support Rotary’s highest priority of polio eradica-tion.

The job of Rotarian brings immense benefits. We en-joy incomparable fellow-ship with one another and the great personal satisfac-tion that comes from serv-ing others. If you believe in Rotary and its power to make a difference in the world, it is time to stand up and commit to doing the best job you can — with all of your mind, your heart, and your soul. The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands. John Kenny President Rotary International

This simple truth will be our theme for 2009-10, serving as a constant re-minder of the personal re-sponsibility that each Ro-tarian holds. Winston Churchill once said: ―The price of greatness is re-sponsibility.‖ Rotary is a great organization, and it has the potential to become even greater — if each one of us rises to the challenge and takes responsibility for its future.

In Rotary, each one of us has been assigned a job. Its title is Rotarian. Our duties are to offer relevant service locally and internationally, and to expand our club’s capacity for service by in-viting professional and

business leaders to become members and promoting a positive image locally. Our job description also calls for each of us to be an ex-

ample of ethical behavior in our professional and personal lives, to act as leaders in our club and community, and to fully

This year’s Rotary Theme is The Future of Rotary is In Your Hands. That’s why we’re calling our newsletter Hands On Rotary. A re-cently-completed series of focus group interviews around the world shows that our neighbors and other community members want to ―give back to the community,‖ and are look-ing for ―hands-on‖ service projects.

Through such activities as

helping with the Boys & Girls Clubs, working with other children’s organiza-tions, tutoring kids after school, sponsoring Inter-acts, raising money and completing community projects, and the like, Ro-tarians are do just the kinds of things these folks want to do.

Let’s use these kinds of projects to help attract new members, new Rotarians. The focus groups I men-

tioned above tell us what they are looking for. That’s what we do.

Let’s tell them what we do and invite them to get to know us. Let’s publicize what we do ask them to help in our projects.

Let’s introduce them to Rotary, to share with them all the ways they can give back to our communities, and ultimately make the world a better place.

RI President John

Kenny and DG Mike.

The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

GSE Team 2

Training 2

Foundation

Dinners

2

Paul Harris

Fellows

3

Fund Raising 4

Attendance 4

DG Letter 5

Little Red

Schoolhouse

6

Let’s Talk About Rotary

R O T A R Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L

D I S T R I C T 7 8 7 0

Hands On Rotary A U G U S T 2 0 0 9 I S S U E I

S P E C I A L

P O I N T S O F

I N T E R E S T :

Rotarians hold a

personal responsi-

bility to the future

of Rotary.

Rotarians must be

an example of

personal and pro-

fessional ethical

behavior

Rotarians must

commit to doing

the best job we can.

THE FUTURE OF ROTARY

IS IN YOUR HANDS

P A G E 2

“To ca tch the rea der's a tte nti on, place an in te res ting sen tence or qu ote from the s tory here.”

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H A N D S O N R O T A R Y

“RLI

is great

training for

long-time

Rotarians,

or for

newbies.”

Scott, Justin, Kelli,

Steve, Paul

Take Your Training to the Next Level

Annual Foundation Dinners

GSE Team Ready to Go!

Our Group Study Ex-change team is ready to go! The team, composed of a Rotarian team leader and four young profes-sionals from our District will leave late September to spend a month in Dis-trict 1120, England.

The team members will visit with vocations simi-lar to theirs all over District 1120, as well as visiting Rotary clubs and

participating in a wide variety of cultural activities.

Our team members are: Justin Tanger (construc-tion), from Mount Hol-ley, Vermont; Paul Smith (Legislative Aide), from Farmington, NH; Scott Cunan (telecommunica-tions), from Candia, NH; Kelli Bogan (college archivist), of Sunapee, NH; and team leader

Steve Christensen (retired orthodontist), of the Concord Rotary Club.

In addition to their vocational studies, they will experience life in England, living in the homes of Rotarians for most of their visit, and culminating with their presentation at the District Conference. We look forward to receiving reports of their travels.

ber 12th, at Hartness

House in Springfield, Vt.

These dinners will fea-

ture an outstanding array

of Foundation speakers

and programming. The

dinners are a celebration

of the Rotary Foundation

and its many activities

This year’s District

Foundation Din-

ners will be held

Tuesday, Novem-

ber 10th, at the

Puritan Back-

house in Man-

chester, NH, and

Thursday, Novem-

over the years, including

our highly successful

Group Study Exchanges,

Ambassadorial Scholar-

ships, and the PolioPlus

campaign to eradicate

polio worldwide. More

information will be com-

ing soon.

tarians from all over the Northeast abound.

The fall schedule has been released. These courses are held on Saturdays, and typi-cally run from breakfast until mid-afternoon. The RLI sites closest to our Dis-trict are:

Oct. 17, in Chicopee, Mass.

Oct. 17, Lewiston, Maine

Oct. 24, Hamilton Bermuda!

Oct. 31, New Haven, Conn.

