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April 27, 2009

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Las Vegas Southwest Rotary

Newsletter

Upcoming

Programs

Next Week –

UNLV Golf Coach

Dwaine Knight

May 11 –

Walt Ruffles, CCSD

Superintendent

May 18 –

Pepe Charles, Member

craft talk

Rotarians – April

Community Service

opportunities

April 29, 2009

Feeding the Homeless

5:00 p.m., Christ

Episcopal Church, St.

Louis and Maryland

Pkwy.

Did you know that you can make-up for a missed meeting by attending an E-Club Rotary

meeting? Just click here to see how http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf.

Announcements:

Passing of family members – President DeWitt announced that Robbie Graham’s

father and son-in-law passed away in the same week. Our Club prayers go with Robbie

and her family.

GSE team coming from Turkey -Ted Henderson is still looking for 2 hosts for 2

female members. One member, Kivilcim Ates, is a pathologist and the other, Hial

Ozdemir, is a dentist. To read their biographies go to www.kizkalesi.org/gse2009. If

you would like to host either of these two women from April 30 to May 4, please contact

Ted.

District Conference - Adrienne Cox encouraged every member to consider attending

the District Conference as a way of honoring District Governor Gene Hernandez, for the

fellowship of other Rotarians and that the Marriot in Palm Desert, CA is a nice place to

visit. For more information click http://district5300.org/conference/index.html.

Feeding the Homeless – Tom Martin announced that the Club’s opportunity to

“Feed the Homeless” is Wednesday, April 29

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at Christ Episcopal Church starting

at 5:00 p.m. Please bring cookies, all Rotarians, spouses and friends are welcome.

For directions

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Las+Vegas&state=NV&address=2100+S+Maryla

nd+Pkwy

District Governor Elect and Assistant District Governor – Adrienne Cox

introduced District Governor Elect, Tom Novotny, a member of the Las Vegas West

Club and Jim Frey, Assistant District Governor, and a member of the Green Valley

Rotary Club (pictures follow on page 8)

Member Surveys; officer, director and committee chair Retreat - President

elect Doug Beckley announced that Member Surveys for the 2009-2010 Rotary year are

on the seats of all tables and must be completed by the end of today’s meeting or else the

“bruise brothers” (aka Eric Colvin and Jack Pestaner, see page 8 for picture) will have to

enforce collection. Doug also announced that his Retreat to plan for the 2009-2010

Rotary year is scheduled for May 16

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from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Doubletree

Hotel at McCarran airport.

Opportunity Village fund raisers – Ed Guthrie announced that OVino is being held

on May 16

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from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. for more information

http://www.opportunityvillage.org/content/?c=87

www.lvswr.org

www.district5300.org

www.Rotary.org

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf

www.kizkalesi.org/gse2009

http://district5300.org/conference/index.html

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Las+Vegas&state=NV&address=2100+S+Maryla

http://www.opportunityvillage.org/content/?c=87

Las Vegas Southwest Rotary Newsletter

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Officers and Directors

President

DeWitt Paul

President Elect

Doug Beckley

Secretary/Treasurer

Melissa Copeland

Directors

Eric Colvin

Fred Fukumoto

Aric Graham

Ram Kumar

Tom Martin

Karen Strawn

Immediate Past

President

Doug Malan

Advisor

Bruce Pope

Avenue of Service

Chairs

Community Service

Josh Satterlee

Vocational Service

Troy Lochhead

International Service

Chris Publow

Club Service–

Programs

Bill Goff &

Willie Robinson

Club Service-

Fellowship

Karen Strawn

Foundation

Ted Henderson

Welcome to our Visiting Rotarians and Guests

Rotarians – Gary Chard from the St. Catherine Lake Shore Rotary Club (Ontario, CN)

Lane Kay, attorney, from the Fremont Rotary Club

Tom Novotny, printer, from the Las Vegas West Rotary Club

Jim Frey, Assistant District Governor, from the Green Valley Rotary Club

Guests of Members

Krag Koehler guest of Randy Capurro

Jim Krawczak guest of the Club

Happy Feet – Aric Graham announced that 5 members helped deliver 51 pairs of

shoes last Thursday’s at Ruby Thomas ES; if you haven’t participated in this

wonderful event, the May delivery will be the last one this Rotary year. Aric offered

to pick up anyone who wants to participate.

San Blas, Mexico – Jack Pestaner announced that his company has donated a

paging system for the medical clinic in San Blas, Sinaloa state, Mexico and will be

installing it this weekend. Many of our Members have volunteered at either this clinic

or the one in El Fuerte many times this year.

Member Recognitions:

Karen Strawn announced that today’s is President DeWitt’s birthday; our President then fined

himself, Doug Malan and Scott Baranoff $50 each for having the same birthday. Scott asked if

Pres. DeWitt knew which President is on the $50 bill, neither DeWitt nor Doug Malan knew it was

Ulysses S. Grant.

Eric Colvin was fined $50 for reminding the Pres. that he was behind in his fining of members.

Gary Crowe was fined $150 for being on vacation cruising the Panama Canal and skiing in Sun

Valley.

Charlie Dorsey was recognized $100 for accompanying his wife, Joanne, to a business conference

in San Francisco – not even the souvenir Good Luck Buddha could save Charlie from a fine.

Mel Close and Megan Schmick were each recognized $25 for having birthdays this month.

President DeWitt tried to fine Jack Pestaner for a recent article in the Review Journal, but Jack

reminded DeWitt that he was fined for that last week when DeWitt was absent.


