Beginning on Friday, July 8, 2016, the weekly meetings will now be held at Meyer's Lake Ballroom CALYPSO ROOM.  This is the middle room at the banquet facility.

 

We will still be receiving the same wonderful treatment we have always received from Meyer's Lake Ballroom and Mr. Mike's Catering staff, it is only the room site that will change.  Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

 

 

 

Sara Brink is the Foxfield Preserve Steward.  Sara came to Foxfield with a background in marketing and public relations for non-profit institutions, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and the Boy Scouts of America Sea Base in the Florida Keys.

 

Sara and her husband, Jake, currently spend most of their time with their son Liam and daughter Kaitlin watching them discover the world.  Sara helps The Wilderness Center inform our community of alternatives to modern burial practices. She feels honored to be able to help families at a difficult time in their lives.

 

SPEAKER CHAIR - REBECCA MARCHINO

INVOCATOR - BILL LIBER

SONG LEADER - TIM FRANTA

GREETER LEADER - BRUCE SCHORSTEN

 

 

 

We are in DIRE need of a Host Family for our incoming Youth Exchange Student.  This young man will be arriving from France in the month of August.  Please consider opening your home up and supporting our Youth Exchange Program.

 

Please contact the Rotary office (330) 452-2882 or Chairwoman Amy Mustafaga (330) 760-4079 if you, or someone you know, is interested in hosting this individual.

 

 

 

This is a reminder to all Committee Chairs there will be a "Committee Organizational" meeting after the Rotary meeting on Friday, June 10th.  This meeting should be completed within a half hour or so.  You will be sent further information prior to this meeting.  Thank you.

 

 

The Rotary office received an email from Norm Eckinger, President Elect of the Canton South Rotary Club.  Norm states:

 

"Our club is NOT having a Thursday morning meeting on Thursday June 9th due to an event later in the evening we are having.  A couple of our Rotarians thought we should give your club a heads up since from time to time one of your members attends our meeting."

 

 

At our weekly meeting on June 3, 2016, President Paul White welcomed our members and guests to the meeting.

 

Rotarian Suzette Matthews gave the Invocation.

 

President Paul then recognized all members with a June birthday.

 

Club Secretary Michelle Mullaly welcomed the following guests to the meeting:  Carol Risaliti and Dennis Dent (guests of David Roberts), Barb Cockroft (guest and sister of PDG/PP Dave Ewing), Alex Mustafaga (guest and son of Amy Mustafaga), Ella Vehmas (Youth Exchange student) and Holly Gartner (host mother for Ella Vehmas).

 

The "Happy Bucks" news was then provided by the following Rotarians:

President Paul then thanked Rotarian Becky Clark for the excellent speakers she provided in the month of May.

 

Youth Exchange Chairwoman Amy Mustafaga then took to the podium and made a request to the members to PLEASE consider opening their home up to our incoming youth exchange student.  We are in dire need of a host family.  Amy then introduced our current Youth Exchange Student Ella Vehmas.  Ella presented a powerpoint of events she has participated in during her stay in Canton.  Ella also thanked the Rotary Club of Canton for allowing her to have this experience of a lifetime.  She also thanked her host family, the Gartner's.

 

President Paul then concluded the meeting by reminding the membership that if they were planning on doing a "Makeup" at the Canton South Rotary Club on Thursday, June 9th, this Club will NOT be having its regular morning meeting due to an event they will be having that evening. Please plan on attending another club if you are in need of a makeup.

 

The following Rotarians turned in a makeup during Friday's meeting:  Sharon Sirpilla (North Canton), Phil Lattavo (3-Catalina/Tucson).

 

 

  JUNE IS ROTARY FELLOWSHIP MONTH - Rotary Fellowships are international, independently organized groups of Rotarians, Rotarian spouses, and Rotaractors who share a common vocation or recreational interest. Rotary Fellowships give their members the opportunity to have fun, make new friends around the world, and enhance their experience  in Rotary.

 [pdf] Rotary Fellowships Handbook

https://www.rotary.org/myrota…/…/rotary-fellowships-handbook

 

 

 

K.R. RAVINDRAN
PRESIDENT 2015-16

JUNE 2016

British writer and Royal Air Force pilot Roald Dahl was also an avid photographer who carried his beloved Zeiss camera on his many adventures. At a time when each photograph had to be laboriously developed by hand, on film or glass plate negatives, he amassed a collection of hundreds of images. In later years, these photographs served as a visual record of his travels, a way to document his experiences and share them with others. Yet he always spoke of his memories as being far more vivid than the photographs could ever reflect. So many events and experiences, he said, were simply impossible to capture; they could not be adequately conveyed in images or words.

Language may fail, and photographs fade; minds are fallible, and details are lost. But some experiences, as Dahl said, never dim; they stand out in our memories, even after decades, as a wall of flame. They rear up forever over the landscape of our past, dividing our lives into what came before and what came after.

That metaphor has stayed with me throughout the past year as I have traveled the world for Rotary. For indeed, this entire year has stood, and will always stand, as a wall of flame in my mind, dividing my life into before and after.

When I think back over these 12 months, I see a bright kaleidoscope of images cascading before my eyes, day after day, week after week. The anxious parents in Chandigarh, India, hovering at the bedside of the child recovering from lifesaving heart surgery. The bright flags of Nepal fluttering over an entire village that had been rebuilt after the devastating earthquake. The feeling of awe in St. Peter’s Square at the Jubilee of Rotarians celebrated by Pope Francis. Joyful gatherings around the world, in so many countries, in so many languages – with friends I had never before met, my brothers and sisters in Rotary.

To serve as president of Rotary International is a colossal undertaking, one that cannot be truly conveyed in images or words. It is a wall of flame that will burn forever in my memory, dancing with light, shifting in shadow. A thousand images jostle together in my mind, a thousand recollections, a thousand emotions. Together, they form a great mosaic; together, they show the bright and glorious work of your hands.

As this Rotary year draws to a close, I am prouder than ever to be part of this great organization: one that makes the world not poorer, but richer; replaces despair with hope; raises up those whom fate has brought low; and is a gift to so many, while allowing each of us to Be a Gift to the World.