EAST HONOLULU ROTARIAN
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
Feb. 4: Bob Sigall, author of “Companies We Keep”
Feb. 11: Everett Ball on “Rotary Make Ups” (100+)
Feb. 18: *** DARK – PRESIDENT’S DAY ***
Feb. 25: Harold Estes on the USS Enterprise
Mar. 3: Open For Speaker
Mar. 10: Fabian Friedrichs, Rotary ambassadorial scholar
from Germany studying at HPU
Mar. 17: Doug Carlson on the city transit project
If you have an idea for a speaker, contact Terence Yeh at tyeh@asbhawaii.com with the name and number.
ROTARY MINUTE
The Rotary Minute is a new feature at our regular meetings proposed by John Steelquist. The purpose of the Rotary Minute is to share a Rotary fact, highlight, or historical anecdote to make our club members more knowledgeable and informed about Rotary. Over time, members will appreciate the many facets, rich history, organizational structure, procedures and processes, and direct and indirect benefits of Rotary. Here are two Rotary Minutes:
Rotary Club Autonomy
Clubs should develop their own programs according to the needs of their communities. It is not within the scope of the program of Rotary International (RI) to sponsor or prescribe for any club a particular service project or program. Club By-Laws are approved by the clubs. All major actions or elections of RI officials are subject to the approval by the clubs. Clubs send voting delegates to the District Conference and the International Convention. The number of delegates is assigned by club size. Any club may sponsor a policy for RI which is approved and forwarded by their District subject to the vote of all clubs.
Fines and Happy Dollars
Fines of Rotary members are a long time Rotary tradition. In fact, most of the funds for the early Rotary Club of Chicago came from fines. The Sergeant-at-arms was in charge of fining the members. Such infractions as being late for a meeting, having you name appear in a newspaper, not calling a member by his first name, or not wearing the rotary pin were subjects for infractions. It was all in fun, and the Sergeant-at-arms was selected for his humor and eagle eye. In some clubs, it is the prerogative of the club president to assess the fines. Past-presidents may fine the president. Often the annual sum of fines was the pledge made by the member to Rotary. Later, clubs started the self-assessing of fines as “Happy Dollars". Here members pay for the privilege of bragging. Birthdays are an occasion for both fines and singing.
PAUL HARRIS FELLOW
For gifts of $2,000 or more (cumulative), a Paul Harris Fellow is recognized as a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow and
receives a PHF pin with additonal stones. Stone recognition levels are based on the following guidelines:
Remember that you can make someone else a Paul Harris
Fellow by making a $1,000 donation to the Foundation’s
Annual Programs Fund in their honor. This can be a way to
recognize the contributions of family and friends.
ROTARY PHOTOS
