The Rotary Club of Naperville South A.M. was chartered yesterday. This new club, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Naperville, received a new Rotary Bell as a gift from our club. In attendance were Mike Slevnik, DG, Art Davis PDG, Bill Garlough, President of the Rotary Club of Naperville, Jeff Davis, Hunter Byington, Devki Desai, and many others! Congratulations!
Next Meeting– The next meeting of the Rotary Club of Naperville will be held on Thursday, July 9th at 5:30pm at the Meson Sabika Pavilion. The Rotary Club of Naperville’s 2009-2010 officers will be inducted following cocktails and dinner. There will be no meeting on July 2nd due to the fourth of July holiday.
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Enjoy the Fourth of July Holiday! - During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the American colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a Committee of Five, with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author. Congress debated and revised the Declaration, finally approving it on July 4. One of the most enduring myths about Independence Day is that Congress signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Most delegates actually signed the Declaration on August 2, 1776.The myth had become so firmly established that, decades after the event and nearing the end of their lives, even the elderly Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had come to believe that they and the other delegates had signed the Declaration on the fourth. In a remarkable series of coincidences, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two founding fathers of the United States and the only two men who signed the Declaration of Independence to become president, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the United States' 50th anniversary
June 30 – Tuesday, June 30th, is the last day that golfers can register for the August 24thGolf Outing at Springbrook Golf Course and receive the discounted price of $95 per golfer. After June 30th, the price per golfer will be $120. Just send Bill Epp (Golf Committee Chair) an email (whepp@msn.com) before the end of the day Tuesday June 30th to reserve your spot at the discounted price level. (Please indicate who you will be playing with in your foursome or if you would like us to place you in a foursome with others). Then follow-up with a completed registration form and check mailed this week to:
Rotary Club of Naperville
PO Box 2
Naperville, IL 60566
Time: 11:30-12:30 Check In & Lunch - 1:00pm shotgun start. (Scramble) - Dinner immediately following golf
Cost: Golf Outing (all inclusive) Only $95 per golfer if you register before the end of June -$120.00 (after June 30th) - Dinner Only $25.00
July 9 - The Rotary Club of Naperville will hold its 2009-2010 officer induction ceremony following dinner at the Meson Sabika Pavilion on Thursday, July 9th. There will be no regular Club 12:15pm meeting at the Key Wester on July 9th. The festivities will include an open bar throughout the evening, four passed hors d’oeuvres prior to dinner, a plated dinner featuring filet mignon, dessert, and outstanding Rotary fellowship. Registration begins at 5:30pm followed by a welcome ceremony and dinner at 6:45pm. The installation program will commence at 7:45pm and will conclude at 9:00pm with recitation of the Four Way Test led by our new Club President, Pat Merryweather. There is no charge for Club members. The charge per guest will be $40, the same as last year’s cost. Please inform Club Administrator, Erin O’Donnell, (rotaryerin@comcast.net) if you plan to attend and if you plan to bring a guest(s). Also, let Erin know if you would prefer a vegetarian dinner. Join your fellow Rotarians for a great evening of fine food, drink, and fellowship! Many thanks to Hossein Jamali for making this quality event possible!
Club Member Dues - Dues for the July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 period should be paid by the July 31, 2009. The process for billing members and addressing instances of late payment of dues will be available on the membership side of the Club’s web site www.napervillerotary.com.
The luncheon programs scheduled for the next several weeks are:
July 2 – No meeting due to the 4th of July Holiday weekend.
July 9 – The 2009-2010 Club officer induction dinner will be held at the Meson Sabika pavilion at 5:30pm.
July 16 – Club Assembly – A Job Fair will be held that will enable Club members to learn more about opportunities to contribute to the Club’s operation and its service activities and to join one or more related Club committees.
July 23 – Past District 6450 Governor, Art Davis, will talk about incorporating Rotary into your life and work.
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October 18 – The Rotary Club of Naperville will hold the second annual Soup’s On! fundraiser at Tellabs in Naperville. This is a great family event that was enjoyed immensely by everyone who attended the inaugural Soups On! held last October. Bill and Karen Garlough are chairing the 2009 Soups On! committee, President-Elect Pat Merryweather is the Manpower Chair, and Frank Slocumb is chairing the Sponsorship Committee: join them in helping put on another very successful event.
February 2010 – Chuck Newman will be organizing another humanitarian mission trip to Honduras in February, 2010. Specific dates will be announced. If you are interested in participating in this life changing, worthwhile effort, talk to Chuck.
