Today was a Zoom meeting with 23 people on line. After some conversations President Ralph Witcher opened the meeting at 7:30 A.M.
GUESTS ON LINE:
District Governor, Janet Kolepp, Bethlehem Morningstar RC: Capt. Nick Millward, Rotary Peace Fellowship winner calling in from Japan; PDG Dan Dourety, Zone 28 coordinator, Alberta, Canada; and PDG Ray Freaney from D7475 in N.J.
HAPPY DOLLARS AND COMMENTS:
Herb Klotz called in from the Florida panhandle for a few days where it is 65 degrees, and then to North Carolina to see the grandchildren.
Gail Micca flew to North Dakota for a few weeks to care for her Mom who fell and broke her hip on Monday. Please keep them in your prayers.
Ron Coleman explained that he eats his breakfast during our Zoom meetings, just as he did when we were at Luther Crest.
Dan Doherty said it is MINUS 39 degrees at home where he is in Canada.
Amir Famili’s daughter is heading to Hawaii eloping into marriage.
Tom Friday is happy that their oldest grandchild celebrated a 6th birthday last week.
Amir Famili is happy to report that our B.O.D. has approved a scholarship award plan for this year.
Marlene Heller is most happy that she and Gary watched on PBS last evening a Family Tree Tracing show about a family from Lebanon to Milwaukee.
Kathy Ott is happy every day. Today she is happy to announce she started a new BLOG yesterday, hisgardengang.com.
Ron Coleman is happy that a year ago he made an investment that looks good right now; no details were shared.
Ralph Witcher is happy that all AW members are doing so much good work.
DG Janet Kolepp congratulated us for bringing in new members.
OPENING:
Pres. Ralph gave a very nice invocation. Then he led us in the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S.
CELEBRATION DATES:
Pres. Ralph displayed the list of February members and their celebration dates.
Pres. Ralph again said “The world needs more Rotarians.”
THE FOUR-WAY TEST EXAMPLE:
Pres. Ralph played the new musical rendition video of the 4 Way Test created by the Rotary Club of Dar es Salaam, in Oyster Bay, South Africa .
Ralph then played a 1-1/2 minute video story promoting RCs to post the Rotary 4-Way test on school bulletin boards.
Marlene Heller then read to us the 4 items and asked for volunteers to tell about a recent application of the 4 Way Test in their life. Hearing none, she told us that during this last week she, Gail Micca and Bill Palmer have been working on updates to our website home page documents and links, which are beneficial to all concerned.
RI P-E TO SPEAK:
RI P-E Jennifer Jones will be a guest speaker during a Zoom RC meeting in Carson City, Nevada on Saturday, Feb 23rd at 9:00 A.M.
MEMBERSHIP:
Chair Tom Friday welcomed our guests who were on with us today including DG Janet Kolepp, and PDG Dr. Kevin Crosby from Zone 28 in Buffalo, NY, today’s speaker. Herb Klotz welcomed PDG Dan Dourety, Zone 28 coordinator, Canada and PDG Ray Freaney from D7475 in N.J.
Tom urges us to continue inviting more guests to work with us on projects, and to learn about Rotary by joining our Zoom meetings.
NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION:
Pres. Ralph announced that on March 6th there will be a new member orientation session.
NEW MEMBER INCENTIVE PROGRAM:
D7430 Membership Chair, Gary Volpe, announced S.T.A.R.T. This is an acronym for Simply Talk About Rotary Today. There is no better way to grow membership than to talk about the good we do. Over the next three months we will be receiving bi-weekly emails with tips and best practices to help us attract new members.
District 7430 will provide a $100 to our RC as an incentive to attract each new member joining between February 1st to April 30th 2021.
ROTARY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (RLI):
Please see the separate article.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Thanks to Amir Famili and the generosity of the Burkholders, over 360 lbs. of fresh produce has been delivered to the LFP.
YOUR SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
P-E Gail Micca e-mailed the following project update:
Green Thumbs Garden Project: If you have a green thumb and like to grow plants from seeds, would you consider making some room under your grow lights for some plants for the garden?
If you or someone you know has the equipment to grow plants from seeds, but you aren't using it, would you consider donating it or loaning it out? This saves the garden budget a good deal. We are also looking into a small greenhouse set up if you know someone who has one.
If you like administrative work, please let Gail know as we can find a good fit for you.
Please take a look at this section on the left side of this bulletin.
STATUS OF MORNING MEETINGS:
The AWRC B.O.D. has suspended all AWRC face-to-face meetings until further notice. Zoom meetings are now scheduled for each Wednesday at 7:30 A.M.
NEXT MORNING MEETING:
Wednesday February 17, 2021 starting at 7:30 a.m. We will use Zoom to meet. Our program will be Jack Cunningham, New Castle Police Chief (Retired) with Reflections on 45 Years of Public Safety.
STATUS OF THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
No Thursday evening meetings are planned until after the pandemic..
PROGRAM:
Pres. Ralph Witcher had PDG Herb Klotz introduce Dr. Kevin Crosby, PDG, Asst Rotary Coordinator, to discuss a Pilot Program for Membership Growth: "Levers of Change."
Kevin Crosby joined Rotary in 2005. He is a member, and Past President, of the Rotary Club of Buffalo - Sunrise. Kevin served as District Training Chair from 2009 to 2013, District Governor in 2015-16, and District Membership Chair from 2016 to 2020. Currently he serves as an Assistant Zone Coordinator for Rotary Zone 28, encompassing 21 districts. He has served as a faculty member of RLI.
Kevin explained Rotary’s new Pilot Program for Membership Growth: "Levers of Change" This is a new tool and a new process for selecting "Club Success Indicators" to grow the membership base. The plan is for a RC to:
Establish club specific success indicators
Implement scorecard tracking
Make score card progress visible to the entire club
The AWRC B.O.D. has approved our participating in a 3 month Pilot program. There are 2,000 RCs in Zones 28 and 32 that can benefit from this effort.
Kevin said that this tool is quite easy to implement, once we have done the up-front work. This is for us to look into the mirror and assess areas of our RC that we want to improve. Then we take no more than five goals and set up a scoresheet with measurements and timing.
Progress will be measured monthly and reported to all members to encourage 100% engagement of our members. Remember, if you cannot measure it, it is not worth writing it down.
The first goal has a 25% weight and is the same for all RCs -- grow membership. One-time events should not be included. Examples of other goals to measure are:
Growing attendance from ___to ____.
Lower the average age of members from ----- to ----.
Member participation in running the RC
Member participation in club projects
Member participation in community projects, events, etc.
Number of candidates for membership in the pipeline
The plan should cover the 12 months of RY 2021-22 and start with P-E Gail Micca and the board putting it together over the next few months.
Kevin will supply us with charts for scorekeeping. He showed examples of one he has done. And he answered some questions.
CLOSING:
Pres Ralph led us in the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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