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Please share with your friends, neighbors and relatives if they have qualified teens of high school age and/or who live in Marblehead. We would like to get as many competitors as possible for our auditions, which are starting this coming Tuesday night.
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On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Marblehead Rotarians had the pleasure to host Shogofa Amini again at their weekly luncheon and measure her progress from the time she first visited the club upon her arrival to Salem State University as an exchange student from Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan in 2011.
Shogofa, was a student at SOLA (School of Leadership Afghanistan) in Kabul, when she met Bob McNulty, a Marblehead Resident and the Founder of Pax Populi, who sponsored her initial travel to the States in 2011. In 2012, Pax Populi again stepped forward and brought Shogofa back to the U.S. upon her mother's passing with the help of her brothers.
Upon her arrival to Massachusetts in 2011, Shogofa stayed with Marblehead Rotarians Paul Crosby and his wife Claire in Peabody, MA, then with Buck Grader and his wife Beth. and is currently living with the McNulty family in Marblehead, MA. Shogofa hopes to extend her stay in the U.S. and transfer to Regis College, Boston next year to complete her B.A. in Political Sciences before returning to Afghanistan, where she plans to get involved in the political process.
The Marblehead Rotarians were happy to see a more comfortable and better assimilated Shogofa, during this most recent week's visit to their club. She spoke with ease in English about the importance of education to Afghan women, recounting her own journey, when her parents, who are now both diseased, continued to teach her at home in secrecy after the takeover of her country by the Taliban. Her mother, especially, encouraged Shogofa to continue to read and study no matter what. Shogofa shared with the audience the challenges she had in learning English and how she started writing poetry to cope with the loss of her beloved mother. Shogofa introduced the Rotarians to her recent publication, "The Sky is a Nest of Swallows", a compendium of poems written by Afghan Women, which is a part of the Afghan Women's Writing Project (available on www.Amazon.com).
The Landing Restaurant in Marblehead, MA will donate a percentage of all dinners sold in their dining room this coming Wednesday, February 27, 2013 towards Shogofa's continued college tuition in the U.S.
The Rotary Club of Marblehead meets Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. at the Boston Yacht Club. For more information about the Club, or membership, e-mail the Club’s secretary Julie Livingston at: Jlivingston@marblebank.com, or visit their web site at www.marbleheadrotary.com.
 Photo legend: (from left): Paul Crosby, Shogofa Amini, Beth Grader, Buck Grader and Marblehead Rotary Club President, Chuck Bachner. | | Posted by Markus Diersbock
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Marblehead Rotary Club President Chuck Bachner and club member Zach Newell participated today in the 3rd Annual Rotary District 7930 Polar Plunge in Gloucester, MA. This event raised over $55,000.00 to eradicate polio worldwide. 
(From left): Marblehead Rotary Club President Chuck Bachner with member Zach Newell. | | Posted by Markus Diersbock
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Members of the Marblehead Rotary Club lent a hand to the
Cape Ann Department of Children and FamiliesChristmas Party
Saturday at the Beverly High School. Over 120 local children joined Santa for some Christmas fun! 
From Left: President Chuck Bachner, Tanya DeGenova, Carl Edwards and Cahir McCoole
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The Marblehead Rotary Club is pleased to announce this year's Lobsta Raffle winners: Aileen Ryder, Jack Hackett, Don Humphreys and Ken Bane all of Marblehead. The Marblehead Rotary Club held the Lobsta Raffle Drawing at its weekly luncheon July 19, 2012 with the help of members of the Bell Elementary School "Weird Science Team". This year's winners are: Aileen Ryder, Jack Hackett, Don Humphreys and Ken Bane all of Marblehead. Each winner will receive 20 lbs of fresh lobster donated by Marblehead Lobster Company. The Lobsta Raffle is the club's primary fundraiser for Marblehead Rotary Club's campership program. Through this program, the club is sending 26 children from Marblehead off to camp this summer. In most cases these kids would not go to camp without the campership program and the Lobsta Raffle. The $12,000 raised in this year's raffle comes from the combined efforts of Marblehead Rotary Club members, along with students in the Interact Club at Marblehead High School, and Patti Churchill and Cynthia Davis at Marblehead Chamber of Commerce Information Booth. Marblehead Rotary Club is especially grateful to Mike Kiernan of the Marblehead Lobster Company, who every year donates 80 lbs of fresh lobster to help Rotary send kids to camp. Robin Bert, the coach of the "Weird Science Team", was thrilled to have her team assist the Marblehead Rotary Club with the drawing, inasmuch as the Rotary club was one of its team sponsors last May, when the first and second graders were raising funds for their trip to Iowa to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind World Championship competition. The Rotary Club of Marblehead engages in numerous ways with Marblehead's youth including its scholarship and campership programs, the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Interact Club for high school students, Rotaract Club for college students, the annual Easter Egg Hunt, The Rubber Duck Regatta, and as seen most recently, Marblehead's Got Talent! In addition, the Club is launching this year Heads Up MHD ! to build collaborative efforts to support the Marblehead Housing Authority's "Helping Hands Program" and "Intergenerational Activities Program", MarbleheadCARES "Alcohol Poisoning Awareness Campaign", the Marblehead Council on Aging, "Community Garden" and the YMCA "High School Summer Opportunity Fair". 
(From left): Members of the Bell School "Weird Science Team": Allen Ehrhardt, Schuyler Schmitt, Sean Kenney, Logan Perkins with Club President Chuck Bachner and Bella McNally, Ashleigh Maude with Vice Chairman of the Lobsta Raffle Committee Bill Coolidge.
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Marblehead Rotary Club delegates Bill Coolidge, Chuck Bachner and Tanya DeGenova share goodwill and friendship at the District Conference in Mystic, CT (June 1-3, 2012)
(from left to right): Pres. Bill Coolidge, Tanya DeGenova, ambassadorial scholars
Taylor Ives and Giana Gleeson with Pres. Elect Chuck Bachner.
(from left to right): Becky Linhart S. Pres Elect Marblehead Harbor Club; Chuck Bachner Pres.
Elect of Marblehead Rotary Club, District Governor, Pres. Bill Coolidge and Tanya DeGenova | | Posted by Alexander Falk on May 02, 2012
The Marblehead Rotary Club's second annual Marblehead's Got Talent benefit auction will be held at the Boston Yacht Club on Friday, May 4th, starting at 6:30 PM.
All proceeds from the event, which will include live and silent auctions, will go towards local scholarships. The winner of the final Marblehead’s Got Talent competition will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship for their efforts at the end of the fundraiser.
Tickets for Marblehead's Got Talent are $30 ($35 at the door) and can be purchased at Marblehead Bank, 21 Atlantic Ave.; at National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant St.; at the Slee Agency, 25 Atlantic Ave.; and from MHS Interact students. |
Service Above Self
Guiding Principles
The Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
- FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
- SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
- THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
- FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Avenues of Service
Based on the Object of Rotary, 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 effective functioning of the club.
- 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.
The Four-Way Test
The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:
Of the things we think, say or do
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Mission
The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders. See the RI Strategic Plan.
Diversity and Rotary
Rotary International recognizes the value of diversity within individual clubs. Rotary encourages clubs to assess those in their communities who are eligible for membership, under existing membership guidelines, and to endeavor to include the appropriate range of individuals in their clubs. A club that reflects its community with regard to professional and business classification, gender, age, religion, and ethnicity is a club with the key to its future.
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