The Rotary Club of Naples Bay Chartered- March 10, 1973 P.O. Box 1852 - Naples, Florida- 34106 *Zone 34 *District 6960 *Club 4329 2017-2018 Tom Parkhurst- President Rotary International Web Site: rotary.org A (501-c-3 Corporation) District Web Site: rotary6960.org Club Web Site: naplesbayrotary.org Meets at Perkins Restaurant ( Pine Ridge ) 3585 Pine Ridge Road Naples Florida 34109 12:00 Noon, Phone: 239-596-0700 MAKE UP LOCATIONS: ROTARY INTERNATIONAL (Founded February 23, 1905) The Rotary Club of: President: Ian H. S. Riselby Tuesday Club: The Rotary Club of Sandringham, Australia Marco Island Sunrise Stonewalls noon Email: rotaryintl.org LaBelle Quart House Restaurant noon Bonita Sunset 2 nd and 4 th Tuesday Artichoke 6:00 PM Wednesday 6960 DISTRICT GOVERNOR Naples Collier Perkins Restaurant 7:30 am Bobbi Bird Gulf Shore Hyatt House 7:30 am Club: The Rotary Club of Sarasota Sunrise Immokalee Immokalee Technical Ctr noon Email: bobbibird@gmail.com Naples Naples Beach Hotel noon Bonita Springs The Bonita Bay Club 7:15 am AREA 1 ASSISTANT GOVERNOR Port Charlotte Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club 7:00 pm Julie Pedretti Thursday Club: The Rotary Club of Naples North Bear s Paw Country Club 7:30 am Email: jpedretti29@gmail.com Marco Island DaVinci s Restarante Italiano noon Bonita Springs Artichoke & Company noon Friday Pelican Bay Kensington Golf & Country 7:30 am CLUB OFFICERS Rotary Club of Naples Bay Foundation Corporation President Tom Parkhurst tdparkhurst@gmail.com President Wayne Dahlstrom Past President Wayne Dahlstrom wd.top100@gmail.com Secretary Tom Parkhurst Vice President Dee Dee Fuller fuller@fullerlaw.biz Treasurer Joel Miller & Joe Badway Secretary Wayne Dahlstrom wd.top100@gamil.com Directors Shirley Richards, Bill Jones, Assistant Secretary Robyn DeZego rdezego@caringtransitions.com Joel Miller, Joe Badway Treasurer Joel Miller joel@joelmillercpa.com DIRECTORS Assistant Treasurer Joe Badway jbadway@rmcgp.com Vocational Service Bill Jones Sergeant at Arms 1 Travis Koch travis.koch@bmo.com Community Service Tim Miller & Jerry Dahle Sergeant at Arms 2 Joel Miller joel@joelmillercpa.com International Service Roger Dick Sergeant at Arms 3 Haris Domond hmdomond@gmail.com Youth Service Haris Domond Club Service & Activities Alternate Directors Kicks for Kids OTHER LEADERSHIP POSITIONS Emery Smith, Darryl Young, Joe Badway Wayne Dahlstrom Bulletin Editor: Robyn DeZego rdezego@caringtransitions.com
Program July: Roger Dick - ziggydick@hotmail.com Program August: Jan Waidelich - janwaid@aol.com August 8th, 2017 Per the requests made from several current members, we will have four of our special district Rotary speakers in August that will provide pertinent information on the processes and overall support available to clubs. This is a direct correlation for organizing and streamlining our club. I can't stress enough the importance of EVERYONE (current and prospective members) attending. For out-of-towners perhaps one of our local members would be willing to take a phone video of the presentations and then forward. Thanks, Tom" Aug 8 Josh Milton, Marketing and Media, Rotarian Aug 15 Dale Klaus and Reuben Doupé SWFL Family Law and Divorce Attorneys Aug 22 Frank Insurance available through the C J A Co. Aug 29 Rich Kirschner, District Governor Nominee REMEMBER THE DATE Upcoming Leadership Institute (Level1) Date: August 26 th Time: 7:30am to 1:00pm Location: Keiser University District Conference May 17 20 2018 Coconut Point Hyatt, Bonita Sprints Bob Moates is becoming a nonagenarian (a person who is from 90 to 99 years old)! We are all invited to be a part of the celebration. Please RSVP to Bob s Granddaughter Kim Buckley kimmybuckley@yahoo.com and save the date for Sunday, August 20, 2017. The big party will be at Imperial Golf Club at 11:30 plan to enjoy a nice Brunch!
On August 1 st we had two fantastic speakers that were there to help us Understand Rotary Better. First Darryl Keys spoke to us about membership and DACdb. Due to technical difficulties we weren t able to see his presentation. A PDF copy of his presentation will be sent out with this email for your review. PLEASE take the time to review this document as it has screen shots of how to get into the websites that Darryl discussed during our meeting. Some Highlights from Darryl s presentation: Membership in the US saw a decline by 5000 people. Our district had 3% growth! Most of new membership growth in Rotary is currently in Asia and India. We were the only Zone in Area 1 to show a positive membership growth last year. Darryl shared a story about Polio. In 1975 there was a Rotary Member in the Philippines that wanted to make a difference. He bought the vaccine and started to distribute it. There were 350,000 cases because of one man wanting to make a difference and involving his Rotary Club, then Rotary Worldwide, in 2017 there have only been 8 confirmed cases! in getting this done! Small Pox is the first Disease to be eradicated; Polio is a very close 2 nd to being the next eradicated Disease! Rotary Club was instrumental We are in Fine Company! There have been some pretty incredible members of Rotary in the past! Neal Armstrong JFK Sam Walton (Founder of Walmart) Joyce Hall (Mr. Hall was the founder of Halmark) Sir Winston Churchill Charles R Walgreen Dr. Charles H Mayo Orville Wright Woodrow Wilson We should be honored to be members of the same club! Darryl also shared why members become members Fellowship, Service and Networking. After being members a few years what makes them stay? Fellowship and Service but not so much Networking! Our club members are our customers and we should work to find good valid reasons for members to stay! In the last 10 years for example we have grown our membership by 1.2 million, however we still only have
1.2 million members! We can help this by continuing to provide good exciting member meetings, and combine this with awesome community projects! We can also retain our aging members by allowing them to share their knowledge with us. Our club in particular is BLESSED with members that have experience that they can share and teach us. I for one am grateful to Larry Wright for his encouragement and organization skills and being a mentor as far as what he felt was important in the bulletin. (Is this a blessing or a curse? It takes a lot of time! But for me it s worth it!) After Darryl s presentation we also heard from Pete Doragh speaking about Paul Harris and how the funds collected by Rotary are used. Pete made the point that as many great ideas that we come up with, nothing will work well if we don t raise the funds! Pete explained to us that there are several ways that we can request matching funds for our projects. We have a unique situation in that our different clubs decide how they are going to spend the funds that we raise as a club. We also all contribute to a national fund. We have the ability to apply for matching grants both for local projects and Global Grants (these require us to get a club from another country to agree to cosponsor the project.) Finally, Pete shared that a vast amount of funds come from the Paul Harris Foundation. Paul Harris is our bas$1,000 in contributions. Our club is rich in Paul Harris recognitions! We are lucky to have had two very knowledgeable presenters at our club and share a wealth of knowledge!
We also had the pleasure of watching John Lamb receive his award of Sincere Appreciation and Recognition of Distinguished Service, Loyalty and Devotion to the Success of The Rotary Club of Naples Bay. This was presented by our former fearless Leader Wayne Dahlstrom. John had the honor of serving as our Bulletin Editor until earlier this year. Wayne feels that each time we add a new member to our group, the room changes dynamics and he is right!