Board Meetings - The Rotary Club of Naperville Board meetings are held from 7:00 - 8:30 am at the downtown Naperville Chamber of Commerce's conference room B located on the third floor of the Promenade Building on Van Buren and Main in Naperville. Meetings from March through June, 2009, will be held on the third Tuesday of the month.
Scott Mitchell is chairing the Foundation Committee for our club. The Foundation Committee encourages every member to become either a Paul Harris Sustaining Member or a member of the Every Rotarian Every Year Club. You are encouraged to join Club members who have already become Paul Harris Society members with the intention of donating $1,000 annually to the Paul Harris Foundation. Your donation can be a cash donation or, alternatively, a gift of stock. In the latter case, you can deduct the appreciated value of the stock while preparing your income taxes, avoiding any capital gains taxes on the stock. If $1,000 does not fit into your annual charity budget, consider joining the Every Rotarian Every Year Club by becoming a $100 per year Paul Harris sustaining member. Remember, gifts to the Paul Harris Foundation are a very efficient way to make charitable contributions. Every dollar you contribute will directly benefit a needy person or cause. Club Administrator, Erin O’Donnell, has forms for the Paul Harris Society program that can be filled out and returned to Erin. Let Erin know if you plan to join the Every Rotarian Every Year initiative by having $50 added to your dues semi-annually.
Club Website - Visit the Club’s website at http://www.napervillerotary.comto keep current with Club activities and events. The website also provides members with access to the Club’s roster and to useful forms (e.g. New Member Proposal). If you haven’t visited our Club’s website recently, click on this link now! If you have trouble logging in to the member’s area of the website, just click on the lost password menu item, enter your email address, and your log-in information will be e-mailed to you.
SPREAD SUNSHINE! Please keep all members in your hearts and minds. If you know a member who needs comfort or condolence, please contact Peg Price who leads the Hearts & Flowers Committee. Contact her via e-mail at cdprice64@aol.com or call (630) 355-2810.
MAKE UPS! To maintain perfect attendance, make up the meetings you miss within 14 days before or after the regular meeting. In Naperville:
- The Rotary Club of Naperville/Sunrise meets at 7AM on Fridays at the Naperville Country Club (www.napervillesunrise.com).
- The Rotary Club of Naperville/Downtown meets Wednesday afternoons at 4:44PM at David's of Jefferson Hill restaurant, located in downtown Naperville at 43 East Jefferson Avenue (www.rcndowntown.com)
- The Rotary Club of Aurora/Naperville meets on at 12:15PM on Tuesdays at Luigi's which is located on the west side of Route 59, just south of the Key Wester restaurant.
- The Rotary Club of Naperville/South meets at 7:00AM on Tuesday mornings at Mimi’s restaurant on rt. 59 (just north of 95th street).
CHANGING YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS or your personal or business address? If your contact information changes, please remember to notify skwok@integralcorp.comanderinodonnell4@comcast.net in a timely manner.
REMINDER - Items for inclusion in the Nairator should be sent to Bob Estvander at bob@estvander.com.
Remember to wear your ROTARY PIN!
Rotary News
June 30 – Rotary District 6450 Governor, Mike Slevnik, will be joining the Rotary Club of Naperville/South for theircharter ceremony and breakfast at the Tamarack Golf Club
(Rt. 59 on west side of street, between 103rd and 111th streets) on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Governor Mike will present the Club with their Charter and formally welcome the new Rotarians to Rotary International and District 6450. Also, the Club’s newly elected officers will be sworn in. Plan to join the new Rotary Club of Naperville/South for their inaugural breakfast – the cost is $15 per person payable upon arrival. RSVP by 6/23/09 info@rcnsouth.com. However, due to a scheduling conflict, the celebration and planned dinner/party originally scheduled for June 24th will be rescheduled. Please watch your e-mail for more information on the new Celebration date, currently being planned for the early fall.
July 19 – The Rotary Club of Naperville/Downtown is holding a Night at the Ballpark event to benefit their College of DuPage scholarship fund, on Sunday, July 19th at 5:05pm at the Benedictine University Sports Complex in Lisle. Enjoy an evening watching the DuPage Dragons compete against some of the top college ballplayers from across the country and watch the game from a skybox where you won’t miss a minute of the action. Ballplayers that comprise the DuPage Dragons are all students at colleges with at least one year of playing eligibility remaining. Of those currently on the roster, four different states are represented. The $30 ticket price includes 2 drinks and a buffet. Tickets may be purchased from Kenn Miller (630-544-1211) of the Rotary Club of Naperville/Downtown.
