PO Box 79132, Charlotte NC 28271

Monthly Update: July, 2018

District Governor’s Message

It is a great honor and privilege to serve you as District Governor for 2018-19. I am looking forward to visiting all 58 clubs in the District over the next few months and learning more about your club plans and projects. President Barry Rassin’s theme (“our” theme) for the year is “Be the Inspiration.” This is an exciting theme for all of us to live every day. I encourage you all to look in the mirror each morning and say “Be the inspiration.”

This year you will hear a new acronym which I hope you will take to heart. TWYRP stands for “Thanks for Wearing Your Rotary Pin.” I encourage you to wear your Rotary pin at all times - not just at your club meetings - and show everyone you are proud to be a member of our great organization.

I am very pleased that Jennifer Kendrick of the Charlotte - Dilworth South End Club is serving as our Newsletter Editor for 2018-19. Please send information to Jenny (jakendrick@outlook.com) about any special activities, milestones, etc., in your club so she can publish details in future newsletters.

In this first newsletter of the new Rotary year, please enjoy viewing the videos included in the link for the Toronto convention. What a wonderful experience sharing fellowship and cultures with 25,000 fellow Rotarians from over 200 countries. I was fortunate enough to spend an evening with Rotarians from different clubs in Russia - a really educational and inspiring event. Start making plans for Hamburg (Capture the Moment) next year to celebrate our year of inspiration!

Also included in this newsletter is our first ever Foundation points giveaway contest. 100 points up for grabs! Check it out and have fun!

Finally, mark your calendars for October 13 and the Duck Race for Polio. Plan to bring your family and friends for an afternoon of fun and activities. Details below and at bit.ly@duckraceforpolio.

Enjoy you summer and let us work together to “Be the Inspiration” in 2018-19.

Yours in Rotary Service,

DG David

Rotary District 7680

Clubs in District 7680 Albemarle Alleghany County Rotaract Wilkes County Community College Ashe County Ballantyne Belmont Boiling Springs Area Cabarrus County Rotaract Cabarrus College Charlotte Rotaract Queens University Charlotte Dilworth South End Charlotte Evening Rotaract Charlotte Charlotte International Charlotte North Charlotte Providence Charlotte South Charlotte South Park Charlotte Top-of the-Week Rotaract UNC Charlotte Charlotte West Cherryville China Grove Concord Concord—Afton Sunset Davidson Gaston Breakfast Gastonia Gastonia East Gastonia Evening Greater Statesville Hamlet Huntersville Happy Hour Kannapolis Kings Mountain Lake Norman-Huntersville Marshville Matthews Mecklenburg County South Monroe Monroe Union Breakfast Mooresville Mooresville-Lake Norman Mount Holly North Mecklenburg County Rotaract Central Piedmont Twilight Rotary At The Lake North Wilkesboro Rockingham Rowan County Salisbury Shelby Shelby Breakfast Southwest Cabarrus Statesville Statesville/Fourth Creek Taylorsville Top of the Lake Mooresville Troutman Union West (Indian Trail) Wadesboro Waxhaw-Weddington West Stanly

Leadership Team District Governor David Hare District Governor-Elect Beth Trotter District Governor-Nominee Mike Walker Immediate Past District Governor Scott Van Der Linden Governor’s Aide Elizabeth Teagarden Secretary Wally Olson Treasurer Phil Volponi Finance Chair Luther Moore, PDG Chair-Elect Allen Langley, PDG Chair-Nominee Tom Smith, PDG Immediate Past Chair Bob Wilson, PDG

Foundation Chair Bob Wilson, PDG Global Grants DDF Grants Sean Gautam -Audit/Stewardship tbd -Grant Treasurer John Blair Funding/Annual Fund Mike Walker PHF & PHS, through Rotary Direct Funding-Permanent Fund tbd Benefactor, Bequest Society & Major Gifts Foundation Banquet Kam Chandan Major Donors/PHS Cruise tbd Peace Center/Fellowships Sharon Heinrich Polio Tom Smith, PDG

