President Bill Gentle Shares His Thoughts for the New Year

Posted by William R. Gentle

The Cheyenne Rotary Club has a full agenda planned for this summer, and I am certainly looking forward to everything.

Riana Perez and Chad Craig have put together a strong lineup of speakers for our meetings and I am sure you will enjoy them. The programs have always been a favorite of mine, we have had so many interesting speakers over the years it is a real challenge to continue at the same level, but I think Riana and Chad have met the challenge.

We will continue to begin every meeting with the Rotarian of the Week. Ted Adams has agreed to head up this effort and put together all of the information each week. It is a big job and I really appreciate his willingness to take it on.

Last year we began the Club Visioning effort at direction of the District. It has turned out to be a bigger job than we anticipated, but Lucie Osborn and Billie Addleman have put a tremendous amount of time into our Vision Document, and they will be presenting it to the club soon. It should serve as guidance for the Club over the next few years, and the challenge will be to keep it updated every year.

A number of years ago the Board of Directors ask all of the Committee Chairs to put together a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for their committee. Unfortunately, over time these were not kept up to date so in some cases whenever a new person took over a committee they had to start over. This spring the Board ask all of the Committee Chairs to put together a new set of SOP’s and we plan to make sure they are maintained and revised if needed every year.

We will have a number of fun activities this summer. The Club Picnic will be at Children’s Village of the Botanical Gardens on August 21^st. Carol Rookstool and her committee have planned a wonderful event. Make sure this is marked on your calendar.

Since there will be no meeting on the Wednesday prior to the Picnic the New Member committee has scheduled a Polio fund raiser at the Texas Road house at noon on August 17^th. Jamie Markus, Lorie Millin and the other new members have put a lot of effort into this, and hopefully they will raise as lot of money for the Rotary Polo effort.

The World Community Service Committee is working hard on the Moonlight Cowboy Bike Ride, which will be held on August 6^th. Last year was the inaugural event and it was a huge success, and the plans for this year are for an even bigger event. 60% of the funds raised will go to World Community Service projects, and 40% will go directly to the Club Budget. They have a new route set up this year and it will be a fun, fun event.