Spring dates are:

March 6, Wells, Maine

March 20, Rutland, Ver-mont

March 27, Lebanon, NH

April 3, Lincoln, RI

There are more than 20 other locations around the Northeast, if you feel adven-turous.

Registration information is available on the District web page.

The Rotary Leadership In-stitute is a grassroots lead-ership and development program.

RLI is great training for long-time Rotarians, or for new-bies as well. A variety of subjects are covered, such as leadership, Rotary beyond the club, membership reten-tion, Rotary Foundation, team building, service pro-jects, communication skills, and more. Opportunities for networking with other Ro-

Paul Harris Fellow/Multiple Paul Harris Fellow

P A G E 3 I S S U E I

Donors of US$1,000 or more to the Annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Hu-manitarian Grants Program, or people who have that amount contributed in their name, can be recognized as

Paul Harris Fellows. Each new Paul Harris Fellow re-ceives a commemorative cer-tificate and a pin.

As of 1 July, Paul Harris Fel-low certificates will carry the

End Polio Now logo for all new Paul Harris Fellows. The special certificates will be issued for the duration of Rotary’s US$200 Mil-lion Challenge.

Don’t Wait

Get your Paul Harris Fellow End Polio Certificate Now!

Nashua West accomplished this

by implementing a matching

program of both club and mem-

ber Foundation credits,

whereby cash contributions by

each member were matched by

an equivalent value in accumu-

lated club credits and individual

member credits donated by the

leadership group. Thus a mem-

ber had only to donate one third

of the outstanding amount nec-

essary to reach the level of a

new or a multiple Paul Harris

Fellow, and this resulted in the

recognition of the 82 new or

next level multiple Paul Harris

Fellows shown in the photo on

the right.

The Rotary Foundation has

established a goal of raising

$200 million over three years to

achieve the total eradication of

polio in our world. The Founda-

tion has requested every Rotary

club contribute $1000 per year

to reach this goal. Nashua West

is proud of the generosity of its

90 members and the club’s out-

standing and unique accom-

plishment of becoming a 100%

Paul Harris Club.

Find out how your club can join

in the honor of being a

100% Paul Harris Fel-

low Club.

http://www.rotary.org/

en/Contribute/

DonorRecognition/

ClubRecognition/Pages/

ridefault.aspx

A milestone was achieved in

June of 2009, when the Rotary

Club of Nashua West achieved

the very prestigious status of a

100% Paul Harris Club, the first

and only one in District 7870.

Rising to a challenge by one

member in June of 2008 and

led by a small group from

within its’ membership, Nashua

West members contributed over

$43,000 in new financial sup-

port of The Rotary Foundation’s

polio eradication efforts. Con-

currently, the club extended a

yearly tradition as a 100%

Foundation Sustaining Member

club by funding Annual Giving

in the amount of $9000, the

equivalent of $100 for each of

its 90 members.

Thanks to Nashua West

The world is one step closer to

polio free...

We have

our first

100%

Paul

Harris

Club!

Congratulations!

In July Nashua West inducted 43 new Paul Harris Fellows, bringing the total of active members who are Paul Harris Fellows to 72!

Submitted by Ken Grabeau, Nashua West Club

P A G E 4

“Here’s your

chance to

share your

fund-raising

ideas and

even brag a

little if you

want.”

Tatha Lewis, Wal-

lingford Club with

DG Mike at the Bike

Run and Safety

Clinic.

Official District

Governor Visits

Attendance Report

Calling for Ideas...

In my travels around the

District, visiting clubs,

many people have asked

me what our clubs do to

raise money for club ac-

tivities.

In our District we have

lots of great fund-raisers

every year. Here's your

chance to share your

fund-raising ideas, and

even brag a little if you

want. This will be a tre-

mendous service to the

clubs in our District.

On the District web page,

you will see a new tab, on

the left under Site Pages.

It’s called Fund Raising

Idea Exchange. We'll be

using this page for clubs

to submit brief write-ups

about your fundraisers of

all kinds, large and small,

new and long-time, what-

ever you would like to

share with our other

clubs.

Please use the form pro-

vided as a guide for what

information we are look-

ing for. Don't feel like you

have to write a book; a

brief description of your

project will be fine (no

more than two pages),

with contact information

for who clubs can call or

write to for additional

information.

The more that the clubs

participate, the richer the

resource this will be, so

please post some of your

favorite fundraisers as

soon as you can.

Thanks to Marty Cohn,

Brattleboro Sunrise, and

Rachel Swinford, Bed-

ford, for working on this.

Thanks!

Yours in Rotary Service,

DG Mike

issue, but those fig-

ures are not yet

available. Each

month you will be

We had hoped to

have the member-

ship figures for our

clubs in time for this

able to compare your

club’s attendance

with that of our other

clubs. Stay tuned!

