Ben Bruce is a new Rotarian. He is a Charter member of the Rotary Club of Arlington Highlands that was chartered this year. He is a United States Navy Veteran of the Vietnam era. He is a long-time resident of Arlington, and he graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington. He retired from Siemens Corporation in 2007 as a Senior Vice President of a business subdivision in Postal Automation. Since retirement, Ben has founded his own logistics-consulting firm, Trinity Technical Group, and serves as Chief Operations Officer. Ben retired in 2015 after volunteering 30 years to law enforcement in Arlington and Dalworthington Gardens.
Ben Bruce is receiving the Rotary Builder Award for the amazing work he has done with the Bowie High School Mentoring Program. Thanks to his work with the project, we are now starting up the Interact Club there again.
Dean, her husband Rhino and their 3 children emigrated to Canada from South Africa 26 years ago. Dean grew up in Zambia and after marrying Rhino lived in Malawi, Namibia and South Africa. Dean was born into a Rotary family and when Rhino joined Rotary in 1986 became an active Rotary Ann until she joined Rotary in 1989. On arriving in Vancouver both Dean and Rhino joined the Rotary Club of West Vancouver and at present are members of the Rotary Club of Langley Central in District 5050.
Southlake RC Rotary Builder, Brandon Fincher shown here with DG Mary Ann McDuff
Brandon is a relatively new member of the Rotary Club of Southlake but has really showed initiative and interest in Rotary. He is our President elect and is our Membership committee chair as well as serving on the Community Service committee. He also served as our Sergeant of Arms last year as a brand new member.
Golden Triangle Rotary Builder Award Recipient Matt Browning shown here with DG Mary Ann McDuff (his left) and Golden Triangle Rotary Club President Joan Manning
Matt has been instrumental in growing the membership and as presidential nominee is spearheading the membership growth this year with the past president.
SANDY de LARA shown her with DG Mary Ann McDuff(left) and Kelley Club president Cindy Johnson
Sandy takes responsibility for our Keller Club Foundation-Grant Writing. Sandy has also been very active with our Interact Clubs.She was instrumental in getting the Interact Club at three schools to set up Shelter Boxes in the schools. She raised money to purchase those boxes. Sandy acquired a matching grant so we were able to purchase seven Shelter
Boxes. She works tirelessly with the schools and the students to promote Rotary.
As of July 1, 2016 0ur new district governor for Rotary District 5790 is Mary Ann McDuff Our district, now composed of sixty-nine vibrant clubs across the Texas North Central Plains area is growing in leaps and bounds. Mary Ann is one of 500 new district governors serving throughout the world. We look forward to another year of continued growth in Rotary membership and expanded Rotary programs under her leadership.
Just before John Germ dropped by, Rick Youngblood took a deep breath. “You want to match his energy,” he says, “but he makes it hard to keep up.” Youngblood is the president and CEO of Blood Assurance, a regional blood bank in Chattanooga, Tenn., that Germ helped found in 1972.
Suzi graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Elementary Education. She owns and operates South Shore Montessori. She is our Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator.
Suzi and her husband Bill have been married for 40 years and live in Friendswood. When asked how he will support Suzi in her role as District Governor, he said, "I will go wherever she sends me - to play golf!"
Sherri Munoz, an educator and entrepreneur, has been a Rotarian since 1997. she will be serving Rotary as Rotary Coordinator for Zones 21b & part of 27 as will as District 5840 Rotary Leadership Institute Coordinator.
As club president of a club with 102 members, Sherri ledmembership development initiatives that resulted in a 12% increase in club membership. Later serving as District Membership Chair, District 5840 earned the top membership achievement award in the paired zones, and then when serving as Governor, District 5840 was recognized as one of the top 15 districts in the world for combinedmembership growth and retention along with Foundation support. Along with her husband, Al, she serves as a member of the Cadre of Technical Advisors for the Rotary Foundation, and they have participated in seven polio immunizations in India.
Posted by Valerie Landry and John Pokorny on Jul 22, 2016
If your club is one of the 26 clubs that has built a strategic plan for the year and entered your clubs goals in Rotary Club Central, you are well on your way to doing even greater "good works" in your communities.