JULY 25 – The Rotary Club of Naperville/Sunrise is holding its Naperdink Triathlon (“so dinky anyone can do it”) on Saturday, July 25th at Centennial Beach in Naperville. Each tri-athlete will receive a t-shirt, participation ribbon, and refreshments. The adult division, 18-years and up, will start at 8:00am and the all-age division will start at 9:00am. On-line registration is $30 per adult and $20 for 17-years or younger. Registration on the day of the event will be $35 / $25. For more information or to register, visit http://www.napervillesunrise.com/naperdink.htm.
August 16 – The Rotary Club of Naperville/Sunrise is hosting a well supported recreational bike ride, Rotary Century Ride, for beginners and veteran riders on Sunday, August 16th to support DuPage PADS and other Rotary projects. Rotary Century Ride will begin at Crone Middle School located at the corner of 111th Street and 248th Street in Naperville at 6:30am and will include SAG supported routes of 20, 40, 55, 85, and 102 miles. Registration fees are $25 per rider or $40 per family for advanced online registration, $30 per rider or $50 per family for advanced registration via U.S. mail, or $35 per rider on the day of the event. Sponsorship opportunities of $1000 - $750 - $500 - $300, will result in your Company nameprinted in the registration flyer and on the back of very cool Rotary Ride T-Shirts. For additional information, visit http://www.napervillesunrise.com/Ride/index.htm.
HOW TO MAKE UP VIA A ROTARY E-CLUB MEETING...There's a list of Rotary E-Clubs where you can make up online. This Rotary E-Club Pilot Project activity takes about an hour of your time and will keep your attendance record up to date---and you can virtually travel all over the world to do it. Copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar. http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf.
Community News (Many thanks to the Positively Naperville website for community event dates – www.positivelynaperville.com)
July 2-5 - RIBFEST FOR FOUR DAYS! Noon to 10PM, July 2-5 Hosted by Exchange Club of Naperville in Knoch Park www.ribfest.net
July 8 - GUEST BARTENDER AT ZAIDI'S RESTAURANT, 6PM, Wednesday, July 8th, Southeast corner of Route 59 and 83rd Street, behind Oxford Bank at 1975 Springbrook Square Drive. Proceeds benefit the programs and services of the Naperville Area Humane Society; NAHS receives all of the tips in the bar and 20% of the bar food sales.
July 9-12 - FOUR DAYS OF SUMMER SIDEWALK SALES IN DOWNTOWN NAPERVILLE. Shop Naperville!
July 16 - DUPAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. The DuPage Symphony Orchestra will present “There’s Music in the Air” at 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 16 at the Community Concert Center, 104 E. Benton Ave. In this free concert, the orchestra will bring you Big Band, Broadway, Beethoven and the Beatles in a musical revue showcasing the sounds of the suburbs over the course of the DuPage Symphony’s 55-year history. For more information, call (630) 778-1003 or e-mail info@dupagesymphony.org.
Thought for the Week– Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
I have made an update to the website to make it a bit more streamlined. You can no longer scroll within an article displayed on the website, but you can still click on the title of the article to see the full article. The colors behind the title have been faded a bit too, to make the site a bit less... intense. I've also made that blue bar a bit longer so that two or three line subject lines are more visible.
Naperville Rotarians Celebrated Rita Harvard's birthday today during our meeting. Happy Happy Birthday Rita! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!
The 2009-2010 Board members of the four Rotary Clubs in Naperville met on June 9 at Raffi's to find common ways to work together to advance Rotary's mission of "Service Above Self." The Board members had an opportunity to greet and meet their counterparts and talk about ways to work together to advance the common goals within our community and internationally.
Pictured from the left are Rich Goulet, President of Rotary Club of Naperville South (to be chartered on June 30th);
Nicki Scott, incoming President of the Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise;
Pat Merryweather, incoming president of the Rotary Club of Naperville;
Ron Nyberg, incoming president of the Rotary Club of Naperville Downtown
Today was a special day as the Rotary Clubs of Naperville - Sunrise, Noon, Downtown, and South, awarded $85,000 in scholarships to local Naperville students. These students are some of the finest representatives of Naperville youth, for their community involvement, leadership, academic prowess, and civic spirit. Special thanks to Scott Mitchell, Liz Zienty, Jason Altenbern, and the Scholarship committee for all of your hard work in putting this together! Click HERE to see the winners and their plans .
