The meeting is canceled this Thursday. Join the District Conference on Oct 13-14 at Omaha Marriott. You don't have to attend the entire conference if your schedule is tight, a la carte registration is available. To attend, contact District Governor Kathryn Schubert at:
As the home club of DG Kathryn, it is important for all of us to attend the district conference and represent the Suburban Rotary. Each hour spent at the event will earn you one attendance credit.
All Rotarians in District 5650 are highly encouraged to attend the District Conference on October 13-14, 2023. Please read below a message from District Governor Kathryn Schubert.
Hello, my fellow Rotarians! I cannot believe the biggest celebration in District 5650 is less than 2 weeks away!! I am so excited we are coming together to Create Hope in the World! We have over 200 awesome Rotarians registered, and it is going to be fabulous!
We are honored to be joined by Rotary International President Representatives, Eric and Sandra Liu, from Houston, Texas. Throughout Friday and Saturday, all the attendees will be inspired by speakers and fellow Rotarians to take our message of Hope back to their communities. We are going to come together to share ideas and create plans for making this the Best Rotary District in the Universe!!
I am especially looking forward to Saturday night’s Awards Banquet. We will be celebrating the Cadwallader Award Winner; Honoring a special D5650 Rotarian with Rotary International’s Citation for Meritorious Service Award; recognizing the 16 Clubs who earned the Rotary Citation 2022-23; and introducing all the Golden Wheel Award Winners! It is going to be a jam-packed night of fun and excitement!!
We are going to make Rotary come alive in Omaha!! If you have not yet registered, please do so ASAP as we will close registration at midnight on Sunday, October 8th. FOMO is a real thing, and you don't want to miss out!! Click here to register for the District Conference.
Please email me if you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help!
Thanks for all you do to Create Hope in the World!
Rotary Rocks!!
Kathryn
Kathryn Schubert, Rotary District 5650 Governor 2023-24
Suburban Rotary is always in action at Andersen Middle School, being our Adopt A School partner. Recently, Dan Hosford, Alan Stanek, and Dan Lupardus served lunches to the teachers at Andersen Middle School.
On October 14, 2023 at the Omaha Marriott, community leaders from across our district will be recognized during the Rotary District 5650 conference. These folks include leaders of various groups and organizations doing good things in our communities.
Rotarians across our district will be shining a light of recognition as we celebrate the Golden Wheel honorees. It will be a proud moment as we present each recipient with their medallion. Just one way that Rotary celebrates economic and community development during October.
We encourage you to send a note to the Golden Wheel honoree for your club, or drop by their place of business and shake their hand. Just one more way we’re putting service above self. SOURCE.
For the 15th consecutive year, The Rotary Foundation has received the highest rating – four stars – from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the U.S.
The Foundation earned recognition for adhering to sector best practices and executing its mission in a financially efficient way, demonstrating both strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency.
“We are delighted to provide the Rotary Foundation with third-party accreditation that validates their operational excellence,” said Michael Thatcher, President and CEO of Charity Navigator. “The Four-Star Rating is the highest possible rating an organization can achieve. We are eager to see the good work that Rotary is able to accomplish in the years ahead.”
Charity Navigator assesses nonprofit performance based on four key indicators, including the impact of the charity’s program relative to cost; the organization’s governance and financial health including its transparency, efficiency, and sustainability; a charity’s leadership capacity, strategic development, and ability to adapt to internal and external changes; and its overall culture and connectedness to its constituents and the communities they serve.
In June 1999, a year after I joined the staff of Rotary International, I attended my first convention. It was then that I first witnessed the global power of Rotary and made my first batch of Rotary friends. And it was then that I was introduced to Singapore for a second time.
My first trip to Singapore occurred five years earlier when, as a journalist, I covered the third Europe-East Asia Economic Summit. At that time, Western financial media were referring to Singapore as the 20th century’s most successful development story, which meant that the summit lured scores of policymakers, economists, and businesspeople from across Europe and Asia.
Once a British Crown colony which subsequently merged with Malaysia, Singapore broke away and was founded as an independent sovereign nation in 1965. Despite predictions that a string of small islands that lack natural resources to survive, Lee Kwan Yew, who was referred to as the founding father of modern Singapore, turned the tattered outpost of the faded empire into a thriving modern nation. The archipelago of 64 islands that was once plagued by malaria and rife with ethnic conflicts among its Chinese, Malay, and Indian populations, now stands as a gleaming city state, known in the 1990s throughout the world as one of the four Asian Tigers for its robust economic transformation along with Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Having grown up in China, where decades of Mao’s draconian rule had impoverished the country, I, along with millions of other Chinese, became enamored of the Singapore model of economic success. My first impression of Singapore in 1994, which will forever be associated with the brightly illuminated skyscrapers that dotted the banks of the Singapore River, confirmed my belief that this was a place of modernity and prosperity.
Regina Alesi loves to travel. So when a classmate told her about her experience with Rotary Youth Exchange, the teenager knew she wanted to take a journey of her own. Alesi left her Argentine hometown of San Nicolás de los Arroyos in January through the program to explore Brazil, dive into its culture, and grow as a leader. “This experience has made me more independent and flexible to adapt to new things and different scenarios,” she says.
