FOUNDATION BANQUET — Goatee for Polio!

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Goatee for Polio

Rotary Spouse Award

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RI President Message

Sunflower Society

3

RI Trustee Message

Youth Exchange

4

Rotary Peace Fellows 5

Rotary Peace Fellows

ShelterBox

6

Seaman HS Interact 7

Leavenworth Interact

K-State Rotaract

9

Youth Exchange

News

9-11

District Office 11

Club/District Events 12

District Numbers

Zone and RI Dates

13

Club Attendance

New Club Members

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October 2013 District 5710

Eastern Kansas Rotary 420 SE 6th Avenue, Suite 121, Topeka, KS 66607

Phone: 785-232-7216 Fax: 785-232-8126

www.rotary5710.org

Gary Duggan

District Governor

2013-14

CLICK ON GRAPHIC TO REGISTER ONLINE OR TO VIEW DETAILS

CLICK HERE for a paper registration form

PDG Kevin Tubbesing with Rotary

International President Ron Burton

2013-14 Rotary International

Theme Tie

Oklahoma Crimson Red

with Theme Logo

Personally Signed by 2013-14

Rotary International President

Ron Burton

This tie will be auctioned off

LIVE at the Foundation Banquet

on November 9

All proceeds will go to

PolioPlus

Bring your Checkbook!

Bring your Cash!

Come ready to bid BIG!

To register, click on the graphic

at the top of this page.

To make a donation to PolioPlus,

click on the Goat.

WOULD YOU LIKE A CHANCE TO

CUT OFF THIS GOATEE??

Two lucky people can do just that at our Foundation Banquet, November 9, 2013

Sheraton Overland Park Hotel

GUEST SPEAKER: Ed Futa

Past General Secretary and Chief Operating Officer for

Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation

Can’t attend the banquet?

You can still made a contribution to PolioPlus

at this time and maximize your contribution!

Your donation will be matched by the District AND a new RI Foundation Match AND be matched 2x by the

Gates Foundation—If you give $50, with all the matches your $50 donation results in a $375 donation

to PolioPlus—Just a $5donation results in a $37.50 donation to PolioPlus—EVERY DOLLAR

COUNTS!

Each $5 donation to Polio gives you one chance in the drawing—give BIG $$$’s to

have LOTS of entries!! AND . .

THE TWO LUCKY WINNERS will cut off this lovely goatee

AND receive FREE admission to the Foundation Banquet

CLICK ON ANY GOAT IN THIS NEWSLETTER TO MAKE

YOUR DONATION

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Goatee for Polio!

Wanda Wilhite Receives Award!

Each year, Rotary International bestows the honor of Spouse of a

Rotarian award to ONLY 100 spouses each year.

This year, our own Wanda Wilhite, wife of PDG Jon Wilhite, was

presented with this prestigious award.

Pictured to the right is DG Gary Duggan presenting the Spouse of

the Year award to Wanda at an Overbrook Rotary Club meeting.

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Message from RI President Ron Burton In Rotary, October is the month we set aside to remind ourselves of our second Avenue

of Service: vocational service. While some Rotarians call this the "forgotten" area of

service, I would disagree: In fact, vocational service is the avenue through which we serve

so often, we don't always recognize it as service.

Vocational service has its roots in the second object of Rotary, which encourages all

Rotarians to hold high ethical standards in our business affairs and our professions, to rec-

ognize all useful occupations as worthy of respect, and to dignify work as an opportunity

to serve society.

In short, the idea of vocational service is that our jobs, in

themselves, are a way of serving society. Whether we

are serving customers, teaching students, or treating patients, whether we're

involved in commerce, research, the media, or any one of countless other fields – we

take pride in doing our work with competence and integrity. Every occupation fills a

need, and by doing our work well, we are contributing to our communities and our

society.

The role of vocational service in the club is important, even if it isn't always promi-

nent. By maintaining high standards individually, we earn a reputation that we share

collectively. By valuing all occupations equally and by maintaining a classification

system in our clubs, we ensure that our clubs reflect our communities – and can

serve them well. A Rotary club of all lawyers wouldn't be capable of nearly as much

as one that also had teachers, engineers, business owners, and dentists; in Rotary,

our diversity is our strength. That diversity is an advantage not only to our service but to our members: It gives us all a

valuable way to find the connections and opportunities that help us in our own careers.

