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1. 1888 : Rotary Fellowships : Join the club From: Sunil 


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Mon May 31, 2010 6:07 pm (PDT) 


While leading a training for incoming district governors in 2001, Conrad
Heede, past governor of District 5790 (Texas, USA), mentioned that he
was planning to join the Rotarians' Wine Appreciation Fellowship. He
convinced 10 of the incoming governors to join with him. "What I
didn't know at the time was that we doubled the membership,"
Heede laughs. At the time, there were 11 members in two countries.
Today, there are more than 800 members in over 40 countries.
Heede, now president of the fellowship and (perhaps not coincidentally)
a member of the Rotary Club of Grapevine, says membership increased
after the fellowship began hosting a booth at the RI Convention's
House of Friendship every year. "When [Rotarians] read our sign,
they get a grin on their face and come over," he says.

Fellowship members talk wine, taste wine, and share wine, but they also
have supported a number of service efforts with no discernible
connection to the grape, including an avoidable blindness project in
India, an irrigation project in Botswana, and a water project in New
Mexico, USA. The fellowship also has contributed more than $35,000
toward polio eradication as part of Rotary's US$200 Million
Challenge.

The Rotarians' Wine Appreciation Fellowship is one of more than 50
Rotary Fellowships that bring together Rotarians with shared interests.
(Rotaractors and Rotarians' spouses can also become members.) Rotary
Fellowships Month is celebrated in June.

The cochairs of the Fellowship of Rotarian Magicians - Jim Lang, a
member of the Rotary Club of Trumbull, Conn., and Stanley Sorrentino, of
the Rotary Club of Providence, R.I. - became friends through the
fellowship and recently decided to revive it after a period of
inactivity. The group has about a dozen members, who share magic tricks
and perform at conventions and club meetings. They've even developed
a few tricks with a Rotary twist: Sorrentino performs one using four
cards to depict the four founding members of Rotary. "It's a fun
way for people to learn Rotary history," he says.

Rotarians with an interest in curling, meanwhile, have been getting
together to compete since 1956, long before the International Curling
Fellowship of Rotarians was established in 1972. The competitions
continue to attract new members. The highlight of the fellowship's
calendar is its biannual World Curling Championships; the most recent
was held in March and April in Perth, Scotland, with 10 four-person
teams. Fellowship members also participate in a three-week curling tour
every two years, with Canada and Scotland alternating as hosts. In
between international events, members living near each other gather for
one-day competitions, called bonspiels, during the curling season
(October to April).

Harold Shantz, a member of the Rotary Club of Simcoe, Ont., Canada, and
secretary of the fellowship, says that most of the group's several
hundred members hail from Canada, England, Scotland, and the United
States. But the future looks bright, he says, noting that "curling
is becoming quite popular in other countries, such as Australia, China,
Japan, and New Zealand."

Resources

* Rotarians' Wine Appreciation Fellowship
< <http://www.rotarywine.net/> http://www.rotarywine.net/>

* Fellowship of Rotarian Magicians
< <http://www.rotarianmagician.org/> http://www.rotarianmagician.org/>

* International Curling
Fellowship of Rotarians < <http://perthrotary.net/worldcurling.aspx>
http://perthrotary.net/worldcurling.aspx> 

* See the Global Networking Groups database for a complete list of
Rotary Fellowships
<
<http://www.rotary.org/EN/SERVICEANDFELLOWSHIP/FELLOWSHIP/GLOBALNETWORKINGGR
OUPS/Pages/gngdatabase.aspx>
http://www.rotary.org/EN/SERVICEANDFELLOWSHIP/FELLOWSHIP/GLOBALNETWORKI\
NGGROUPS/Pages/gngdatabase.aspx>

Source : Reported by Susie O. Ma, in The Rotarian -- June 2010 /
Courtesy : eFlash_Rotary

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