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District Calendar
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DG Nominee Designee Interviews/Selection
Feb 04, 2012
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Mid-Year Meeting / Pre-PETS
ELLEN TROUT ZOO - LUFKIN
Feb 04, 2012 09:30 AM
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District Team Training
Feb 25, 2012
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NAYEN Meeting
Feb 29, 2012 - Mar 02, 2012
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Nominations for "Roll of Fame" Due
Mar 09, 2012
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District Assembly-Huntsville
Mar 10, 2012
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PETS
DFW Airport
Mar 23, 2012 12:00 AM - Mar 25, 2012
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Presidential Citations due to DG
Apr 06, 2012
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College of Governor
Apr 26, 2012
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District Conference - Galveston
Moody Gardens
Apr 27, 2012 - Apr 29, 2012
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RI Convention - Bangkok
May 06, 2012 - May 09, 2012
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DG Brenda Walker's Installation
Jun 23, 2012
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DG Dave Johnson's Installation
Jun 01, 2013
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| Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Lots of great things happening in our District! *****The District 5910 Nicaragua Water Well grant application has been submitted to Rotary International. We are waiting on the Rotary Club of Leon, Nicaragua to complete the paperwork on an outstanding project so our grant can be approved. Our grant is for 17 wells for a total of $35,000 ($17,500 DDF and $17,500 RI match). David Standlee and Rhonda Ellisor will be traveling to Nicaragua with the Rotary Club Tulsa on February 22nd to meet with the Leon Nicaragua Rotary Club to review wells sites and expedite the process.
*****The Rotary Club of Texas City is excited toannounce the 2nd Annual Mardi Gras on the Mainland Gala. The Gala will be held on February 11, 2012 atthe Doyle Convention Center in Texas City. The event will help provide funding for themany community projects Rotary provides such as awarding TCHS senior studentswith scholarships, providing area Kindergarten students with a personalizedbook and notable projects in the community such as the Rotary Pavilion, RotaryFitness Trail, Shoal Lighthouse and many more.The Mardi Gras Galawill begin at 7:00 p.m. with a Cajun style dinner catered by Benno’s, silentauction and continuous music throughout the evening. We are excited to have two amazing bandsprovide music until midnight, Al White and the Chapparals Band (voted the #1Country and Western band in Houston/Galveston area by Channel 2 in 2010) andTime in a Bottle Band, a local Classic Rock, Oldies and Blues band. You are sure to enjoy them both.
***** It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Nominating Committee (Chair: PDG Rose Austin) has unanimously elected Don Taylor of the Rotary Club of Liberty as the 2014-2015 District Governor of District 5910. Judge Don is a longstanding member of Rotary and has served his club and our district in many capacities over the years. Please join us in congratulating Don Taylor to serve in this capacity.
*****The Rotary Cub of Rusk, Texas honored founding member, Houston White, during the January 11, 2012 meeting, on his 99th birthday, and for his continuous and active Rotary membership for 63 years, sporting a near-perfect attendance record, missing one meeting in the mid 1950’s because of the mumps. District Governor-elect Brenda Walker, her husband Stack; and members of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, Texas joined in the celebration of Houston’s Rotary life. Through over six decades, Houston White, a Paul Harris Fellow, has served in many Rotary capacities: the Rotary Club of Rusk’s Charter Member, Club Secretary, Club President, District Governor; and continues to serve as an active member of the club’s Board of Directors. A native Texan, Houston was born in 1913 in Colorado City, Texas on land his grandfather purchased from the Texas & Pacific Railway in 1902. The family farming interest turned to tomato growing, and in the early 1920s, moved from West Texas to the Jacksonville, Texas area to be part of the flourishing east Texas tomato industry. After WWll, Houston joined the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, which in 1948, decided to sponsor a new Rotary Club in the nearby beautiful Piney Woods town of Rusk, Texas. The charter banquet was held on January 21, 1949, with twenty charter members, including Houston, and guests. Houston moved his membership to Rusk and oversaw the growth of the young club. The brand-new Rotary Club of Rusk’s first community services program was the “Pig Project.” Six registered female pigs were donated to the Future Farmers Club at Rusk High School. Since then, the community projects have grown substantially: annual scholarships for local high school Seniors; RYLA teen sponsorships, hand-delivering “Fans for the Elderly” during the extremely hot east Texas summers; around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, members carry “food baskets for the needy” to many of the less fortunate in the area. For over three decades, the Rotary Club of Rusk has placed American and Texas flags around Rusk’s beautiful downtown square during holidays and special events; they run the town’s annual 4th of July celebration, and contribute generously to “Good Samaritan,” a food and clothes distribution center for the less fortunate. All these efforts could not have been accomplished without the guidance of Houston White, who helped form, then shape the Club to what it is today.. He truly personifies Rotary’s “Service Above Self”. To find out more about the Rotary Club of Rusk, please visit their website: www.ruskrotary.org.
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Our 2012 Mid Year-Pre PETS meeting will be hosted by The Rotary Club of Lufkin in the meetings room of the wonderful Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin. After the meeting, a guided tour of the zoo will be avaiable for Rotarians. Click here to register. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Club Secretaries and/or Attendance Managers: Your JANUARY2012 Attendance Reports are now due. If you need assistance with your report, please contact District Secretary Marialeice Saucier. If you need assistance with the website, please contact Webmaster Kris Nordstrom McBride.
