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The Official Newsletter of the Tempe Rio Salado Rotary Club January 21, 2016
The Santa Claus Rotary Club
District 5510
DG Sherry Mischel
Tempe Rio Salado ~ Camelback Crossroads ROTARY INTERNATIONAL Founded 1905 1,200,000+ Members 34,000+ Clubs 200+ Countries
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“Service above Self” INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP President K.R. Ravindran (Sri Lanka) Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith (USA) General Secretary John Hewko (Ukraine) DISTRICT 5510 LEADERSHIP District Governor Sherry F. Mischel DG-Elect Tonya L. Watson t7 DG Nominee James A. Erickson District Secretary Peg Glink District Treasurer Charles Holland District Foundation Audit Chair Terrill L. Cowan Polio Plus Rodney K. Daniels District Foundation Treasurer Joanne Kline District Grants Chair Donald A. LaBarge Micro Lending Coordinator Terrence M. Lubsen World Peace Fellows Chair Honora A. Norton ASSISTANT GOVERNORS Area 1 ~ John S. Thornton Jr. Area 2 ~ Anthony D. Finocchio Area 3 ~ Michael V. Maurer Area 4 ~ Nigel Brooks Area 5 ~ James N. Kame Area 7 ~ Rich Guin Area 8 ~ Debra L. Daniels Area 9 ~ Kara Schroeder Area 10 ~ LaVelle McCoy Area 11 ~ Dena Oppenheim TEMPE RIO SALADO
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OUR MEMBERS ~ TEMPE RIO SALADO CAMELBACK CROSSROADS ROTARY CLUB Stacey Avent Stephanie Babb Ronjon Bhattacharya Corey Bruggeman Jack Buckles Karen Buckles
Patrick de Haan Ben C. Eubank, PDG Dona Mae Eubank Freeman, Ronald J. Corey Harris, Kent Hendricks,
Silvia Herrera Larry Horton ~ IPP Karen Ingersoll BK Knappenberger James Lemmon Tim Lidster,
Geoffrey Pashkowski Christina Ratto Dave Ratto Lynsie Rigby-Scharpf Linda Searfoss Michael Sherron Sue E. Strebe Ralph Williamson
INTERNATIONAL SISTER CLUBS Rotary Club of Southern Districts ~ Western Australia, District 9465 Rotary Club of Bentley Curtin ~ Western Australia, District 9465 Rotary Club of Islamabad ~ Pakistan, District 3272 Rotary Club Roma Sud Est ~ Italy, District 2080
LEADERSHIP Geoff Pashkowski ~ President Karen Ingersoll ~ Secretary Larry Horton ~ Treasurer PDG Ben C. Eubank Guiding Rotarian
AMBASSADORIAL SCHOLARS Justin Randall ~ Spain 2009 - 2010 Laura Kalb ~ Jordan 2010 - 2011 Beth Anne Martin ~ Chile 2011 - 2012 For Information on TRS Rotary: 623-326-7951
GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE Michael Sherron ~ Japan 2007 Caitlin King ~ Scotland 2009 Larry Horton ~ Australia 2011 Stephanie Babb, Holly Brauer ~ Bangladesh 2013
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Meeting Minutes ~ January 21, 2015 Attendance Members: Kent Hendricks, Corey Bruggeman, Ben Eubank, Larry Horton, Karen Ingersoll, Geoff Pashkowski, Patrick de Haan Guests: District Governor Sherry Mischel and AG Nigel Brooks
7:00 AM: Meeting called to order by President Geoff Pashkowski Invocation: Karen Ingersoll Pledge of Allegiance: Corey Bruggeman Five-way Test: Everybody Discussion: 1) Nigel presented our server, Alma, with an honorary Rotary pin for taking such great care of us during our meetings, and always with a smile! 2) Larry was fortunate enough to accompany Patrick to Payson where they served between 800 – 850 children. Past President Glen Smith was there and doing very well. They also had an opportunity to visit the Rim Country Payson Rotary Club who holds their meetings at the casino. 3) Larry presented Sherry with an official CXR “Old People Rule” T-shirt. 4) Patrick presented Sherry with a certificate for her name heading to the asteroid. Patrick also made her an honorary Santa Claus!
Presentation:
The Five Way Test 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to All Concerned? 3. Will it Build GOODWILL and Better Friendships? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to All Concerned? 5. Is it FUN?
Patrick prepared a slide show of all of the TRS/CXR projects for 2015.
Larry showed the United Food Bank video and the Paseo de Amore (Sonoita, Mexico orphanage) videos. Three new CXR members to be inducted!
Ben shared “about” our Club, and goals for 2016. He has also offered to match $1000 toward Paul Harris for newest CXR members.
Nigel then introduced our District Governor, Sherry Mischel. (See attached)
Our District Governor, and guest speaker, Sherry Mischel talked about rotary, our accomplishments and a new acronym she created that summarizes what rotary (should be) all about:
RERF Recruit new members. Engage everyone. Retain good people. Have Fun! (That one is easy for us!
