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Showing posts with label July 2008 Rotopeka. Show all posts
Monday, July 14, 2008
Club Celebrates Achievements with Year-End Banquet
By Barbara Wiggins
Click here for photos from Ann Palmer
The Downtown Topeka Rotary Club recognized retiring Board Members Terry Diebolt, Anita Wolgast and Mike Welch at the Topeka Rotary Club Annual Banquet. The club also honored sixteen members who are celebrating milestone anniversaries between twenty and fifty-five years.
Long-time member Eldon Sloan was recognized for making a $10,000 contribution to Polio Plus and Ken Gotewiel was recognized as President Joan Wagnon’s first-ever “Rotarian of the Year”.
Rotarians were also recognized for perfect attendance for the past calendar year.
The Club also recognized two members of the Topeka Community who exemplify the Rotary motto of Service Above Self. This year, two individuals received Honorary Paul Harris Fellowships. Pauline Johnson (pictured) and Dale Cushinberry were this year’s awardees. Cushinberry is the principal at Highland Park High School and Johnson is a community volunteer who helps organize the annual Topeka Thanksgiving dinner.
Click here for photos from Ann Palmer
The Downtown Topeka Rotary Club recognized retiring Board Members Terry Diebolt, Anita Wolgast and Mike Welch at the Topeka Rotary Club Annual Banquet. The club also honored sixteen members who are celebrating milestone anniversaries between twenty and fifty-five years.
Long-time member Eldon Sloan was recognized for making a $10,000 contribution to Polio Plus and Ken Gotewiel was recognized as President Joan Wagnon’s first-ever “Rotarian of the Year”.
Rotarians were also recognized for perfect attendance for the past calendar year.
The Club also recognized two members of the Topeka Community who exemplify the Rotary motto of Service Above Self. This year, two individuals received Honorary Paul Harris Fellowships. Pauline Johnson (pictured) and Dale Cushinberry were this year’s awardees. Cushinberry is the principal at Highland Park High School and Johnson is a community volunteer who helps organize the annual Topeka Thanksgiving dinner.
Read it Online, Read it in Color
Have you read the Rotopeka online? The club has published the issues online for the past several months giving its readers the opportunity to read it long before it ever arrives in your mailbox.
If you haven’t seen the online version, you might be a bit surprised to discover that it is packed full of color photos and stories which isn’t transferred over to the printed version. The image to the right should demonstrate just what is lost between the printed and digital version.
Once the issue is complete, you will receive a Topeka Rotary Club eNews notifying you that the issue is ready. Simply click on the link in the email and you can view the newsletter immediately, not when you finally receive it in the mail.
Message from the President
Make Dreams Real
It is an honor to serve as president of the Rotary Club of Topeka for the 2008-09 Rotary year. Our international president, D. K. Lee has chosen “Make Dreams Real” as the theme for the upcoming year. He has asked that we look for ways to reduce childhood mortality through traditional Rotary programs aimed at alleviating hunger and poverty, as well as promoting health and literacy.
Indeed, Rotarians are helping to Make Dreams Real in our local communities and around the world. Our club is involved in a number of literacy programs, has helped with medical and dental clinics here in Topeka, as well as sponsoring cataract surgery in Pakistan, polio reconstructive surgery in India and we are currently working to put together a grant to help sponsor an ambulance in Bangladesh.
Of course, no organization has done more to make the dream of polio eradication a reality than Rotary. We are very close - -new polio cases have been reduced by 99% since Rotary launched Polio Plus in 1985. There are only four countries where polio is endemic, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. With the help of a $100,000,000 matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International is ready to tackle the final obstacles of reaching the goal or complete eradication. You will hear more about what you can do to help with this project in the next few months.
Are there unmet needs in the Topeka community where Rotarians could be of service? If you have a good idea, please don’t hesitate to let me, or a board member know.
A special thanks to past board members Anita Wolgast and Mike Welch who recently completed their term in office, as well as Gordon Lansford who remains on the board as Vice President. Thanks are also in order to John Christiansen for many years of maintaining our website and sending out the weekly meeting reminders. Finally, I offer one last THANK-YOU to Joan Wagnon for her leadership this past year.
