With so many Clubs doing so many great things in our district, I want to communicate with all members using periodic ‘eBulletins’ – newsletter style emails that utilize content from our website. I will be sending out two different eBulletins, which I will alternate on different weeks of the month. You will receive one about District News and Updates and another about Service Projects and Membership.
Please send details of your great service projects, your new members, and upcoming events, so I can post them in the eBulletins. All submissions can be sent to: karinmgaffney@gmail.com. Please use the following Guidelines....
Rotary exists primarily to 'make a difference' in people’s lives. Yes, we come together to meet, we share a meal once a week or twice a month, we network, we raise money, we share in fellowship. Yes, we do all of those things. But at the end of the day, Rotary clubs and Rotarians in those clubs make a difference and change lives through service above self. In this video, Rotarians from District 7910, which serves 51 Rotary clubs in Central Massachusetts and Metrowest, share their thoughts on what service means to them.
While membership development is the responsibility of all Rotary members all year long, August has been designated as a month to celebrate Rotary’s greatest asset — you.
Don’t miss out on the many valuable resources that are available for prospective and current members. Using these tools allows clubs to improve their members’ experience so that more prospective members join and more current members stay.
Watch this video of President Ian Riseley speaking about the importance of membership flexibility. Also, clubs can use the Discover Rotary presentation and the prospective member brochure to introduce Rotary to prospects. Clubs that want to promote their unique experience, including events and projects, can customize a club brochure available at the Brand Center. They can edit the content and upload their own photos.
My name is Linn Doll Butler. I was the Rotary President of Rotary of Uxbridge, MA during the 2016-17 year. It was challenging to say the least. When I took over, our attendance and moral were down due to some changes of venue and even our location was being threatened due to business problems at our local meeting place. We decided to “bite the bullet” and move forward. Because of our changes ahead, I made some priorities and goals for the year I was in service.
On September 27th the fellowship will hit the links for 18 holes at The Haven in Boylston. Thanks to Bob Paulhus for being the host for the end of the season get-together. Click HERE or visit www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d49aca623aaff2-golf1 for details and to sign up.
Be sure to stick around after playing for some fellowship (and lies about your game)!
Can't play but want to be notified of future golf events? Or, just have some questions about these? Contact Shelby Marshall at shelby.marshall@rahewc.com.
RMB provides Rotarians with business-networking events to meet and socialize with other Rotarians.
The first Rotary Means Business event in Rotary District 7910 will be held onWednesday, September 27th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Chuck’s Steakhouse in Auburn, MA. The cost is $20 but there is a $5 discount for Rotarians if they pre-register. Light appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available.
The Worcester Railers take the ice for the first time at the DCU Center against the Manchester Monarchs!
We are proud to be part of the inaugural game for the Worcester Railers and invite you to join in on the fun!
The Worcester Railers are holding over 200 seats in section 106 for D7910. Tickets are just $20.00 each and includes a Worcester Railers hat. The puck drops at 7PM. This is going to be an exciting game!
Please click on this link http://bit.ly/RotaryDist79 to purchase tickets. When purchasing, please put your club name in the Customer Comments Section. Tickets will be printed by Connor Haynes, Account Executive for the Worcester Railers.
Connor will be happy to deliver tickets purchased to your club or come to your club as a guest speaker to discuss the ticketing process. Connor can be reached at 508-365-1752 or connorh@railershc.com
In the spirit of service, which is both our mission and the focus of RI President Ian Riseley this year, we are soliciting ideas for district-wide service projects that can involve more than one hundred Rotarians. In particular, we are looking for projects that support Ian’s desire to protect the environment and curb climate change, which he views as essential to Rotary’s goal of sustainable service. Know where we can plant trees, remove invasive species, clean rivers, participate in town clean-up days, or run recycling programs to reduce waste? Have other ideas that can help protect our environment?
We are also open to other service project ideas that can involve many volunteers. Perhaps building a house with Habitat for Humanity, running a clothing or household goods drive, working at a food bank or pantry, or donating blankets to a shelter. We encourage partnering with other nonprofit organizations. The possibilities are endless!
Send your service ideas to Lynn Faust, District 7910 Service Chair, at lynn.faust@verizon.net. We would like to collect all ideas by September 15, 2017.
I joined Rotary in 1978, when I was relatively young and had just started my accounting practice. My reason for doing so was because I thought that it would be good for my business to be associated with the movers and shakers of my community. But it didn’t take long for Juliet and me to realize that Rotary offered us so much more. Yes, Rotary provided us with ways to make friends and help build a business. But it also became the best way I know of to make a difference in our communities, both local and globally.
While many people have heard of Rotary, few people actually understand what Rotary clubs do. In fact, 35 percent of the public is unfamiliar with any Rotary program, including their local club. That’s why Rotary has created a new global ad campaign called “People of Action.” The ads are available for download at Rotary.org / brandcenter, where you’ll also find guidelines on how to use and localize each element, making it easier for clubs in any part of the world to tell their story in a consistent, compelling way.
A British academic friend and former colleague has some simple Mithrianic prisms through which he sees the world. As he puts it things are either “hard or soft” or “light or dark.”
Two Rotary related events got me thinking about this initially. One was some reflection on the piece I did here with Steve Sager on ‘locals’ and ‘cosmopolitans’. The other was an informal exchange with the hardworking and open book new president of my club, winner of the Best Club award 2016, Shelby Marshall (below right, wearing best club crown), who loves to hear new ideas….and is a world class implementer. In the case of the latter, we were simply exchanging ideas, one former president to a new one, about ways to better ’humanize’ Rotary, partly because our club is growing rapidly and thinking hard about how to engage new Rotarians. Here then, I want to discuss putting the kind of softness into a club that will make your light shine brighter and members smile, drawing to some degree on my own experience and what is happening in my club as the result of visioning and really good leadership. And yes, partly on the basis of what I hear too often around our district.
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By Ron Goodenow, Rotary Club of Westborough