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Rotaract Newsletter District 5280 VOLUME 04

April

DRR Message

April is Magazine Month

Rotary Day of Service

Club Spotlight: Marymount

College Rotaract

WAPI-making with RWLA

LA-5 President’s Ball

Rotary Annual Report

The Four-Way Test

Club Advice Corner

District Calendar

“The Future of Rotary”

ISSUE 09

In this issue

A Message from your District Rotaract Representative

By Jonathan Keisner

Welcome to the April edition of the District 5280 Rotaract Newsletter. Thank you for taking the time to read all about what Rotaractors have done across our District this past month and will continue to do in the months to come. As you will see we have been pretty busy with the Rotary Day of Service, WAPI-Making with West LA Rotaract and the LA 5 Rotary Presidents Ball among other events. Just this week we had the New Generations led District Breakfast where Rotarians, Rotaractors, Interactors, Youth Exchange Students and Group Study Exchange team members all gathered for the final breakfast of the Rotary year. The highlight of the morning was the keynote address by Dr. Terrence Roberts of the Little Rock Nine. To be able to hear his story just made my and everyone else’s day! Our next major event is less than one week away, the Rotary District 5280 Conference at the Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa. In case you didn’t know Rotaract will have a strong presence at the conference with both a fundraiser and a service project. It all starts Friday evening with the Rotary Host Hospitality Night and our End Polio Now Photo Booth Fundraiser. For just $10 we will be taking pictures of Rotarians and anyone else who wants them. Catch is that we will be inserting them into the ‘This Close’ End Polio Now advertisements you may have seen, you know the ones with the famous celebrities! Proceeds from this fundraiser will go directly to the End Polio Now campaign and to Mercy’s Village in Uganda, a school started by El Segundo Rotarian Jeami Duncan. After partying the night away with the Rotarians [yes there will be pictures of Rotarians partying] we will be up bright and early on Saturday morning for our New Generations session and, just after, our poolside WAPI making project. Yes, that’s right, we will be making WAPI's to send to Uganda and India right there on the Hilton main pool deck. Still don’t know what a WAPI is? Flip through this edition of the newsletter and you’ll soon find out. To make the morning extra special, Jeami Duncan will be on hand to personally accept these magical, life changing instruments for Mercy’s Village in Uganda. The afternoon will be full of fun and more photo shoots! What a way to spend a weekend. If you haven’t signed up it’s not too late. There is always room for you! Looking beyond the conference, May and June are going to bursting with great events. Look out for a Rotaract Spring Karaoke Social, the end of year Ciao Dinner and Awards Night and an end of the year Leadership Retreat. My team and I are thinking Las Vegas for the current and new District Board for a weekend in late June. That reminds me, have you applied for the 2012-2013 District Rotaract Board? What about the Meredith Olson Scholarship? The deadlines for both have been extended to April 30 th. It’s not too late to get your applications in. Qualified candidates like you should not hesitate to apply! In closing I would just like to thank everyone in District 5280 who has helped make this year possible. I wouldn’t have been able to make it this far without each and every one of you. Let’s make these last two months ones to remember. Have fun, do good, and make new friends because that’s what Rotaract is all about! Yours In Service, Jonathan Keisner

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Magazine Month

April is...

April is Magazine Month, a time to celebrate the global network of Rotary’s official

magazines, which provide valuable information to 1.2 million Rotarians.

The Rotary World Magazine Press consists of 32 magazines from Africa, the Ameri-cas, Asia, Australia, and Europe that inform, inspire, and entertain in 23 languages. In addition to The Rotarian, Rotary’s English-language flagship publication, it offers

magazines such as Vida Rotaria (Argentina), Rotary in Bulgaria, and The Rotary-no-Tomo (Japan).

The RI Bylaws require all club members to subscribe to The Rotarian or a Rotary re-gional magazine. Rotary leaders, district governors, and club presidents are encour-

aged to support magazine editors in their country or region by submitting story ide-as, promoting readership, encouraging timely subscription payments, and assisting

with other communication efforts.

Subscribe here for your copy of The Rotarian

http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/TheRotarian/Pages/ridefault.aspx

One month’s subscription is only $12! The Rotarian is available in both digital and print form

http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/MorePublications/RegionalMagazines/Pages/ridefault.aspx

http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/TheRotarian/Pages/ridefault.aspx


Recap of Rotary Day of Service

LMU Rotaract in Downtown LA

Beach Cleanup with Marymount Rotaractors


Club Spotlight: Marymount College Rotaract

On March 6th at the famous Original Red Onion Restaurant in Palos Verdes, CA– members of the Marymount Rotaract

Club made their yearly presentation recapping their service projects from fall and projecting their future projects for

spring to their proud sponsoring Rotary Club-PV Sunset Rotary. Led by the innovative and enthusiastic Antonio Argueta,

and mentored by Youth Chair Don Reeves, the club’s presentation displayed a lot of heart and the true meaning of Ser-

vice Above Self.

