Group Study Exchange for 2008
The 2008 exchange will be a fall/spring travel schedule with District 1030 in the Yorkshire section of England. The 6760 group will travel to British soil September 18, 2007, and return October 18, 2007. The 1030 group will arrive April 15, 2008, and they will depart approximately May 15, 2008. Their District Conference will be October 5- 7, 2007. It will take place on a ferry in the North Sea traveling to Amsterdam. They will have the added opportunity to tour Amsterdam in the exchange.
We will be having to recruit a team in May and June for the outgoing leg of the exchange. We are asking that all applications for Team Leader and Team Member be received by the GSE committee by June 23, 2007. The interviews will take place on July 7th. Applications can be downloaded from the
Rotary Download Center.
The ages for team members are 25-39. They cannot have a lineal kinship with a Rotary member and have to be employed in the district. They must be able to leave their employment for approximately one month.
All applications should be mailed to:
Frank McGinley, GSE Chairman
155 Williams Street
Savannah, TN 38372.
Help in finding good team member applicants and potential Rotarian team leaders is requested from all Rotarians in the district. This should be one of the more interesting and enjoyable exchanges in recent years.
Greensburg, KS Tornadoes - Rotarian Response
Greensburg was 95% destroyed by a 1.7 mile wide tornado which completely destroyed the town of about 1,500 residents. This town is starting from scratch to rebuild as the entire downtown and nearly all the homes were completely wiped off the face of the earth.
In the meantime, if you, your club or district wishes to help, here's how:
District 5690 has arranged for contributions from individual Rotarians, clubs and districts to be to be channeled through the charitable fund of the Rotary Club of Wichita, a 501 (c) (3). Cash Contributions can be made to "Wichita Rotary Charitable Fund - Greensburg Disaster Relief" and sent to the address below. Please distribute the information as you wish to fellow Rotarians, clubs and districts. The WRCF will then disburse funds to the Greensburg and Pratt Rotary clubs when needs have been identified by those clubs. Checks may be sent to:
Curtis Dick, Executive Secretary Rotary District 5690 106 W. Douglas, Suite 909 Wichita, KS 67156
curtis@wichitarotary.org
If districts have DDF they would like to commit to a long-term project down the road, we are asking that the district please earmark it for future use (at the district level) and inform us (D5690
curtis@wichitarotary.org) of the amount they are holding for this disaster. We will maintain a record of committed amounts and eventually come back to request the DDF if it is still available.
(submitted by Mike Thompson)
