Welcome Russ Miller, District 6970’s representative on the Rotary Director’s Advisory Council

Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch at 12:00pm - Meeting at 12:30pm

 Meet Russ Miller
District 6970 Representative on the Rotary Director's Advisory Council

Currently retired and living in Palatka, Florida with his wife of 38 years, Susan. Russ & Susan lived in Wesley Chapel, FL for almost 30 years. After 35 years in sales and marketing primarily within the printing industry Russ spends almost all of his time volunteering either in Rotary, the Guardian ad Litem program or serving on the Board of The Lee Conlee House.

 

Russ joined Rotary in December of 1999 by starting a new club and proudly maintains perfect attendance. Served as Club President in 2001/2002, District Annual Giving Chair for four years beginning in 2003, AG for two years, District Governor, District Rotary Foundation Chair, District 6970 Trainer, Assistant Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator, most all club and district committees and now serves as District 6970’s representative on the Rotary Director’s Advisory Council, Zone 33/34 Treasurer and District Membership Chair.  

Russ quickly became a Paul Harris Fellow, Benefactor, Level Seven Bequest Society member and a Level Two Major Donor to The Rotary Foundation. He has been recognized as a Club Rotarian of the Year multiple times, District Rotarian of the Year and a Champion of The Rotary Foundation.

Russ enjoys all things Rotary, RVing, kayaking and meeting people.

 

Mark Your Calendars - Service Project

PET Mobility Project! We need 10 people to help Saturday, October 12, 2013 at Penny Farms to build scooters!!! The gift of mobility to millions of people in developing countries who are unable to walk! We will be building three-wheeled, hand powered scooters for physically challenged individuals who have lost mobility due to landmine explosions, illness, birth defects, disease or accidents!

Volunteer to build PET parts on Saturday, October 12th from 9am - 12pm.

Come help...so far we have the following volunteers signed up: 

• Mary Alice Phelan
• Jay Plotkin (3)
• Dinkins Grange
• Robyn Watson
• Dan and Rosemary Robie
• Chris Bouton
• Stevan Jones
• Cheryl Robitzsch
• Sandi Christiansen (3)
• Bill Langley

Mark Your Calendars - Service Project

Please Participate in the Second Harvest Can Food Drive!!

Don't forget to bring in 3 to 5 can goods or non perishable food items!! 
Club goal is 300 items!! For those who what to make check donation, please make checks payable to Second Harvest (EIN# 59-1965600) so you get your IRS filing credit. Thank you!!

Mark Your Calendars - Rotary Fall Social Event

What: FL-GA Oyster Roast (dinner, live band)
When: 6:30PM, Fri., Nov. 1 (night before the game!)
Where: San Jose Country Club
How much: $50 per person, inclusive
Dress: Casual, long pants for gentlemen and your school colors!

It is the best party you could possibly attend the evening before the big game with great food and entertainment!

Minutarian Update, Week 13

Week 13. Rotary Minute

This week, DG Art indicates he is often asked during my club visits, how many breakfast clubs we have, lunch clubs, dinner. That is, how many clubs meet on Monday, Tuesday, etc., so he looked it all up.

• Busiest Day: Tuesday with 19 club meetings.
• Most Lunch Meetings: Tuesday and Wednesday with 9 each.
• Most Breakfast Meetings: Thursday with 7.
• Number of Lunch Meetings: 29
• Number of Breakfast Meetings: 21
• Breakfast Meetings on Monday Morning: 0
• Dinner Meetings on Friday Night: 0

Get engaged, yes Engage Rotary, Change Lives

Have a wonderful week!

District Governor Art

Frank Kohler, Past President of the Rotary Club of Lexington Park, Maryland, was one of the twelve victims at the Navy Yard shooting, in DC. Please keep Frank and all the other innocents, in your thoughts and prayers.