Past Events Future Events

R.A.T. Bike Beach Marathon Canyon Verde Carnival for Senior Citizens

Norris Theater Silent Auction Dinner Rotary Day of Service-Book Buddies

Cabrillo Beach Cleanup (Every 3rd Saturday) One Day Without Shoes (TOMS Campaign)

Pennies for Polio (Raised $400 in 1 day!) Flings Bins (Campus Recycling Project)

Toys to Harbor Interfaith (San Pedro)

Nika Water (Campaigning to sell Nika on campus)

Hope 4 Kids-Christmas Benefit

RWLA WAPI-Making


RWLA is going to show you how easy it is for you and your

club to make WAPIS


The WAPI-making team:

Jonathan Keisner (DRR/Southbay),

Walt and Diane Parish, Amanda Cheng

(USC), Anna Miner (USC), Ava Haghighi

(SMC), Tommy Maitz (RWLA) , Neil Bar-

don (RWLA), Sergei Belokonnyi

(RWLA), David Baar (RWLA), and Ash-

ley Crain (RWLA)

A total of 175 WAPIs were made at this event! 1 WAPI

caters to 10 people-therefore RWLA just helped 1750

people attain clean drinking water!

WAPI-Making with RWLA


Step 1: Heat the end of a plastic tube till it bubbles

Step 2: Seal the end by clamping with pliers and

test it by blowing into it

Step 3: Pour a small amount of soy wax in the tube

and slide a washer onto the tube.

Step 4: Heat the other end of tube and clamp.

Drill holes in both ends of the WAPI

Test the WAPIs by boiling them

If you see bubbles coming from the tube,

it means there’s a hole. Discard these.

Step 1: Take a fish line and double knot a small

washer at one end

Step 2: String the fish line through the bottom of

the WAPI, through the big washer, and the top of

the WAPI

Step 3: Double knot another small washer at the

end of the fish line.

LA-5 Rotary Presidential Ball and Silent Auction


Rotaractors from USC, the district board, and Southbay volunteered their

Saturday night to help run the LA5 Rotary President’s Ball held at the Cali-

fornia Club in Downtown Los Angeles. Rotaractors ran the silent auction

that featured items from restaurant gift certificates to fully-paid vacations.

All proceeds benefited charity.


The Four-Way Test

Of the

things we

think say

or do...

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Annual Report

View it here: http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/187en11.pdf

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/187en11.pdf

Club Advice Corner


My favorite fundraiser was the California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) one with Rotaract at the end of last year.

CPK was fun, easy and successful - in my mind the 3 most important things in a small-scale fundraiser. It was a typical restaurant deal where

we got a percentage of all purchases that day with everyone that brought in a flyer. What differentiated it from others was it included alco-

hol and gave 20% back (not the typical 10-15). We were able to get friends and part of the local Rotary to attend, thanks in part to the alco-

hol (haha just kidding). We also combined the fundraiser with our "end of year awards banquet" which guaranteed good attendance from the

club and made for a great bonding experience.

Of all the fundraisers I've done (Rotaract and not), I really liked CPK because it wasn't stressful to set-up or take part-in. Everyone was excit-

ed beforehand to eat there together and everyone was still pleased when they left. While we didn't raise a huge sum of money (it was be-

tween one to two hundred dollars), we raised funds from money we were going to spend anyway at the banquet. In the end, it was a great

experience for everyone.

Dinners at restaurants (I know one club that made about $300!)

Selling food on campus: churros, tamales, and Sprinkles cupcakes.

Fundraising is just as important as service projects in just about any club. This issue of the Club Advice Corner

features the voice of Rotaractors across our district and even one from UCI Rotaract! We asked the question:

What was the most successful or fun fundraiser you have ever

participated in?

Spirit, community, and a high time! Last year I participated in one of the biggest fundraiser’s of my schools’ community.

It was a few short weeks of fundraisers all leading up to our honorary mayor campaign. One of our teachers (at my high school) was nomi-

nated to run for our towns Honorary Mayor. The way our candidate would win was based off of whoever could raise the most money; the win-

ning candidate would then be able to donate the collected amount of funds from their own fundraiser as well as the other opponent candi-

dates funds, a majority would be donated to their charity of choice. That charity of choice was our school.

