Some of the sections of this bulletin are repeats of articles that have appeared before. There are several members who have joined and may not have read some of this. A complete list of members, with pictures for those who have them, can be found in the Documents section under the Membership heading. You need to be signed in to get to this.

 

Our bylaws state:

This Club is a district-wide virtual club designed to promote the meetings, service projects and fundraisers of the clubs in District 7040 and throughout the world and encourage traditional club membership.  Though not prohibited from any of the activities that define any Rotary Club under the rules of Rotary International governing clubs, this Club was not originally conceived as having any mandatory requirements for regular weekly meetings or attendance of such by its members; or service projects or fundraising endeavors. Members are encouraged to record attendance credits through the online record keeping on the club website.

 

You can find a copy of the bylaws in Documents.

Meetings have now been added to the end of the 2018-2019 year. I discovered that we were missing out on a lot of banked credits towards the end of the year. This year, all Mondays are marked in from July 2, 2018 to June 30, 2019. In order to get your 40 credits (see Participation Recognition), you will need to go to the end of April 2019, but of course you can then keep going. Do not bank meetings, just keep adding them to the next available date for you, even if it is in the future. Your best bet is to go for “auto-assign” because the system will put that makeup wherever it is needed. I know that for those of you who have been Rotarians before that seems strange, but then we are not a usual club, so we do our attendance credits in an unusual way.

Technically you get credit for each hour that you take part in a volunteer or Rotary activity. If you take part in an activity that runs for a day, or over several hours, you need to mark that down as “Activity Name” – Hour 1, Hour 2, and so on. The ClubRunner system does not distinguish the hours so you need to do that yourself, unless it does not really matter to you. Remember that you do need to mark down your own activities, check the Download file on our website home page.

 

We’ve mentioned before that for some it feels really strange or disconnected somehow not to be tied to a meeting schedule. It’s also different to do things you want to do on a schedule of your own. You may do three things in one week, and then not do anything for a month or more. It is for that reason that we do not grant a leave of absence. You do not need to worry about that, it’s the way our club is. Keep marking in your makeups and while you are there, look at what others are doing to inspire you.

It is common practice to expect new Rotarians to give a talk to their members about themselves, their early life, their training and the job that they do. This is called a "Job Talk" by some and "Meet the Members" by others.

 

Later in Rotary life the Rotarian is often expected to fill the speaker diary by giving a talk which is NOT connected with his work. A hobby such as stamp collecting, or model trains would be a good example.

Several of our members have already done their classification, and I have one waiting from Jacinthe. I will need to start assigning to some of you that are reluctant to let others know you.

An interesting article to read. Very similar to our club.

Spread out across thousands of square miles in the eastern states of Australia, Rotarians fire up laptops, tablets, and smartphones and log on to weekly club meetings from their RVs using a teleconferencing app. Read more https://www.rotary.org/en/club-innovation-nomads-find-home

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