International Services Chair Ineke Wilson, PDG Youth Exchange Karen Steffens Membership Chair Glenn Hood, PDG RLI Coordinator Georgia Oakes Trainer Mark Markanda, PDG Club Services District Conference Kam Chandan Alumni Patricia Shafer, Taura Napier Awards Barbara Dresser CART Luther Moore, PDG Governor’s Installation Banquet Doug McVadon Historian Mark Markanda, PDG Newsletter Jennifer Kendrick Public Image/Public Relations David Keith Technology Help Ken Dresser, PDG DACdb & Rotary Club Central Webmaster Lisa Perry

Youth Services Chair Marilyn Cunningham Interact tbd Rotaract Merna Gill SFTL tbd Youth Conference Ineke Wilson, PDG Youth Protection Officer Lianna Rossman

Assistant Governors Anson/Stanley/Richmond Christy Bogle Ashe/Alleghany/Wilkes/Alex Matt Cooksey Cabarrus Dick Lewis Cleveland Sharon Heinrich Gaston Fred Caldwell Iredell/Rowan Chris Nichols Mecklenburg-Central Sean Gautam Mecklenburg-North Kam Chandan Mecklenburg-South Linda Rakvic Union Nico Iannelli

District Governor David Hare 2018-2019

David has been a member of the Rotary Club of Charlotte Top-of-the-Week since 1980, where he has served in every capacity including 1986-1987 President. He has received his club’s Distinguished Rotarian Award in 1997, 2008 and 2015. David is currently working on his 34th year of perfect attendance, and he has led his club in singing for over 30 years! David was awarded the Community Service Award of the Rotary Club of Debrecen, Hungary in 2013 for his leadership with an RI grant collaboration with 12 clubs, in 3 districts, purchasing two transportation vans for severely disabled children of the Immanuel Home in Debrecen. He is a Member of the Paul Harris Society, a Paul Harris Fellow, a Bequest Society Member and Paul Harris Sustaining Member.

David served as Assistant Governor in 2009-2012, the District Conference Committee from 2013 to present, and from 2013-2016, he chaired the District Grants sub-committee, overseeing the distribution of over $300,000 in grants for local and international projects.

Born in Birmingham, England, he moved to Charlotte in 1979 after working for five years in Zambia and Liberia with Big 5 accounting firms. David is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the North Carolina Association of CPAs, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He recently retired.

David and Kim have been married for 28 years and have two daughters. They are members of Myers Park Presbyterian Church where David has sung in the choir for the past 30 years, is a Deacon, and has served on numerous committees. His hobbies include tennis, reading, and travel when time permits. David also enjoys watching sports - especially rugby (he once played for Liberia in an international match against Sierra Leone).

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Rotary International

RI Convention Hamburg

International Events

7/1: Beginning of New Rotary Year/Change of Officers

6/1-5/19: RI Convention, Hamburg, Germany

Rotary International President Barry Rassin 2018-2019

Barry Rassin President 2018-19 Rotary Club of East Nassau New Providence, Bahamas Barry Rassin earned an MBA in health and hospital administration from the University of Florida, and is the first fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives in the Bahamas. He recently retired after 37 years as president of Doctors Hospital Health System and continues as an adviser. He is a lifetime member of the American Hospital Association and has served on several boards, including the Quality Council of the Bahamas, Health Education Council, and Employer’s Confederation.

A Rotarian since 1980, Rassin has served Rotary as director and is vice chair of The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees. He was an RI training leader and the aide to 2015-16 RI President K.R. Ravindran.

Rassin received Rotary's highest honor, the Service Above Self Award, as well as other humanitarian awards for his work leading Rotary’s relief efforts in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake there. He and his wife, Esther, are Major Donors and Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation.

To learn more about Barry, check out the article in this month’s the Rotarian.