Planning is hard work. Organizing Rotarian leaders and encouraging them to provide ideas and input for the clubs strategic initiatives and then organizing the committees to perform the work, building a budget and developing written goals is a time consuming, daunting task for club presidents and the clubs Board of Directors. Yet that is exactly what most Rotary Clubs do year in and year out. With over 35,000 clubs world-wide doing good work, Rotary International is asking every Club world-wide to share their goals on Rotary Club Central. What does each club intend to do in 2016-17 to grow and engage membership? How do clubs intend to publicize their efforts? What kind of service projects will they do and how many volunteer hours will be spent? What will those service projects cost? Most importantly, clubs should share their service project ideas with Rotary Clubs everywhere via "Share in Showcase". What is your club doing for it's Youth Leaders and Youth Exchange Programs? Of course, Rotary International want us to share our clubs' plans to support the Rotary Foundation, particularly during this our 100th year of the Rotary Foundation.
There are several categories of awards in Rotary that apply to clubs and individual members. Each year qualification criteria for awards changes depending on the RI President’s chosen theme, the DG’s goals, and the Awards Committee preferences. This year is no different. All awards can be found in the Playbook on the district web site.
The biggest change at the District 5790 level is that we are attempting to streamline the submission process by going all electronic and greatly simplifying the questions and answers. There are two links in the previously referenced Playbook under Awards in the left hand column what allow you to see the questions for each award or to actually play with those live forms.
As part of the Presidential Citation Challenge, each club has been tasked with Online Tool Adoption. Most of the goals are simple to accomplish, but the easiest of them is having at least 50% of club members registered in My Rotary on the Rotary International website.
Many Rotarians may not know that every Rotarian has a profile on the Rotary International website! But unless you log into your own account and add your information, your profile will be incomplete.
Now, we all know that each club has a variety of members each with their own particular strengths and weaknesses—and computers are not necessarily every Rotarian’s forte. Therefore, we hope that those of you who are more technologically inclined might help the rest; remember, what may seem simple and obvious to you may not be so simple or obvious to someone else.
Posted by John Pokorny and Bob Troyer on Jul 19, 2016
Picture this, one of your members just had a wonderful business lunch with a client. Getting to know each other the conversation eventually gets around to "what do you do when you are not working". Your fellow Rotarian takes advantage of the opportunity to brag about your Rotary Club. The client's curiosity is piqued and says what's Rotary? Your member hands them the Rotary "see us in action card", tells them the name of your club and invites them to your next meeting. Upon returning to work, the client googles your club's name.
If this truly was one of your members and the client did google your club name, would that client be inspired to accept the invitation based on what was discovered in the Google search?
The District 5790 District Services team has been wondering the same thing. So, we performed a very basic study of the Internet presence of every single one of the 69 Rotary Clubs in our district.
Posted by PDG Gene Davenport & John Pokorny on Mar 06, 2017
At the recent Lonestar PETs District 5790 session on Rotary Club Central and Strategic Planning one of the president elects raised his hand for a comment. Quoting a discussion he had with the president elect sitting beside him he noted that one of the best things a club leader can do for their club is to invite members of the District 5790 Visioning Team to lead the club through a Vision Seminar. The president elect he was quoting was Staci Markardt of the Aledo Rotary Club. According to Staci, the session energized their membership and provided the club with consensus goals. "They learned so much, not only about memberships ideas but about Rotary in general". According to current Aledo RC President Micheal Smith the session provided direction and spurned enthusiasm.
Millennial Membership Committee
This year’s Presidential Citation has a new component. There is a criteria to add 2 new members under the age of 40. Encouraging rotary clubs to seek new membership under the age of 40 seems to be in response to the aging population of the clubs. Civic organizations in our country appear to be declining in membership and getting young professionals involved in community service is a great start to rebuilding the bond our country has experienced in recent years.
The Rotary Club of Grapevine has been doing a program to refurbish computers for children and families who do not currently have one in their homes. Since 2004, the Grapevine club has been collecting donations from rotary members, neighbors, and friends to partner with the Grapevine Middle School students on this project. The student must write an essay about why they would like to have a computer and how their families would benefit from and utilize this now critical tool in our world.
Now that the 2015-2016 Rotary year is over I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on the year as a District Governor.
When the year first started, I was very nervous primarily because I did not want to let down any Rotarian in our District. I wanted to be inspirational, be a testament to what Rotary can do for others, encourage Rotarians to be vibrant and engaged in their Clubs.
Posted by Troy Secord, District Governor on May 18, 2016
Well Rotarians, we have concluded the All Clubs Celebration this year. What a fantastic year our Clubs and Rotarians have had in “Being a Gift to the World”.
Looking at all the activities that occurred over the weekend we had opportunities to do serious activities such as the business meeting.
Have you been wondering where the District Directory is? It is right in your computer!! Yes, all you have to do is download the information punch some holes put it into a binder and you have your very own District 5790, 2016-2017 Directory. What's in side is more concise then previous directories, yet more information then you probably will need. To get your very own District 5790 Directory follow the direction below...
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