That aspect of membership is as old as Rotary. Paul Harris himself wrote often of the business advantages of Rotary

membership, believing, as I do, that being a Rotarian means a person holds a certain set of values that will make him or

her a good person to do business with. Today, with the world more connected than ever, Rotary membership is an

honor that we should be proud to share.

Introducing the Sunflower Society Your generous contributions to The Rotary Foundation are essential to securing and growing

Rotary programs throughout the world. Kansans in particular have a proud tradition of giving

and supporting those in need and our district expresses our gratitude for your commitment

by announcing a new recognition level—The Sunflower Society!

The Sunflower Society recognizes annual gifts to The Rotary Foundation of $2,500 or more.

Founding members of the Sunflower Society will be inducted by District Governor Gary Dug-

gan and Past Rotary International General Secretary Ed Futa at the November 9 Foundation

Banquet at the Overland Park Sheraton.

Want to join this prestigious society? CLICK HERE for flyer. Click here to register for the Foundation Banquet.

Every occupation

fills a need, and by

doing our work

well, we are con-

tributing to our

communities and

our society.

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Foundation Trustee Chair Message—D. K. Lee

On 24 October, we mark World Polio Day. It is a time to reflect on the progress we've made

and to strengthen our determination for the work ahead.

It's important to realize how far we've come. We have reduced the number of polio cases by

over 99 percent, from more than 350,000 a year in the 1980s to 223 in 2012. But now for the

road ahead: Polio is still endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Difficult terrain, civil un-

rest, remote settlements, and poor sanitation are just some of the obstacles to immunization.

That's why we, and our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, are determined to

finish our work.

With the announcement of the extended fundraising partnership between Rotary International and the Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation at the 2013 RI Convention in Lisbon, Portugal, we have the chance to introduce millions of new

dollars into the campaign. The value of this extended partnership is more than $500 million, and through it, your

contributions toward polio eradication will work twice as hard.

It's more important than ever that we all take action. Talk to your government leaders, share your

polio stories on your social networks, and encourage others in your community to join us in sup-

porting this historic effort. When Rotarians combine their passion for service with our strong global

network, we are unstoppable. With the backing of the Gates Foundation and you, the Rotarians

around the world, we can change the face of public health forever.

Did you know that family members of Rotarians are

eligible for the Rotary Youth Exchange program? It’s

true. There is no exclusion for children, grandchil-

dren, etc. of Rotarians. We welcome them to

apply. Did you also know that our district is blessed

with a Youth Exchange Foundation that allows us to

provide financial aid for those who qualify? It has

allowed us to send out some wonderful students for a

year abroad who wouldn’t have been able to afford a program like this oth-

erwise. Clubs should be looking for quality applicants now and beginning to

interview them. The age range for outgoing students is 15 1/2-18 1/2

at the time of travel (August 2014). The long form (which takes more

than a few weeks to assemble) is due to me on December 1st. The district

level interviews will be held in Lenexa on Saturday December 14th. If you

have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Stephen Wheatley

District 5710 Outbound Coordinator

wheatleydc@sbcglobal.net

Youth Exchange—Did you know???

Student Application—CLICK HERE

Youth Exchange Handbook—CLICK HERE

Youth Exchange Brochure—CLICK HERE

Deadline to

Remember:

Applications to Stephen

Wheatley by

December 1.

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The Rotary Peace Fellowship is a program administered worldwide by Rotary International. Any Rotary club may nominate

potential fellows. In District 5710, nominees are interviewed by the district committee in April or early May and nominations

are submitted to Rotary International by July 1 of each year. Two types of fellowships are available: an 18-24 month masters-

degree program at selected universities around the world, and a 3-month certificate program at a university in Thailand.

District 5710 recipients of the degree fellowship have David Kozar and Summer Lewis. Recipients of the certificate fellowship

have been Katrina Lewis and Vibhavari Jani. For application forms and other information, visit the district website

(rotary5710.org) and click on Rotary Peace Fellowships in the left column. Also feel free to contact Patti Bossert

(patti@keystaffing.com) or Bill Richter (wrichter@ksu.edu) concerning the district nomination process.

