Rotary Club of South Forsyth County

Service Above Self

Rotary Club of South Forsyth County

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

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Editor: John Hayes
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Future Speakers

May 22 2013
Sandi Smith

"International Project"

May 29 2013
Mark Hamilton

"GA House of Representatives"

Jun 5 2013
Susan Oates

"Paint Georgia Pink"

Jun 12 2013
Ed Higdon

"Convergence of Marketing, Data, and Technology "

Jun 19 2013
Celebration of Everett Bennett Interchange

"Joint Forsyth Rotary Clubs Meeting "

Jun 26 2013
Julia Forbes

""Girl with a Pearl Earring" High Museum of Art"

News

Read 'Habitat' Article in TownLoafer

New Photos Added to Website

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President's Corner May 15th, 2013
by Copher, J Clay

In 1939, William Watt was the President of the Thomasville Rotary Club and attended the International Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. The clouds of war were gathering and most of the speeches centered on the role that Rotary would play if war should come.

A couple of the speeches particularly appealed to William Watt. One involved how soldiers on each side in Europe wanted to know what the other side thought of them. They also expressed desires to have friendship despite the fact that it wasn’t long before they became enemies.

In 1943 William Watt was a District Governor and visited 55 Rotary clubs in Georgia. Many wanted to know what could be done to promote peace and make wars less possible. After the war, it became apparent that many of the colleges in Europe were either destroyed or overcrowded.

In 1946 the Thomasville Club submitted a resolution to District 165 which included the whole state of Georgia. The resolution passed and the scholarships for the Georgia Rotary Student Program began for 4 students in the fall of 1946. Since the inception, over 2,700 young men and women have been brought to campuses in Georgia by Rotarians,

Board Meeting - June 12th at 11am

We have a board meeting at 11am at the Lanier Conference Center.

Everyone is welcome to attend and you can receive a make up for attending the meeting.

Rotary Club of South Forsyth Member Spotlight

Name: James Daniel
Year Inducted: 2007

Profession: Financial Planner

Family: wife Hope, kids: Jonas and Lindy

Favorite thing about Rotary: getting to know people and doing work in the community

Hobby: DIY projects at home

May 15th - This Day in History

1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1755 – Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
1869 – Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1928 – Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1953 – Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c.
1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1991 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

Family of Rotary

Do you know any happenings with our Rotarian family?

Please give Ted Richardson an email or phone call and let him and the club know.

We want to celebrate good times and sympathize in times of need and be there to help.

Ted's email is ted@alrich.com and his phone number is 770-654-7853.

Laws of Life Essay Winners - Statewide
by Hayes, John

Check out the Laws of Life Essay Winners - Statewide here in Georgia.

Essay Book for 2012-13

Essay Book for 2011-12

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/6910/3137/HTML/163046//RotaryLawsofLifeESSAY-BROCHURE-2011-2012.pdf

Essay Book for 2010-11

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/6910/3137/HTML/127736//LawsofLifeEssayBrochure2010-2011.pdf

Essay Book for 2009-2010

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/6910/3137/HTML/127752//LawsofLifeEssayBrochure2009-2010.pdf

Essay Book for 2008-2009

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/6910/3137/HTML/58112//GLOL%20ESSAY%20BROCHURE%202008-2009.pdf

Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust Update
by John Hayes III

Check the latest updates for the C.A.R.T. fund that we support every week with our dollars and coins and brag a bucks

Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust

So far this Rotary year, we have collected $ 966.87 for CART through Dec 31st.

Thanks for all that you do!

ShelterBox updates
by John Hayes III

Click on the link below to see the latest updates for ShelterBox

ShelterBox Latest News

Wheelchair Foundation
by John Hayes III

Check out the latest information from the Wheelchair Foundation

Wheelchair Foundation

Club Contributions

Have you ever wondered where and what organizations that our Rotary Club of South Forsyth have supported in the last 6 years?

Here is the list of all organizations that we have supported financially in the last 6 years.

ABBA House/Roof donation

Aids Speakers

American Cancer Society Relay for Life./Mitch madness

American Heart Association

Andy Miller Scholarship

Bald Ridge Lodge

Big Brother Big Sister

Boy Scouts

Canton Rotary Club-Pennsylvania School Project

CART

Caribbean Partnership for Haiti

CASA

Cedar Hill Enrichment Center

CLCP

Cumming First Methodist Church/Food bank

Cumming/Forsyth Chamber of Commerce-Youth leadership 2004/05/job fair

Family Haven

Ferst Foundation of Forsyth County

First Baptist Church- Hurricane Relief Katrina generator

Forsyth Academy- Lunch & Learn

Forsyth Community Connection

Forsyth County 4-H Club/Washington Trip

Forsyth County Bar Association/Jusdge Stan Gault sign

Forsyth County Board of Education-Dictionaries

Forsyth County Library-Speaker Donation - Books for Library

GED award

GED Graduation Ceremony

Georgia 4-h Foundation

Girl Scouts

Group Study Exchange Team

GRSP Student

GRSP will Watt

Habitat for Humanity

Hands on Forsyth/SAAB

Humane Society of Forsyth County

Interact Club

Interact Dues

Jesse's House

Johns Creek Rotary Club-Golf Tournament

Kosovo Project

Lanier Tech Foundation-Wendy Murphy memorial

Laws of Life

LEADER

Leadership Forsyth

Leadership of Forsyth County - Senior Center Garden

Leonard Odom

Mentor Me

Miracle League

No Longer Bound

Parkway Presbyterian Church -Mississippi Hurricane Katrina

Partners In Education

Preston Johnson Fund

Quito Ecuador Club

Rivers of the World

Rotary Club of Lanier Forsyth- Laps for Life

Rotary District 6910 Water Project- 25% share of Forsyth Rotary clubs

Rotary District 6910-Hurrican Charlie

Rotary Foundation-Paul Harris and International Projects

RYLA Camp

Senior center - Table and chairs

Shelterbox USA

Shop-With-A-Cop

South Forsyth High School- Uniforms for Panama

South Forsyth Rotary Scholarship

Special Olympics

Spelling Bee-Literacy

Sports World

Star Students

Sunshine kids

The Place-YMCA Camp/Toy sale/Christmas & oatmeal/Doistrict grant

The Tax Shelter- SALT seniors 501c3

Trip for school employee to Colombia for death in family

Turkey Friendship project

United Way-Norman's Landing Golf Classic

Vision Atlanta

Wallace Family

Wheelchair Foundation

Wheelchair Foundation travel

Whispering Hope

YMCA Christmas Kids- Shopping