Marana Rotary Club Meeting 6/9/2015
A small but very good-looking and talented Marana Rotarians were joined by our Outbound Foreign Exchange student Vanessa Van Scyoc at Nana’s Kitchen on June 9. Vanessa just graduated from Ironwood Ridge High School and is interested in pursuing studies in engineering. She will be leaving in August for the Czech Republic, and is looking forward to this adventure. Our 2014-2015 Inbound Foreign Exchange student from France, Jeanne Gachon, will be leaving us soon, and she will be missed! Likewise, our Outbound student Tori Johnson will soon be returning home to Marana from Latvia.
Speaking of Paul Harris Awards: John Dooling received his much-deserved Paul Harris pin, and a list of Marana Rotary’s Paul Harris Fellows has now been posted by Harold Burtzloff on our website. Just go to www.MaranaRotary.org and click on the Club History tab.
Calendar updates: A date has been set for our annual awards dinner in Dove Mountain, previously called the Heritage Dinner. Mark your calendars for Friday Oct. 9, 2015. And heads up! An evening mixer at Taco Giro will take the place of the June 30 breakfast meeting at Nana’s. This is our first mixer of this type…more info on this to come.
President Maeve Johnson recommended the inspirational talk revealing the new Rotary theme “Be a Gift to the World” by Rotary President R.K. Ravindran, which can be found at https://vimeo.com/117317680. It’s a little over 20 min, but well worth the time.
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ie Conover described the amazing project she led for the purchase of a school bus in Vikravandi India for a rural special-needs school. The school was started by a group of teachers who initially ran it for no pay, because the need was so great. The Rotary Club of Vikravandi pulled its resources together and, with additional funding from Marana Rotary, Tucson Sunrise Rotary, Dove Mountain Rotary, and Casa Grande Rotary, Debbie got matching funds from District 5500. This $30,000 project (almost 2 million rubies!) resulted in the purchase of a school bus for the Vela Special School for the Mentally-Challenged and Speech & Hearing Impaired. Debbie illustrated how an individual donation to Rotary is pooled with donations from members in your club and members in other clubs, which is then matched by the District (and matched as well by Rotary International in some cases), resulting in a sizable project budget. Thank you Debbie for your perseverance on a project that you started in 2005!
ie Conover described the amazing project she led for the purchase of a school bus in Vikravandi India for a rural special-needs school. The school was started by a group of teachers who initially ran it for no pay, because the need was so great. The Rotary Club of Vikravandi pulled its resources together and, with additional funding from Marana Rotary, Tucson Sunrise Rotary, Dove Mountain Rotary, and Casa Grande Rotary, Debbie got matching funds from District 5500. This $30,000 project (almost 2 million rubies!) resulted in the purchase of a school bus for the Vela Special School for the Mentally-Challenged and Speech & Hearing Impaired. Debbie illustrated how an individual donation to Rotary is pooled with donations from members in your club and members in other clubs, which is then matched by the District (and matched as well by Rotary International in some cases), resulting in a sizable project budget. Thank you Debbie for your perseverance on a project that you started in 2005!