Announcing the 2009 Service Above Self Scholarship Recipients!
After reviewing many scholarship applications for so many fine candidates among our youth, the following students were selected to receive Scholarships from the Rotary Club of Naperville:
Gene Drendel Scholarship
Michael Lyons - Waubonsie Valley High School
Service Above Self Scholarship
Robert Nelson - Naperville Central High School
Service Above Self Scholarship
Jen Cepko - Naperville Central High School
Pat Merryweather has sent me a copy of her 2009 -2010 Rotary Year Preview Powerpoint Presentation. I have converted it to Adobe Acrobat format and you can view it by clicking here!
Behind the scenes there are many members that work tirelessly to do good.
It is with the help of those that are aware of what is going on around them and those that can act when asked. To that end we have been able to donate
an ambulance to Hardin County, one of the poorest counties in Illinois, so poor that the simple requirement of emergency services take over 1.5 hours for an ambulance to arrive.
With the assistance of many Naperville Rotarians, a local business, not a Rotarian, we have been able to donate an equipped ambulance to these folks in need. I can not tell you how great this makes me feel and how proud I am of our Naperville Rotarians!
I thank those Rotarians, the Naperville Fire Department and the Naperville City Council.
In this video you see the initial presentation of the ambulance to 4 Sheriffs deputies from Hardin County at Naperville's Key Wester restaurant, for transport down to Hardin County.
Today was a meeting with many pleasant surprises! At last week-ends' District Conference, DG Mike Slevnik handed out awards both Friday and Saturday nights. I stayed until 10:30 Sunday morning and thought the only topic left was for incoming DG Jim Czerwionka to share his vision for next year. I learned today that 5 minutes after I left the meeting room, DG Mike started to hand-out these Club awards. Sorry I missed this! Anyway, it lead to a fun meeting today.
I would like to personally congratulate all of our winners for outstanding Club service. The successes kept on coming today, but I think I remember the awards in order.
1. Best New Community Event for Soup's On! - A great team effort!
2. Vocational Service, Second Place - Liz has turned our Interact/Vocational program into a club strength!
3. PR, First Place - Hunter has secured the most media coverage ever for both our club and Rotary in general!
4. Website, Third Place - Sun has worked tirelessly to improve our website, with great results!
5. International Service, First Place - Chuck (and Pat) provide us with wonderful International programs and opportunities to serve abroad!
Let's see, 3 First Place finishes, 1 Second Place and 1 Third Place. And to top it off, Pat Merryweather receives RI's prestigious Service Above Self Award. In my book, our club is tops!
It has been my privilege to lead this club. We have all done ourselves proud this Rotary year. Congratulations again for this District recognition of our outstanding effort and great results.
Troy Smith (standing) hosted us for our B2B lunch. Everyone had a great time, with many folks not leaving until almost 2 pm! What a great fellowship experience!
Sullivan's
... a crowd of 18 Rotarians enjoying each other's company. The food was excellent! We ordered what we wanted from the lunch menu.
and @ RAFFI's
Dear Fellow Rotarians,
We had a small but great group of Rotarians meeting today for a B2B lunch at Raffi's.Raffi and his family were consummate hosts providing us with a delicious lunch of asparagus soup or salad, sablefish, or chicken kebabs or lamb kebabs, with decadent profiteroles to top it off.(Yes, you should be envious if you missed it!)
This is a wonderful way to enjoy a more intimate lunch with fellow Rotarians and visit their place of business.Thanks to Raffi and all of the other Rotarians who hosted.It was very enjoyable.
With thanks,
Charles P. McLimans
and @ Zaidi's
Rotary Lunch at Zaidi's yesterday. WOW!!! Linda Linford
@ Newman Architecture:
I just wanted to let everyone know how inspiring our business lunch was last Thursday at Newman Architecture. We asked Chuck to tell us more about his work as co-founder of Schools for Children of the World. His stories about building or renovating schools in developing countries around the world were thought-provoking and incredible. We quickly realized once again how fortunate we are to live in this country and how blessed we all are.
We are also blessed to have a person like Chuck in our Rotary Club. He does so much for so many -- and he does it with humility, passion and grace.
Thanks, Chuck, for all you do for others. And thanks for a wonderful business lunch last Thursday.