The coming year should be fun as we work together to make others’ dream become real!
It is an honor to serve as president of the Rotary Club of Topeka for the 2008-09 Rotary year. Our international president, D. K. Lee has chosen “Make Dreams Real” as the theme for the upcoming year. He has asked that we look for ways to reduce childhood mortality through traditional Rotary programs aimed at alleviating hunger and poverty, as well as promoting health and literacy.
Indeed, Rotarians are helping to Make Dreams Real in our local communities and around the world. Our club is involved in a number of literacy programs, has helped with medical and dental clinics here in Topeka, as well as sponsoring cataract surgery in Pakistan, polio reconstructive surgery in India and we are currently working to put together a grant to help sponsor an ambulance in Bangladesh.
Of course, no organization has done more to make the dream of polio eradication a reality than Rotary. We are very close - -new polio cases have been reduced by 99% since Rotary launched Polio Plus in 1985. There are only four countries where polio is endemic, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. With the help of a $100,000,000 matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International is ready to tackle the final obstacles of reaching the goal or complete eradication. You will hear more about what you can do to help with this project in the next few months.
Are there unmet needs in the Topeka community where Rotarians could be of service? If you have a good idea, please don’t hesitate to let me, or a board member know.
A special thanks to past board members Anita Wolgast and Mike Welch who recently completed their term in office, as well as Gordon Lansford who remains on the board as Vice President. Thanks are also in order to John Christiansen for many years of maintaining our website and sending out the weekly meeting reminders. Finally, I offer one last THANK-YOU to Joan Wagnon for her leadership this past year.
The coming year should be fun as we work together to make others’ dream become real!
From the Editor
I hope you have noticed the changes. Beginning this month, you will notice that the Rotopeka, the Rotary Website and the club email, now the Topeka Rotary Club eNews all have a similar look and feel.
You might sense an almost vintage or nostalgic look to the new design. That is intentional. It reflects the rich history of Rotary and those who have served to make this organization great. But at the same time, it reflects the future of Rotary and the digital revolution.
Profiled on the Rotary website is a Rotary International video from YouTube which is one example of how Rotary is moving into the future through digital communications. The new Rotary Club of Topeka website will bring video and other web-based content designed to connect you to services of Rotary in new and exciting ways.
This month’s cover is an actual screen capture of the new website depicted with an artists hand, brush and pallet. You will see the brushstrokes throughout the website and other publications. It’s usage is symbolic of the artistic expression I hope to bring to the Rotary publications.
When I began this effort a few years ago, I found a project that I truly enjoyed and I hope that you find this issue and new design to be fresh and innovative. It’s part of my ongoing effort of continual improvement and I hope that you can see this result.
I would like to thank John Christenson for his hard work and efforts over the past several years on the website and the club email. John was extremely helpful during the transition and I appreciate his help.
So here is to a new year of Rotary and one I am very excited to begin.
You might sense an almost vintage or nostalgic look to the new design. That is intentional. It reflects the rich history of Rotary and those who have served to make this organization great. But at the same time, it reflects the future of Rotary and the digital revolution.
Profiled on the Rotary website is a Rotary International video from YouTube which is one example of how Rotary is moving into the future through digital communications. The new Rotary Club of Topeka website will bring video and other web-based content designed to connect you to services of Rotary in new and exciting ways.
This month’s cover is an actual screen capture of the new website depicted with an artists hand, brush and pallet. You will see the brushstrokes throughout the website and other publications. It’s usage is symbolic of the artistic expression I hope to bring to the Rotary publications.
When I began this effort a few years ago, I found a project that I truly enjoyed and I hope that you find this issue and new design to be fresh and innovative. It’s part of my ongoing effort of continual improvement and I hope that you can see this result.
I would like to thank John Christenson for his hard work and efforts over the past several years on the website and the club email. John was extremely helpful during the transition and I appreciate his help.
So here is to a new year of Rotary and one I am very excited to begin.
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