President Ron's Goals for the Year

President Ron struck the gavel for the first time last week starting his year as our Rotary club president.  After doing so, he unveiled the new podium he and George McIlvaine made for our club with the help of Billie Addleman who provided the Rotary Logo.

For the past few weeks we have already witnessed some of the Audio Visual changes he has instituted.  Each week there will be rotating slide show before the meeting for current and future events and items of interest.  The songs will be posted on the screen as opposed to using the old well-worn songbooks.  We are on Facebook and have a good web presence.  He would like us all to take advantage of these and learn how to use  them to communicate with our club members.

The “Rotarian of the Week” has been replace with the monthly  “Spotlight on a Rotarian”.  The purpose will be to continue to introduce fellow Rotarians to the club membership so that we can learn more about each other.

Instead of the Moonlight Cowboy Ride  the club will raffle a 2013 Ford Mustang provided by Spradley Barr.   Thank you Bob Womack, who has donated a portion of the cost of the car.  Only 400 tickets at $100 each will be sold.  The proceeds will  go to both the World Community Service Committee projects and the local Cheyenne Rotary Foundation.

President Ron feels very strongly about increasing our giving to the International Rotary Foundation.  This enables us to support the international projects as well as local projects such as the Boys and Girls Club and Botanical Gardens.  He would like to see every Rotarian give  $100 each year.  If this amount is not possible, he would like our club members to give something as every dollar helps.  Each cumulative $1000 donated earns the member Paul Harris recognition.

He would like to see us all support the Cheyenne Rotary foundation as well. The local foundation serves as the funding source for projects within our county.  The goal is to raise $1 million by our 100th anniversary as a club in 2018.

President Ron would also like to see more of our club members taking advantage of Rotary Leadership Institute training and participating in the District Assembly meetings.

President Ron is “Rotary Proud” to be our president for the next Rotary Year. He wants your help to make our club the best it can be.