District 7930 eBulletin

A few good Rotarians are needed to fill out the upcoming Rotaract Mission to the Philippines.

 

Are you still searching to find your “Rotary Moment”?  Maybe  it’s waiting for you in Cebu City.  That’s where the medical mission for cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries that our district supports is going.  We leave on September  28 and head to the Philippines through San Francisco with a group of 25 volunteers. After approximately 10 days and 130 surgeries we come back filled with inspiration and wonder having made a huge impact in the lives of the patients.

 

Go to the Rotaplast website and see all that this great organization does. If you would like to be part of this mission, send an email to gaterrycurran@gmail.com. If you would like the Rotaplast Committee to come to your club and make a presentation contact GATerryCurran@gmail.com. If your club is ready to make a donation, send a check payable to Rotaplast to: Rotary District 7930, c/o David Boudreau, Institution For Savings, 68 Storey Avenue, Newburyport, MA  01950.  

District 7930 2018-2019 Foundation Grant Management Seminar & Certification training is now available online.  Remember, 2 members of your club must complete the certification, including the president elect.  For more information, contact District Foundation Chair Liz Cullen.

 

Somerville Rotary Club was honored to be at the Somerville High School Annual Awards Night. Somerville Rotary granted $2,000 scholarships to two well-deserving outstanding students of Somerville High School. A brief background on the these high achieving young women, Mei Mei Collins and she will be attending Harvard University in the fall to study Environmental Engineering, while Saja El Saudi will be attending University of Massachusetts, Boston. The night over $175,000 in scholarships was awarded and a lot of the donors were residences of Somerville looking out for the next generation. Big thanks to Past-President, Paul Kaufman for his hard work every year on the Rotary Educational Fund and to our own Somerville's Past-Mayor, Gene Brune for his contribution to the SHS Scholarships.

The results are in for May 2018 and three clubs have added double-digit growth in their membership. Each of these clubs have had successful membership development programs and the results speak for themselves. Check out the chart below for the listing of all clubs with positive membership growth. District-wide, we are up 24 members as of today and we hope that clubs continue to induct and record all new members before June 30th.

 

 

Want to find out what the most successful clubs are doing, consider calling or meeting with them or the Membership Committee, and re-purpose their ideas and programs to add to your Team!

A Great time was had at our 28th Annual Comedy Scholarship Fundraiser. For the past 28 years Tom Burke has been organizing this very successfully event with 3 great comedians and an awesome dinner. All this to raise funds for our annual scholarship awards.

 

Thanks again to Tom Burke for chairing this event for ALL 28 Years - Congratulations Tom!