Upcoming December Events

Dec 4 (Sunday) - Pancake Supper 4-7pm, Kernersville Elementary

Dec 7 - Doug Copeland - Publisher, The Business Journal (pres. by Tom Fitzgerald & Ken Flynt)

Dec 28 - Classification Talks

December is designated by Rotary International as "The Family of Rotary Month". It is a month for all Rotarians to recognize that we are a very large internationally connected family - not just our own personal family but connected all around the world. We sometimes need to stop and think of just how important the concept of family is to our own well being and to the well being of all the peoples of the world.

There was an exhibit in a museum that I once visited that showed the interconnectivity of all of humanity. It showed that for any two very different individuals even from different corners of the earth it was a certainty that within at least the last thirty or so generations those two individuals had a parent in common. We sometimes forget that we are all a part of the human family on this little planet in an obscure and insignificant part of a vast universe. It seems so dumb sometimes to see ourselves fighting amongst our own family. Perhaps that is what defines the human animal? But in Rotary we come to understand that there is a better side - a side of peace, understanding and mutual helpfulness that goes beyond petty differences among cousins, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. Rotary gives about 1.2 million of us a chance to recognize "family" for what it can be and gives us the mechanism to avoid the cheap and petty and gives us the opportunity to get on with the valuable and important. Rotary gives us the chance to make a positive difference in the way "our family" treats each other.

Thanks to Rotary for having us stop and think for a moment about "The Family of Rotary" and "The Family of Mankind" and our responsibilities to both -- as Rotarians.

Van Sherrill