David Kozar

2010 District 5710 Rotary Peace Scholar

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

David Kozar, District 5710s first Rotary Peace Fellow, spoke to three clubs in

the district during a brief visit to Kansas in October. David is currently work-

ing as an International Development Officer for the International Project Unit

of the Office of Commercial Services at Queensland University of Technology

(QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. In his role David is developing and managing

Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) Public Sector

Linkages Programs, Australian Awards Fellowships and Australian Leadership

Award Fellowships for Latin America, The Pacific, South Asia and Africa. Since

completing his Master of International Studies at the University of Queensland

in 2010, David has also completed the Master of Community and International

Development at Deakin University in Melbourne.

The presentations were at the Topeka Downtown Rotary Club on October 10; the Manhattan Konza Rotary Club on

October 11; and the Manhattan Rotary Club on October 17. In all three presentations David showed a brief video he

had made while working with post-conflict programs in Bosnia, discussed his Peace Fellowship internship with rehabil-

itation of trafficked women on the Thai-Myanmar border, and brought Rotarians up to date on his current develop-

ment work with QUT.

David was recently presented with the lifetime achievement “President’s Call to Service Award” from the United

States President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.

Rotary Peace Fellow David Kozar Speaks to Manhattan & Topeka Clubs

Make a contribution to PolioPlus now through November 8 to take advantage of

the District Match, the RI Match and the

Gates Foundation match!

A $10 contribution becomes $75!

A $50 contribution becomes $375!!

CLICK ON GOAT TO MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION NOW!

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Rotary Peace Fellow Vibhavari Jani Update Message from Vibhavari Jani

Associate Professor at K-State

2013 District 5710 Rotary Peace Fellow

I came back from Bangkok on September 2 and have been running since. This was

truly a life changing experience and I am very thankful to the Rotary Club of Manhat-

tan and District 5710 for supporting and sending me to Bangkok. I have several

projects that utilized my freshly gained knowledge on peace and conflict resolution.

Wounded Warrior Project: I was awarded $10,000 Engagement Incentive Grant

from K-State’s CECD (Center for Engagement and Center for Development) to

continue the Wounded Warrior project. I am executing this project this semester and working with my thirty-one

graduate students in the research and design of a rehabilitation center for these soldiers. While in Bangkok, I

discussed this project with the Rotary Peace Center staff members and they suggested that I prepare a conflict analysis

for this project, which I did. Based on the results of that analysis, I am now using Mary Anderson’s “Do No Harm”

model for this project.

In the Land of Thousand Buddhas: A exhibition was held in Kemper Gallery at K-State as my tribute to the people of

Thailand and Cambodia. The exhibit displayed my photos of art, architecture, culture and people of these two

countries as well as textiles, pottery, baskets, puppets, temple models and other artifacts.

Night of Wonder: My exhibition design studio students designed an exhibition for this event titled “Spiritual Wonder”

which was intended for people to explore through to understand how exploration in nature brings peace.

Shelter Box Needs Your Help!

Message from Jeff Deatherage, Topeka West Rotary Club

The human suffering of women and children displaced by the Syrian Crisis is not inspiring help

in the way that huge, sudden and violent natural disasters inspire help. But please believe . . .

The Syrian Refugee Crisis is a serious humanitarian tragedy and it is only getting

worse. ShelterBox has been providing assistance for a long time. There are 4 million internal-

ly displaced persons in Syria and over 2 million Syrian refugees spread around neighboring

countries living in very rough condition. As winter approaches, this man-made disaster is

setting up to be an intolerable tragedy.

A private family is willing to match donations up to a total of $5,000. The members of the Heartland Shelter

Box Team (Districts 5710, 6080 and 6040) ask you to consider making a contribution to ShelterBox at this link: http://shelterbox.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?

ievent=1085644&lis=1&kntae1085644=CDCEED4B79D94D09932A446013EF6CDA&login=t

ShelterBox resources are being stretched as we are responding to disasters in Pakistan (2 floods, earthquake),

Sudan (flooding), Niger (flooding), and Iraqi Kurdistan (conflict).

