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“Rotary: Making A Difference” Lloyd Navarro, DG [email protected]

CLUB NEWS

ROTARY DISTRICT 7690 AUGUST 2017 DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S NEWSLETTER

IN THIS EDITION

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District Governor’s Article 2

District Governor Visits 3

Call For District Governor Candidates 3

District Conference Invitation-Pinehurst 3

Global Trekkers 4

Youth Exchange 5

Membership 6, 7

Save the Date-Membership Summit 8

RUSH Success 9

Polio Plus 10

Attendance 11

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Lloyd Navarro

District Governor

2 The Piedmont Rotarian

GOVERNOR’S

ARTICLE

BUTTERFLY EFFECT OF MAKING A DIFFERENCE

As I make my way around to our Rotary Clubs of our

District, I am being not only welcomed most graciously

at each club, but I am continually reminded that as

People of Action, we are revealing what Rotary is and

Rotary does is making a difference. Thank you for your

efforts and enthusiasm in supporting our theme, Rotary:

Making A Difference. Three months before RI President

Ian Riseley revealed the annual theme, I had 20

minutes of one-on-one time with him as we walked to a

restaurant for a get-together. It was clear he wanted us

to experience and share Rotary in multi-faceted ways:

with other individuals for membership growth, with other organizations for

partnership, with other Rotary Clubs and Districts for collaboration, with our

communities through sustainable projects, with our Family of Rotary to foster

cohesiveness. In District 7690, we are doing exactly this!

At a Club President Installation which I had the privilege to preside over, the

incoming Club President spoke about the phenomena of the Butterfly Effect.

Coined by Edward Lorenz, the phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's

wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter

the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a

tornado in another location or perhaps even cause the tornado to occur. It

suggests that small causes can have large effects. Whether it is paying for

lunch of the person behind you in line, or planning a project to pack a thou-

sand backpacks for children with meals and school supplies, enjoy your

quest in discovering that Rotary truly makes a difference to all those people

who benefit from our great programs and impactful service projects. As I

scanned the audience of fifty high school students participating in Rotary

Youth Leadership Program hosted by the Greensboro Club since 1983, and in

collaborative partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership, my mind

wandered to the thought that the Butterfly Effect was powerfully occurring.

I want to remind you of our upcoming fall seminars covering our Rotary Foun-

dation and RUSH Initiative. These seminars are being offered in Asheboro on

September 9 and in Clemmons on September 14. Choose the location and

time that is most convenient for you. Unlike previous years, Membership will

not be part of the Fall Seminars. However, this important area will be covered

in a special Membership Summit conducted on October 5 at the Sedgefield

Country Club Dye Course in Greensboro. I would be remiss to not remind you

to sharpen your golfing skills acumen in preparation for the District Golf Tour-

nament at Little River Golf Course on September 28 in Carthage, NC. Cannot

wait to see how the Troy Rotary Club team will dress for this year’s tourna-

ment!

“One Member…Per Member" is now part of our District’s makeup. Remember

this not only during August as Membership and Extension Month, but

throughout the year. It's fitting to celebrate membership early in the Rotary

year, because our relationships with other Rotary members are at the heart

of our Rotary experience. It is equally fitting to add to the resilience of your

Club and our District by sharing Rotary with a prospective member. Prospects

are new friends who value service to others, live their lives ethically, and give

their time unselfishly to improve communities nearby and across the globe. I

am forever grateful to Rich Waters who invited me to my first Rotary Meeting

and Robert Hayter who sponsored me into Rotary eighteen years ago.

Dare Greatly, Go Boldly, Make a Difference.

TIME TO REGISTER FOR

FALL SEMINARS The Fall Seminars are the place where district volunteers and fellow Rotarian Leaders come together to exchange ide-as to help strengthen our clubs. It is an opportunity to go beyond the boundaries of your Club and Area to meet in fellow-ship and collaboration while being in-

spired and motivated.

