COMING SOON IN THE BARKER

At the Membership Committee meeting last week one idea we had was to resume the old column "Know Your Fellow Rotarians" and learn how our own members joined and what Rotary means to them. When a  questionnaire comes to you by email please respond so we can get to know you better. Here is an old one from the year 2003. You can see that Kathy's bio needs to be updated, and so it shall be next time round.
--Peggy

KNOW YOUR FELLOW ROTARIANS

One of the friendliest members of our Rotary Club is Kathy DeYoung. There's more to her than you might realize at first, though. On the one hand she's very orderly and businesslike---for instance, back in kindergarten, in Chicago, (where she met her future husband, Bruce), she already planned to be a bookkeeper, and she did grow up to be a CPA. And on the other hand she would hop on a plane in a minute if it were headed for a fun vacation at Martha's Vineyard or Cape Cod near old friends back east. She has a large extended family and they have gone on several cruises together and meet in fun places around thecountry. She learned to play pinochle when she was four.

During the 60's her south side Chicago high school had police stationed in the halls because of riots. When she was in college she sewed all her clothes.

She lived on the eastern tip of Long Island for 10 years while Bruce was a professor at Cornell. They moved to Oregon in 1988. Jim Jordan invited her to join Rotary and she was our first woman president. She and Bruce spent several months in New Orleans a few years ago and Kathy had fun with the music and fine food. She took some classes at the Louisiana School of Cooking and orders special seasonings from them online.

Kathy totally enjoys tax season and her favorite part is visiting with wonderful people. Her accounting firm is merging with Anderson, Searcy, Magedanz and Crowe July 1st so she'll have more time to travel, read and go to the coast. Rotary will give her the opportunity to see different parts of the country as she visits clubs and District Governors throughout the US talking about the workbook that is being developed to help club
administration.

She hopes her children learn that hard work pays off, that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, that keeping a sense of humor will get you through life and that contributing back to your community will bring a great sense of satisfaction.

2010 RYLARIANS

A picture of our 2010 Rylarians at our September 14th meeting. 

PHILOMATH CLUB HISTORY - by Don Malcom

We’ve been reading throughout August about Membership and Rotary Extension. I thought it might be interesting today to present some club history.

Philomath Rotary was chartered in February 1982. However, the “Provisional” club organization was started in 1980. Corvallis Rotary made a study of the feasibility for Rotary Extension in Philomath, with Mark Terrill as the Governors Representative leading the study. The District Governor determined that there was probably not enough interest in Philomath to form a club here. However, Mark Terrill would not accept that. He kept beating the bushes to find at least 20 potential members, the minimum required to form a club.

We finally found 20 potential members and proceeded to choose a club name. In that era, Rotary clubs were assigned “territories” from which they could draw members. Our territory was “anyone who lived or worked in Benton County”. Therefore we decided that our name  should be the Benton County Rotary Club. Rotary International (RI) squashed that idea, saying that the name should be a more specific geographical name. Since we were meeting in  Philomath, it was decided for us that we become Philomath Rotary.

The next step was to submit the names and classifications of the members to RI. One of our  members, Jim Vomocil, was an OSU Professor of Soil Science. His classification was submitted as Soil Scientist…and his was the only classification that was questioned by RI.

After about 18 months as a Provisional Club we were finally granted a charter with 20 members. Over the years our membership has been as high as 35 and as low as the low 20’s. To paraphrase a well-known comic who said, “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor and I’d rather be rich”; I would say, “I’ve seen high membership and I’ve seen low membership and I’d
rather us have high membership.” With 35 members we were able to accomplish more service
projects and fund-raisers, without every member feeling obligated to participate in each and every event. And having more members results in more ideas.

Here is a scary statistic...50% of our active membership are Past Presidents. It’s time for each  of us to concentrate on getting some new blood into our club.

WELCOME PARTY FOR TERESA DUCREY

Due to inclement weather, the welcoming party last week for Teresa Ducrey was moved to Gathering Together Farm (GTF).

Teresa and her “Welcomecake”.

Teresa, Karen and Wendy

Teresa’s host mom Heidi Braly, Peggy and Bruce.

And an oddly shaped GTF tomato.

Welcoming party Tuesday, Sept. 7th for our exchange student. Her name is Teresa Ducrey, she's 17, is from Switzerland, will be a junior and staying with Dave and Heidi Braly. More details next week.

It’s not too early to start thinking about attending next year’s International Convention. It will be held in New Orleans, May 21 – 25. It’s being held early to beat the June heat in New Orleans. This will be the last RI Convention in the US for 5 years. A registration discount is available until December 15. Also register for a hotel.

Please join your fellow Rotarians for the annual District Conference this April 28 - May1, 2011 at the Mill Casino in Coos Bay, OR as we see, hear and are inspired by the many ways Rotarians have and still are working in their communities and around the world.

ANOTHER ROTARY SONG

IFRM is the International Fellowship of Rotary Musicians. I'm a member and am on their mailing list. Don and I sang with them in the World Choir at Montreal this summer. Here's a song that is circulating that we might want to try in our club.
--Peggy Malcolm

The song detailed below, "The Rotary Way" was written by our piano player who just happens to be a Kiwanian....but he really enjoys playing for us at our meetings. I hope you are able to introduce this song to your club....it is great!! We always have a lot of fun singing it...
--Carol E. Smith, President
Bakersfield Twilight Rotary Club

“THE ROTARY WAY”
(Tune: By the Sea)
’Round the town, ’round the world,
Goes the Rotary wheel;
Seeking out, helping out,
Where the hurting is real.
When those needs come a’rolling in,
When it’s sink or swim,
We will be there with a helping hand
To cheer and to heal in the ROTARY WAY,
Are you down? Come on up!
Have a Rotary day!
Mis’ry..we’ll kill it,
We will find the need and fill it.
There is no way
Like the ROTARY WAY.

A loving gift from Wendell Kinney,
Songwriter Kiwanian