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Rotary Club of Red Hook, New York Weekly Bulletin

SERVICE ABOVE SELF January 27, 2015

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Our meeting this week: Our meeting this week was cancelled due to the alleged snow storm. Meanwhile, where there is warm weather, Rev. Fred Cartier reports in from Cancun, Mexico:

"Had a wonderful breakfast with Burt. Our main discussion involved what's happening in Red Hook and about the weather down here, sunny, hot, few clouds for three weeks. Fred”

Our next meeting - Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:30 am at the Bread and Bottle Restaurant. Speaker host: Tim Lynch; Greeter: Susan Simon; Sgt. at Arms: Christine Chale.

! Our 60th Anniversary Dinner will take place at the historic Elmendorph Inn

Tuesday, February 10, 2015; 6:00 p.m. Pot-Luck Supper. Please bring a bottle of wine.

Live entertainment!More details to follow!

This weekend on RadioRotary

! Tune in to RadioRotary on Saturday, January 31st at 11:30 a.m. (on WTBQ 93.5 FM and 1110AM or http://www.wtbq.com/) and Sunday, February 1st at 7:25 a.m. (on WBPM 92.9 or http://www.wbpmfm.com/) and 9:30 a.m. (on WBNR 1260AM and WLNA 1420 or http://www.realcountryhv.com/) when when will be coming to you from the United Nations in New York City for our exclusive coverage of Rotary UN Day.

The award-winning RadioRotary can be heard on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. on WTBQ 93.5 FM and1110AM or http://www.wtbq.com/ and on Sundays at 7:25 a.m. on WBPM 92.9 or http://www.wbpmfm.com/ and at 9:30 a.m. on WBNR 1260AM and WLNA 1420 or http://www.realcountryhv.com/ . Listen to all previous programs at www.radiorotary.org or on your MP3 player via iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiorotary/id397316801

� Books and magazines needed for the hospital. Rev. Fred Cartier is collecting books and magazines for Northern Dutchess Hospital's reading cart. Please bring your magazines and books to Fred at any breakfast meeting. Labels have been made to affix to the magazines indicating they have been donated by the Red Hook Rotary Club.

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Club schedule: The speaker host, sergeant at arms and greeter list follows below. Anyone who has to make a change needs to obtain a substitute and inform Jonah Triebwasser at

(845)702-6242 or by email at RedHookRotary@gmail.com

! Your change can make a change! - Bring your filled Rotary coin boxes to any meeting and donate to Rotary International Foundation's Polio Plus campaign. If you need a coin box, please see Bud Weaver.

Date Speaker host Greeter Sgt at ArmsFeb 3, 2015 Tim Lynch Susan Simon Chris ChaleFeb 10, 2015 Bruce Martin Jonah Triebwasser Rev. Fred CartierFeb 17, 2015 Club Business Meeting Bud Weaver Walter AvisFeb 24, 2015 60th Anniversary Dinner Walter Avis David WrightMar 3, 2015 Dr. Abe Nussbaum Rev. Fred Cartier Gale WolfeMar 10, 2015 Barry Ramage Chris Chale Bud WeaverMar 17, 2015 Rev. Michael Shafer Carl Dowden Susan SimonMar 24, 2015 Club Business Meeting Bud Weaver Rev. Michael ShaferMar 31, 2015 Susan Simon Linda Greenblatt Barry RamageApr 7, 2015 Jonah Triebwasser Rob Latimer Dr. Abe NussbaumApr 14, 2015 Bud Weaver Tim Lynch Karen Mead-CadoretteApr 21, 2015 Club Business Meeting Bruce Martin Rob LatimerApr 28, 2015 Gale Wolfe Karen Mead-Cadorette Bruce MartinMay 12, 2015 Walter Avis Barry Ramage Linda GreenblattMay 19, 2015 Club Business Meeting Rev. Michael Shafer Bud WeaverMay 26, 2015 Rev. Fred Cartier Susan Simon Carl DowdenJun 2, 2015 Chris Chale Jonah Triebwasser Rev. Fred CartierJun 9, 2015 Carl Dowden Bud Weaver Chris ChaleJun 16, 2015 Club Business Meeting Gale Wolfe Walter AvisJun 23, 2015 Bud Weaver David Wright Gale WolfeJun 30, 2015 Installation of officers Walter Avis David Wright

The 2015 - 2016 Rotary theme is "Be a Gift to the World."

! ! K. R. Ravindran, President – Rotary International 2015/16 unveiled his theme for the upcoming Rotary year as “Be a gift to the world.” Below are his remarks with regard to the new theme:

Our time on this earth is finite, and it’s always shorter than we think. How do we want to spend it? Will we give of ourselves to others, so that the world will be richer because we passed through it? Or will we spend our days, as the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, in stringing and unstringing our instruments, while the song we came to sing remains unsung?

The glory of Rotary is that it helps us find a way to sing that song. It guides us on a path to living richer, more meaningful lives, by encouraging us to focus our attention on the things that matter — and helping each of us find our own way to be a gift to the world.

If we ask ourselves what characteristics we value most in our friends, most of us would answer similarly: integrity, trustworthiness, caring, compatibility. Our friends are not necessarily the people who are most like us but the ones who complement us, who bring out the best in us. That, to me, is precisely what we can find in Rotary.

Rotary is a way to bring out the best part of ourselves, and let it guide our lives. Too often, we spend our days in pursuit of the goals that should matter least. We focus our attention on our own achievements and our own gain; we devote endless energy to the accumulation of material things. Yet at the end of our lives, no one will remember us for the cars we drove, the clothes we wore, the titles we carried, or the offices we sat in. We will not be admired for the efforts we poured into making our own lives richer or our own status higher. In the end, our worth will be measured not by how much we acquired, but by how much we gave away.

Will we avert our eyes from suffering, or will we alleviate it? Will we speak words of compassion, or will we act on them? Will we be content only to take from the world — or will we give to it?

In the 2015-16 Rotary year, our theme will be Be a Gift to the World.

Every one of us has something to give — whoever we are, whatever our place in life. We can give our talent, our knowledge, our abilities, and our effort; we can give our dedication and our devotion. Through Rotary, we can take these gifts and make a genuine difference in the lives of others and in our world.

It is said that we are born with our fists clenched, but we die with our hands open, and that our talents are the gift that God gave us. What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.

Equally we come into this world grasping at everything, but when we leave it, we leave all material things behind as well. Through Rotary, we can leave behind something real and lasting.

Our time is now. It will never come again. Be a Gift to the World. K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran President, Rotary International, 2015-16  Red Hook Rotary Officers and Directors: President: Chris Chale, Immediate Past - Presidents Susan Simon and Niki Weaver, President-elect: Susan Simon, Vice-President: Rev. Michael Shafer, Secretary: Hon. Jonah Triebwasser, Treasurer: Walter Avis, Board of Directors: Rev. Fred Cartier (2015), Bernard “Bud” Weaver (2015), Tim Lynch (2016), David Wright (2016), Susan Goodman Goldstein (2017), Rob Latimer (2017). Honorary Members - Niki Weaver, Terry Weaver, John Kennedy and Stan Tremper for Service Above Self to the Red Hook Rotary Club, and Doug Strawinski for Community Service. Red Hook Rotary Foundation Officers and Directors: Carl Dowden, Chairman; Rev. Fred Cartier, Vice Chairman; Gale Wolfe, Secretary; Bud Weaver, Treasurer; Rev. Michael Shafer, Director; Tim Lynch, Director; Walter Avis as Club Treasurer, and Christine Chale as Club President.

Club Website: http://www.redhookrotaryclub.org/ Club Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RedHookRotaryClub

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