The Fall Seminars will begin with an Overview Session of District Goals and District Gold Club Award, upcoming Dis-trict Calendar Events, Rotary Leadership Institute, and planning for the 2018 District Conference. Following the Over-view Session will be two other sessions: The Rotary Foundation and RUSH (Rotarians United to Stop Hunger) Initia-tive for 2017-2018. Please note that Membership is not part of the Fall Semi-nars because this important topic will be conducted in a separate District Mem-bership Summit conducted on Thursday, October 5, at Sedgefield Country Club,

Dye Course Clubhouse.

Please register now through the district calendar event list for one of the Fall Seminars at the location/time most con-venient for you. The seminars will be the same length of time and the agendas identical, so choose the day and time that suits you best! The cost of $30 in-cludes materials, facilities fees, and

break refreshments.

Saturday, September 9

8:30 am to 12:30 pm

AVS Banquet Centre

Asheboro, NC

Thursday, September 14

12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Village Inn & Conference Center

Clemmons, NC

Club Presidents, please encourage your Presidents Elect and Nominees, Founda-tion, and other committee chairs to at-tend or send a representative in their place. Assistant Governors and Founda-tion Advocates are also encouraged to

attend.


CALL FOR DISTRICT

GOVERNOR CANDIDATES

Any club wishing to submit a candidate for District Governor for 2020-21 Rota-ry year must submit the candidate’s name with complete qualifications NO LATER than OCTOBER 31, 2017. Nomi-nation forms will be emailed to club presidents. The Chairman of the Nomi-nating Committee is PDG Patrick Eakes. The candidate must be availa-ble for an interview on Monday, November 2 at High Point Country

Club.

Completed forms should be mailed to:

Rotary District Office, 114 Willoughby Park, High Point, NC 27265 or emailed

to: [email protected]

and must be received by October 31,

2017.

UPCOMING DISTRICT GOVERNOR VISITS AUGUST

August 1 – Alamance

August 2 – East Greensboro

August 7 – Furnitureland

August 9 – Surry Sunrise

August 10 – King

August 10 – Stratford

August 11 – Southern Pines

August 15 – Lexington

August 16 – Kernersville

August 16 – Thomasville

August 17 – Jonesboro

August 22 – Greensboro Airport

August 22 -- Madison/Mayodan

August 23 – Clemmons

August 29 – Yadkinville

August 29 --- Mount Airy

August 30 – Pittsboro

August 31 – Hillsdale Sunrise

August 31 -- Carthage


A NEW BEGINNING

On July 1st the Rotary E-Club of Global Trekkers D7690 figuratively opened its doors

for business. In many ways it represents a new beginning. It’s a new beginning for

the 70-year old Walnut Cove Rotary Club, which was in danger of losing its charter

due to dwindling membership. It’s a new beginning for the D7690 E-Club Start-Up

Team which got a jump start by merging with former Walnut Cove Rotarians. And

it’s a new beginning for District 7690 which now has an e-club that serves the entire

district.

Service Above Self is our motto. Usually when I hear that, I envision someone who is

in dire straits. But actually sometimes it’s our own fellow members who could use a

little help. The new e-club allows D7690 Rotarians to continue their Rotary ties to

this 15 county area when they move somewhere else in the world … relocation no

longer has to mean good-bye. Through the e-club those of us who slow down a little

due to physical impediments can still attend live Rotary meetings … a physical hand-

icap no longer has to impede one’s ability to make his/her meeting. Sometimes the

nature of a member’s work changes in a way that requires so much travel it be-

comes impossible to continue as an active member of a club. D7690 Rotary service

can continue because the Rotary E-Club of Global Trekkers is just a click away

Wednesday evenings at 7:00 on the omnipresent internet.

So, if you get a chance, check us out at www.facebook/groups/GlobalTrekkers

See what this newest member is up to!

http://www.facebook/groups/GlobalTrekkers


YOUTH EXCHANGE IN DISTRICT 7690

“Making Peace the mission; sharing culture and world understanding through

Youth Exchange.”

District Governor Lloyd Navarro greets students and parents who are preparing for the outbound youth exchange. The Alamance-Burlington Club sponsors Paige with her mother Pamela Duffy. The Southern Pines Club sponsors Kelley with her

parents Steven and Kimberly Filby.

