BELLEVUE PAPILLION ROTARY CLUB NEWSLETTER
January 2017
Meetings: Mondays at Noon
DJ’S Dugout
10308 South 23rd St.
Bellevue, NE 68123
OFFICERS FOR 2016-2017
President………...... Colm Breathnach
President-Elect…...... Denise Dolezol
Secretary……………….Herb Barelman
Treasurer…………...…..Denise Dolezal
Sergeant-at-Arms…………..Paul Reed
Program Chair………………..Jeff Smith
Board Members…...... Charles Adams
Herb Barelman
Paul Reed
Fred Simon
Jeff Smith
Matt Willis
Colm Breathnach
Denise Dolezal
JANUARY SPEAKERS
January 2: New Year’s Observed - No Meeting
January 9: Great Plains Rescue
January 16: Martin Luther King Day – No Meeting
January 23: Omaha Rotary – Serving International Students
January 30: First National Bank – Funding College with 529 Accounts
GREETER AND INVOCATION
January
Greet…...... Denise Dolezal
Invocation……...... Heather Chaney
FROM THE PRESIDENT
The Rotary Club Napoli (District 2100 Italy), is building an inquiring to find around the world all Rotarians members of Neapolitan origin.
The aim of the project called "A Neapolitan Hug" is to re-establish emotional contact with the Neapolitan context represented by our Rotary Club.
All members of the Neapolitan origin will be invited to virtual meetings through a Social Community and to a global event to be held in Naples probably next year in the summer.
Please, let me ask you to forward this e-mail to all members of your club. Only rotarians that have Neapolitan origins can clickhereto reach our website and fill in the related form. On our website you can retrieve all the information about this project .
Feel free to contact me for any questions.
Yours sincerely.
Antonio Ascione,
Project manager
FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Rotary members in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, celebrated 100 years of The Rotary Foundation on 23 October with a banquet and a concert by The Cleveland Orchestra that have so far raised more than $2.1 million for the Foundation's next century of good work.
Arch Klumph, a Cleveland Rotarian, planted the seed for The Rotary Foundation in 1917, with his idea of having an endowment fund dedicated to "doing good in the world." Today's District 6630 leaders thought that a concert was a fitting way to honor Klumph and mark the centennial because of Klumph's love of music. Klumph performed in several predecessors of The Cleveland Orchestra.
"We felt very strongly that here in the home of Arch Klumph we needed to take stock of what the Foundation has accomplished this past 100 years. It's almost impossible to quantify," says Mike Johns, an event organizer and past RI director. "If you look at where we are and where we are going, we've just scratched the surface on what we can do."
The banquet inducted four couples into the Arch Klumph Society for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation over their lifetimes: Geoff and Kim Goll, Rotary Club of Salem, Ohio; Frank H. and Nancy Lyon Porter, Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio; Edna and Martin Sutter, Rotary Club of Fort Bonifacio Global City, Makati City, Philippines; and Norman R. and Marjory A. Veliquette, Rotary Club of Elk Rapids, Michigan, USA.
The Porters, who were inducted posthumously, contributed $500,000 toward polio eradication, Rotary's top priority. The Golls have also directed $200,000 of their contributions to PolioPlus.
Johns says the event was designed to educate the community about The Rotary Foundation. Videos interspersed between musical pieces highlighted Rotary's work and the fight to end polio.
"We had a lot of people there who didn't know what Rotary was, and they made a great discovery," he says. "I think Rotary members around the world should really reach out to the public this year and show them what our Foundation does."
Learn more aboutThe Rotary Foundation centennial
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ROTARY TRIVIA
(Answer in next month’s newsletter)
1. How many Rotary clubs are there worldwide?
ROTARY TRIVIA ANSWERS FROM LAST MONTH
1. In what country was the first Rotary Club outside of the United States?
Winnipeg, Canada
AREA MEETINGS
Monday:
Omaha Millard, Noon @ German American Society
Omaha North, Noon @ Eppley Airfield Conference Center
Tuesday:
Omaha Morning, 7:00 am @ Happy Hollow Country Club
Northwest, Noon @ Champions Run
Southwest Omaha Rotary Night Club, 5:15pm @Millard Plaza Ballroom
Wednesday:
Council Bluffs Centennial, 7:00am at HyVee
Downtown, Noon @ Field Club
Plattsmouth, Noon @ Plattsmouth State Bank
Thursday:
Suburban, Noon @ Anthonys
Friday:
Omaha West, Noon @ Champions Run