District Events

7/1: Beginning of New Rotary Year/Change of Officers

7/7: District Governor Installation Banquet, SMS Catering

7/19: Team 7680 will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds to End Polio Now, followed by a Safari to the great Serengeti

10/13: Duck Race to raise money to eradicate polio. E-mail duckraceforpolio@gmail.com

11/10: Foundation Banquet, The Langtree Plantation, Cornelius

2019

3/15-17: District Conference, Omni Grove Park Inn, Ashville (Our State article on the Omni Grove Park Inn)

3/21-23: PETS, Sheraton, Greensboro

DG Club Visits

7/17: Marshville (postponed)

7/19: Union West

7/19: Albemarle

7/23: Huntersville Happy Hour

7/24: Monroe

7/26: Waxhaw-Weddington

7/31: Salisbury

8/2: Gastonia

8/6: North Wilkesboro

8/7: Statesville

8/8: Cherryville

8/14: Gaston Evening

8/15: Taylorsville

8/16: Ashe County

8/21: Gaston Breakfast

8/22: Statesville/Fourth Creek

8/23: Mount Holly

8/27: Gastonia East

8/28: Kannapolis

8/30: Kings Mountain

Rotary International Conventions

Check out the videos from this year’s Toronto convention at this link.

The 2019 RI Convention will be in Hamburg, Germany, June 1-5. DG David Hare has asked that

you let him know if you register for this conference so that he can keep a running list of

D7680 attendees. This will make it easier for the District to organize a get-together during the

Convention. DG Hare’s e-mail address is dcrhare@gmail.com.

DG David’s Visit to the Rockingham Club

Brand New Newsletter Contest! Receive 100 Foundation points towards a Paul Harris Fellowship!! Answer the question below correctly to be entered into a drawing for the Foundation points. Please submit your answer BY JULY 31 to Editor Jenny Kendrick at jakendrick@outlook.com. Winner will be announced in next month’s newsletter. Good luck to all!

Can you name a Rotary club on this island?

(Pic of chocolate bar signed by Barry Rassin)

Governor’s Installation Ceremony

Here are a few photos from the installation ceremony.

Installation Chair and M.C. Doug McVadon

Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance by PDG Henry

Brown District Awards and Remarks by PDG Scott

Van Der Linden

Remarks and Governor’s Installation by PDG Luther

Moore

Closing Remarks by Newly Installed DG David Hare DG David Hare promoting Duck Race for Polio

PDG Luther Moore Introducing the New Leadership Team

DG David Hare Giving Flowers to Former First Lady Judy

Van Der Linden with Husband Scott Looking On.

Queen City Pipes and Drums band

2018-19 RI President Barry Rassin wants Rotary

members to Be the Inspiration By Hank Sartin Photos by Monika Lozinska

Rotary International President-elect Barry Rassin laid out his vision for the future of the organization on Sunday, calling on leaders to work for a sustainable future and to inspire Rotarians and the community at large.

Rassin, a member of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, unveiled the 2018-19 presidential theme, Be the Inspiration, to incoming district governors at Rotary’s International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “I want you to inspire in your clubs, your Rotarians, that desire for something greater. The drive to do more, to be more, to create something that will live beyond each of us.”

Rassin stressed the power of Rotary’s new vision statement, “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.” This describes the Rotary that leaders must help build, he said.

To achieve this vision, the president-elect said, Rotarians must take care of the organization: “We are a membership organization first. And if we want to be able to serve, if we want to succeed in our goals — we have to take care of our members first.”

Rassin asked the incoming district governors to “inspire the club presidents, and the Rotarians in your districts, to want to change. To want to do more. To want to reach their own potential. It’s your job to motivate them — and help them find their own way forward.”

Progress on polio

Rassin noted that one source of inspiration has been Rotary’s work to eradicate polio. He described the incredible progress made over the past three decades. In 1988, an estimated 350,000 people were paralyzed by the wild poliovirus; just 20 cases were reported in 2017 as of 27 December. “We are at an incredibly exciting time for polio eradication,” he said, “a point at which each new case of polio could very well be the last.”

He emphasized that even when that last case of polio is recorded, the work won’t be finished. “Polio won’t be over, until the certifying commission says it’s over—when not one poliovirus has been found, in a river, in a sewer, or in a paralyzed child, for at least three years,” he said. “Until then, we have to keep doing everything we’re doing now.” He urged continued dedication to immunization and disease surveillance programs.

