[D9640general] Rotary/RGHF: Rotary minute for December 2008

[Garry Krischock]

 ü Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail 

 RGHF Rotary Minute for December 2008.

 For over eight years, RGHF has been serving Rotarians with regular weekly
Rotary related features. These features have been valuable to YOU, in part,
because they convey the common experience and heritage of nearly 104 years
of Rotary. What these features and the tens of thousands of articles on our
3,000 page website have in common is our shared value of Service above Self,
the Four Way Test, and our entire history (plus the contributions and input
from individual Rotarians). 

As RGHF celebrates eight fruitful years of service to Rotary, we ask each
recipient (YOU) of this month’s combined feature to send this on to all
past, present, and future Rotary club, district, and zone officers so that
our work may help them with retention.

As RGHF future president Frank Longoria, USA, wrote in his monthly RGHF
report: The motivating force behind this endeavor is the belief that
Rotarians who have a clear understanding of Rotary history are infinitely
more likely to remain as Rotarians for life and are more inclined to
contribute generously to the Rotary Foundation. 

Our efforts in meeting our objectives will continue and even intensify
during the coming months.  I encourage all DGs who read this message to
please include information on RGHF in their monthly newsletters. It will
take all of us together to be successful in reaching the goals of our
organization. Frank Longoria, Chair PR/Membership Committee

< span style="font-size: 12pt; color: maroon;">THE FIRST RGHF What Paul
Harris Said 30 December 2001 www.whatpaulharrissaid.org
<http://www.whatpaulharrissaid.org/>  Since the beginning of civilization,
there has been a surplus of sayers of things. If there is any one particular
in which I would have Rotary distinguished from other organizations, it is
in the quality of character which results in the doing of things.  Paul
Harris, Message to the 1921 RI Convention in Edinburgh, Scotland.

THE FIRST RGHF Our Foundation Newsletter  1 March 2001
www.ourfoundation.info <http://www.ourfoundation.info/>  We want to provide
a forum for your ideas on making Rotary more responsive to our community,
our world and its people. PRID Lynn Hammond, USA, from the first newsletter.

THE FIRST RGHF Why I am a Rotarian 7 January 2006 www.whyiam.org
<http://www.whyiam.org/>  Why I Am a Rotarian - The reasons chan ge with
passing time.  In 1950, it was because two businessmen I respected had
invited me to join, and the leading business and professional men in town
elected me to membership in the Rotary Club of California, Pennsylvania,
U.S.A. Past RI President Chuck Keller, USA

THE FIRST RGHF Rotary Global History Day 23 November 2008 www.11october.org
<http://www.11october.org/>  RGHF has started a program to recognize club
histories, to encourage the study of history at the club level. We have a
new list of ideas for beginning your own history at www.11october.org
<http://www.11october.org/>  suggested by one of our members.

THE FIRST RGHF Frank Talk Gems 1 January 2008  www.franktalkgems.org
<http://www.franktalkgems.org/>  One of the most amazing things about the
success of Rotary is that it is achieved entirely by volunteers. It all
starts because one Rotarian wants something to happen, not because some boss
tells him or her to do it, or to fulfill a mission statement that is posted
on a wall somewhere. Every success­ful project that Rotary has ever
accomplished has begun at the grass roots level in the minds and hearts of
individual Rotarians. Frank Talk I, p. 106

THE FIRST RGHF Rotarian Disaster Relief Alert (Myanmar), 20 May 2008
www.rghf.org/drrag ROTARIANS WANT TO WORK WITH ROTARIANS AND ROTARIANS WANT
TO BE IMMEDIATELY INVOLVED AND TAKE ACTION

RGHF member Steve Wright, California, USA put it this way: Never thought
about the link between history and growth, but it certainly makes sense.
Easier to have high enthusiasm when something is new as opposed to Main St.
Thanks for the new perspective, gives me something to chew on.

Everything old is new again, at the pages of www.rghf.org
<http://www.rghf.org/>  

Yours in service through history,

Joe Kagle, RGHF President 2007/2009

Board: www.historyboard.org <http://www.historyboard.org/>  

 

 

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