District 7750 Newsletter Aug 2009

Traveling with the Governor

(via the blogging route)

Do you know which Rotarian in our district is a distant relative of Ty Cobb or all that Mike Pereyo in the North Augusta Club has done to make the world better? Find by following the travels of DG George through his blog. There you will find short stories of ordinary Rotarians doing extraordinary things...

You can go to the blog directly, or just look on the left side of the home page of the website.

Calendar Events

August 1: Deadline for
Canada GSE Team Leader
Application

August 15: Deadline
for Australia GSE Team
Applications

August 22: Deadline
for Canada GSE Team
Applications

Oct. 26: Foundation Seminar

Go to the online calendar.

District polio chair Barbara Shayeb-Helou remembers what it was like to be bedridden as a child. More.

The figures in our report show us down by 53 members for 2008-09. The official RI year-end report shows us up by 3. Secretaries, please be sure to enter accurate information in the database.

Message from the District Governor

In July, I completed 21 official visits. Past District Governors have told me that the fun in being the DG is to see the individual clubs and what they do. They were right. I am working hard at building an inventory of individual club service projects and fund raising efforts. I am also collecting the great stories of 7750. I sincerely thank the clubs that I have visited for sharing their club culture with me. I have written up some of my experiences in a blog. This includes a small portion of the great stories that I have heard and the things that I have seen. Please take a look at the blog.

Foundation giving 2008-09

District 7750 had a really good year in giving to the Rotary Foundation. Find out which clubs led the way from PDG Rich Waugh, our Foundation chair.

Note change in date of Foundation Seminar.

Pickens Rotary Club works in El Salvador

The Pickens Club is working on a $25,000 water project in El Salvador over the next three years. More.

Salvation Army project at Greenville East

Greenville East collected more than $1,000 in school supplies for the Salvation Army. More.

August is Membership Month

District membership chair Myles Golden reviews 10 things clubs can do to shore up their membership.

Group Study Exchange

Jaime Coleman, who went on the GSE to Korea in the spring, was featured in the Abbeville newspaper recently. Read the article (PDF).

We will send a traditional GSE team to Australia and a vocational team to British Columbia. Applications are still being accepted for team members.

August 2009