Sustaining the environment

Rotary has focused heavily on sustainability in its humanitarian work in recent years. Now, Rassin said, Rotarians must acknowledge some hard realities about pollution, environmental degradation, and climate change. He noted that 80 percent of his own country is within one meter of sea level. With sea levels projected to rise two meters by 2100, he said, “my country is going to be gone in 50 years, along with most of the islands in the Caribbean and coastal cities and low-lying areas all over the world.”

Rassin urged leaders to look at all of Rotary’s service as part of a larger global system. He said that this means the incoming district governors must be an inspiration not only to clubs, but also to their communities. “We want the good we do to last. We want to make the world a better place. Not just here, not just for us, but everywhere, for everyone, for generations.”

Click here if you would like to watch his address to the incoming governors.

Click here if you would like to watch his address at the Rotary International Convention in Toronto.

Over the weekend I was privileged to hear 2 presentations by Rotary International President-Elect Barry Rassin. In one of them he told the story of the design of the logo that accompanies his 2018-2019 theme—Be the Inspiration. Did you know that the logo was designed by Barry’s wife, Esther?

I’m paraphrasing from memory, and probably am getting some of it wrong, but there’s fascinating meaning behind the logo:

We probably all recognize the waves of blues and white, but when you live in the Bahamas like Barry does, if you want to go anywhere, you need to ride the waves (at least you did before the days of air travel). So, the waves represent the journey, making progress, moving ahead.

But did you recognize the heart curling under the waves? The heart of Rotary, compassion, love, caring.

You probably recognized the reds, yellow and orange as representing the sun, rising on the horizon above the waves. But did you recognize them as the sail driving your boat forward to your destination?

A fitting metaphor for Rotary as we lead the way on our journey to Do Good in the World through our Foundation and as “Together we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.”

Looking forward to the year ahead. #BeTheInspiration (David Howard)

Service Above Self Award The Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club had a very special presentation on May 11,

2018, to David Hodgkins in recognition of his exemplary service not just as a Rotarian but in

virtually every aspect of his life. On hand to present David with his Service Above Self Award

from Rotary International were District Governor Scott Van Der Linden and District Trainer/

Historian Mark Markanda. Mark shared with us that these awards are presented to Rotarians

globally and that only 131 Rotarians around the world, received the award that was presented

to David.

Help for Puerto Rico The Interact Club of Harding High School,

sponsored by the Charlotte Rotary Club, is raising

funds to help the people of Puerto Rico rebuild

after the recent hurricanes damaged much of their

infrastructure. Funds will be matched by

businessman Ric Elias up to $5 million. Please

check out their video here.

Backpacks for Summer The Charlotte SouthPark

Rotary Club stuffed 100

backpacks full of school

supplies for the kids at

Montclaire Elementary’s

Charlotte Freedom School

Partners program this

summer.

Grand Opening of New Playground The Rotary Club of North

Mecklenburg County is

proud to have partnered

with the Town of Cornelius

by donating benches

encircling the new

Smithville Playground.

Shelters The Rockingham Rotary

Club was proud to partner

with the City of

Rockingham to help build a

covered shelter for families

to use while enjoying

Hitchcock creek.

Charlotte Club Rotaractors A new initiative to use some of the Charlotte Club’s social capital kicked off in July. In partnership with the Fairfield Inn & Suites and Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), five students from CPCC were hosted for lunch in an effort to give them some exposure to interesting people and to Club speakers. Welcome David Florez, CPCC Central Campus Rotaract Club President; Ni’Chelle Heckman, CPCC Campus Secretary; Nicole Bonilla, Opportunity Scholar; Ruth G. Shaw, Scholar; Clemence Mvete, Public Information Officer for the Student Government Association; and Michael Pyant, Vice President of Student Government Association.

Hickory Miracle Check out this article printed in the

July 2018 Our State Magazine

regarding Hickory’s Quarantine

Hospital for polio established in the

1940s. Thanks to the Alleghany

Club for posting this on the

Facebook page!