A few fun fundraisers we did to reach our winning goal were by putting on a dance which included the performances of a local teen band

from our town (they donated free performances of the night), allowing a change from our usual dances with just a D.J. During the week of

the campaign we also sold raffle tickets for a dollar, each student who sold a certain number of raffle tickets out in the community had the

incentive of several levels of prizes. Incentives for selling raffle tickets (such as gift cards, t-shirts, and movie tickets which were all donated

by local businesses) helped make it a fun competition as well as a successful fundraiser! Along with the same campaign we sold promotional

things for students to carry and wear such as bracelets, which encouraged a trend amongst students.

Lastly, but not least we had a Jog-a-thon and a Raiders vs. Alumni Basketball game; proceeds from

ticket sales for the basketball game went to our fundraiser. So there you have it! It was a lot of fun

events jam packed into a short few weeks but with great planning it was well worth the rewards, our

schools candidate won Honorary Mayor for 2011-2012 and the funds we raised went back to help im-

prove our school!

The most successful fundraiser I've ever participated in would have to, of course, be Passion Fest this year. I don't think I've ever been a part

of anything as successful and as exciting. It was a great fundraiser because 100% of all proceeds went to our cause (End Polio Now), which I

have found to be pretty rare for fundraisers on campus.

Many big fundraisers such as benefit concerts mention that "a portion" of their proceeds go towards the cause they are raising money for. In

addition, it was so successful because we planned very far in advance, and we were able to foresee any possible last minute changes, and

work accordingly. We also learned from the mistakes we made last year, which helped us make this

year's Passion Fest even better.

Passion Fest is also a lot of fun because it allows many people, both UCI students and outside volun-

teers, to showcase their talent, and they are all willing to perform for free! Rudy Francisco, who is a

renowned poet, has performed for Passion Fest the past 2 years, along with Jeremy Crooks, who is

also becoming famous! It's great because they both have a large fanbase, and this allows our fund-

raiser to be even more successful.

This year, we were able to raise about $1800 for End Polio Now!

District Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/rotaract5280


Month Service Social Meeting

September New Generations Month

16 Youth Protection Policy Training

17 Rotaract District Beach Party

27 Rotary District Breakfast

October Vocational Service Month

2 Rotary District Picnic

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New Generations

Leadership Conference

15/16

Big West Convention/Youth

Exchange Beach Weekend

24 World Polio Day

24-28 Pennies For Polio Fundraiser Week

November The Rotary Foundation Month

5 UCLA Football Game

6 Paul Harris Foundation Celebration

7-12 World Interact Week/Canned

Food Collection

12 New Generations Talent Show

December Family Month

3 Holiday Social

17 L.A. Food Bank Project

January Rotary Awareness Month

7

Golf Tournament and Dinner

Fundraiser

28 Toga Party

February World Understanding Month

8-14 District Trip to Puerto Rico

25 Youth Exchange Ski Trip

March Literacy Month

10 World Rotaract Week District

Project

11-17 World Rotaract Week

17 St. Patrick’s Day Social (21+)

17 L.A. Marathon Water Station

with Interact

18 LA Marathon Water Station

April Magazine Month

10 Youth Led District Breakfast

20-22 District Conference

May

5 Cinco De Mayo Social (21+)

6-9 Rotary International Convention

26 Ciao Dinner

June Rotary Fellowships Month

10 Interact Aloha Brunch

15-17 Las Vegas Leadership Retreat

District 5280 Rotaract Clubs

Loyola Marymount

Los Angeles Cedars

Marymount College

Occidental College

8939 South Sepulveda Boulevard

Suite 312

Los Angeles, California 90045

District 5280 Rotaract

UCLA

USC

West Los Angeles

“The Future of Rotary”

2011-2012 Rotary International Theme

Get involved today and

visit our website at :

www.rotaract5280.org

Pepperdine University

Santa Monica College

South Bay


continues . We

Rotary District 5280 Website:

www.rotary5280.org

Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30.

Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they’re sponsored by a local

Rotary club. This makes them true "partners in service" and key members of the family of

Rotary.

As one of Rotary’s most significant and fastest-growing service programs, with more than

7,000 clubs in about 163 countries and geographical areas, Rotaract has become a world-

wide phenomenon.

Through the Rotaract program, young adults not only augment their knowledge and skills,

but they also address the physical and social needs of their communities while promoting

international understanding and peace through a framework of friendship and service.

Membership starts with you!

Invite friends, family, and co-workers to become members of your Rotaract club.

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