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Rotarians, We have done it! It was announced at the International Assembly that the Polio Challenge has surpassed the US$200 million mark and has raised US$202.6 million as of 17 January 2011. The Chief Executive Officer of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was at the Assembly and announced that the Gates Foundation has awarded The Rotary Foundation an additional US$50 million grant for polio eradication. The new $50 million grant from the Gates Foundation is not a challenge grant; it results from Rotary’s early achievement of the $200 million milestone and of the need for continued funding support for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride on Jan 13, 2012
WoodlandsRotarians Norman Parrish and Mary Matteson-Parrish have recently returned froma heart wrenching – and at the same time, heartwarming - trip, to check on aproject that is near and dear to the hearts of many Rotarians, helpingNicaragua’s “Children of the Dump”. No one is better qualified to tell thisstory than Mary herself, so here is the story, inher own words:
| | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride on Jan 11, 2012
It is with great sadness that we announce that the President of the Rotary Club of Galveston, Bill McMullen has lost his courageous battle with cancer. Bill died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. Bill has been an outstanding Rotarian and has exemplified “Service above Self” as President of his Rotary club. Bill will be sadly missed by all of us.Services and burial will be held in Shreveport, Louisiana, with a memorial service in Galveston at a date to be announced. If you want to send a note of sympathy to his wife Peggy, please consult the district directory or contact Governor Ulli. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Good News! District 5910 has been awarded a $15,000 Public Relations Grant from Rotary International that will be used to tell
the “This Close” story and invite inquires about Rotary membership. We will use newspapers through out the District in order to reach people in every Club area. We will also incorporate all forms of social media to compliment these print ads. Stay tuned for more to come. A "Thanks You" to Alfred Anderson and the Public Relations Committee for having put together the grant application. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) 2012 was a great success! See the RYLA Home Page for the recap! | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
District 5910's Group Study Exchange for 2012 will be with District 2100 in beautiful Italy! The team has been chosen and are now in training! All ladies and all Aggies! Watch out Italy!! See the GSE HOME PAGE for more information. Travel dates for the Team will be April 30 to June 1, 2012. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
The Rotary Clubs of District 5910 received a record number of grants - both in the number of grants awarded and the dollar amounts funded - at the Foundation and Membership Seminars held on Septemebr 17th. See all the details on the DSG Home Page . CONGRATS to all 21 clubs! | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Past District Governor Hugh Summers responds to requests for information on how we can help with the fires currently wrecking havoc on our state. PDG Hugh is our Zone and District Disaster Chair for 2011-2012. "A donation can be sent to The Rotary Club of Palestine or The American Red Cross of Anderson County, Texas, or The Texas Area Fund Foundation, District 5910 Donor Advised Fund, c/o District 5910 & Zone 21b & 27 Disaster Chairman PDG A Hugh Summers, P O Box 1399, Palestine, TX 75802-1399. Any preferences on how the money should be spent should be included in the transmittal. The Red Cross and TX Area Fund are both 5 0 1 c 3s (I do not know if the District 5870 Keyway Account mentioned below is a 501 c 3) in case a tax deduction is needed." | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Our Youth Exchange Students have arrived !!
This year we welcome students from
Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Thailand.
Host clubs are Aggieland, Beaumont, Galveston, Lake Conroe, League City,
Livingston, Nacogdoches, Palestine, and The Woodlands.
Howdy Ya'll ! | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Important News to all Club Presidents/Club Secretaries and Attendance Managers! ClubRunner enabled automatic database integration with Rotary International on November 1, 2010. This means that all member data updates (which your club chooses to share) will be automatically updated on Member Access at RI's Headquarter databases within 2 hours, without the need to send any email notifications or enter the data via rotary.org. This is a powerful new tool for Rotarians to streamline reporting to Rotary International. Each club must "Opt-In" in order to take advantage of this service.
Instructions for Opting In are available on this site on the admin page, once you sign in. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride on Jun 22, 2011
In the 1920's, the Hull-Daisetta area was a booming oil field. Once the Rotary Club was established there, they realized there was not only a shortage of residents, but they did not have a place to meet. As enterprising Rotarians, they built a small structure in which to hold their meetings. It was a six-sided building, with a peaked roof, a brick fireplace, and a lean-to on the outside that acted as the kitchen. The location served them well for a number of years, but as the oil business dried up, so did the Rotary Club there.
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A Bulletin for Rotary Clubs and Districts from Rotary International:
What follows is not tax advice, but general information, which may be useful.Questions regarding any tax matters need to be referred to local counsel, your tax adviser or to the IRS. (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov or 1-800-829-1040) General questions about this bulletin can be answered by your Club and District Support representative at wwwRotary.org/ClubDistrictReps | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride on Jun 22, 2011
"We Live in the present, We Dream of the future, But we Learn from the past." Have a question about Paul Harris, or something that happened in 1952 in Rotary? The Rotary Global History Fellowship website probably has trhe answer.
Take a tour of this awesome site and you'll come away with a better understanding of who we are, and how we became
the global community that we are today. | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride on Mar 05, 2011
District 5910 Ambassadorial Scholarship Program Information and News | | Posted by Kris Nordstrom McBride
Tom Plumb of The Port Isabel, Texas Rotary Club spent over 4 years
pursuing the creation of a Texas Rotary International license plate.
They are now a reality.
The specialty license plate fee is collected in addition to
the regular registration fee and any other applicable fees.
From the $30 specialty plate fee, $22 goes to the Texas Department of State
Health Services to help fund Tuberculosis (TB) prevention and for improving
the delivery of TB prevention and control services.
This plate is available for Passenger,Truck, Motorcycle, Trailer/Travel Trailer, and
Private Bus.The plate can be purchased on-line at the TxDMV website. Texas DMV Link - Click Here
Buy a Rotary license plate and you support a mobile billboard for our great organization.
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