Contact -Tanya Feagins- District Chair for Youth Exchange 7690 – twfeagins@gmail

.com

Youth Exchange - Creating an enviornment of understanding

and iclusion…

One student at a

time

Paige will travel to

Germany and

Kelley will be in

France on the out-

bound youth ex-

change in the

upcoming year.

Joao finds his Rotary club banner

from Brazil to remain as a last

minute gift.

Joao returns to Brazil express-

ing, “The end of a jour-

ney…..Things that I learned,

people I met, places I’ve been

to, all of that I’ll forever carry

in my heart.”

Pierre says good-bye to his

host family the Cryans and

returned to FraPierre says

good-bye to his host family

the Cryans and returned to

France.

Inbound Rotary Youth Exchange students prepare to leave as exchange year ends.

Hannah has a joyous home-

coming from her exchange

year in Belgium.

Scenes of tearful good-byes are at

the airport as Toni left her host

family the Wigglesworth to return to

Germany.


It’s About Membership… Welcome New Rotarians!

The following Rotarians joined clubs in our district between June 20 and July 20, 2017. We are excited to

welcome these new members to Rotary and offer special thanks to their Sponsors!

Rotarian Club Sponsor Marcus Abernathy Mocksville Will Marklin

Jason Anderson Stratford Richard Bell

Jim Arnold Pinehurst Walt Hess

Brenda Bellomo ` Hillsdale Sunrise

Owen Bertschi High Point

Chad Brown Mocksville Jane Simpson

Marty Brown Stratford Mindy Bloom

Phil Brown Alamance

Sue Bruton Pinehurst Mary Bridschge

Kay Danes Global Trekkers Ray Pifer

Ken Dobbins Global Trekkers Ray Pifer/Cookie Billings

Barry Ellis Surry Sunrise Matt Linville

Mary Enroth Pinehurst

Holly Ferree High Point

Alex Galloway Stratford Ed Robbins

Amanda Gargis Stratford Annette Lynch

Dixon Gerber Stratford

Travis Hall Surry Sunrise Keith Seivers

Anne Hennis Yadkinville Terry Titus

Lesa Hensley Surry Sunrise Catrina Alexander

Larry Jerome Greensboro

Joseph Keel Siler City Mark Zeringue

Abigail Linville Surry Sunrise Matt Linville

Ed Martin Greensboro

Tammy Martin King Brad Rice

Nick O’Connor The Sandhills Philip Bailey

Dianne Person Alamance Peter Barcus

Amanda Phillips Reynolda John Andrews

Rachel Puckett Guilford Gene Parker

Dan Purdy Pinehurst John Wittenstrom

Terry Renegar Hillsdale Sunrise

Bill Schran Pinehurst Clem Jowett

Ashley Sipe Stratford Mindy Bloom

Amy Sparks Surry Sunrise N.A. Barnes

Christopher Walker Pittsboro

Bob Watkins Yadkin Valley

Michael York Hillsdale Sunrise

My goodness, our clubs are off to a great start in the 2017-18 Rotary year!!! Alamance (2), Global Trekkers (2), Greensboro

(2), High Point (2), Mocksville (2), Hillsdale Sunrise (3), Pinehurst (4), Surry Sunrise (5) and Stratford (5) all brought in

multiple members. With focus, effort, and enthusiasm, your club can also find prospective Rotarians who are waiting

to be asked to check out your club.


Rotary Membership: It’s All About Sales!

We all are well aware that the environment has changed dramatically with regard to recruiting membership in pro-fessional service organizations like Rotary International. Whether it’s the lack of commitment or desire to serve amongst the millennial generation, it is clearly more difficult to attract talented professionals to clubs like ours. When I took over the reins as Reynolda Rotary Membership Chair for the 2016-2017 year, my team sought to change the mentality of the club from one of purely attraction to one of sales. Our first course of business was to 1) Let everyone know that the game has changed and 2) Make the membership aware that EVERYONE is officially on the Membership Committee! While we experienced modest success last year (12 new members/Net +2),

recruiting is clearly a team effort, and here is the process we implemented at Reynolda Rotary.

