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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Rotary Science Fellowship will be held right after the regular Rotary Meeting Wednesday 5/24/17 at 1:30 pm.  We are fortunate to host one of the authors of a blockbuster paper showing evidence of human habitation of North America 130,000 years ago.  Dr. Jared Beeton is from Adams State, and is visiting CSU on sabbatical this year.  He will be with us to lead the discussion on the team's finding.  It should be a lively and provocative session. 
 
Sertoma sponsors the Garage Band program on June 10.  Look online for particulars.

Jean Griswold corrected the date for the Youth Study bus trip and the need for housing for 5 boys and 11 girls.  Correct dates:  June 7-8. 

Congratulations to Justice Nicol on her first Paul Harris Fellow!  Also, our congrats to Brad Eads on his PHF+1!
 
Our club provides many thousands of hours of volunteer service in addition to annual giving to charitable projects. Our giving to charitable projects has not grown to keep up with inflation and growing community needs. The RCFC Legacy Fund has established as an endowment that will provide supplemental funds into the foreseeable future for humanitarian and educational programs in and around Fort Collins. Your contributions to the Legacy Fund are tax deductible and will assure “Service in Action Forever”.
 
 
Photo Albums
May 17 2017 Meeting Photos
5-3-2017 Meeting Photos
5-3-17 Photos
04-19-17
4-5-17 Meeting Photos
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HELP WANTED!  Apply within…
The Rotogear Team still needs help!  
Last Week’s Program Editor –
Requirements:  Willingness to volunteer, and some low level of writing ability.  English major unnecessary.  Humor helps.  Listening skills desirable.
Duties (a) Listen to (or record if you have the equipment) each week’s program, and write up a paragraph or two summarizing the presentation and any relevant questions.  Presentation critique unnecessary.  (b) Submit a write up by Sunday each week to the electronic and print Rotogear Editors. 
Salary:                                     Multiples of the previous writer’s salary may be negotiated. 
Working Environment:       Great staff and opportunity to meet new friends
Fringe Benefits:                     Learn more about your Rotary Club, and fellow Rotarians     
Questions and to submit an application:  Contact either Stacy Plemmons or Erin Mounsey
 
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Erin Mounsey
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Bill Herzog
May 1
 
Guy Kelley
May 1
 
Bill Jones
May 3
 
Dave Everitt
May 5
 
Zachary ( Zak) George
May 5
 
Lisa Pendleton
May 7
 
Lorna Reeves
May 8
 
John Raich
May 9
 
Justie Nicol
May 9
 
Aziz Fouad
May 10
 
Donna Chapel
May 10
 
Max Getts
May 10
 
Ralph Smith
May 10
 
Ron Rutz
May 12
 
Sam Bair
May 16
 
Jane Peters
May 19
 
Harry Kull
May 21
 
Henry Weisser
May 21
 
Garth McCann
May 26
 
Spouse Birthdays
Bina Mehta
May 3
 
Lila (deceased) Boyd
May 11
 
Ann Fairburn
May 15
 
Barbara Hoel
May 20
 
Forrest Boggs
May 25
 
Anniversaries
Kelso Kelly
Lisa Kelly
May 12
 
Melanie Chamberlain
Ray Chamberlain
May 19
 
Bart Kingham
Millie Kingham
May 27
 
Join Date
Harry Taylor
May 1, 1995
22 years
 
Dan Mackey
May 4, 1994
23 years
 
Justie Nicol
May 6, 2015
2 years
 
Matt Fries
May 7, 2014
3 years
 
Susan Harrison
May 7, 2014
3 years
 
Bill Jones
May 9, 1973
44 years
 
Glenn Schmidt
May 10, 1995
22 years
 
Richard Skaggs
May 10, 2006
11 years
 
Karl Stefan
May 11, 1988
29 years
 
Stories
The McBackpack Program: Feeding Food-Insecure PSD Students on Weekends
Learning is harder if you are hungry.  18% of Poudre School District students live at or below the poverty line, and nationwide more than 40% of teachers say they bring “extra” food on Mondays, to alleviate the malnourishment students face on weekends.  This week, after a nourishing meal, Rotarians will learn about the McBackpack Program from Board Member Dr. Dale Lake, introduced by Susan Gutowsky.  
 
Ten years ago Ann Randall (Assistant professor at CSU) and Gerry Lake (retired journal editor) recognized the problem faced by malnourished students, and started filling and delivering five bags of food to two PSD schools each Friday.  The word spread quickly, other schools began requesting food bags, and teachers volunteered to pick them up.  
 
Dr. Dale Lake received his doctorate in Social Psychology from Columbia University, and has served on the faculties of New York University, Boston University, The State University of New York at Albany, and the University of Michigan Institutes for Social Research. His books include: Organization Capability: Competing from the Inside Out, Managing a State’s Education, Perceiving and Behaving and Measuring Human Behavior. In 2009, he, Warner Burke and Jill Paine, wrote Organization Change: A Comprehensive Reader.  Partially retired, Dr. Lake consults with the Larimer Division of Human services, is guest speaker in CSU Business School, Larimer County Interagency Operating Group board member, and McBackpack board member.
 
Today, 50 volunteers fill more than 400 food bags each week, and deliver them to 38 PSD schools.  These bags provide more than 1200 students with weekend meals during the 35-week school year.  In 2016-17, they will deliver over 12,000 food bags.  

When the volunteers are asked why they get up at six each Thursday and do this for 35 weeks a school year, they will typically respond: “when I sit down to Saturday dinner and know that more than 1200 kids are also eating in part, because of my contribution, I receive all the reward I need.”
Last Meeting’s Program: Last Week: Amahoro: Promoting Sustainable Peace and
 Development in Burundi
“Amahoro” is the Kirundi word for peace. Dr. Bill Timpson shared his vision of Amahoro for the Burundians in Ngozi. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world. They have survived colonization and forty years of violence. Even with unrest in the surrounding areas, the region of Ngozi has remained peaceful. The Amahoro project is committed to educate the people of Ngozi by infusing peace studies with an emphasis on critical and creative thinking in universities as well as the public elementary and secondary school systems.
With help of CSU, Rotary and the University of Ngozi (UNG), the Amahoro Project is focused in the pursuit of sustainable peace and development. The key projects and focus areas aimed achieve this goal are:
  • Build a new curriculum that emphasizes appropriate technology and participatory case-and project-based learning.
  • Infuse UNG’s existing disciplines: health, agriculture, communications, law, business, computer sciences – with new curricula that emphasizes content mastery and peace building.
  • Using sports equipment, build on what we know about cooperative learning to create multi-tribal teams and showcase the benefits of friendly competition for unlearning hatred and prejudice.
  • Rotary International and their commitment to Peace and Conflict Resolution, business and community leaders can be partnered with educators to infuse peace studies.
  • Promote community health through innovative education and social work.
This project has been supported by Rotary. Robin Steele reported that our club contributed $50,000 towards this and other projects and thanks to the matching funds from RI and others, this has turned into a total support of $760,472.
 
UHAMBO Event!
Upcoming Events
Dedication of The Poudre Learning Center
May 18, 2017
 
McBackpack Program - Regular Meeting
May 24, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
 
Tabor Talk - Regular Meeting
May 31, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
 
The Enduring Legacy and Myths of America in WWII
Jun 07, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
 
Cultural Considerations in Melanisa - Regular Meet
Jun 14, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
 
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