Rotary Youth Exchange has been promoting international understanding for nearly 50 years, and today Rotary clubs host exchanges in more than 100 countries. The program offers teenagers ages 15-19 an opportunity to make new friends and learn new ways of living, to open themselves to different ideas and experiences, and to adapt and gain fresh perspectives.
The exchanges offer the same to the host families. “Living with our exchange student gave my family the opportunity to get to know a new culture, traditions, and practices,” says Ivone Pinheiro de Souza Silva, a host mom. “The doors of my house will always be open for exchange students.”
Alesi is one of thousands of students who participated in Rotary Youth Exchange last year. On the following pages, you’ll also meet Ava Minocherhomji and George French, two other exchange students, and learn more about their exciting year in Brazil. — JP SWENSON
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Winter 2023 Application
November 3-5, 2023 Camp Kitaki 4917 East Park Highway, Louisville, NE 68037
The Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) camp will be November 3-5, 2023 at Camp Kitaki near Louisville, NE. RYLA camp is an intensive 3-day training program for High School Sophomores and Juniors that helps participants think critically about important issues; share ideas with talented peers; learn how to coordinate and lead community service projects; discuss the importance of good governance and civil society to the world; and learn to think globally and explore issues that transcend national borders.
The camp focuses on youth leadership development. Participants will learn about Rotary International and what clubs do to make our world a better place. They will participate in small groups and will work together to hone their leadership skills and learn more about the 7 Areas of Focus of Rotary International. Participants also will have the opportunity to build their leadership skills with several outdoor team building activities that the YMCA staff facilitate. There is also time for fun and fellowship with many opportunities to get to know fellow campers.
One of the projects of the weekend will be the “Initiative Challenge” where groups will be selecting an aspect of protecting the environment and develop ways to act and minimize how our world can work toward saving our planet from the radical changes in our climate, our ecosystems, and the health of every living thing in the world. Participants will learn about how to make a positive impact as emerging leaders in their communities, as well as a knowledge of our impact on the world and how impact can be changed by the choices we make.
PLEASE NOTE THIS FORM MUST BE FILLED OUT IN PRESENCE OF PARENT/GUARDIAN!
Mário César Martins de Camargo, a member of the Rotary Club of Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President to become Rotary International’s president for 2025-26. He will officially become the nominee on 15 September if no other candidates challenge him.
De Camargo plans to boost Rotary’s public image by working from the top down.
“Rotary today has strong competition for members and funds,” he says. “We need to rejuvenate the brand, especially in some zones. We should utilize post-pandemic meeting tools … to allow the president to address Rotarians all over the globe. We also need to develop more long-term partnerships with political, community, and business leaders. Let’s emphasize our greatest asset: 1.4 million volunteers.”
He also hopes to improve Rotary’s process for appointments and governance.
“Rotary should adopt a more transparent system to appoint volunteers for positions, with clear criteria and data-based evaluation of results,” he says.
De Camargo was president of Gráfica Bandeirantes and has been a consultant to the print industry in Brazil. He has also served as president and chair of several printing and graphics trade associations, including the Brazilian Association of Graphic Technology and ABIGRAF, the Brazilian Printing Industry Association.
R. Gordon R. McInally is president of Rotary International. He was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh and at the University of Dundee, where he earned his graduate degree in dental surgery. He operated his own dental practice in Edinburgh until 2016. Gordon was chair of the East of Scotland branch of the British Paedodontic Society and has held various academic positions. He has also served as a presbytery elder, chair of the Queensferry parish congregational board, and commissioner to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. Read President McInally's biography.
Watch the video below of President McInally's address to the Rotary International Assembly:
Consider visiting another Rotary club for a make-up! Rotary.org has a club finder for locations around the world. Please see the District website at rotarydistrict5650.org for details on local clubs. Visit one of the following Metro-Area Clubs!
Monday: Omaha Millard Rotary, 12:00 pm, German American Society, 3717 South 120th St.
Tuesday: Omaha Morning 7:00 am, First Responders Foundation, 10605 Burt Circle, Omaha, NE 68114
Tuesday: Omaha Northwest, 12:00 pm, First Responders Foundation, 10605 Burt Circle, Omaha, NE 68114
Wednesday: Omaha Downtown, 12:00 pm, Field Club of Omaha, 3615 Woolworth Ave.
Wednesday: Council Bluffs Centennial: 7:00 am, Hy-Vee Community Room 1745 Madison Avenue Thursday: West Douglas County, 12:00 PM Elkhorn Public Schools Foundation 20272 Veterans Drive
Thursday: Council Bluffs, 12:00 pm, Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center, 1001 South 6th Street
Friday: Omaha West, 12:00 pm, Biaggi's, 13655 California St.
Email Yolanda for make-up/attendance credit at yolanda@suburbanrotary.org.
All Rotarians in District 5650 are highly encouraged to attend the District Conference on October 13-14, 2023. Please read below a message from District Governor Kathryn Schubert.
On October 14, 2023 at the Omaha Marriott, community leaders from across our district will be recognized during the Rotary District 5650 conference. These folks include leaders of various groups and organizations doing good things in our communities.
Mário César Martins de Camargo, a member of the Rotary Club of Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President to become Rotary International’s president for 2025-26. He will officially become the nominee on 15 September if no other candidates challenge him.
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