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Subscriber, as we
embrace the New Year and all of its potential,
we may evaluate some of the ways we do things -
in order to improve our service. I'd like to
thank those who took the time to respond to our
survey for this newsletter. An overwhelming
majority of the respondents were satisfied with
The Blast! and its content. We also recieved a
lot of great ideas and requests, and you'll see
some "tweaks" in our format as we strive to
improve while retaining the popular features.
One of the
most requested improvements is also one that I
have almost no influence upon. By far, Club
Projects/Information are what most of you would
like to see more of. I encourage you, as a
leader in your club, to engage your PR
committee and whip up a small article on your
club's goals, projects, and outstanding
individuals and submit it to The Blast! You may
be surprised at what a little PR can do. PDG
James Johnston
was. Results of the survey can be
viewed here (you'll have to scroll down a
little) -- Ken Ivey
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Governor's
Notes
Larry Boyd of the Brentwood Morning
Club has been selected by the
nominating committee to be Governor
of District 6760 in Rotary year
2009-10. Larry graduated
from Danville, KY, High School in
1959. He graduated from Georgia
Institute of Technology in 1966. He
worked for Chastain and Tindel,
Structural Engineers from 1961 - 66
and Genesco, Inc. from 1966 - 97.
He was then employed by Georgia Boot
from 1997 - 2000. In 2000 Larry
established Boyd Promotions, LLC.
and has been a partner there since
that time. Larry and his wife,
Roxann, have three children. Larry
is a veteran of the US Army, having
served in Airborne Infantry. He is
a member and deacon of the Hillsboro
Church of Christ. Larry has been
active in his community, having
served as a youth football coach,
Junior Achievement advisor, and
resource committeeman for Martin
Senior Citizens Center. He is a
graduate of Leadership Brentwood and
the Brentwood Citizens Police
Academy. Larry was a charter member
of the Nashville South Rotary Club
and the charter president of the
Brentwood Morning Rotary Club. He,
his wife, and children are all Paul
Harris Fellows. Larry has been
extremely active in his clubs and
district, with twenty-three years of
perfect attendance. Congratulations
to Larry and to District 6760 for
choosing such an able leader for our
future.
Continue
to Lead the Way! Slick.
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Family of Rotary
Let's think of Audrey
Roberts - Director of Vocational
Service, whose son has recently undergone
bypass surgery.
Please remember in your
prayers the family of Mike Dickerson,
Assistant Governor, 2003-04, Union City, who
died last week.
John Stone, member of
Donelson-Hermitage Rotary died during heart
surgery at St. Thomas. He will be sorely
missed. He was truly the most benevolent man
I've ever known. -- Troy Feltner
Editor's note: You can also view
or submit Family of Rotary information,
prayer requests, etc., in the Rotary Blast!
Family of
Rotary Forum.
Events
January 2007 -
Rotary Awareness Month
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TBA |
District Leadership mid-year
meetings |
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6 |
Youth
Exchange long-term interviews |
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18 |
District Rotary Foundation Banquet |
Columbia |
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27 |
59th
Anniversary of Paul Harris' death |
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28-3
Feb |
International Assembly |
San
Diego, CA |
February 2007 -
World Understanding Month
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District Team Training Seminar |
Dickson |
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Rotary's 102th
Anniversary |
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Youth
Exchange short-term application
deadline |
March 2007
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TBA |
College of Governors' mid-year
meetings |
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TBA |
Rotary
Foundation Recognition Banquet |
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Will
R. Manier, Jr. Scholarship
application deadline |
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12-18 |
World Rotaract Week |
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Assistant Governor training |
Nashville |
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23-24 |
Presidents Elect Training Seminar |
Music
City Sheraton, Nashville |
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Leadership Academy graduation |
TBA |
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Salt
Lake City Convention
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News
Rotary Awareness Month -- Project
Promotion via the Internet
Recent PR efforts by PDG James Johnston
resulted in additional support for the
Honduras WCS Project.
Excerpted email:
I had a pleasantly surprising phone
call this morning from LeeAnn,
president of the Greenville, Calif.
Rotary Club asking if it was too
late to donate to our WCS project.
She said her club was 8 members when
she became president in July and is
now up to 11 members and wanted to
get involved in a WCS project.
Greenville is a small community in
the far Northeast corner of
California.
She said she found out about our
project on the internet from the
article I had sent out asking for
sponsors. She said she was mailing
a check to me today for $500 to wire
two houses and apologized that she
could not do more. Thank GOD for
the power of the internet!
Jim
Remember,
The Foundation Banquet is
tomorrow evening!
RI Convention
PDG John Miles
offers some RI Convention travel tips.
Ken, this is an item that might be
worth putting in the Blast! I just
learned that Delta Air Lines now has
non-stop flights between Nashville
and Salt Lake City which is great
for those going from Middle
Tennessee to the Rotary
International Convention in June.
The aircraft is a MD-90 which is a
full size domestic jet, but there is
only one round trip flight a day.
Going, it leaves Nashville at 4:45
pm and arrives in SLC at 7:30 pm
(Mountain Time). On the return
trip, it leaves SLC at 10:15 am and
arrives in Nashville at 2:45 pm.
(This schedule allows plenty of
commute time from Middle Tennessee
areas to/from the Nashville
airport.)
I made my reservations,
even selected my seats, on the Delta
Web Site which is:
www.delta.com
I hope that this information is
helpful, and even encouragement to
attend the convention and to enjoy
the Salt Lake City area. - - John
Miles
District
Conference Media
If your club has pictures, video, or other
media that should be seen at the district
conference, please send
it. Sooner is better! The District
Conference is May 3-5.
Housekeeping
District Membership,
Attendance & Foundation Giving Reports
or
FAX to 615-893-7447. (Call First ! -- Email is
preferred.)
Next club reports due on February
10, 2007.
District 6760 November
Foundation Giving Report -Download
here
Mark Your
Calendar! The District Conference is May
3-5. We're Jazzed!
From the Union City Bulletin:
JA Charity Ball
We’ve been asked
to remind you about the upcoming Junior
Auxiliary’s upcoming Charity Ball, set for
Saturday night, January 20, here at the Hampton
Centre, from 8-midnight. The JC Charity Ball
will feature the band The SoulSations and
admission will be $75 per person.
PROMETHEAN FOUNDATION
OBJECTIVES
- To provide daycare
scholarships for qualified "at risk"
pre-school children
- To increase the
quality of education and care at all
participating daycares in Obion County
- To insure an
environment in the daycares that teaches
using a wide variety of developmentally
appropriate curriculum activities for
academic and character development
- To insure an
environment in the daycares that models
responsibility, courage, empathy, kindness,
and respect
- To continually
measure and evaluate the progress of the
scholarship recipients and the participating
daycares
- Club
Projects -
NOTE: Submit your
Club announcement information or photos to Ken
Ivey
for publication.
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Wednesday
January 31,
2007
The
deadline is
Friday
January 26,
2007 at 6:00 pm.
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you are sending
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