 

Welcome Brent Martineau, Sports Director FOX30/CBS47

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch at 12:00pm - Meeting at 12:30pm

 SPORTS DAY - WEAR YOUR TEAM COLORS!!
 Celebrate the kickoff of football season at our tailgate-themed meeting. Wear your team colors. The Rotarians of the most represented team get bragging rights and will lead us in their school fight song / cheer, so don't forget to dress!

Meet Brent Martineau

Sports Director FOX30/CBS47

Brent is the Sports Director for FOX30/CBS47.  He joined the station as the Assistant Sports Director in March of 2008.  You can catch Brent anchoring CBS47's and FOX30's weekend broadcasts and reporting during the week.  He is also a Radio host on 1010XL/92.5FM as well as a Radio sideline reporter for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

He comes to Jacksonville from an award-winning sports department in Albany, NY. Brent was part of a sports team that was a two-time winner of the New York State Broadcasters Award for best sportscast and Brent also won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for sports reporting.

Prior to his five year stint in Albany, Brent worked for WPRI/WNAC-TV in Providence, RI and for KLAX-TV in Alexandria, LA.  He covered the Patriots run to the 2001 Super Bowl Championship.  He's also had the opportunity to report from the 2004 and 2007 World Series -- both championships won by his favorite Boston Red Sox.  Brent's had the fortune of being at some big time events, but really enjoys telling stories about the local athletes -- professional and amateur.

Brent graduated from Ashland University in Ashland, OH in 1999.  He played outfield for the Eagles team that made it to the Division II College World Series in '99.  He's originally from East Providence, RI.

Brent lives in the Jacksonville area with his wife, Stefanie and twins, Tyler and Kaylee.  

  

Mark Your Calendars - Service Project

PET Mobility Project!  We still need 10 people to help Saturday, October 12, 2013 at Penny Farms to build scooters!!! The gift of mobility to millions of people in developing countries who are unable to walk! We will be building three-wheeled, hand powered scooters for physically challenged individuals who have lost mobility due to landmine explosions, illness, birth defects, disease or accidents! 

Volunteer to build PET parts on Saturday, October 12th from 9am - 12pm.

Come help...so far we have the following volunteers signed up:
Mary Alice Phelan
Jay Plotkin (3)
Dinkins Grange
Robyn Watson
Dan and Rosemary Robie
Chris Bouton
Stevan Jones
Cheryl Robitzsch

Mark Your Calendars - Service Project

Second Harvest Can Food Drive Starts Tuesday!! 

Don't forget to bring in 3 to 5 can goods or non perishable food items starting Tuesday!! Club goal is 300 items!!  For those who what to make check donation, please make checks payable to Second Harvest (EIN# 59-1965600) so you get your IRS filing credit. Thank you!!

Mark Your Calendars - Rotary Fall Social Event

What:   FL-GA Oyster Roast (dinner, live band)
When:   6:30PM, Fri., Nov. 1 (night before the game!)
Where:   San Jose Country Club
How much:   $50 per person, inclusive
Dress:   Casual, long pants for gentlemen and your school colors!

It is the best party you could possibly attend the evening before the big game with great food and entertainment!

Family of Rotary

Miller (L) and J.U. President Tim Cost (R)

Congratulations to Richard Miller, son of member Joe Miller, for being selected to host the radio Play by Play for the Jacksonville University (J.U.) Dolphins football team's 2013 season.  Follow Richard on his website at www.milleronsports.com or Twitter at @MillerOnSports

Rotary "on the Road"

While driving to our weekly meeting on September 17th, PP Odette Struys saw this billboard on a truck driving on the streets of Jacksonville - Rotary Rocks!

Minutarian Update, Week 12 (Sept 17th)

DG Art's message this week announces September as New Generations month on the Rotary calendar, which is now referred to as Youth Service month.  In the Rotary world, Youth Service includes Youth Exchange, Rotaract, Interact, Early Act, Rotary Kids, RYLA, etc. Thereby, engaging in all aspects of service with our next generations of Rotarians. 