#5 of the Five-way test… Is it fun?)
She then donned her tiara, stepped up on her Royal stool, and with scepter in hand – proceeded to knight each one of us saying, “Go forth into the land and do good deeds.” We loved having Sherry visit with us, and she is welcome back any time!
By AG Nigel Brooks Sherry grew up in a military family and calls herself an "army brat". Her father was in the army for 20 years. During those years, the family of four girls (Sherry being the oldest) and parents lived in Japan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and finally Colorado. She went to college at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where she received a degree in Special Education. Sherry was a teacher in this field for 15 years, working with students at all levels of physical, mental and emotional challenges during her career. After teaching, she became involved in the hospitality industry with her late husband Jerry, where they built a business called Mischel's LLC. This company owned as many as 13 motels at its peak and now owns only one. Sherry is now retired so she can work on Rotary full time! Sherry has lived in the "Valley of the Sun" for over 25 years. She has one child, Jerry, 36, who lives in Seattle Washington with wife Amber. After moving from Paradise Valley to Scottsdale AZ in 2000, Sherry wanted to give back to her community by volunteering. She became active in her local HOA, serving as secretary, vice president and president. She has also worked the election polls many times in the past. This desire to give back also directed her to Rotary. Her first club was Scottsdale North Club, which eventually merged into the Pinnacle Peak Club, where she was the President from 2007-08. After that, she joined the E Club of the Southwest, an online rotary club. In 2009 she helped form a "new generation" club which meets in the evening. This club was chartered on Sept 2, 2009—the name Scottsdale North was re-activated. She became its charter president, and served for 2 years in that position. Sherry has served on various District 5510 committees (grants, youth, 2012 district conference). She was the district 5510 secretary for 2 years, District Trainer 2 years and on the PETS committee 4 years.. She is a Paul Harris Fellow and a member of the Bequest Society. She completed the Tri-District Leadership Academy course in 2005-06. She has been in Rotary for about 13 years. The amazing work of Rotary has made a huge impact on Sherry, not only in service, locally and globally, but also in fellowship—she has made so many wonderful friends she will have the rest of her life. Her philosophy about life is that every person should live the Rotary motto "SERVICE ABOVE SELF'.
AG Nigel presented the Club with two banners. YAY!!!
We played three videos reviewing the 2015 activities and service projects of TRS/CXR. (above) Governor Sherry was presented with a certificate documenting that, in honor of her many years of selfless service to Rotary and the community, TRS/CXR has placed her name on a marker onboard Hayabusa 2, a deep-space mission to explore an asteroid. The marker will be permanently placed on the asteroid. Live long and prosper, DG Sherry.
Governor Sherry bestowed Knighthood on all of the TRS members who attended today’s meeting. She will also be visiting the CXR meeting tonight.
Lady Karen Duchess of Lindaville and Sybilshire
Ingersoll
Sir Benjamin Archduke of Hookem
Sir Corey Baron of Bruggeman
Sir Geoff Duke of Pashkowski
Geoffrey
Sir Patrick Lord of Kringleton
Sir Kent Viceroy of Laird
Sir Lawrence Marquis of Hortonshire
Sunday, December 20, 2015 – This was our last major Christmas event in 2015. The organization we served has always been one of our favorites. Christmas is about children and families, which is a perfect definition of this group’s mission statement. Combine that with being able to work together with our CXR members and you end up with one of the most nurturing environments you’ll ever experience. What an absolutely wonderful way to conclude our Christmas season! Thanks again, everybody!!
On January 13 and 14, 2016, Larry and Patrick brought a U-Haul truck loaded with over 1,200 toys, backdrops, backdrop stands, costumes, and other production items to PDG Glenn Smith a hundred miles away in Payson. This was the third year that TRS/CXR has partnered with the Rim Country Payson Rotary Club and Positive Network Alliance to bring the Magic of Christmas to about 800 PK-3rd Grade children and special needs students attending two local public schools in Payson. And as usual, we had a wonderful time and lots of support from the schools! Awesome!!
Special thanks to the Payson Elementary School Cafeteria Department for hosting us and for all of their help!!
Larry did a fantastic job captivating the children with his puppet. He’s a natural ventriloquist.
