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support Rotary’s highest priority of polio eradica-tion.
The job of Rotarian brings immense benefits. We en-joy incomparable fellow-ship with one another and the great personal satisfac-tion that comes from serv-ing others. If you believe in Rotary and its power to make a difference in the world, it is time to stand up and commit to doing the best job you can — with all of your mind, your heart, and your soul. The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands. John Kenny President Rotary International
This simple truth will be our theme for 2009-10, serving as a constant re-minder of the personal re-sponsibility that each Ro-tarian holds. Winston Churchill once said: ―The price of greatness is re-sponsibility.‖ Rotary is a great organization, and it has the potential to become even greater — if each one of us rises to the challenge and takes responsibility for its future.
In Rotary, each one of us has been assigned a job. Its title is Rotarian. Our duties are to offer relevant service locally and internationally, and to expand our club’s capacity for service by in-viting professional and
business leaders to become members and promoting a positive image locally. Our job description also calls for each of us to be an ex-
ample of ethical behavior in our professional and personal lives, to act as leaders in our club and community, and to fully
This year’s Rotary Theme is The Future of Rotary is In Your Hands. That’s why we’re calling our newsletter Hands On Rotary. A re-cently-completed series of focus group interviews around the world shows that our neighbors and other community members want to ―give back to the community,‖ and are look-ing for ―hands-on‖ service projects.
Through such activities as
helping with the Boys & Girls Clubs, working with other children’s organiza-tions, tutoring kids after school, sponsoring Inter-acts, raising money and completing community projects, and the like, Ro-tarians are do just the kinds of things these folks want to do.
Let’s use these kinds of projects to help attract new members, new Rotarians. The focus groups I men-
tioned above tell us what they are looking for. That’s what we do.
Let’s tell them what we do and invite them to get to know us. Let’s publicize what we do ask them to help in our projects.
Let’s introduce them to Rotary, to share with them all the ways they can give back to our communities, and ultimately make the world a better place.
RI President John
Kenny and DG Mike.
The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands
I N S I D E
T H I S I S S U E :
GSE Team 2
Training 2
Foundation
Dinners
2
Paul Harris
Fellows
3
Fund Raising 4
Attendance 4
DG Letter 5
Little Red
Schoolhouse
6
Let’s Talk About Rotary
R O T A R Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L
D I S T R I C T 7 8 7 0
Hands On Rotary A U G U S T 2 0 0 9 I S S U E I
S P E C I A L
P O I N T S O F
I N T E R E S T :
Rotarians hold a
personal responsi-
bility to the future
of Rotary.
Rotarians must be
an example of
personal and pro-
fessional ethical
behavior
Rotarians must
commit to doing
the best job we can.
THE FUTURE OF ROTARY
IS IN YOUR HANDS
P A G E 2
“To ca tch the rea der's a tte nti on, place an in te res ting sen tence or qu ote from the s tory here.”
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H A N D S O N R O T A R Y
“RLI
is great
training for
long-time
Rotarians,
or for
newbies.”
Scott, Justin, Kelli,
Steve, Paul
Take Your Training to the Next Level
Annual Foundation Dinners
GSE Team Ready to Go!
Our Group Study Ex-change team is ready to go! The team, composed of a Rotarian team leader and four young profes-sionals from our District will leave late September to spend a month in Dis-trict 1120, England.
The team members will visit with vocations simi-lar to theirs all over District 1120, as well as visiting Rotary clubs and
participating in a wide variety of cultural activities.
Our team members are: Justin Tanger (construc-tion), from Mount Hol-ley, Vermont; Paul Smith (Legislative Aide), from Farmington, NH; Scott Cunan (telecommunica-tions), from Candia, NH; Kelli Bogan (college archivist), of Sunapee, NH; and team leader
Steve Christensen (retired orthodontist), of the Concord Rotary Club.
In addition to their vocational studies, they will experience life in England, living in the homes of Rotarians for most of their visit, and culminating with their presentation at the District Conference. We look forward to receiving reports of their travels.
ber 12th, at Hartness
House in Springfield, Vt.
These dinners will fea-
ture an outstanding array
of Foundation speakers
and programming. The
dinners are a celebration
of the Rotary Foundation
and its many activities
This year’s District
Foundation Din-
ners will be held
Tuesday, Novem-
ber 10th, at the
Puritan Back-
house in Man-
chester, NH, and
Thursday, Novem-
over the years, including
our highly successful
Group Study Exchanges,
Ambassadorial Scholar-
ships, and the PolioPlus
campaign to eradicate
polio worldwide. More
information will be com-
ing soon.
tarians from all over the Northeast abound.
The fall schedule has been released. These courses are held on Saturdays, and typi-cally run from breakfast until mid-afternoon. The RLI sites closest to our Dis-trict are:
Oct. 17, in Chicopee, Mass.
Oct. 17, Lewiston, Maine
Oct. 24, Hamilton Bermuda!
Oct. 31, New Haven, Conn.
