District Governor Tim Murphy

Our Program on October 6^th was the annual visit of the Rotary District Governor. This year’s governor is Tim Murphy from the Edina Club.His talk centered around three points. The first was membership. He was pleased with our club’s efforts (and gave recognition to Tim Litfin) and talked of ways to interest younger people in Rotary. The new member candidate is interested in networking, and in getting into programs that “give back.”                 

 

His second point was that Rotary has to increase their service of humanitarianism. Our district has been a leader in donations to RI Foundation, and each of the clubs are heavily involved in local, regional, and international program to help society. He read off a list of what our club has done in the past year, and it was both long and impressive. The Rotary initiative to rid the world of polio is “this far from being done” – only two countries currently have new cases of polio.                                                                                                

 

DG Tim’s third point was regarding the Public Image of Rotary. We have to let the public know what we are doing, and not keep it a secret. Publicity about our accomplishments is a good thing.      

 

                                       

STRIVE started its 2015-16 Program on October 5^th at MHS with 17 students with more to come.  Program Coordinator Dick Glover kicked off the program and Don Draayer gave a sample presentation so that students know what to expect in the coming year.  The next meeting is on October 19^th in the Writing Lab.  Mentors Lou Graber, Joyce Kurus, Elzabeth Nicol and Steve Frazier were also on hand to lead small group discussions.