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This week’s program was the Regional 4 Way Speech contest competition

The 4-Way Test

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high

ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and

quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by

Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take

charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test for employees to follow

in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising,

and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to

this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into

more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four

questions:

"Of the things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"

The Annual District 5300 Four Way Speech Contest

Purpose

Rotary International District 5300 is composed of 61 clubs in Southern California and Nevada. The

District annually conducts a Four-Way Test Speech Contest to benefit high school age youth. The

specific goals of the contest are:

1. To acquaint a large number of youth with Rotary and the Four-Way Test.

2. To demonstrate and enhance Rotary’s commitment to youth.

3. To heighten awareness of Rotary among youth, parents, schools, and community.

4. To recognize, encourage, and reward hard work and accomplishment among youth.

Eligibility

Public, private, and continuation high school students in grades 9 through 12 are eligible to enter the

contest. No student may be a contestant in more than one local club speech contest in any one year.

More than one club may recruit contestants from a high school shared with another club. The Winner

of the District level competition is ineligible to compete in subsequent years.

Topics and Theme

The 2008-2009 theme is Make Dreams Real which is also the Rotary International theme. Any topic

related to this theme will be acceptable, provided that it is not profane, obscene, unpatriotic, or racist.

If a contestant or coach is in doubt about the appropriateness of a topic, the coach or student may

check with the Contest Chairperson of the local club or the District Chairperson. The Chairperson’s

decision will be final. The topic of the speech must be specifically subjected to the Four-Way

Test. This must be done in the body of the speech and is not to be reserved for concluding statements

only.


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more about the 4 Way Speech Contest

Rules

Length of Speech

Speeches must be no less than 6 minutes and no more than 8 minutes in length. Penalty points will be

subtracted for time infractions at the rate of 2 points for every 15 seconds over or under the minimum

or maximum.

Props

No props are to be used. Audience participation will be considered a prop. Penalty points will be

subtracted for use of props at the rate of two points per infraction.

Speaker Aids

Lecterns and microphones will be available for speakers to use if they choose.

Notes

Contestants may use notes at the Club and Group Level. At the Regional Level a single 3x5 card may

be used. Notes may not be used at the District Level. Infractions will result in disqualification.

Order of Presentation

Determined by lottery. Contestants who arrive after competition has begun will be disqualified.

Judging

1. PERSONAL QUALITIES (0-15 points)

• Appearance

• Poise

• Personality

• Attitude

2. ORGANIZATION (0-40 points)

• Subject Adherence

• Theme

• Four-Way Test Inclusion

• Flow

• Logic

• Color

3. PRESENTATION (0-30 points)

• Voice Control

• Articulation

• Enunciation

• Diction

• Animation

• Sincerity

4. EFFECTIVENESS (0-15 points)

• Overall Appeal

• Impression

• Persuasiveness

Levels of Competition

Club - Each of the 61 Rotary Clubs in District 5300 may elect to host contests in February . Clubs

award certificates and cash prizes to participants. The winner of the Club Contest proceeds to the

Group Level.

Group - Each Club is assigned to one of 14 Groups. Group Level contests are in March. The winner

of each Group Level proceeds to the Regional Level .

Regional - The winner of each Group Level contest proceeds to one of 4 Regional Level contests in

April.

District - The 4 Regional winners compete at the District Conference in May. The prizes depend on

the numbers of Clubs that participate. In the past winners receive $5,000 and runners-up $1,000!


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4 Way Speech Contest

Contestants

Today’s contestants were

Chanelle Bessette from Spring Valley High School accompanied by Nick Servano and Lane

S. Kay.

Christian Clark from Palo Verde High School accompanied by his father, Brian Clark.

Dawnielle Selvig from Boulder City High School accompanied by Cythia Harris and Leslie

Ringen.

Nairobi Thomas from Caliente High School accompanied by Marty Bushman, Nancy

Escobedo and Claudia Balaeff.

All four speakers did a great job presenting their speeches. The winner was Chanelle

Bessette from Spring Valley High School who will represent this Region at the contest held

during District 5300’s Annual Conference.

Thank you to Joanne Blystone, Jenny Farrell and Shannon Stevens (speech teachers from the

Greenspun School of Communication) and Denise Anderson who served as time keeper.


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Today’s meeting pictures

Our contestants

Nairobi, Christian, Chanelle & Dawnielle

Christian Clark, Palo Verde HS

Nairobi Thomas, Caliente HS

Nairobi Thomas, Caliente HS

Chanelle Bessette, Spring Valley HS

Dawnielle Selvig, Boulder City HS

Our Judges

Joanne Blystone, Jenny Farrell &

Shannon Stevens (teachers from the

Greenspun School of Communications)

Timekeeper Denise Anderson & Ken

Howdy, Randy, Melissa & Ed

Rotarians at work

for the Club

Invocation &

Pledge

Adrienne Cox

Introduction of

Visitors and

Guests

Keith Thomas

Mr. Mic

Ken Walker

and this week’s

Raffle Winner is

Mitchell Horst


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Adrienne’s announcement

Ed on OVino fund raiser

Tom asking for volunteers for

Wednesday’s Feeding the Homeless

Aric encouraging Members to participate

in May’s Happy Feet shoe delivery

Jack’s donation of a paging system for

San Blas clinic and installation this

weekend

Karen wishing Happy Birthday

Scott getting fined for “joke” & birthday

Doug

announcing

survey,

Retreat and

did you get

his email?


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More pictures from the April 27, 2009 meeting

Drawing winner, Mitch Horst

Gary fined for cruising thru the Panama

Canal and skiing in Sun Valley

Karen & Ric

Jack & visiting Rotarian

Charlie, John, Ed & Karen

Charlie, Randy, Adrienne & visitor Krag

Tom Novotny, Doug & Bryan

“Honest” Tom & Melissa

the “bruise brothers” Jack & Eric

Charlie’s gift got him a fine

Vern, our Mexico pilot & auctioneer

Our Pres., DeWitt and better half

Jean

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