Rotary Peace Center

Chulalongkorn University

Bangkok, Thailand

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Seaman High School Interact Club—Sleep In A Box

Article from Amanda Torbett, Sponsor for the Seaman

High School Interact Club

Despite the cooler temperatures and biting wind

(resulting in several structural collapses), the Sleep in a

Box event went well and supported a great cause. We

were able to donate over 800 canned food items to the

local food pantry, $150 to the Topeka Rescue Mission,

$150 to the Topeka North Outreach, and $150 to PANT

(Pet Assistance Network of Topeka).

A special shout-out to Seaman High School faculty/staff

members Patty Allacher, Carrie Magette, Jan Norris, Kate

Scarbrough, Shawne Brewer, Kelly Muxlow, John Cornett,

Kendall Eperson, and Dough Fehr. Topeka North Rotary

members: Matthew Chenoweth, Dennis Reedy, Mike

Siebert, and Kathy Gross. Also, thanks to our speakers:

Theresa Gartner (Topeka North Outreach), Dr. Joe

Cook (PANT), and Frank Henderson (Topeka Rescue

Mission).

Group shot with Dr. Cook from PANT

Sad faces about the collapse of their prize-winning cardboard

mansion.

Fierce

dumpster-

dive

competition

Matthew Chenoweth (AKA Vanna

White), from the Topeka North

Rotary, displaying the cans collected

Interact Club President Alex

Gutierrez presenting a donation to

Frank Henderson (Topeka Rescue

Mission)

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Rick Hansen, President of the Leavenworth Rotary

Club, presented the Certificate of Organization charter-

ing document to Naomi Griffin, a student at Leaven-

worth High School and President of the Interact Club

on October 2nd, 2013. The Leavenworth Rotary Club

hosted the officers and sponsors for lunch and during

the program presented the chartering certificate. The

Leavenworth High School Interact Club began with the

2012-2013 school year and had enough members the

first year to apply for chartering. The club is very

involved in poverty

projects. Most nota-

bly the club conduct-

ed a clothing drive

where they collected

over 1,000 articles of

clothing which per-

mitted them to open

the Pioneer Closet, a

program that provides needy students with clothing. This year, the club also do-

nated funds to buy food for two high school students. Also on October 2nd, Miss

Griffin presented Leavenworth Rotary Club with $100 check toward the elimina-

tion of polio. Interact held a fundraiser to procure these funds. There are many

other activities Interact is involved in, too numerous to mention, which all speak to

the character of service of these high school students. These Interact students

deserve a big “shout out” for all of their efforts and hard work!

Leavenworth High School Interact Club Chartered

A $50 contribution becomes $375.00!!

Leavenworth Rotary Club President Rick Hansen presents

Interact Chartering Certificate to Interact member, Navya

Hopkins. Also pictured from left to right: Naomi Griffin, Sam

Ross, Patricia Fetter, Mrs. Ashley (school teacher ) and Lily

Interact Club President, Naomi

Griffin, presents President Rick

Hansen with a $100 check donation

in support of Rotary’s fight to

eradicate Polio

Kansas State University Rotaract Club

Rachel Loder (junior from Lindsborg) and Madeline McMillen (sophomore from Stilwell) are

co-presidents of the Manhattan K-State Rotaract Club. The club is off and running for the

year.

The Manhattan Rotary Club has received a District Grant to fund water filters

and cookstoves for Guatemala. The members of the Rotaract Club will spend

their spring break in Guatemala helping with a Rotary service project. They are

raising funds to pay for their way there and back.

To kick off the club fundraising for their Guatemala service trip, they will be handing out bottles of water

at the Walmart in Manhattan on October 29 and 30, spreading the word about the project and receiving

donations for the trip.

If you are near Manhattan, stop by and make a donation. Not near Manhattan but want to make a donation to

the Rotaract Club to help with the trip? Contact Rachel at rachelloder@gmail.com.

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Inbound Youth Exchange Students at Worlds of Fun

A “Thank You” to Phil Putnam for these

wonderful pictures. He is pictured below

in the silver hat—absolutely stunning!

