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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning November 28, 2022
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Rotarian Irene - as December quickly approaches
The Elephant Rock fascinates visitors because it resembles the head of a giant elephant which has submerged half its trunk underwater, as if attempting to quench its thirst with the Atlantic Ocean.
Many have also pointed out the rock's resemblance to H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic daemon Cthulhu, a monstrous sea creature with the face of an octopus. The likeness is complete with a cleft in the rock where the Lovecraftian creature's eyes would be, and the resulting shadow bestows an eerie and lifelike quality upon its face.
Fundamental to the rock's realistic appearance is the fact that it's entirely made from basalt; this makes the "skin" of the creature appear wrinkled.
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Following are some of the comments we have received. Would you please send us your comments?
October 9. Enjoyed learning about the awesome work of District 9810 and their Light Up Timor Through Enterprise solar project and it was really interesting to learn about the History of Women & Rotary through the speaker program.
-- Brenda Race, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 9. I had no idea that the Women in Rotary movement has been active almost as long as Rotary itself. That was a fascinating summary. My business partner was the 1st woman Rotarian and president in our region. I would never have contemplated joining Rotary if it had still excluded women. It is a dark stain on our history that it took the Supreme Court to force Rotary to become inclusive.
-- Todd Colbourne, Rotary Club of Kingston, District 7040
October 17. Loved the video on hunger and Margaret Mead’s lesson.
-- Nance Macleod, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Diana Francis, October 10. Great quote for every aspect of life: "Just put one foot in front of the other, and keep moving!"
October 17. Wow! Powerful message on literacy. At Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans, we are about to convert our in-house library to a Community Library, for all the same reasons this speaker mentioned. In fact, some of his quotes are going to get painted on our new library walls!!
-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 19. I thoroughly enjoyed the hummingbird story. Judy and I are avid hummingbird feeders.
-- Neil Rogers, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 19. Literacy Ted Talks was enlightening. I loved he Food insecurity video - very powerful. Another wonderful meeting. Thanks.
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 19. I really enjoyed the various examples used in order to articulate just how important literacy is to society, including the point made that if a child is not reading proficiently by the fourth grade, they have a 78% chance of not catching up. What I am most likely to share with others is the importance literacy makes on people academically as well as socially, especially to new parents. A third of all children born in poverty stay in it through adulthood. This is what John believes literacy learnt in school and in the library can help with overcoming.
-- Kiara Binu. I am not a Rotarian.
October 24. Loved the Rotary Four Way Test performed as a song by the RC of Saskatoon!
Awesome!
-- Jim Ferguson, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
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On February 23, 1905, Paul Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram Shorey gathered at Loehr’s office in Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago. This was the first Rotary Club meeting. They decided to call the new club “Rotary” after the practice of rotating meeting locations.
The Founder of Rotary – Paul Harris
Paul P. Harris was born in Racine, Wisconsin. At age three, when his family fell on hard times, they moved to Vermont to live with Harris’ paternal grandparents. He attended Princeton University, the University of Vermont, and the University of Iowa. For the next five years, Paul worked odd jobs as a salesman and reporter for a newspaper, on fruit farms, as an actor, a cowboy, and on cattle ships that travelled to Europe. Harris eventually settled in the Beverly neighbourhood of Chicago, where he lived until his death in 1947.
He began his law practice in 1896 in Chicago. In 1905, Harris organized the first Rotary club “in fellowship and friendship” with three business associates, Silvester Schiele, Gustavus Loehr, and Hiram Shorey. His initial goal was to create a club of professional and businessmen for friendship and fellowship. Early on, Harris realized that Rotary needed a greater purpose. While Harris served as president of the Chicago Rotary Club in 1907, the club initiated its first public service project, the construction o public toilets in Chicago. This step transformed Rotary into the world’s first service club.
Harris had great ambitions for the growth of Rotary, and very early in the organization’s history, new clubs were started, first on the West Coast in San Francisco, and then all over the U.S. and in Europe.
Paul Harris died on January 27, 1947. More than 300,000 Rotarians mourned. An outpouring of contributions to The Rotary Foundation created the Paul Harris Memorial Fund, which continues to support The Rotary Foundation.
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