Blair Rotary Newsletter
"Make Dreams Real"
October 20, 2008

 

 

Thank you to everyone who helped with the wine and cheese fund raiser and dance on Saturday night. A special thank you to Denise Dein, Jim Nelson, George Hall and Abranda Andersen for taking the lead in organizing the event.

 

Reminder: attendance should be at least 60%, if you can't make a meeting you can do a make-up on the web at the following address: http://www.rotaryeclub7890.org/makeup.htm

 

Blair Rotary Student of the Month

 

Eric Johnson, son of Gary and Kim Johnson, was recently honored as the September Blair Rotary Student of the Month.  Eric has been involved in the following activities: Marching Band, All State Band, Hastings Honor Band, Nebraska Wesleyan Honor Band, District Music, Concert Band, Dana Freshman Honor Band, Elkhorn Band Olympics, Jazz Band, Speech, Drama Club, Thespian Member, Mock Trial, Senior Mentor and National Honor Society.  Academically Eric is ranked number one in his class and has: been on the honor roll - 6 consecutive semesters; lettered in academics and an academic all-state award. As a Blair Rotary Student of the Month, Eric will receive a $300 scholarship to be used for educational expenses next fall.

 

Notes from October 14th Meeting -Program Chair - Kevin Hall

Kevin's guest for the day was Pat Birch, a project manager with Schemmer Associates. During 25 year career she has managed a broad range of architectural projects for both public and private-sector clients.  Pat talked about LEED certified construction and her involvement with design of the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center in Gibbon, Nebraska.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. Since its inception in 1998, LEED has grown to encompass more than 14,000 projects in 50 US States and 30 countries covering 1.062 billion square feet (99 km²) of development area. The hallmark of LEED is that it is an open and transparent process where the technical criteria proposed by the LEED committees are publicly reviewed for approval by the more than 10,000 membership organizations that currently constitute the USGBC.  Pat indicated that LEED is a holistic approach to building and encompasses sustainability, water efficiency, energy, materials, indoor environmental quality and innovation and design.

Rotary Question of the Week

October is known as what month for Rotarians? 

 

Rotary Fact of the Week (from the RI or District Website)

Rotarians have put Service Above Self for more than a century. Through vocational service, Rotarians serve others through their professions and promote high ethical standards. In honor of Vocational Service Month, encourage members to apply the skills and talents they use in their professions to your club’s service projects. Or, create new projects that tap into your club’s collective talent. To discover members’ unique skills, members of the membership or service projects committees could conduct a skills inventory to determine a service project that maximizes their club’s professional abilities.

 

Thought of the Week

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." Mark Twain

October Birthdays
Tom Sternberg - 1st

 

 

 

SERVICE Above Self!