DG Art encourages clubs not engaged in Youth Service to "get engaged".  The RYLA program is one of the best, and our Interact Summit is being planned for mid October.  Clubs that have not already submitted their intention to host an exchange student next year should do so this week.

Meeting Pictures, September 17, 2013

Bruce Ganger, Executive Director Second Harvest, with President Harlan Bost

Welcome Bruce Grange, Second Harvest Executive Director

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

Meet Bruce Ganger

Second Harvest Executive Director

Bruce joined Second Harvest on September 1, 2011.  Prior to joining Second Harvest Bruce served as the Managing Director of ISF Group, a business he founded with his wife Peg in 2006 to assist area nonprofits with development, messaging and fundraising. During those five years ISF Group grew to serve more than 60 clients.

Prior to starting ISF Group, Bruce was the Executive Director of Marketing for Océ North America, the domestic operation of a Dutch technology company.  In this role Bruce oversaw the re-branding and market positioning of this $750MM organization as well as all marketing operations.

In 1998 Bruce co-founded Digital Works and created and launched a web-based suite of targeted marketing tools and applications.  In 2001 Digital Works was sold to an integrated marketing company and re-branded as ePrint Advantage.

Prior to founding the software company, Bruce held a variety of senior and executive level sales and marketing positions during 18 years with Danka, Eastman Kodak and Xerox.  His career has included more than 25 years of marketing and organizational development experience.

Bruce’s corporate career was spent in the information systems and technology business with key roles in planning and development, sales, marketing and worldwide implementation of channel and product strategies. He is widely written on the topic and has edited two books on the subject of personalized marketing.  He has a BA in Sociology from Indiana University and a MBA in Business Management from Almeda University.  As a Kellogg National Fellow (1987-1990), Bruce traveled in the United States and abroad studying leadership and innovation from a global perspective.

Bruce and his wife, Peg, have three grown children, five grandchildren and live in Jacksonville, Florida.  He enjoys playing golf, reading and hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and mentoring young professionals in their development and education.

Second Harvest North Florida is the oldest and largest program of Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida. LSS was founded in 1979 by area Lutherans and business leaders to fill gaps in services offered in the community for people in need. Second Harvest gathers food from local and national sources, shares these resources with more than 450 nonprofit organizations in 17 north Florida counties and helps thousands of people each year who are hungry or at risk of not having being able to provide food for themselves and their families. In addition to collecting and distributing food, Second Harvest serves children in after-school programs through its Kids Cafe and BackPack programs and in summer camps through its Summer Lunch program. It also takes Mobile Pantries filled with Family Boxes of food to people living in neighborhoods with the greatest needs. Call 904.730.8234 for more information about any of these programs and services.

September 24th
Meeting

Celebrate the kickoff of football season at our tailgate-themed meeting on September 24. Wear your team colors and enjoy a buffet of all your favorite stadium fare (wings, nachos and more). The Rotarians of the most represented team get bragging rights and will lead us in their school fight song / cheer, so don't forget to dress!

Rotary Fall Social Event

What:  FL-GA Oyster Roast (dinner, live band)

When:  6:30PM, Fri., Nov. 1 (night before the game!)

Where:  San Jose Country Club

How much:  $50 per person, inclusive

Dress:  Casual, long pants for gentlemen and your school colors!

It is the best party you could possibly attend the evening before the big game

 with great food and entertainment!

Congratulations!

Hank Edward McGuinness was born on August 21,2013 at Norwalk Hospital in Ct. Proud grandpa, Neil McGuinness says son, Luke, and daughter in-law, Jenny, are the happy parents of their second son.

Minutarian Update, Week 11 (September 10th)

This week, the Minutarian Update was delivered personally by District Governor Art MacQueen.  Each year Rotary leadership, both past and current, attends a training and informational seminar, called Zone Institute. The institute neets yearly, rotating throughout the Southeastern states that make up zones 33 and 34. DGE Percy, DGN Fel, many of our Past District Governors and I just returned from this multi day event. One of our former District 6970 Governors, was totally taken by surprise when during a plenary session it was announced she had been awarded Rotary’s International Service Award for a Polio Free World. This award is bestowed on no more than 10 Rotarians worldwide in any given Rotary year, from a pool of well over 1 million.

