Rotary Minutes at Your Fingertips
If you are the member of your Rotary Club tasked with presenting a Rotary Minute you may have struggled or felt rushed to come up with an idea and do the research needed to present an appropriate and interesting Rotary Minute to present to your club meeting. A great Rotary Minute can enhance a Rotary Clubs meetings by adding a bit of Rotary education. It can help new members become more familiar with the rich history and traditions of Rotary.
Now there are two terrific related sources make presenting a weekly Rotary Minute easy and enjoyable. The first is Everything Rotary, a web-based resource that makes the task of planning and executing a Rotary Club meeting and producing and distributing the agenda to the weekly meeting easy. Each week Everything Rotary has a Rotary Minute in addition to a Rotary Invocation, a Rotary Quote and a joke that can make everyone smile at your Rotary meeting. You can click on the link below and sign up for a free 10 week trial and get your Rotary Minute for this meeting easily and quickly.
The second nice source for a weekly Rotary Minute is now also available on an iPhone or iPod touch app EverythingRotary. This app is available in the iTunes App Store for the “Everything Rotary iPhone App.” For a one time $9.99 USD cost you can use this app and have access to many helpful Rotary related features including a weekly Rotary Minute on your iPhone or iPod that you can read at their club meetings. Purchase of this app also lends financial support to Rotary. A full twenty-five percent of the revenue from sales of this app are contributed to the Rotary Foundation and the Puyallup South Hill Rotary Club. You can know that by buying this app you help the RI foundation, the Puyallup South Hill Rotary Club, and at the same time have at your fingertips weekly great Rotary information including a weekly Rotary Minute. Additional features include:
- Rotary Invocation: Each week an appropriate and meaningful Rotary Invocation that you can use at your Rotary Meeting.
- Rotary Joke: a joke that is appropriate for a Rotary meeting that can add a smile and fun to your club’s meetings.
- Rotary Quote: Every week is a new quotation from a noted Rotarian. Each of these may be presented at your own Rotary Club’s weekly meeting.
- Find a Club: A tab on the app takes you to a map on your phone connection to find a Rotary Club near your current location so you can locate a meeting nearby to visit or make up. This is really quite convenient for travelers since you don’t require a WiFi internet connection to use your computer to look online for a site. You simply use the iPhone’s data hookup to rapidly locate a nearby club. It’s really simple and convenient.
The iPhone/iPod app also integrates with the Everything Rotary web based site that helps a Rotary Club easily send its agenda to club members by e-mail and allows you to view that agenda on your iPhone app. The Everything Rotary agenda service allows the Rotary Club administrator to assign club members to their individual tasks at a meeting, along with a list of substitute members in case they will be unable to be at the meeting to complete the task. A request goes out to the assigned person. If that member confirms their role, their name shows up on the agenda. If they decline an e-mail goes out to the next substitute on the roster, and this repeats until a confirmation happens.
Go now to the iTunes store or to the Everything Rotary site and get the app. Sign up for a free trial and discuss use of the Everything Rotary Agenda subscription with your club president to streamline the process of producing and distributing your club’s agenda every week. Enjoy.
Here is a sample Rotary Minute from the Everything Rotary iPhone app:
BIRTH OF ROTARY IN RUSSIA as told by the St Petersburg Rotary Club
Rotary in Russia is about 9 years old. Still during this comparatively short time 24 clubs have been established west of the Ural mountains: in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Lomonosov, Dubna, Vyatka, Nizhny Novgorod (Kstovo), Saratov, Naryan-Mar, Murmansk, Vladimir, Tolyatti, Tver. During these years they have accommplishen a number of humanitarian projects, mainly medical, which helped to provide medicines and equipment to many hospitals and polyclinics. Hundreds of school-students, students, post-graduates and young specialists have upgraded their qualifications in the countries of Europe and America. Multiple businesses and personal contacts with Rotarians from different countries have allowed the strengthening of mutual understanding among peoples, and they have performed other tasks which helped our country to overcome many crisis situations in food, medical care and education.
New provisional Rotary Clubs are in the process of organization in Ekaterinburg, Vyborg, Kaliningrad and Sochi.
The activities of the clubs in Russia west of the Urals and in Belorussia are coordinated by the Presidential Extension Administrator, who is appointed by Rotary International. For the next two years this is going to be Jorma Lampen, a member of the Helsinki North Rotary Club, and a PastDistrict Governor of D1420
There are 25 clubs in Russia on the eastem side of the Urals today (in Chita, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Magadan region, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yelezov),and at least 20 more are planned to be established by or in the year 2000 They are part of the Rotary District 5010 whose Governor is Peter Ernst.