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Inbound Youth Exchange Students at Worlds of Fun (Cont)

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Inbound Youth Exchange (Cont)

District Office—Storage Finally Arrives! Editor Note: The District shares an office in the Ramada Hotel and Con-

vention Center in Topeka with the Topeka Downtown Rotary Club. We

moved into our new, larger office in 2011 but the district needed files stor-

age space—drastically. After years of hunting for file cabinets, the hunt is

now over. A few weeks ago I made a trip to visit the Atchison Rotary Club

and brought back 3 file cabinets!! A special thanks to Reed Berger and his

company, Berger Company, for the donation of the file cabinets. And a

thank you to Steve Wheatley who helped Reed load the cabinets into my

van. And thanks to President Patsy Porter and the Atchison Rotary Club

for their warm welcome to their meeting.

Pictured to the right is a BEFORE picture of the district office. Next month—the AFTER pictures!!

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Coming Events

DISTRICT DATES!! Details at rotary5710.0rg (right column)

FOUNDATION BANQUET

November 9, 2013

Overland Park Sheraton

Guest Speaker– Ed Futa

Past General Secretary and Chief

Operating Officer of Rotary International and The

Rotary Foundation

GOATEE FOR POLIO!

Contribute to Polio—Win a

Chance to Cut Off

DG Gary’s Goatee at the

Foundation Banquet

(see page 1 for details)

YOUTH EXCHANGE

OUTBOUND INTERVIEWS

December 14, 2013

Lenexa United Methodist Church, Lenexa, KS

9:00 am—2:00 pm

PRE-ACCELERATE ROTARY 2014

January 31—Paddy O’Quigley’s

Lawrence Holidome—5:30 to 7:00

ACCELERATE ROTARY 2014

February 1, 2014

Holiday Inn Hotel & Convention Center

Lawrence, KS

8:00 am—3:30 pm

CELEBRATE ROTARY 2014

May 2-4, 2014

Ritz Charles, Overland Park

CELEBRATE ROTARY 2015

May 8-10, 2015

Four Points Sheraton, Manhattan

CLUB EVENTS

CLICK HERE

GO TO THE DISTRICT CALENDAR FOR

DETAILS ON CLUB EVENTS

SCROLL THROUGH THE MONTHS—CLICK ON

EVENT TO VIEW THE DETAIL

(or click on graphic for event details)

OCTOBER

K-State Rotaract Club

October 29-30

Walmart in Manhattan

Passing out water bottles and re-

questing donations to fund Spring

Break trip to Guatemala for a

Rotary Service Project

NOVEMBER

Leavenworth

Veteran’s Day Pancake Breakfast

Riverfront Community Center

7:00 to 11:00 am

Have an upcoming event? If your club is on

ClubRunner, add the event to your website and

click to share with the District

Not on ClubRunner? Send the event details to Linda

at linda@rotary5710.org

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The membership count listed for July 1,

2013 is the estimated membership num-

ber until the July Semi-Annual Reports

(SARs) submitted to Rotary International

are processed.

Clubs with zero entered for the current

month’s membership/attendance % did

not submit attendance information to the

District website for the month of August

by the deadline date of October 15.

