Meetings are Thursdays starting at Noon with room opening at 11:45 am at Comfort Inn in Plymouth

 

You don't have to bring a boom box we have a speaker or two now! 

 

This week we have Al Gelschus He is Regional VP of sales for Compass Mortgage who will tell us about the residential mortgage market now and how his company competes. He has offices on my floor in the Carlson Towers and I know his company has had great rates for me and my clients.

 

Next week we have Jaime Belden. She is coming to talk about doing humanitarian projects in Central America as a rotary volunteer since 2013. It will be inspiring for sure.

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Jill Kohler! She is retiring and going to start by taking a big vacation I heard. Ask her about it! IOCP is in for a change without her and we await who will come to us from IOCP in her place. It will be hard to fill her shoes. Be sure to congratulate her please. Thanks to Jill for all of the fabulous work she has done with us throughout the many years in Plymouth Rotary Club! We will miss her.

 

Rotary is a philanthropic organization that has a core group of committed volunteers in nearly every developed city in the world, who work to make their community a better place.

Here are 3 reasons for your friends to care: 

 

WE NEED A NEW SECRETARY! Jill has retired and left the club and the board. We need someone to come forward and fill this critical role right away! You may recall when there was a draft board in history. Note there is a Plymouth Rotary Club Board meeting today at 11:00.   We also need to have our new Officers Elect for 2022 and nominees for 2023. We should have our Officers elect on right now so they can be doing and learning what the officers do and how to do it so they do not have to learn on the job the way many of us did. Please step forward to lead if you can or push someone forward if you must!! You won't be bored it you attend the Board meeting.

The Object of Rotary is to encourage

and foster the ideal of service as a

basis of worthy enterprise and, in

particular, to encourage and foster:

First The development of

acquaintance as an opportunity for

service;

Second High ethical standards

in business and professions, the

recognition of the worthiness

of all useful occupations, and

the dignifying of each Rotarian's

occupation as an opportunity to

serve society;

Third The application of the ideal of

service in each Rotarian's personal,

business, and community life;

Fourth The advancement of

international understanding,

goodwill, and peace through a

world fellowship of business and

professional persons united in the

 

 

On Thursday, November 4, 2021, District Governor Marianna Khauv presented at our weekly Rotary Meeting.  She was accompanied by two District Officials.

 

Prior to her presentation, she was presented with a $600 check, on behalf of all of your clubs, for The Rotary Foundation.  When she had concluded her remarks, she was asked directly "how about improving support to our existing Clubs?" The focus of her responses, and those of her colleagues, seemed to be on the power of digital media, and a possible/potential District-wide social media effort of some type.

 

No response to date from the District on our meeting.

 

The Rotary Club of Plymouth, either as a group or from individual member efforts, is focused on the following potential initiatives:

 

1-Running a candidate for City Council in an effort to gain access to the many publication vehicles of the City of Plymouth-(Individual effort).

 

2-Working with CCX Media thru Dave Kiser, and developing a generic social media campaign-(Individual to Group effort).

 

3-Withholding District Dues-(Group effort) or seeking District help with internet expenses.

 

4-Developing a membership packet for new participant recruitment-(Individual/Group) effort.

 

5-Assessing Club Merger possibilities-contemplation stage.

 

 

 

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