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February 1
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World Understanding Month |
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When Rotarians participate in a Rotary Friendship Exchange , they return with more than souvenirs and laundry. They bring back lasting friendships, a global perspective, and a newfound appreciation for Rotary’s work.
Experiences like these happen all the time through Rotary Friendship Exchange, Rotary’s international exchange program for Rotarians and their families. Participants experience other cultures and build friendships by staying in the homes of Rotary club members in another country. This program advances international understanding and peace through personal contact across borders while developing interclub relationships that lead to fellowship and service projects.
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February 1
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Cooperative Feeding Program |
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Please donate Clothing and Food to the 3rd Annual "Have a Heart Campaign" |
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February 1
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Jack Drury: Stars that made Fort Lauderdale Famous |
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Jack Drury
Photos of show-biz legends — Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Buffalo Bob Smith — line the bookshelves of Jack Drury's Fort Lauderdale office. A Howdy Doody doll rests on a chair outside his door.
"I'd sit and look at all of this and think, 'Shut up and write the book,'" Drury says. And so he did.
The just-released Fort Lauderdale — Playground of the Stars ( Arcadia Publishing, $19.99) is a pictorial peek at celebs who flocked to Fort Lauderdale decades ago, when it was a sleepy little beach town offering sun, fun and privacy in those pre-paparazzi days.
Their tour guide and confidant: Drury, now 77 and silver-haired, a legendary advertising and public relations man who cultivated celebrity pals over the decades. He'll tell a few stories about his celebrity chums when he speaks at a Fort Lauderdale Historical Society benefit April 13. Drury was Buffalo Bob Smith's manager. He had a stint as tennis great Billie Jean King's agent. He was Johnny Carson's friend. For decades, he documented his star-studded life with photographs snapped at promotional events. The book is mainly photos showcasing 60-plus celebs in 187 pictures, primarily from the '60s through the '80s. "I had all these pictures, and people tired of my celebrity stories kept saying I should do a book," Drury says. "It was time." Taking Drury's trip down Memory Lane is a poignant, pleasant stroll. His book is no tell-all tome. It's a tribute to stars, most no longer alive. Drury didn't stay friends with Carson and Hope by spreading stories. "If I'd have had a cocktail party and invited 20 people to meet Johnny Carson, that friendship would have been over," he says. "Johnny didn't like to feel he was being used." Three years after Carson's death, Drury's only unseemly tidbit is already a well-documented story: That Carson got nasty when he drank. But Drury can add this: His role was to tactfully call it a night at the Mai-Kai, where Carson loved to wine and dine. Drury, a New York PR man, found his way to Fort Lauderdale in 1960, when he was transferred to work with a client, Gill Hotels, owner of the Yankee Clipper, the Trade Winds and other beachfront hotels. Two years later, after Drury opened his own business, he lured Carson's team to Fort Lauderdale to plan the new Tonight Show. At the time, Carson was a TV game-show host, prepping to replace Jack Paar. Drury arranged for hotel rooms, a 60-foot boat and steered them to the best restaurants. And thus began a decades-long friendship with the famously private star. In 1964, when Drury suggested that Carson invest in buggy northwest Broward land, Carson's reaction: "You've been drinking." But Carson trusted Drury and bought 60 acres that were part of a new Broward city: Coral Springs. Carson sold the land eight years later at a hefty profit, according to the book. "A pretty good investment," Drury says. When Drury dips into the past, his stories flow like a river. Did you know ... He spent a night with Jayne Mansfield and her husband, Mickey Hargitay, all wearing nothing but wet bathing suits, stranded on an island near Nassau after their boat drifted away in a storm. Did you know ... He became Billie Jean King's agent in 1971 after playing with her in a Fort Lauderdale pro-am tournament and was by her side during the historic "Battle of the Sexes" match with Bobby Riggs in 1973. Did you know ... He was good buddies with Fort Lauderdale resident and TV icon Buffalo Bob Smith, of Howdy Doody fame, and helped get his show (taped in North Miami) back on TV in the '70s. Did you know ... He was Bob Hope's golfing pal and, after Hope taped his 1987 Christmas special in Fort Lauderdale, the duo played at Coral Ridge Country Club. No, you probably didn't know ... unless you read Drury's book. "Fort Lauderdale has grown and changed so much," he says. "I wanted to let people know about the stars who worked and played here." |
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February 8
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Rotary Valentine Celebration |
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February 8
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New Member Training |
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New Member Training
530pm-
Home of Steve and Shelley Leinicke
36 Royal Palm Drive, Ft. L 33301
Royal Palm Dr. is on the north side of Las Olas
W elcome! As a new member, you'll get a chance to become more involved in your community and to provide aid to other parts of the world through the opportunities that your Rotary club and Rotary International offer. Learn more about Rotary by reading the New Member Bulletin. Also, please take a minute to visit Member Access to verify that RI has the correct information for you.
