March 1-3, 2012
Oklahoma State University, Alumni Center

This training is required for the 2012-13 club presidents and is highly suggested for the 2013-14 club presidents. Training is free for both.  In addition to an excellent program being planned, we will be inviting the President Nominee, the Assistant Governors, and the Membership chairs from each club to take advantage of our excellent speakers and help all our clubs for transition to the Future Visions Rotary.

By Megan Ferringer and ARnold R. Grahl
Rotary International News -- 16 January 2012

RI President-elect Sakuji Tanaka will ask Rotarians to build Peace Through Service in 2012-13. 

Tanaka unveiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2012 International Assembly, a training event for incoming Rotary district governors. 

"Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary," he said. "Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic struggles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways."

Peace has different meanings for different people, Tanaka said.  

"No definition is right, and...

The District 5750 January Newsletter is now available HERE.

Michelle Schaefer has been named the District Governor Nominee Designate; she will serve as District Governor of Rotary District 5750 in 2014-15. Michelle has been a member of the Rotary Club of Northwest Oklahoma City since 2000, where her classification is Insurance Agent. She has served as president of her club, has twice been named their Member of the Year, and is a Sustaining Member, an eight time Paul Harris Fellow and a member of the Paul Harris Society. She has also served as District Trainer and Assistant District Governor for District 5750, and was the 2010 GSE Team Leader to Italy. She is currently the Membership Chair for the district, as well as the 2012 District Conference Chair.