Our well deserving recipient, has not only supported our Foundation with her treasure, but also her time and talent. Besides Foundation involvement at the District, Rotary Leadership Institute, Evanston Foundation meetings and many other events, she has also organized NID (National Immunization Day) teams and personally delivered polio vaccinations to the children of India twice. Please join me in thanking and congratulating PDG Cynde Covington, for her incredible efforts and well deserved receipt of this award.

PDG Cynde knows what it means to Engage Rotary, Change Lives!

Welcome Art MacQueen, DistrictGovernor

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

District Governor Art MacQueen

Art MacQueen grew up in the Detroit area and attended Eastern Michigan University.  Married to Gingie, his wife of 35 years they have two children, four grandchildren and are blessed to have the kids and their families all residing in the Northeast Florida area. 

Art worked in retail management prior to accepting the position of CEO and President of a Northern Michigan company manufacturing industrial cutting tool packaging.  After 13 years in that role it was time to pursue a warmer climate and the MacQueens relocated to Florida in 1995, “as our parents had done before us”.  In Florida Art stayed busy volunteering with The American Red Cross in disaster response and officiating local track and cross country events.  

A second career presented itself when Art went to work for a telecom company eventually becoming the Southeast sales manager for the equipment division.  Following 11 years of service a second attempt at retiring was made in 2009.   Once again, however, that did not last long as old friends in the telecom software business reached out and Art accepted the position of Special Projects Manager for the Pittsburg based firm.   Gingie is employed as an admissions director for a long term health and rehab facility as well as a fitness instructor for a local area gym.

While employed in telecom Art was visiting a Daytona area medical firm discussing their equipment needs and was asked by the office manager to be a guest at her Thursday morning Rotary meeting.  Having no idea what Rotary was about but seeing it as a great opportunity to network with local business professionals he attended his first meeting in the spring of 2001.  The Rotary Club of Daytona Beach West has been Art’s Rotary home since that first visit.  

Art has served in a number of capacities at the club level including President in 2004-05, Sgt-at-Arms for a number of years and is currently a club board member.   At the District level Art was an Assistant Governor in 2006-09, and has also served on the Fund and Procedures Committee, Share Committee, District Grants Committee Chair and Long Range Planning Committee. Art is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Benefactor.  Wife Gingie is also a Paul Harris Fellow.

For hobbies, the MacQueens enjoy boating, riding their motorcycle, paddle boarding kayaking, running, golf and anything involving the kids.  

  

August 27th Blood Donors

 Thank you to all those who participated to make this a successful drive!

What Paul Harris Said

RGHF History Day

What Paul Harris Said, a feature of RGHF since December 2001. 

Paul P. Harris, Founder of Rotary 23 February 1905  "May Rotarians continue to be ambassadors of good-will to high and low, rich and poor, to all races, to the devotees of all religious faiths and to members of all political parties, purveyors of tolerance, forbearance, justice, kindliness, neighborliness and friendliness to the inhabitants of this snug little world, the best little world of which we know." Paul P. Harris, "This Rotarian Age" page 257, 1935.

RGHF since 11 October 2000

Would the world be better off if there were 1,000,000,000 Rotarians? Look what just a few Rotarians did nearly a century ago. The key is that they still knew where they came from. They knew their history. That was a powerful tool. If today's  1,000,000 Rotarians knew what they knew, we might soon be 2,000,000 Rotarians and 2 would become 4 and so forth. 

What Paul Harris Said, is our longest running feature, started in December of 2001. His writings are timeless and speak to Rotary leaders and visitors at www.whatpaulharriswrote.org   

The Global History of Rotary and RGHF is always at www.historyfan.org and also ROTARY GLOBAL HISTORY FELLOWSHIP'S OPEN GROUP AT ROTARY INTERNATIONAL