Web Site: www.tampawestrotary.org

Date: June 2, 2010

Club News

Last week we had an Assembly night. This week we have no program scheduled yet. Please contact David or José for suggestions. Next week we have no program scheduled yet. Please contact David or José for suggestions.

Club Coming Events

June 2: No program scheduled yet. Please contact David or José for suggestions.

June 9: No program scheduled yet. Please contact David or José for suggestions.

June 16: S.H.I.N.E. Organization (Serving Health Insurance Needs of Elders). Case of Wine Raffle.

June 20-23: Rotary International Convention in Montreal, Canada. http://www.rotary.org/en/Members/Events/Convention/Pages/ridefault.aspx?housead

June 23: No program scheduled yet. Please contact David or José for suggestions.

June 30: End of year Assembly. Passing of the gable. Spouses welcome.

July 18: Picnic at Ft. De Soto Shelter #13.

Aug 14: Noche Tropical Dinner Dance at the Carrollwood Recreation Center.

If you have any suggestions for programs, please communicate with David or José to schedule them.

RI President: John Kenny – Grangemouth, Scotland District 6890 Governor: Randy Kizer, Brandon 86 Club

www.tampawestrotary.org

What if we could prevent just ONE

child from suffering from POLIO?

How much would that be worth?

Click below and contact Dennis or José to learn more.

http://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAn

dFellowship/Polio/HelpEradicatePoli

o/Pages/ridefault.aspx

REMINDER

DROP IN THE BUCKET

FOR THE SPRING OF TAMPA

Things that are needed: Canned Vegetables, Canned Fruit, Canned Meats and Tuna, Boxed Pasta and Peanut Butter. Baby Diapers.

Please contact Rotarian MaryAnn Sturmfels for more information.

Food for Ronald MacDonald’s Home: For at least 20 persons. It can be bought or home

cooked and delivered NLT 6pm. David is your contact. *If you can’t make it, please call

him.

June 13 Vic July 10 Evelyn Aug. 21 Joe Food for thought

“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” – Sugar Ray Leonard

Just for Laughs

It was a disastrous year for the farmers. The snow fell and fell until the government relief agency had to step in and lend a hand. “It must have been terrible,” said the government man to a farmer. “All that snow.” “Could have been worse,” calmly answered the farmer. “My neighbor had more

snow than me.” “How’s that?” asked the government man. “More land,” replied the farmer. Birthday/Anniversary

Birthdays Anniversaries

Ralph Ovalle: June 5 David and Iraida Contreras: June 4. Joe Vega: June 23 Carmen Irizarry: June 27

Historic Moments: The Grace Irene Mann letters By Susan Hanf Rotary International News -- 20 May 2010

Rotary founder Paul P. Harris had a little-known romance

before he met his future wife, Jean .

Grace Irene Mann was from a prominent family in Florida,

USA. Harris met her in 1905 on a visit to see his friend

and former employer George C. Clark in Jacksonville.

Harris and Mann exchanged letters in which they shared

affection, gossiped, and discussed their families, theology,

and philosophy. He told her about searching for a meeting

place for the Rotary Club of Chicago and offered details of

the club's constitution.

Mann replied to his tales of Rotary with enthusiasm:

I take great interest in the Constitution and By laws of your

Rotary Club because you have written them. … I think you

have covered everything in a concise and compact form.

… The By-laws are especially good.

According to the letters, the idea of marriage was broached

in the fall of 1906, though Mann's family ultimately

discouraged her from settling down with Harris.

Their correspondence ended in May 1907. In his final

letter to Mann, Harris wrote:

I certainly am interested in your future and I desire you to make a great girl of yourself and I am sure you

will. … You will be happy. Give my best to your Dalton friends. Yours very truly, Paul P. Harris

Harris returned the letters he received from her, as was the custom. When Mann married John Murrell Bell in

June 1910, she stored the correspondence in the attic of her sister May Mann Jennings. The letters remained

there until the home was demolished in 1963, at which time they were given to Mann's eldest daughter,

Elizabeth.

In 1997, Mann's daughter Grace Bell Rogers donated the letters to Rotary International.

For more information:

See Rotary History and Archives

Visit the Rotary Global History Fellowship website.

Read more Historic Moments