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"The President's Pen"
2017-2018

Monthly Newsletter
May 2018
“The Last 60”
 
            We all know there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.  However, have you noticed there are only 60 days left in this Rotary year?  Ask yourself, “What can I do to help my Rotary Club finish strong?”
            Have you considered donating to the Annual Fund?  Your gift to the Annual Fund helps to create a positive change in communities at home and around the world.  This helps us to financially support the six areas of focus of Rotary International:  promote peace, provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children and fight disease.  Our goal for this year was $5,000.  We have exceed the goal in the amount of $5,760.  However, last year we gave $9,342.  Let’s see if we can exceed that donation.
            Have you considered donating to the Polio Plus Fund?  All donations to the Polio Plus Fund assist with operational costs, such as transportation, vaccine delivery and training of health workers.  We are on the brink of eradicating polio.  A strong push is needed now to end this tenacious disease once and for all.  Several of us has donated to the Polio Plus Fund when we sold or purchased the D5830 truck raffle tickets.  Our goal for this year was $15,000.  As of today, we have donated $14,805.  Last year we donated $14,732.96.
            Here’s one more item to consider………………invite a potential member to one of our club meetings.  Just ask a family member, friend or co-worker, “Do you like food, fun and fellowship?”  If the answer is YES, then he/she just might be a Rotarian.
            We are participating in the D5830 Membership Drive.  Cash prizes and free lunches as well as banners and plaques will be awarded.  I am sure we will win one prize if not two prizes.
            Let’s work together so we can finish strong in the last 60, Rotary Club of Marshall, TX!
 
 
 
Louraiseal McDonald
President 2017- 2018 
 
2017-2018 Executives & Directors
President                                    McDonald, Louraiseal
President Elect                          Webb, Jay
Treasurer                                    Henderson, Jeff
Assistant Treasurer                  Horton, Daren   
Secretary                                     Gaw, Lou
Assistant Secretary                    Wood, Laura
Immediate Past President        Vanbiber, Craig
Community Service Chair        White, Brandon
Membership Chair                     Judkins, Barbara
Public Relations Coordinator   Gorski, Stephanie
Faux Paws Chair                          Horton, Daren
Flags Program Chair                   Feille, Keith
Scholarship Chair                        Bickerdicke, Glenn
Spelling Bee Coordinator           Howlett, Brad
4-Way Speech Coordinator                Weekly, Joyce
Blood Drive Coordinator                     Luce, Hannah
Dictionary Coordinator                       Wood, Laura
Diploma Plus Chair                              Spears, April
RYLA Coordinator                                Purvis, Keith
Speaker's Book Donations                  Gaw, Lou
Chief Sergeant at Arms                        Green, Milly
Assistant Sergeant at Arms                 Bishop, Cecil
District liaison                                        Huffhines, Ted
Programs & Speakers                            Adams, Stacy
Website Administrator                          Fitzgerald, Jim
Rotary Foundation Coordinator          Vanbiber, Craig
Centennial Celebration Chair                Collins, David
Rotaract Chair                                           Fitzgerald, David "Fitz"
POLIO ERADICATION
"The Last Drop" Is the chant we will be hearing around the world this year, as the fight against Polio draws agonizingly close to the final drop that will mark the complete and utter eradication of this dreaded disease.
Speakers
May 03, 2018 12:00 PM
Boy Scouts
May 10, 2018 12:00 PM
Food Bank
May 17, 2018 12:00 PM
TBA
May 24, 2018 12:00 PM
Bear Creek Smokehouse
May 31, 2018 12:00 PM
TBA
Jun 07, 2018 12:00 PM
Local Highway Projects
Jun 14, 2018 12:00 PM
TBA
Jun 21, 2018 12:00 PM
TBA
Jun 28, 2018 12:00 PM
TBA
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Rodney Gilstrap
May 1
 
Sam Moseley
May 7
 
Ted Huffhines
May 11
 
Milly Green
May 19
 
Bill Hollifield
May 31
 
Spouse Birthdays
Stacia Runnels
May 23
 
Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
ClubRunner
Civic Achievment Award
Created in 1976, The Marshall Rotary Civic Achievment Award was given to active Rotarians in recognition of their service and  contributions to the local community.
 

The proposal from the Board of Directors is that the Marshall Rotary Club establish an annual award to be called the “Rotary Civic Achievement Award.” This award will be presented annually to a Rotarian who demonstrates the Rotary Ideal of a Service by extraordinary contributions to civic endeavors in Marshall and Harrison County. Dedication, accomplishments and willingness to serve should be considered as indicators of the Rotarian’s commitment to Service Above Self. Although service to our fellow man within the Rotary Club itself is important and should not be ignored, the demonstration of the Ideal of Service to the larger community is the focus of this Civic Achievement Award.

Not less than three nor more than five nominees will be chosen from the Rotary roster by a committee composed of the Chairman of the Marshall City Commission, the County Judge of Harrison County and the President of the Marshall Chamber of Commerce. These nominees will be submitted to a committee composed of the immediate three past presidents of the Marshall Rotary Club, and they will select the recipient of the award. The current Rotary President should serve as a non­voting ex-officio member of both committees, offering suggestions only when requested to do so by the committee.

Know recipients of the Civic Achiviement Award include the following:

            1976-1977                JACK S. MANN
            1977-1978               CHARLIE H. FLOWERS
            1978-1979               CHARLES SPANGLER
            1979-1980               WILLIAM L. GAW, JR
1980-1981               RICHARD W. BLALOCK
1981-1982               SAM R. MOSELEY
1982-1983               LOUIS W. KARIEL, SR
1983-1984               CHARLES B. SMITH
1984-1985               H.A. “TONY” BRIDGE
1985-1986               JAMES E. PEARS
1986-1987               SAM H. MOORE
1987-1988               CECIL C. TOMLINSON
1988-1989               DR. ROBERT E. “JACK” CRAIG
1999-2000               JIM TAYLOR
2000-2001               RICHARD TURNER
 
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A True Rotarian Is:
What makes Rotary so special?  Why do Rotarians give so much with so little outward recognition? You never see a hospital, school, or stadium displaying the Rotary Emblem, or "Rotary's" name.  There is a reason for that, which can be so fittingly expressed in just  99 words, when Past  President Hal Cornish had them included in the Marshall "Rotary Reporter" February 23, 1988.  They are as true today as they were then. Thank you for reminding us of this truth Hal:
 
A true Rotarian is not a builder of monuments of brick and stone.
 
If we work upon marble it will perish, if we work on brass time will device it, if we erect temples they will crumble into ruins, but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with the full meaning of the spirit of Rotary as expressed in our Objects and with just fear of God and love of fellow man, we are engraving on those tablets something that will brighten all eternity and make Rotary an immortal force, so long as civilization shall endure.
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"Doing Good Is Fun & Contagious" 
If you have got it, infect as many people as possible. If you haven't got it, Catch It!