ď€ The Rotary gearwheel is one of the most familiar symbols in the world today. But for many years, there was no standard Rotary emblem. Rotary clubs designed their own. In its early years, the Rotary Club of Chicago used a wagon wheel emblem, an idea attributed to Paul Harris, who reasoned that it symbolized civilization and movement. The appearance changed from time to time. When an engraver joined the club, he offered to design a permanent emblem. Members rejected his first idea---a plain buggy wheel---as looking lifeless and meaningless. To give the appearance of action, the engraver added clouds of dust ahead of and behind the wheel. He also placed the words "Rotary Club" above it. One observant Rotarian pointed out that a wheel would not generate clouds of dust in front of it. He removed the offending cloud and that design remained the emblem for Chicago until about 1912. At the 1911 national convention in Portland it was suggested that delegates adopt a standard emblem, based upon the wheel, which had become the generally accepted emblem of Rotary clubs. The Board of Directors appointed a committee to come up with a design. Everyone was amazed how quickly the committee acted. They were appointed in August and had the emblem ready in September. All they did was copy the emblem used by the Rotary Club of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia club had been chartered in 1910 as the 19th club in the world. [Bay City was the 134th club in 1915] The Philadelphians thought that the Chicago wagon wheel design did not convey the Rotary idea very well. They added cogs to create a working wheel, symbolizing the members working together, literally interlocked with one another to achieve the organization's objectives. They used 19 cogs in honor of their club. The club started producing metal lapel pins in 1910 with this design for its members to wear on their coats. Today, the millions of pins worn by Rotarians around the world had their genesis in the minds of a club president and a jeweler in Philadelphia in 1910. The 1912 Rotary convention in Duluth approved the Philadelphia design for the whole organization. To ensure uniformity, the club's name was
replaced by the association's name, Rotary International. It probably didn't hurt that the president of the Philadelphia club [who had designed that club's emblem] became president of the International Association of Rotary Clubs at the Duluth convention. Even after approval by the convention there was still a divergence in design of the emblem. Many local clubs still had their own wheel. Some wheels had 8 spokes, others had 10, some none at all. Some wheels had 16 gear cogs, some 20, some none. Even the Rotary staff at headquarters was confused. In April 1919, the Rotary wheel on the cover of The Rotarian magazine had 19 cogs. On the May issue's cover the wheel had 20 cogs. On the June cover it had 27 cogs. In 1918, a Rotarian engineer from Minnesota petitioned Rotary to amend the design of the wheel. He said that a cogwheel with 19 cogs would not work. He said that the emblem had square-cornered teeth of disproportionate size, that the cogs were irregularly spaced. This Rotarian, Oscar Bjorge, said the emblem was "an insult to engineering that only the brain of an artist could conceive." So he sketched a new wheel, with 6 spokes [symbolizing the 6 Objects of Rotary at that time] and 24 cogs or teeth. He also added a keyway, which locks a wheel to a hub, thus making it "a worker and not an idler." In 1928, the exact specifications of this engineer were written into the Manual of Procedure, approved at the 1929 Dallas convention. The specifications have been unchanged ever since. The geared Rotary wheel appears today throughout the world on millions of lapel pins, flags, ties, jewelry of all sorts, etc. It has been pasted on billboards and postage stamps in more than 100 countries. The Rotary wheel started as an idea in the mind of founder Paul Harris over 100 years ago. It has remained in its present exact form for 80 years.
During the past couple years, in an attempt to update and further standardize its corporate brand, Rotary International has developed specific rules and guidelines to help the clubs and districts comply. A complete User’s Manual can be downloaded at this link: http://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/d ocument/851
This is the 120th issue of the Rio Squawk. To celebrate this accomplishment, each week we are going to print excerpts from an issue randomly selected from the past seven years. So fire up your “Way-Back Machine” and shift your “Tardis” into overdrive as this week we take you back to July 31, 2014.
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By National Research and Development Agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the Asteroid Explorer “Hayabusa2” is cruising on its target orbit after measuring and calculating the post-Earth-swing-by orbit. The Hayabusa2 performed the Earth swing-by on the night of December 3 (Thu.), 2015 (Japan Standard Time). The Hayabusa2 flew closest to the Earth at 7:08 p.m. (JST) and passed over the Pacific Ocean near the Hawaii islands at an altitude of about 1,920 miles. With the swing-by, the explorer’s orbit turned by about 80 degrees and its speed increased by about 1mile per second to about 19.8 miles per second (against the sun) thus the orbit achieved the target numbers. According to the operation supported by the NASA Deep Space Network stations and European Space Agency deep space ground station, the Hayabusa2 is in good health.
Message from Project Manager Yuichi Tsuda I would like to express my deep gratitude to all pertinent parties and people and those who are supporting our operation. All the Hayabusa2 project team members have been working together and will continue our challenging voyage. The Hayabusa2 gained orbit energy through the swing-by to leave the Earth. The target is the asteroid “Ryugu”. “See you later, people on Earth!” At 0:00 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2015, the Hayabusa2 is flying at: about 2.58 million miles from the Earth, and about 90 million miles from the sun. Its cruising speed is 20 miles per second (against the sun). The Hayabusa2 is increasing its speed under the influence of the sun’s gravity after the swing-by.
After the swing-by, the Hayabusa2 took images of the Earth using its onboard Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic (ONC-T). The ONC-T can shoot color images using seven filters. This image is composed by using three of these filters. You can see the Australian continent and Antarctica in the image. The South Pole is not lit by the sun during the summer, and meteorological satellites also do not cover the Antarctic area to take its images, hence the shot this time is precious. Shot at 1：09 p.m. on Dec. 4 (Japan Standard Time), about 211.27 million miles from the center of the Earth. You can see the Australian continent on the upper right, and Antarctica on the lower right.
. . . at least until next week when we all meet again.