Sept. 2 Wed: Raymond Area

Sept. 3 Thu: Hudson-Litchfield

Sept. 8-13: Governors-Elect Training School/Zone Institute

Sept .14 Mon: Keene

Sept. 15 Tues: Monadnock

Sept. 16 Wed: Pittsfield

Sept. 17 Thu: Capital City

District Golf Tournament, Okemo

Sept. 18 Fri: New London

Sept. 29 Tue: Goffstown

Sept. 30 Wed: Londonderry

Oct. 1 Thu: Merrimack

Oct. 6 Franklin (pending)

Oct. 8 Thu: Poultney

Oct .15 Thu: Jaffrey-Rindge

You will notice the last few weeks of the

visit schedule have only Thursday visits.

This is because our District has more

Thursday breakfast clubs than any other

meeting time.

H A N D S O N R O T A R Y

Hi Everyone,

I have been enjoying tre-mendously my traveling around our great District 7870, visiting clubs. As of August 31, I had visited 45 clubs! That may be some sort of new record.

Our goals for the year, are:

Each club will have one new member by the end of the Rotary year. This means, one more mem-ber than you had to start the year.

Our district will have one new club, that is, one more than at the start of the year.

Membership retention will be as important as

recruiting new members. Let’s keep our members busy and active, and they won’t even think about leaving!

I think you will agree that these are reasonable and achievable goals, but we all need to work together, helping each other, to achieve them.

I’ve also been telling them that I believe the purpose of the District organization is to support our clubs and their activities. Call on dis-trict people for help, re-sources, ideas, or whatever you need. This is because I believe that everything really begins and ends with the clubs.

Rotary International Presi-

Schedule of Events

New Generations Month

12 Chester Rotary Club 45th Annual Penny Sale & Auction

8-13 Governors-Elect Training School/Zone Institute

17 District Golf Tournament, Okemo

18 Toast of the Town Wine Tasting & Dance, Meredith Rotary Club

19-20 Chester Fall Festival...on the Green

20 Wallingford Club Lobster Bake

26 NH Fish & Game Hunting & Fishing Tour & Expo. Food by the Concord

Rotary Club

26 Poultney, VT Rotary 20th Annual Chili Cook Off Coming in October — Vocational Service Month

1 Bonfire, Chester

3 Wallingford Motorcycle Ride for Polio Eradication

4 Battles of the Paddles, Bellows Falls VT

7 Four City Annual Golf Tournament, Concord

10 19th Annual Ludlow Rotary Club Chili Cook Off

A Letter from Governor Mike

I S S U E I

DISTRICT 7870

GOVERNOR

2009-2010

MIKE SWINFORD

SEPTEMBER 2009

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P A G E 5

dent, John Kenny, puts it like this: ―The future of Rotary will not be shaped at RI headquarters – it will be shaped in each and every Rotary club.‖ That is expressed in the theme for the year: ―The Future of Rotary Is In Your Hands.‖

Working together we will be able to celebrate our achievements and suc-cesses next May 14-16 at our District Conference in Burlington. Now, let’s get to work, but always remember to have fun in all the things we do.

Service Above Self!

DG Mike

and maintained by the Walling-

ford Memorial Rotary Club. It

contains banners from clubs on

every continent and the oceans as

well. As you enter, look at the left

wall about two-thirds of the way

down. You will see the banner of

the Rotary Club that met aboard

the S.S. France. The building also

houses an incredible collection of

The ―Little Red Schoolhouse‖ in

Wallingford, VT was built by the

great-grandfather of Rotary Inter-

national Founder, Paul P. Harris.

The Schoolhouse is a living memo-

rial to the ideal of ―Service Above

Self.‖

It was in this ―little Vermont Val-

ley‖ that the idea of Rotary first

began. Nurtured by his

grandparents’ and

neighbors’ honesty, faith

and goodwill towards

their fellow man, Harris

set forth to make his

mark. He never forgot his

Vermont roots and they

are as much a part of Ro-

tary today as they were in

that Chicago office in

1905.

The Schoolhouse is owned

Rotary memorabilia, historic

documents and a bust of

Paul Harris.

The ―Changing of the Gavel‖ be-

tween the outgoing and incoming

District 7870 Governors occurs at

the Schoolhouse during the last

week of June each year. Rotarians

everywhere should be grateful for

the dedication and de-

votion by all Walling-

ford Rotarians, living

and deceased, to the

preservation of our

Rotary heritage. We

salute you.

It is open to all Rotari-

ans and other visitors at

the club’s weekly meet-

ing, and at other times

by advance notice to the

club’s officers.

District Governor

C. Michael Swinford

2009 - 2010

292 Tucker Mill Road

New Boston NH 03070

Phone: 603-325-2571

Email: Rotarydg0910@gmail.com

THE FOUR-WAY TEST

Of the Things

We Think, say, or do.

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

The Four-Way Test has been called the shortest ef-

fective code of standards of correct practice so far de-

vised. It is now being used by numerous trade associa-

tions, service clubs, corporations, professional in­

stitutions, and by thousands of individuals as a simple

measuring stick to assist in determining what is “right”

in human relations. That which deserves to live invari­

ably lives on and its usefulness spreads.

If the Four-Way Test helps you, why not recommend it

to your friends and associates?

Rotary International

District 7870

The Little Red Schoolhouse