Upcoming November Events

Nov 2 - Dr. Harold Martin, Winston-Salem State University
           
Nov 3 - Rotary District 7690 Foundation Banquet - High Point Country Club

Nov 7 - Board of Directors' Meeting (6 PM - Rotary Room

Nov 9 - "ACC Basketball Forecast" - Jeff Owens (pres. by Roy Collette & John Coulter)

Nov 16 - Rotary Foundation - PDG Stuart Fountain, Rotary District 7690 Rotary Foundation Chairman (pres. by Jeff Taylor)

Nov 18 - (Friday Evening) Rotary Founders Day Program - Club Holiday Social


Nov 23 NO MEETING - Happy Thanksgiving!
         

Nov 30 "Roundball Preview" - Basketball Coaches - East Forsyth & Glenn (pres. by Trish Gainey & Doc Coplin)

November is designated by Rotary International as "Foundation Month". A time for all Rotarians to pause and consider our commitment and support for this valuable entity in our Rotary life. Whether by making someone a Paul Harris Fellow or becoming a Benefactor, a positive impact on the world is made both immediately and for the long term.

A good measure of any man or woman is how far in the future they make plans for good. From paycheck to paycheck is the first level - a time measured in days. At a higher level it would be, for example, saving for your kid's college fund, or establishing a life insurance policy for your spouse - a time period perhaps measured in decades. Maybe the highest measure would be to plan and make arrangements for centuries ahead - for perpetuity. To consider that you and I, ordinary people, ordinary Rotarians, can make a difference in the world far in the future is a little beyond our usual day to day thinking. To consider making a contribution to the health and humanity of the world far in the future when no one will remember us or know who it was that made that little contribution way back in 2005 is, for our ego, a big turn-off. But all good and proper philosophies and religions teach that this is the course we should take - not for current human credit or peer recognition and applause but for an infinitely greater good - for an infinitely greater Audience.

November 2005 - no better time than now to move ourselves to the highest level. Arrange a Paul Harris Fellowship. We are watched. The examples we Rotarians set makes a difference.
Van Sherrill