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Subscriber, as
this Rotary year draws to a close, it's time to
finalize plans to make next year the best
ever! We'll soon be sending another Rotary
Blast! subscriber survey, in hopes that you'll
let us know how we're doing, and what we can do
better.
In addition
to editing the Rotary Blast!, I plan to be
available for Club Programs (on a limited
basis). The topic is "Leveraging Technology for
Club PR Results". Not coincidentally, PR is a
District and RI focus this year. If your club
is interested, please
let me know asap! -- Ken Ivey
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Governor's
Notes
Congratulations to the Mt.
Pleasant Rotary Club!!! The club
has achieved the status of 100% Paul
Harris Fellows. What a great
accomplishment!! Paula Sands
Henderson and her leadership team
are to be commended. They, too,
have set a great example for the
rest of us in the district to
follow. Hopefully we will be able
to honor more and more 100% PHF
clubs!!
While speaking about Paul
Harris Fellows, let me remind
you that you still have time to
become a charter member of the
Paul Harris Society of District
6760. The information and/or
mechanics for joining can be
found on the district website ( www.rotary6760.org).
I assure you that the process is
very, very simple. If, by
chance, you are having any
difficulty in filling out the
form, please call me at
615-890-5347.
Once again, congratulations
to Pickwick Landing, the newest
club in District 6760. We are
making plans for a chartering
banquet at Pickwick Landing
State Park sometime in August.
Stay tuned for more
information!!
This is an exciting month
as we tie up loose ends for the
2006-07 Rotary year and make
plans for another successful
year in 2007-08. Please let me
know if there is any way I can
be of assistance during this
transition.
Continue to Lead
the Way.
Slick
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Family of Rotary
Don't forget the
Sallie Sizemore Memorial Services
at Taylor Funeral
Home/Union Cemetery at 10:00 am Saturday
(Rotary Club of Dickson) for more
information email
wnq2006@bellsouth.net.
Editor's note: You can view or
submit Family of Rotary information,
prayer requests, etc., in the Rotary
Blast!
Family of
Rotary Forum.
Events
News
RYLA
Application Deadline Extended.
It’s time to get
ready for District 6760’s
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA),
experience. It will be held 6-8 July at Austin
Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
RYLA is a
three-day leadership development program
targeting incoming high school sophomore and
juniors. The purpose of RYLA is to develop
personal leadership skills and an interest in
serving the community, both core to Rotary
International's mission. Having a great time
while making new friends with like-minded youth
from across the western half of Tennessee seems
to be a natural consequence of this process.
Questions/Forms?
Call me at 931-552-1414 (Work) or 931-216-7010
(Cell) or email at
drdueker@hotmail.com
. Thanks for your commitment to the next
generation!
Dr. Tom Dueker
Chair, District
6760 RYLA Committee
Group
Study Exchange for 2008
Deadline for applications
is only 17 days away!
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.
Housekeeping
District Membership, Attendance & Foundation
Giving Reports
Next club reports due on June
10, 2007.
District 6760 April
Attendance Report - Click
Here.
District 6760 April
Foundation Giving Report -Click
here
Did you know?
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Did you ever
remember reading something in the Blast!,
but couldn't remember which issue? Simply
go to the
archives and enter a keyword into the
search box. You'll be served any issue that
includes that word or phrase.
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You can also
search the entire
Rotary Blast website. The searchbox is
located on the right-hand side. You may
need to scroll down a bit.
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Not just any soldier (from the
Rotary Club of Dickson newsletter)
 Any
Soldier Inc. started as a simple family effort
to help our son, Army Sergeant Brian Horn, who
was one of the 1,000 soldiers who parachuted
into Northern Iraq on March 26th, 2003. We knew
his unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade was living
under very rough conditions, and we were sending
Brian care packages as often as we could.
We wanted to help the soldiers who were with
Brian, so his father, himself a 20-year Army
veteran, started this web site on August 26th,
2003, and asked friends and neighbors to help
send their support. HERE is the original web
page posted that day. The idea caught on, fast.
By Christmas Eve 2003 the site looked like THIS.
The support was massive during the holidays, and
many requests came to us to support other
military units. On January 1st, 2004, we did
just that. At the time, we projected that we
would have 50 volunteer contact soldiers by
Christmas. We were wrong, by June 2nd, 2004, we
had our first 100, and 3 days short of a year we
had 1,000!
As of now we have 3,548!!
We were contacted by an Attorney from Jones Day,
Deborah Franz, who offered her help in getting
us incorporated. She and Bill Zawrotny, also
from Jones Day, took care of all the matters
needed to get us to become “Any Soldier Inc.”, a
non-profit corporation registered in the state
of Maryland on June 2004.
Our application for non-profit charitable,
501(c)(3) status, was submitted to the IRS and
approved on 3 August, 2004.
In August of 2005 we acquired AnyAirman.com,
AnyMarine.com, AnySailor.com, and
AnyCoastGuardsman.com domain names and started
work on offering 5 service-specific versions of
the web site.
On 24 October 2006, “Any Soldier®”, “Any
Marine®”, “Any Airman®”, “Any Sailor®”, “Any
Coast Guardsman®” and our heart logo all were
approved by the USPTO as registered trademarks
of Any Soldier Inc.
Editor's
Note: While deployed in Iraq during
Desert Stom, I was a recipient of "Any Soldier"
letters and packages. There are no words to
express my appreciation for the "little things"
that mean so much to a soldier in a combat
zone. I still have the letters.
My little brother
was re-deployed to Iraq three weeks ago. God
Bless the Rotary Club of Dickson, and God Bless
America! -- Ken Ivey
Verhine Scholarships Awarded to 117 Students
Last week, the Union City Rotary Club staged its 6th Annual Verhine Scholarship Program—awarding $172,500 to 117 former UCHS graduates who are currently enrolled in colleges and universities throughout the region.
The scholarships, which ranged in size from $1,000 to $2,500 per student, bring to $319,000 to total amount of scholarships awarded during a three-week period this year by the Rotary Club. That’s roughly $4 million in scholarships the Rotary Club has awarded since 1982.
The Verhine Scholarships are endowed by a $3.5 million donation from the Vern and Fern Verhine estate. The Verhines were longtime Union City businesspeople who had no children of their own and looked for ways to “give back” to the community they loved.
During last week’s program, vice president Barry Keathley read the names of the students, who in turn rose to tell where they were attending school and their area of study.
Congratulations to Roger Williams and his Scholarship Committee on a great year and thanks to all who made contributions and took part in the many aspects to the program. It’s phenomenal that a club our size can generate and administer a program of this magnitude year after year.
Another special word of thanks goes to Art Sparks, Al Creswell, Craig Atwill and Phillip Creswell and the folks at ATA Accounting for handling the scholarships and making sure they get to the right students.
Chairman Williams and President Steve Goodrich urged the students to make the most of their opportunities and, if possible, return to the Obion County area after graduation to settle down and raise their families. They were also encouraged to make sure they helped future students with contributions to scholarship programs similar to what we have here in the Rotary Club.
- Club Announcements - NOTE: Submit your Club announcement information or photos to Ken Ivey for publication.
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