Step One: Identify Membership leadership; preferably recruit individual(s) who make a living in sales. My opinion is that leading Membership is a two-person job. One who can effectively engage prospects as well as motivate their fellow members to put forth the effort required for success. The second is more of an organizer who can handle the behind the scenes work, including entering data, sending emails, and scheduling and executing new member orien-

tation meetings.

Step Two: Schedule and hold a Club Assembly where the program is exclusively dedicated to membership. During this meeting, it is important for the Membership Chair(s) to set the agenda right up front and keep the dialog mov-ing in a positive direction. In a perfect world, the Club Assembly should turn into a brainstorming session where eve-ry member is involved. To facilitate this, everyone should be given a sheet of paper listing the various classifications provided by Rotary International (doctor, lawyer, minister etc.) and asked to provide a minimum of three names be-fore the end of the meeting. This is your dream list, so think big (Mayor, CEO’s etc.)! It may also be helpful to in-clude the names of prominent employers in your community on this sheet in order to identify potential targets

(banks typically pay dues). Once gathered, these names will become your club’s initial prospect list.

Step Three: Compile these names on an excel spreadsheet that includes the following columns: name, classifica-tion and/or company, Rotary contact (responsible member) and date of club visit. Once completed, the list needs to be emailed to every club member on at least a monthly basis for updates (ad names/scratch names/share intel). Typically, the first email will be to encourage members to invite their three prospects to join you for a regular meet-ing. As the prospects (or any guests for that matter) visit, be sure to update the spreadsheet to include the date and more importantly, send each visitor a follow up email thanking them for attending your meeting along with a link to your website and even a club brochure if you have one. Make sure to emphasize we’d like him/her to visit you again. Obviously, in order to do this, you need a sign-in process that gathers the guest’s basic information including name, cell number and email address. We have found this extra touch goes a long way in making pro-

spects feel good about their initial Rotary experience.

Step Four: Finally, your club needs to create an environment for success. It goes without saying that your meetings need to be interesting, educational and most importantly fun. At Reynolda Rotary, we have made a conscious effort to schedule evening socials and community service events on alternating months so there is always something to invite prospects to. Prior to each event, I send out the updated spreadsheet to the membership as a reminder of who they can either call or email to invite (Facebook posts are great too!) Both the social and community service events are always open to both the prospect and their significant other in order to make them feel more

comfortable.

For anyone who is involved in the sales profession, this process is familiar. Identify a prospect, engage the individu-al, invite them to a meeting and keep following up until they say no. By implementing a deliberate and organized process by which to recruit new members in your club, I am certain that you will experience success. Finally, as Membership Advocate, I am more than willing to visit your club, speak with your membership chairs, and share any tools (spreadsheet, greeting emails, club brochure etc.) and information that may be helpful to you recruiting

efforts. Best of luck selling the world’s greatest service organization in Rotary International!

M. Lloyd Barnhardt III

Reynolda Rotary, Winston Salem, NC

336-575-5390 (cell)

[email protected]


SAVE THE DATE District Membership Summit, Thursday October 5, 2017

It is time to get really, really serious about Membership in our District – so, SAVE

THE DATE – Thursday, October 5, 2017 for a District-wide Membership Summit. We

are still coordinating the details, but we want to give you maximum time to plan for

and to attend this event.

Our District leaders attended Rotary Zone Training in June and the Membership

Seminars were AWESOME! With District Membership Chair PDG Patrick Eakes in the

lead, we have decided to accept the Zone Membership Training Team’s offer to

bring the Membership Seminar presentations directly to our Rotary Clubs. While the

logistics are still being coordinated, the date and location for the event has been de-

termined - Thursday, October 5, 2017 at the Sedgefield Country Club Dye Course

Clubhouse, 5700 Cardinal Way, Greensboro, NC beginning with 9:30am check-in

time. Plan to attend!

