Special Speaker at Rotary next week... Feb. 8

Lily Wu is our scheduled speaker next week. While all our speakers are special in their own way, we are looking forward to Lily Wu for her relationship to Rotary. Check out her website:
http://www.lily-wu.com/Lily.php.

Meeting Wednesday, and Fwd: Rotary District Newsletter - January 2012

A reminder to all that we meet at the college Welcome Center, 901 Haverhill Road, downstairs at noon this week. Just in case: you may makeup a meeting online at www.rotaryeclubone.com. We raised our attendance from 38% to 53% last month, as noted in the newsletter below - let's keep raising it!

January 25, 2012 Program: El Dorado Charities Auxiliary by Tricia Coffey

Rotarian of the Day: Ken Nakaten


And this link to the Rotarians in the district:

----- Original Message -----
From: Geri Appel
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:28 pm
Subject: Rotary District Newsletter - January 2012


> The January 2012 edition of the District 5690 Newsletter is attached and is available on the District Website www.rotary5690.org. Read what is happening in Rotary and our district. Direct link to the January newsletter is: http://www.rotary5690.org/IMupload/newsletter/20120117_newsletter.pdf
In this month's issue:
> Message from DG Phil Michel - January is Rotary Awareness Month
> Update from Ambassadorial Scholar "Nass"
> Celebrate Rotary Day on February 23 - Rotary's Birthday
> Register for PETS April 12-14 - today!
> El Dorado club and USD 490 receive grant for Maps
> Meet the incoming GSE Team from Denmark
> RI and TRF Annual Reports available
> Lots of Club, District, and Rotary Foundation News
> A Milestone in India - one year free of new polio cases
> A good idea for any club's bulletin
> Join us on a Haiti Volunteer Mission Trip March 16-24
> RC Wichita's Centennial Project Commemorated
> Happy New Year - from Paul Harris
> December Membership & Attendance Report
> and much more . . .

Happy New Year!
>
> PDG Geri Appel
> D5690 Newsletter Editor
>
> Direct link to the January newsletter is: http://www.rotary5690.org/IMupload/newsletter/20120117_newsletter.pdf


Your Rotary Secretary,
Micaela

Rotary Club meeting at Butler Community College today

The Welcome Center is located at the main entrance of the college at Haverhill Road in El Dorado. We'll meet in Room 20007, and our speaker, Gene Kimble, Director of Marketing, will discuss

What do YOU know about Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital?

Rotarian of the Day is Larry McCully. See you there!

2010-11 Rotary International and Rotary Foundation Annual Report

December 2011

Dear fellow Rotarian: I am pleased to share the 2010-11 Rotary International and Rotary Foundation Annual Report. For the first time ever, we have developed a website for the report that incorporates video and other rich media not available in the print version.

Rotary’s annual report offers a firsthand look at how Rotarians are responding to a range of needs, with support from RI and its Foundation. The report also highlights the generosity of Rotarians to The Rotary Foundation and to Rotary’s top priority of global polio eradication. For those who want a more detailed look at Rotary finances, the audited financial statements are available for download.

Please share this link with others who may be interested in Rotary. You can also order print copies of the annual report at shop.rotary.org.

Having just completed six months as your new general secretary, I appreciate all that Rotary accomplished last year. Our organization is poised to strategically meet the challenges of the future with strength, boldness, and vision. I encourage you to review this report carefully, and I welcome your comments.

Sincerely,

John Hewko
General Secretary
Twitter: @johnhewko

New Meeting Place beginning Jan. 18

The El Dorado City Commission decided to close the restaurant at the Prairie Trails Golf Course. Our last meeting at Prairie Trails will be Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Starting January 18th, we will meet at the Welcome Center on the campus of Butler Community College.

Here are directions from Wichita.

Take K-254 to El Dorado. Continue on Central (K-254) past stoplights at Boyer and Village. Turn right at the third stoplight at Haverhill Road (Bank of America is on the NW corner). Continue south on Haverhill Road past the stoplight at Towanda. The campus will be on your right. Enter the east entrance off of Haverhill Road. The Welcome Center is a large two story building immediately on your right. Park on the west side of the building. Enter the lobby and go downstairs to the meeting rooms.

Any questions, contact me at (316) 321-2439.

Steve Pershall
El Dorado Rotary Club

Thank you for the Dictionaries!

Recieved Nov. 30:

Dear Ms. Ayers,

My daughter Madison is a third grader at Lincoln Elementary. She was so excited to receive her very own dictionary today. We can't thank you enough for this generous gift. I know many families can not afford to purchase new dictionaries to keep in their homes, I was pricing them myself just yesterday at Barnes and Noble. The gift of language and reading is one of the best that we can give our children, so please pass our gratitude on to the other members of the Rotary Club!

Thanks again,

Shawndra Tosh

First-time Sustaining Members Honored

In honor of Rotary Foundation month in November, the El Dorado Rotary Club recognized their first-time Sustaining Members of the Rotary Foundation. Each member who contributed $100.00 or more to the Annual Program Giving Fund for the first time during the past year received a Rotary momento in recognition of their contribution.

(L to R) Ken Nakaten, Matt Rehder, Caleb McNary, Herb Llewellyn, Bret Koontz, Sue Givens, Brenda Burk, Ted Dankert, Dick Morris and Kurt Bookout. Not pictured are Mary Luebbert and Travis Griffin.

Program Wed. Nov. 9

Butler's head basketball coach Mike Bargen speaks at Noon Nov. 9, 2011.

Catch his show! It appears on BCTV, Channel 20 on Cox cable.

Exciting times at Oil Hill Elementary

This is an email I got from the principal at Oil Hill Elementary about the
map. I just had to share with you!

Mary Luebbert, Rotary Club President 2011-12

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Janzen [mailto:mjanzen@usd375.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:43 AM
To: Mary Luebbert
Subject: Another pic

"During recess the 4th graders would yell out a capital and the kids would
race to the state. This was all student directed and how they chose to spend
their time."

Plaground Map for Oil Hill Completed!

From Start:

Hard at work:

To Finish!

Team Members: Mary Luebbert, Matt Rehder, Herb Llewellyn, Brenda Burk, Micaela Ayers, and Mary's college friend Julyn Klaus Wiegand.

And the response from the school:

They are extremely excited! I stopped by there this morning on my way to work to show the principal where we left the paint. He would like to come visit the club and bring a teacher with him who is using it in their social studies section starting TODAY! --Mary Luebbert