Spring dates are:
March 6, Wells, Maine
March 20, Rutland, Ver-mont
March 27, Lebanon, NH
April 3, Lincoln, RI
There are more than 20 other locations around the Northeast, if you feel adven-turous.
Registration information is available on the District web page.
The Rotary Leadership In-stitute is a grassroots lead-ership and development program.
RLI is great training for long-time Rotarians, or for new-bies as well. A variety of subjects are covered, such as leadership, Rotary beyond the club, membership reten-tion, Rotary Foundation, team building, service pro-jects, communication skills, and more. Opportunities for networking with other Ro-
Paul Harris Fellow/Multiple Paul Harris Fellow
P A G E 3 I S S U E I
Donors of US$1,000 or more to the Annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Hu-manitarian Grants Program, or people who have that amount contributed in their name, can be recognized as
Paul Harris Fellows. Each new Paul Harris Fellow re-ceives a commemorative cer-tificate and a pin.
As of 1 July, Paul Harris Fel-low certificates will carry the
End Polio Now logo for all new Paul Harris Fellows. The special certificates will be issued for the duration of Rotary’s US$200 Mil-lion Challenge.
Don’t Wait
Get your Paul Harris Fellow End Polio Certificate Now!
Nashua West accomplished this
by implementing a matching
program of both club and mem-
ber Foundation credits,
whereby cash contributions by
each member were matched by
an equivalent value in accumu-
lated club credits and individual
member credits donated by the
leadership group. Thus a mem-
ber had only to donate one third
of the outstanding amount nec-
essary to reach the level of a
new or a multiple Paul Harris
Fellow, and this resulted in the
recognition of the 82 new or
next level multiple Paul Harris
Fellows shown in the photo on
the right.
The Rotary Foundation has
established a goal of raising
$200 million over three years to
achieve the total eradication of
polio in our world. The Founda-
tion has requested every Rotary
club contribute $1000 per year
to reach this goal. Nashua West
is proud of the generosity of its
90 members and the club’s out-
standing and unique accom-
plishment of becoming a 100%
Paul Harris Club.
Find out how your club can join
in the honor of being a
100% Paul Harris Fel-
low Club.
http://www.rotary.org/
en/Contribute/
DonorRecognition/
ClubRecognition/Pages/
ridefault.aspx
A milestone was achieved in
June of 2009, when the Rotary
Club of Nashua West achieved
the very prestigious status of a
100% Paul Harris Club, the first
and only one in District 7870.
Rising to a challenge by one
member in June of 2008 and
led by a small group from
within its’ membership, Nashua
West members contributed over
$43,000 in new financial sup-
port of The Rotary Foundation’s
polio eradication efforts. Con-
currently, the club extended a
yearly tradition as a 100%
Foundation Sustaining Member
club by funding Annual Giving
in the amount of $9000, the
equivalent of $100 for each of
its 90 members.
Thanks to Nashua West
The world is one step closer to
polio free...
We have
our first
100%
Paul
Harris
Club!
Congratulations!
In July Nashua West inducted 43 new Paul Harris Fellows, bringing the total of active members who are Paul Harris Fellows to 72!
Submitted by Ken Grabeau, Nashua West Club
P A G E 4
“Here’s your
chance to
share your
fund-raising
ideas and
even brag a
little if you
want.”
Tatha Lewis, Wal-
lingford Club with
DG Mike at the Bike
Run and Safety
Clinic.
Official District
Governor Visits
Attendance Report
Calling for Ideas...
In my travels around the
District, visiting clubs,
many people have asked
me what our clubs do to
raise money for club ac-
tivities.
In our District we have
lots of great fund-raisers
every year. Here's your
chance to share your
fund-raising ideas, and
even brag a little if you
want. This will be a tre-
mendous service to the
clubs in our District.
On the District web page,
you will see a new tab, on
the left under Site Pages.
It’s called Fund Raising
Idea Exchange. We'll be
using this page for clubs
to submit brief write-ups
about your fundraisers of
all kinds, large and small,
new and long-time, what-
ever you would like to
share with our other
clubs.
Please use the form pro-
vided as a guide for what
information we are look-
ing for. Don't feel like you
have to write a book; a
brief description of your
project will be fine (no
more than two pages),
with contact information
for who clubs can call or
write to for additional
information.
The more that the clubs
participate, the richer the
resource this will be, so
please post some of your
favorite fundraisers as
soon as you can.
Thanks to Marty Cohn,
Brattleboro Sunrise, and
Rachel Swinford, Bed-
ford, for working on this.
Thanks!
Yours in Rotary Service,
DG Mike
issue, but those fig-
ures are not yet
available. Each
month you will be
We had hoped to
have the member-
ship figures for our
clubs in time for this
able to compare your
club’s attendance
with that of our other
clubs. Stay tuned!