Longtime Rotarians agree that involvement is key to getting the most out of membership. Volunteer to serve on a committee that meets your interests, to be a greeter for weekly club meetings, or to join a service project team. These activities will help you get to know your fellow club members and better understand the work of Rotary.
W hat Rotarians get out of Rotary depends largely on what they put into it. Many membership requirements are designed to help club members more fully participate in and enjoy their Rotary experience.
Attendance
Attending weekly club meetings allows members to enjoy fellowship, enrich their professional and personal knowledge, and meet other business leaders in their community.
If members miss a meeting of their own club, they’re encouraged to expand their Rotary horizons by attending a meeting of any other Rotary club in the world.
Service
By participating in local and international service projects, club members can volunteer their time and talents where they’re most needed.
The Avenues of Service are Rotary’s philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based:
- Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the club’s effective functioning.
- Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.
- Community Service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
- International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.
- New Generations Service recognizes the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities, service projects, and exchange programs.
Read more about Rotary fellowship and service.
Finding and keeping members
To keep clubs strong, every Rotarian must share the responsibility of bringing new people into Rotary. Even new members can bring guests to club meetings or invite them to participate in a service project.
Keeping members involved in Rotary is another responsibility. Fostering strong fellowship and encouraging early participation in service projects are two of the best ways to sustain a club’s membership.
Dues
Club members are required to pay annual dues to their clubs, districts, and Rotary International, as well as the subscription fee to the appropriate Rotary magazine.
Leadership
Club members are encouraged to volunteer for leadership roles at the club level and beyond. To learn more about leadership opportunities in your district, see the district leadership seminar page and the club committees page.
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February 13
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February 2012 Board Meeting |
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February Board Meeting |
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February 15
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Educational Benefits for Returning Veterans; Broward College |
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Angelia Millender
Angelia N. Millender is a native of Chicago, Illinois, where she graduated from Chicago Vocational High School one of the pubic schools in Chicago. Following graduation she immediately enrolled at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois and subsequently transferred to Chicago State University, where she completed the baccalaureate degree in education. After completing her degree in education, she began working as a teacher for Chicago Public Schools and continued work in the K-12 system working with emotionally disturbed adolescents.
Angelia Millender began her professional career in higher education at Robert Morris College, now University, in Chicago where she worked in various capacities including full-time faculty member, program director, Director of Career Planning and Placement, Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs. During her 20-year tenure at Robert Morris, the college experienced increased enrollments and student retention, a level change from level one associate to level two baccalaureate degrees, enhanced community collaborations, creative innovative programs in student development all contributing to improved college operations to increase success in many areas. After leaving Robert Morris, Ms. Millender opened an executive search firm focusing on the placement of minority mid-level managers at Fortune 100 companies. After two years as an entrepreneur, Angelia returned to her passion higher education and took at position with Berkeley College as a Campus Operations Officer and Dean of Student Development at the White Plaines campus in New York. Ms. Millender relocated to Virginia with her husband after two years. She continued valued-added to education by accepting a position with the Adult and Community Education division of Fairfax Public Schools.
