President Lynn King called the meeting to order
Bruce Yeager offered the prayer and led the pledge to the flag (great job on the spot, Bruce)
Announcements:
The speaker scheduled for today had an accident and will not be able to be here
Rotary ROCS - will be held on Saturday September 26 on Hilton Head Island. There are four venues for the projects, all of which will be outdoors. Masks will be required. The link to sign up is https://signup.com/go/zaBBnPc. President Lynn will be sending out a separate email.
Island Rec Center - Frank Soule is our speaker at the October 6 meeting. At that time we will be presenting him a check towards our commitment to the Center. Stay tuned as we may meet at the Rec Center on that day.
Sergeant at Arms, Suzi Oliver collected Happy $$. Reminder that our Happy $$ contributions go to CART.
Discussion on the need to raise funds. Looking for ideas from all
The board has discussed and feels that in these times a raffle works well. Kristin Keller reported that last year our raffle raised $10,000. This year want to do a couple raffles. This year sill have a longer time to sell the tickets and want to have social media sales as well. Can't do trips, so a cash raffle works better. Jim Keith suggested to encourage the Rec Center to participate in selling tickets since they are the recipient. Also a possibility to get sponsors for the raffle, but need to figure out what value we can give to the sponsors - like a commercial on facebook or instagram. Other suggestions included a golf fund raiser and a virtual event (similar to the triathalon done by Memory Matters where they raised $25,000)
Filling in for the speaker, Suzi Oliver presented a history of Rotary International. Suzi presented many interesting personal facts about Paul Harris, like he lived with his grand parents and his grand father was a great influence on his life. Did you know that Paul met a woman on a hike and eventually married her? He also had many occupations prior to the one we are all familiar with. The first meeting was held February 23, 1905 and in 1907 the first service project - a public comfort station. In 1910 PH met his wife, 1911, the motto "Service Above Self" was introduced. By 1912 there were 50 clubs and growing. In 1914 spouses could participate in the "Rotary Anns" because women were not allowed in Rotary until 1987. 1932 the Four Way Test was introduced, Friendship trees was started and the Rotary wheel was amended. There were 5,000 clubs in 1939. Did you know that on July 20, 1969 The Four Way Test was planted on the moon?
Great presentation of Rotary trivia - thanks Suzi.