Rotarians,
I am deeply grateful
for the tremendous outpouring of sympathy extended to me and my family
following the death of my wife, Ade. I thank all of you for the many hundreds
of condolence messages we received during this difficult time.
Your heartfelt
response and the comfort it provided has reinforced my faith in the family of
Rotary and the emotional and practical support we can offer each other in times
of distress. Your kindness will continue to inspire me as I assume the role of
Rotary International President under very different circumstances than I had
anticipated only a short time ago.
As many of you know,
Ade believed very strongly in Rotary and its power to help people and effect
change. She also treasured how Rotary enriched our lives — with friends in
every part of the world and countless opportunities to serve others. For that
reason, I feel even more committed to carrying out the program that she so
enthusiastically embraced. I ask for your continued support in the months ahead
as we work together to Lend a Hand to those in need throughout our
troubled world.
Kind regards,
Jonathan Majiyagbe
President-elect, Rotary International
You can read Jonathan’s message on the Rotary International
website at http://rotary.org/newsandinfo/general_news.html.
You can send condolences to Jonathan at http://rotary.org/president/guestbook.html. Contributions in honor of Ade Majiyagbe can
be made to "Ade's Hope Fund for the Education of Women and Children"
c/o The Rotary Foundation,
I recently received the following message from Friedrich
Jaeger at the Rotary Club of Sanibel-Captiva in
Many thanks for the Bulletin. I will be in
Kindest "Rotarian" regards,
RC
Thank you
Friedrich, I will be happy to put you on our mailing list.
Don't forget
to reserve your table for our next meeting. You can reserve 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 http://ussterilizer.com/rsvp_06-24-2003.pdf. Our fax number is 212-633-1954. At our next meeting,
the culinary staff at the
I recommend
that you visit our
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and do good things!
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You can find the following
interesting websites at:
1.
2. The History of Rotary at www.rotaryhistory.org/
3.
Rotary District 7230 at www.rotarydistrict7230.org
4.
District
7230 Group Study Exchange Project at www.nyrotary.org/GSE7230/
5.
Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards at www.rotaryryla.com
6. Rotary Radio every Tuesday
7. Matts Ingemanson, Helen Reisler and Jim
Thompson from the
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