Currently, Angelia Millender is Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at Broward College, a large urban, multi-campus institution in Fort Lauderdale Florida, serving 60,000+ students annually. A member of the President’s Senior Leadership team, she is responsible for the coordination and administration of all facets of district-wide student services where her leadership, expertise and innovative strategies facilitates the development and implementation of programs and services within the broad context of the College’s mission. She works collaboratively with a team of three associate vice presidents, a district director and 75 full-time employees and another 204 part-time, value-added front-line student services employees at the district and campus levels.
In 2009, Angelia was recognized by Success South Florida Magazine as one of the 25 most successful black business women in South Florida and in 2011 was recognized as one of south Florida’s Most Accomplished Black Executives, Professionals and Academicians by ICABA. She served on the Board of the Urban League of Broward County and currently serves as the Board chair of Eagle Charter Academy, a Broward County middle and high school. Angelia received her masters of Science degree from National Louis University in Management and Human Resources, a Certificate in Mediation from DePaul University’s Conflict Resolution Center, and a Bachelor Degree in Education from Chicago State University.
Throughout her career Angelia has been a dedicated, educational professional whose passion has been working with underrepresented student populations, in open access institutions, and providing these students with instruction and educational programs and services that have contributed to their success. Her current focus at Broward College is providing leadership with multiple internal and external stakeholders to improve community awareness of the College’s programs and services, to improve student success through focused efforts and high-impact interventions and strategies, and increase the number of students who have access to higher education at many levels.
Angelia resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with her spouse, Emanuel Washington. |
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February 22
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Larry Reed, President, Foundation for Economic Education |
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Lawrence W. Reed
President | Foundation for Economic Education
On September 1, 2008, Lawrence W. (Larry) Reed assumed the presidency of the Foundation for Economic Education, headquartered in Irvington, New York. In this article, FEE: A Lighthouse for Freedom, FEE’s history and importance were highlighted by Reed.
After serving as President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for its first two decades, Reed became president emeritus of the Center upon assuming his duties as president of FEE.
Reed holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He taught economics at Michigan’s Northwood University from 1977 to 1984 and chaired the Department of Economics from 1982 to 1984. He designed the university’s unique dual major in Economics and Business Management and founded its annual, highly-acclaimed “Freedom Seminar.” In 1982, he was a major party candidate in the general election for the U. S. House of Representatives from Michigan’s 4th district. He moved to Boise, Idaho in 1984 to direct a policy institute there before moving back to Michigan to head up the Mackinac Center in December 1987.
Under his leadership, the Mackinac Center emerged as the largest and one of the most effective and prolific of over 40 state-based “free market” think tanks in the country. He served a term as president and 15 years as a member of the board of directors of the State Policy Network, a national organization whose membership consists of those state-based groups.
In 1994, Reed was invited to give the Commencement address to the graduating class of the Colleges of Education, Health, and Human Services and Extended Learning at Central Michigan University (CMU) before an audience of 6,000. CMU conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Administration. In 1998, Grove City College (his undergraduate alma mater) bestowed upon him its “Distinguished Alumni Award.” In 2009, he was given a second honorary doctorate (in Laws) by Northwood University.
In the past twenty years, he has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. Reed’s most recent book is Striking the Root: Essays on Liberty. Since 1978, he has delivered more than 1,000 speeches in 40 states and 15 foreign countries, including one at People’s University in Beijing, China.
Reed’s interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 69 countries on six continents since 1985, including five visits to Russia, five to China, four to Nicaragua, three to Poland, five to Kenya, and others to such places as Cambodia, East Germany, Mozambique, Haiti, Japan, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Greece, Italy, Australia, Slovenia, Croatia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Singapore, Israel, Egypt, Malaysia, Vietnam, Iceland and New Zealand.
