[D9640general] [eFlash_Rotary] Digest Number 580

[Garry & Anne Krischock]

Posted by: "Sunil K Zachariah" sunilkzach at yahoo.co.uk   sunilkzach 
Mon Jul 3, 2006 12:51 am (PST) 
July 2006 
The Rotarian 

As we embark on a new Rotary year, we look ahead to new 
responsibilities, new challenges, and new opportunities.

Rotary has flourished for so long because it offers constant values 
to its members: fellowship, friendship, and doing good work in the 
world. And Rotary has been welcomed into new communities and new 
countries because it is not afraid to adapt and respond, to embrace 
different cultures, and to hold firm to its core principles of 
honesty, tolerance, and unselfishness.

While the mission and motto of Rotary remain constant, we must 
always be open to the need for change. Part of our ongoing task as 
Rotarians is to stay aware of needs - in our own organization and in 
the communities we serve. Our membership is evolving, and we are 
welcoming more and more new members who, a decade ago, would never 
have thought to join Rotary. Our work is evolving, just as our 
communities' needs and our ability to address them are.

In a world where so much is in flux and so little can be predicted 
with certainty, Rotary cannot afford complacency. Challenges are 
constant; so are opportunities. Today, we need every Rotarian more 
than ever, because in our diversity lies our strength.

In the coming Rotary year, I ask all of you to join me as we Lead 
the Way to a better Rotary and better communities. By this, I mean 
to ask you to be leaders in your communities - to show others that 
solid integrity, concern for others, and generosity of spirit are 
ageless values and that good business does not preclude good ethics.

As Rotarians, we are not content to let matters stay the way they 
have always been, whether in our clubs or in our communities. We are 
the ones who ask, Why not us? We are the ones with the skills and 
the desires to build a better future. And we are the ones who must 
Lead the Way. 

Every Rotarian has so much to offer that I wish there were a Rotary 
office for everyone. But the strength of Rotary is that around the 
world, all of our tremendous talent flows into the clubs. In the 
last year, as I have met so many of you, I have become more and more 
confident that Rotarians are ready and able to Lead the Way - and 
that the best years of Rotary are yet to come.

Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary

2. 1182: President Boyd encourages Rotarians to Lead the Way 
Posted by: "Sunil K Zachariah" sunilkzach at yahoo.co.uk   sunilkzach 
Mon Jul 3, 2006 12:55 am (PST) 
President Boyd encourages Rotarians to Lead the Way 

New RI President William B. Boyd is encouraging Rotarians to Lead 
the Way in the 2006-07 Rotary year, calling his choice for the RI 
theme "an affirmation of my belief in the power of Rotarians to 
change the world, one positive act at a time."

Boyd, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Auckland, New 
Zealand, stresses sustainability in Rotary projects. "As Rotarians, 
we understand the truth of the old saying that when you give a 
person a fish, you feed him for a day; when you teach him to fish, 
you feed him for a lifetime," he told incoming district governors at 
the International Assembly in February.

Boyd has selected water as his first emphasis. "Without clean water, 
little else is possible. If you are thirsty, nothing else matters," 
he says. 

Citing high childhood mortality rates caused by illness and 
malnutrition, Boyd has chosen health and hunger as his second 
emphasis. " Without food, there is no health," he says. "And without 
health, there is no hope."

His third emphasis, literacy, is fitting for Boyd, who used to work 
in his family's bookstore. He sees literacy as "the escape hatch 
from the cycle of poverty" and a natural complement to his emphases 
on water and health and hunger. "Literacy enables communities to 
take care of their water resources, address their own health and 
hunger issues, and teach the next generation," he says. 

Given Rotary's need to think about the future, Boyd is also 
emphasizing the family of Rotary, which he says includes 
Rotaractors, Interactors, Rotary Youth Exchange students, Inner 
Wheel club members, Rotary Foundation alumni, and Rotarians' 
families. 

Source: R I Website
Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary

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