District Membership Numbers

* District Attendance Percentage of Clubs Reporting

Click graphic above to go to

the District Facebook page. www.facebook.com/rotary5710

ZONE AND INTERNATIONAL

DATES

ZONE INSTITUTE

December 10-14, 2013

Lost Pines Hyatt near

Austin, TX

Zone Website

ROTARY

INTERNATIONAL

CONVENTION

Sydney, Australia

June 1-4, 2014

Club 7/1/13 Mem-

bership 9/30/13 Mem-

bership

September Attendance

%

Atchison 76 0 0.00%

Baldwin City 19 19 62.00%

Blue Valley 0 0 0.00%

Bonner Springs 21 0 0.00%

Burlington 39 39 53.29%

Council Grove 46 0 0.00%

DeSoto 28 27 83.00%

Emporia 73 0 0.00%

Frankfort 25 0 0.00%

Gardner 49 51 70.00%

Garnett 0 0 0.00%

Holton 30 24 73.00%

Howard 15 16 68.80%

Johnson County 24 24 77.08%

Johnson County-Sunset 27 0 0.00%

Junction City 60 64 38.00%

Junction City-Flint Hills 18 0 0.00%

Kansas City, Kansas 52 54 63.00%

Lawrence 199 203 53.92%

Lawrence Central 28 29 54.00%

Lawrence Jayhawk 68 75 73.08%

Leavenworth 86 88 71.43%

Leawood 52 52 79.59%

Lenexa 47 46 75.00%

Louisburg 33 34 43.70%

Manhattan 184 195 66.56%

Manhattan Konza 76 84 35.71%

Marysville 47 47 75.00%

Olathe Noon 0 0 0.00%

Olathe-Santa Fe Trail 26 22 53.00%

Osawatomie 24 0 0.00%

Oskaloosa 22 22 54.00%

Ottawa 27 0 0.00%

Overbrook 30 29 80.00%

Overland Park 139 140 67.39%

Overland Park South 97 102 61.79%

Paola 35 36 72.00%

Shawnee 58 56 80.73%

Shawnee Mission 45 47 78.49%

Spring Hill 13 0 0.00%

Topeka Downtown 194 190 51.75%

Topeka North 18 18 60.00%

Topeka South 113 115 69.42%

Topeka West 20 20 80.00%

Valley Falls 15 15 61.00%

Valley Heights @ Blue Rapids 18 0 0.00%

Village West 41 43 67.57%

Western Jo Co 30 27 48.15%

2387 2053 *62.98%

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DeSoto ............................................................. 83.00%

Shawnee ........................................................... 80.73%

Overbrook ...................................................... 80.00%

Topeka West .................................................. 80.00%

Leawood .......................................................... 79.59%

Shawnee Mission ............................................ 78.49%

Johnson County.............................................. 77.08%

Lenexa .............................................................. 75.00%

Marysville ......................................................... 75.00%

Lawrence Jayhawk ......................................... 73.08%

Holton .............................................................. 73.00%

Paola .................................................................. 72.00%

Leavenworth ................................................... 71.43%

Gardner ............................................................ 70.00%

Emporia ............................................Christina Khan

Howard ............................................Stacy Ellsworth

Junction City ...................................Tyler Ficken, Sean Ryan

Leavenworth ...................................William T. Thompson

Manhattan ........................................Richard Crowley, Fred Goss,

Megan Loftin, Jeffery Morris,

Carl Taylor

Olathe Noon ...................................Karin Brownlee

Olathe Santa Fe Trail ....................Bruce Hovey

Overland Park South .....................Pete Belk, Amy Finnerty,

Eric Jacobson

Shawnee Mission ............................Kent Fulton

Topeka Downtown .......................Sharon Carlson, Mark DeGroff

Topeka South ..................................Ernie Beaudet

Village West ....................................Brian Heithoff

New Club Members for September

Average

Attendance (for

reporting clubs)

for the month of

September:

62.98%

Clubs With Over 70% Attendance for September Clubs with 65% to 70%

Attendance:

Topeka South—69.42%

Howard—68.80%

Village West—67.57%

Overland Park—67.39%

Manhattan—66.56%

THE VALUE OF ONE MEMBER

Ten little Rotarians standing in a line,

One disliked the president, then there were nine.

Nine ambitious members on a project work late,

One forgot her commitment, then there were eight.

Eight creative members had ideas good as heaven,

One lost enthusiasm, then there were seven.

Seven loyal Rotarians got in a fix,

They quarreled over projects, then there were six.

Six members remained with spirit and drive,

One moved away, them there were five.

Five steadfast members wished there were more,

One became indifferent, then there were four.

Four cheerful members who never disagree,

‘til one complained about food, then there were three.

Three eager members! What did they do?

One got discouraged, then there were two.

Two lonely members, my rhyme is nearly done.

One joined a sports team, then there was one.

One faithful member, feeling rather blue, met with

A neighbor, then there were two.

Two earnest members, each one enrolled one more

Doubling their number, then there was four.

Four determined members, just wouldn’t wait,

‘til each one reached another, then there were eight.

Eight excited members signed up eight more,

In another six verses, there’ll be a

thousand twenty-four!

(Rotary Club of Morehead City-Noon)