From firsthand experience, he has reported on hyperinflation in South America, voodoo in Haiti, black markets behind the Iron Curtain, reforms and repression in China and Cambodia, the recent stunning developments in Eastern Europe, and civil war inside Nicaragua and Mozambique. Among many foreign adventures, Reed visited the ravaged nation of Cambodia in 1989 with his late friend, Academy Award winner Dr. Haing S. Ngor; recorded an authentic native voodoo ceremony in a remote region of Haiti in 1987; traveled with the Polish anti-communist underground for which he was arrested and detained by border police in 1986; interviewed presidents and cabinet officials in half a dozen nations; spent time with the contra rebels during the Nicaraguan civil war; and lived for two weeks with the rebels of Mozambique at their bush headquarters in 1991, at the height of that country’s devastating civil war.
Reed was first elected in 1994 to the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in Irvington, New York—one of the oldest and most respected economics institutes in America and publisher of the journal, The Freeman, for which he writes a column entitled “Ideas and Consequences.” In 1998, he was elected chairman of FEE’s board of Trustees and reelected chairman in 1999 and 2000.
He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, chairman of the board of the Prometheus Institute, a member of the board of Just Facts, an advisor to numerous organizations around the world, and a weekly columnist for The Newnan Times-Herald, the local paper in Newnan, Georgia where he resides.
His spare-time interests include reading, travel, fly-fishing, hiking, skydiving, and animals of just about any kind.
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February 23
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107th Anniversary of Rotary International |
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Rotary International Proclamation
WHEREAS, Rotary International, founded on February 23, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois USA, is the world’s first and one of the largest non-profit service organizations; and
WHEREAS, there are over 1.2 million Rotary club members comprised of professional and business leaders in over 33,000 clubs in 200 countries and geographic areas; and
WHEREAS, the Rotary motto “Service Above Self” inspires members to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards, and promote good will and peace in the world; and
WHEREAS, Rotary funds club projects and sponsors volunteers with community expertise to provide medical supplies, health care, clean water, food production, job training, and education to millions in need, particularly in developing countries; and
WHEREAS, Rotary in 1985 launched PolioPlus and spearheaded efforts with the World Health Organization, U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF to immunize the children of the world against polio; and
WHEREAS, polio cases have dropped by 99 percent since 1988 and the world stands on the threshold of eradicating the disease; and
WHEREAS, To date, Rotary has contributed nearly US$850 million and countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than two billion children in 122 countries; and
WHEREAS, Rotary has raised US$100 million towards a $200 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a total US $355 million; and
WHEREAS, These efforts are providing much needed operational support, medical personnel, laboratory equipment and educational materials for health workers and parents; and
WHERES, In addition, Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor governments to contribute over $4 billion to the effort; and
WHEREAS, Rotary is the world’s largest privately-funded source of international scholarships and promotes international understanding through scholarships, exchange programs and humanitarian grants; and
WHEREAS, about 40,000 students from 130 countries have studied abroad since 1947 as Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars; and
WHEREAS, Rotary’s Group Study Exchange program has helped more than 67,,000 young professionals explore their career fields in other countries; and
WHEREAS, 7,000 secondary-school students each year experience life in another country through Rotary’s Youth Exchange program; and
WHEREAS, there are over 150 Rotary club members in the Downtown Fort Lauderdale Rotary club sponsoring service projects to address such critical issues as poverty, health, hunger, illiteracy, and the environment in their local communities, and abroad.
I encourage all citizens to join me in recognizing Rotary International for its more than 107 years of service to improving the human condition in local communities around the world.
Dr. Bob Easton
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February 24
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Rotary Happy Hour at the Riverside Hotel |
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February 29
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Paul A. Schuler, “Outer Continental Shelf Drilling.” |
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Paul A. Schuler |
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