DGs Monthly Message

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February 2010

 Rotary gives us a chance to flourish personally by doing things we would be unable or unwilling to do otherwise:

• Feed the homeless and the infirm.

• Participate in club fundraisers in such ways as pouring beer, parking cars, selling raffle tickets, passing water out at 10K run waystations, etc.

• Help ameliorate intolerable conditions in Haiti, Samoa, Sumatra, South Africa, the Philippines or Malawi.

• Honor family members, special school teachers, outstanding community leaders.

• Serve in leadership roles in a prestigious international organization.

• Attend first-class presentations of leadership essentials free.

• Have continual access to and contact with moral, fair, honest people.

Members forget that we aren’t in Rotary just to help others. We have unprecedennted chances to improve our own lives, to raise our own qualifications as persons of character. We raise our Rotary Awareness by how we conduct ourselves and how we view others. It is impossible to quantify what Rotary does for us, never mind for others. In a global society which is more and more aware of the internationality of mankind, World Understanding is more and more important. I can write with pride that our district “gets it.”

It’s this sort of Rotary Awareness by the communities of our fellow citizens that keeps our clubs going, that gives us the chance, at least, to grow as the years pass.

I urge all our members to get the word out to a disadvantaged public which does not have the exposure to self-improvement we do. Let’s get the best of them into our clubs.