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Community Service Director, Marsha Teller, first reviewed for us the intent of our club's annual "Make A Project" program. It is designed to give our club members the opportunity to propose either an additional new Community Service project, or to propose expanding an already existng one. Those member proposals are presented to the club at this meeting, and rating sheets are used by the members to score, on a 25 point scale, three aspects of each project presented — thereby helping the club to "Pick-A-Project." The score sheets will then be reviewed by the Club's Board to evaluate their feasibility for our club to implement. After doing that, they will report back to the club their conclusions and recommendations.  Past President Laura Vanderberg led off with a recommendation that our club provide blankets and shoes for the 50 junior and senior high homeless students in the Mayer Schools. Recoignition of this need has grown out of a relationship our club built last year, when our club provided needed school supplies to the students attending the Mayer Schools. Jane White was next, proposing that we expand our relationship with the Prescott Area Shelter Services (PASS) women's shelter. Our club provides an evening meal for all of the residents once a month. As the shelter staff counsels these women, and works with them to get jobs, and to get them back on their feet, PASS has four transitional home locations. Jane proposed that we "adopt" two of those locatons, providing, among other things, a Thanksgiving meal and Christmas gifts for the residents at those locations. Richard Hernandez presented a third proposal, to expand the quarterly food drive we have been doing for the Food Pantry at Yavapai Community College, increasing it to a Bi-Monthly Food Drive. He shared with us some very concerning statistics about how many of the students are experiencing both food and housing insecurity. Rotary's Two Official Mottos Name badge from the 1928 Rotary International Convention Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best, Rotary’s official mottos, can be traced back to the early days of our organization. In 1911, the second Rotary convention, in Portland, Oregon, USA, approved He Profits Most Who Serves Best as the Rotary motto. The wording was adapted from a speech that Rotarian Arthur Frederick Sheldon delivered to the first convention, held in Chicago the previous year. Sheldon declared that “only the science of right conduct toward others pays. Business is the science of human services. He profits most who serves his fellows best.” The Portland gathering also inspired the motto Service Above Self. During an outing on the Columbia River, Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, talked with Seattle Rotarian J.E. Pinkham about the proper way to organize a Rotary club, offering the principle his club had adopted: Service, Not Self. Pinkham invited Rotary founder Paul Harris, who also was on the trip, to join their conversation. Harris asked Collins to address the convention, and the phrase Service, Not Self was met with great enthusiasm. At the 1950 Rotary International Convention in Detroit, Michigan, USA, two slogans were formally approved as the official mottoes of Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and Service Above Self. The 1989 Council on Legislation established Service Above Self as the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best was modified to They Profit Most Who Serve Best in 2004 and to its current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves Best, in 2010. CLUB SERVICE We celebrated Glen Hammond's birthday at our meeting last week, with him decked out in Pres. Christy's special Birthday Boy costume treatment. Glen attempted to buy this photo from Bob Keys, to prevented it being printed, but Bob wouldn't sell it. COMMUNITY SERVICE Marsha Says — November will shortly be upon us. Please mark your calendar for the following events. Next SunUp Rotary Family Fest at Touchmark meeting Where: Monday, November 4th at The Finn at Touchmark Time: 5:30 p.m. Please join us as we start to solidify plans for this exciting event. Meeting is being held in the evening so more are able to attend. Veterans’ Day Parade : November 11th ( Veterans Day) A committee is working on a float for the parade. We will have some seating for those who would prefer to sit, rather than march. We will be marching with Frontier and Prescott Rotaries. We will have representation from the Prescott High School Flag Football team, as well as the Silver Wings from Embry Riddle. Time to meet ? Will be in the morning, but will provide details when we receive them shortly. Sign up sheet at next Rotary meeting. PLEASE help us show our appreciation and gratitude to Veterans and First Responders. INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Sunup Rotary's Annual Pints for Polo on World Polio Day Marsha Teller and Sarah Van Bourgondien were both obviously having loads of fun at our Sunup Rotary Pints for Polio event, held on World Polio Day, Oct. 24, at Mob Burger. Sarah chaired this very successful International Service eve Donations for purchasing the life-saving Polio Vaccine were generously contributed by members of our Sunup Rotary, as well as by members of Prescott Rotary and Prescott Frontier Rotary, who stopped in to support this worthy cause. Thanks to both of our sister clubs in Prescott for their participation in this annual Sunup fundraiser on World Polio Day.  A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting." she said. "How do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'." __ I’ve discovered that answering the door naked helps to deter trick-or-treaters. Oh, here we go again; here’s two of them dressed as policemen… __ I wonder if the people paying $300 for a colon cleanse
even know about Taco Bell’s $4.99 deal. I’m terrified of elevators,
and I’m taking steps to avoid them. __ Electricians have to strip
to make ends meet. __ My friend in Quebec is a heavy drinker. In fact, he drank Canada Dry. __ Avoid dangerous cults. Practice safe sects. __ |
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