Sept. 2 Wed: Raymond Area
Sept. 3 Thu: Hudson-Litchfield
Sept. 8-13: Governors-Elect Training School/Zone Institute
Sept .14 Mon: Keene
Sept. 15 Tues: Monadnock
Sept. 16 Wed: Pittsfield
Sept. 17 Thu: Capital City
District Golf Tournament, Okemo
Sept. 18 Fri: New London
Sept. 29 Tue: Goffstown
Sept. 30 Wed: Londonderry
Oct. 1 Thu: Merrimack
Oct. 6 Franklin (pending)
Oct. 8 Thu: Poultney
Oct .15 Thu: Jaffrey-Rindge
You will notice the last few weeks of the
visit schedule have only Thursday visits.
This is because our District has more
Thursday breakfast clubs than any other
meeting time.
H A N D S O N R O T A R Y
Hi Everyone,
I have been enjoying tre-mendously my traveling around our great District 7870, visiting clubs. As of August 31, I had visited 45 clubs! That may be some sort of new record.
Our goals for the year, are:
Each club will have one new member by the end of the Rotary year. This means, one more mem-ber than you had to start the year.
Our district will have one new club, that is, one more than at the start of the year.
Membership retention will be as important as
recruiting new members. Let’s keep our members busy and active, and they won’t even think about leaving!
I think you will agree that these are reasonable and achievable goals, but we all need to work together, helping each other, to achieve them.
I’ve also been telling them that I believe the purpose of the District organization is to support our clubs and their activities. Call on dis-trict people for help, re-sources, ideas, or whatever you need. This is because I believe that everything really begins and ends with the clubs.
Rotary International Presi-
Schedule of Events
New Generations Month
12 Chester Rotary Club 45th Annual Penny Sale & Auction
8-13 Governors-Elect Training School/Zone Institute
17 District Golf Tournament, Okemo
18 Toast of the Town Wine Tasting & Dance, Meredith Rotary Club
19-20 Chester Fall Festival...on the Green
20 Wallingford Club Lobster Bake
26 NH Fish & Game Hunting & Fishing Tour & Expo. Food by the Concord
Rotary Club
26 Poultney, VT Rotary 20th Annual Chili Cook Off Coming in October — Vocational Service Month
1 Bonfire, Chester
3 Wallingford Motorcycle Ride for Polio Eradication
4 Battles of the Paddles, Bellows Falls VT
7 Four City Annual Golf Tournament, Concord
10 19th Annual Ludlow Rotary Club Chili Cook Off
A Letter from Governor Mike
I S S U E I
DISTRICT 7870
GOVERNOR
2009-2010
MIKE SWINFORD
SEPTEMBER 2009
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P A G E 5
dent, John Kenny, puts it like this: ―The future of Rotary will not be shaped at RI headquarters – it will be shaped in each and every Rotary club.‖ That is expressed in the theme for the year: ―The Future of Rotary Is In Your Hands.‖
Working together we will be able to celebrate our achievements and suc-cesses next May 14-16 at our District Conference in Burlington. Now, let’s get to work, but always remember to have fun in all the things we do.
Service Above Self!
DG Mike
and maintained by the Walling-
ford Memorial Rotary Club. It
contains banners from clubs on
every continent and the oceans as
well. As you enter, look at the left
wall about two-thirds of the way
down. You will see the banner of
the Rotary Club that met aboard
the S.S. France. The building also
houses an incredible collection of
The ―Little Red Schoolhouse‖ in
Wallingford, VT was built by the
great-grandfather of Rotary Inter-
national Founder, Paul P. Harris.
The Schoolhouse is a living memo-
rial to the ideal of ―Service Above
Self.‖
It was in this ―little Vermont Val-
ley‖ that the idea of Rotary first
began. Nurtured by his
grandparents’ and
neighbors’ honesty, faith
and goodwill towards
their fellow man, Harris
set forth to make his
mark. He never forgot his
Vermont roots and they
are as much a part of Ro-
tary today as they were in
that Chicago office in
1905.
The Schoolhouse is owned
Rotary memorabilia, historic
documents and a bust of
Paul Harris.
The ―Changing of the Gavel‖ be-
tween the outgoing and incoming
District 7870 Governors occurs at
the Schoolhouse during the last
week of June each year. Rotarians
everywhere should be grateful for
the dedication and de-
votion by all Walling-
ford Rotarians, living
and deceased, to the
preservation of our
Rotary heritage. We
salute you.
It is open to all Rotari-
ans and other visitors at
the club’s weekly meet-
ing, and at other times
by advance notice to the
club’s officers.
District Governor
C. Michael Swinford
2009 - 2010
292 Tucker Mill Road
New Boston NH 03070
Phone: 603-325-2571
Email: [email protected]
THE FOUR-WAY TEST
Of the Things
We Think, say, or do.
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and
BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The Four-Way Test has been called the shortest ef-
fective code of standards of correct practice so far de-
vised. It is now being used by numerous trade associa-
tions, service clubs, corporations, professional in
stitutions, and by thousands of individuals as a simple
measuring stick to assist in determining what is “right”
in human relations. That which deserves to live invari
ably lives on and its usefulness spreads.
If the Four-Way Test helps you, why not recommend it
to your friends and associates?
Rotary International
District 7870
The Little Red Schoolhouse