The District Membership Summit will be from 10:00am to 3:30pm inclusive of lunch

and breaks and specifically tailored using Rotary Club and District Membership his-

torical information. Following the Summit, there will be a one-hour meeting with Dis-

trict Leadership, Membership Advocates, and Assistant Governors. Cost will be

$25.00 per person. We are pressing for attendance by the Club President, President

-Elect, and the Club Membership Chair or Representative from each of our 48 Rotary

Clubs, as well as Assistant Governors and Membership Advocates. Please ensure

that email addresses in District’s DaCdb are accurate, especially for Club Member-

ship Chairs. This District Membership Summit will not replace the regular Fall Semi-

nars on September 9 (Asheboro) and September 14 (Clemmons). These will still

take place as planned with more time devoted to The Rotary Foundation and District

-wide Initiative RUSH (Rotarians United to Stop Hunger) areas in addition to a Dis-

trict Overview session.

The # 1 request for assistance from Rotary Clubs on nearly all Official Visits has

been focused on Membership Attraction, Retention, and Growth. Make the District

Membership Summit an investment of time for your Rotary Club.

Dare Greatly, Go Boldly, Make a Difference,

Lloyd

District Governor 2017-2018

Rotary: Making A Difference


RUSH SUCCESS 2017-18

Congratulations to our amazing clubs as over 90% submitted RUSH grant

applications to address food insecurity for the 2017-18 Rotary year. These

projects alone will impact over 100,000 families across our District!

Four of our clubs reported participating in RUSH related activities. Both

Southern Guilford and Summit club members volunteered to provide meals to

families as part of their summer feeding programs! In addition, Mt. Airy club

and Surry Sunrise club members partnered together to sponsor July 4th fire-

works celebrations that raised $2,184.00 for local food banks. Collectively our

clubs provided over 100 service hours, thousands of canned food items and

hundreds of meals to needed families in the month of July.

Please mark your calendars to attend Fall Seminars September 9th and 14th!

As part of the program, we will have a full lineup up RUSH speakers to share

success stories on impactful projects during last year's kickoff. In addition, we

will have a number of speakers share new projects that are designed to lift

people out of poverty!

Remember to send your monthly RUSH report to Jon Spillman and to enter your

project service hours and dollar contributions in Rotary Club Central to

document your service for our district’s and RI’s record of Rotary service to our

communities and the world! Send your pictures to RUSH Chairman Jon

Spillman as well! We need a new video of our successes for the year!


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Attendance for JUNE 2017 CLUBS MEMBERS CURRENT MONTHLY MONTHLY

AS OF 6/30/16 MEMBERS MEETINGS ATTENDANCE

Rotary District 7690 is a 100% PHF District

DISTRICT 7690 INTERNET RESOURCES:

www.Rotary7690.org For District and Club Database

District Calendar: www.directory-online.com/rotary

www.rotary7690.org/7690calendar.SHTM Questions? [email protected]


Alamance (Burlington) (Area 3)

Archdale-Trinity (Area 6)

Asheboro (Area 8)

Burlington (Area 3)

Carthage (Area 9)

Clemmons (Area 4)

Crescent (Greensboro) (Area 11)

East Greensboro (Area 11)

Eden (Area 2)

Furnitureland (Area 6)

Gate City (Area 11)

Global Trekkers

Graham (Area 3)

Greensboro (Area 5)

Greensboro Airport (Area 5)

Guilford (Greensboro) (Area 5)

High Point (Area 6)

Hillsdale Sunrise (Area 7)

Jamestown (Area 6)

Jonesboro (Sanford) (Area 10)

Kernersville (Area 4)

King (Area 1)

Lexington (Area 7)

Liberty (Area 8)

Madison-Mayodan (Area 2)

Midstate (Asheboro) (Area 8)

Mocksville (Area 7)

Mount Airy (Area 1)

Pinehurst (Area 9)

Pittsboro

Randolph (Asheboro) (Area 8)

Reidsville (Area 2)

Reynolda (Winston-Salem) (Area 4)

Sandhills (Southern Pines) (Area 9)

Sanford (Area 10)

Siler City (Area 10)

Southern Guilford (Area 11)

Southern Pines (Area 9)

Stoneville (Area 2)

Stratford (Winston-Salem) (Area 4)

Summit (Greensboro) (Area 5)

Surry Sunrise (Area 1)

Thomasville (Area 7)

Troy (Area 8)

Western Forsyth (Area 4)

Winston-Salem (Area 4)

Yadkin Valley (Area 1)

Yadkinville (Area 1)

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