Holyoke Rotary Club, Inc.Club #6533, District #7890

P.O. Box 1396 • Holyoke, MA 01041-1396

THE TURBINE1915/16 2014/15

“Our Ninety Ninth Year”

OFFICERSJON LUMBRA, President

HELENE FLORIO, Vice President/President ElectVENUS ROBINSON, Second Vice President

STEVE KAPLAN, TreasurerBRITTNEY KELLEHER/BOB WOODILL, Secretary

DANIELLE LORD, Past President

DIRECTORSBILL ROGALSKI, Class of 2015

JAN SOJA, Class of 2015ROBERT DESNOYERS, Class of 2016

REBECCA MacGREGOR, Class of 2016JACOB PERKINS, Class of 2016DAVID GRIFFIN, Class of 2017

EDWARD McCARRON, Class of 2017KATHY VIENS, Class of 2017

The club meets Tuesdays, 12:15 p.m.at The Delaney House, north on Rte. 5, Holyoke

MAKE UP LOCATIONSMONDAY Chicopee 12:15 pm Hu-Ke Lau Restaurant, Rte. 33 Westfield 12:00 p.m. Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference Center Northampton 5:00 pm The Deck at Union StationTUESDAY West Springfield 12:15 pm Storrowtown Tavern Easthampton 6:10 pm Amy’s Place Broad Brook, CT 6:30 pm Sky DinerWEDNESDAY Ludlow 12:00 pm Villa Rose, 1428 Center Street Agawam 12:15 pm Storrowtown Tavern Enfield 12:15 pm Holiday Inn-BrightmeadowPlaza Franklin Cnty/Grnfield 6:00 pm Buckley Health Care Ctr. Southwick 6:15 pm Nora’s Restaurant Wilbraham-Hampden 6:15 pm Country Club of WilbrahamTHURSDAY Amherst 12:15 pm Amherst Brewing Company East Longmeadow 12:15 pm Twin Hills Country ClubFRIDAY Springfield 12:15 pm Basketball Hall of Fame, Mass Mutual Room

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PARTICIPANTS THIS MONTH

DATE: February 3, 2015INVOCATION: Marie SheedyHISTORY MOMENT*: presented by Carl EgerPROGRAM CHAIR: Barbara BaranPROGRAM SPEAKER: Greg Oliver from Project Grad at Dean Technical High School

DATE: February 10, 2015INVOCATION: Karen BlanchardPROGRAM CHAIR: Helen ArnoldPROGRAM SPEAKER: Carl Cameron, Chief Operating Office of Holyoke Medical Center will talk about changes at the medical center over the past year.

DATE: February 17, 2015INVOCATION: Christine BurnsHISTORY MOMENT*: presented by Michael MoriartyPROGRAM CHAIR: Kathy AndersonPROGRAM SPEAKER: Farid Khelfaoui, Director of SPARK, a Holyoke based organization focused on enabling entrepreneurs to achieve their goals.

DATE: February 24, 2015INVOCATION: Helene FlorioPROGRAM CHAIR: Rebecca MacGregorPROGRAM SPEAKER: Alison Berman and Molly Hoyt will speak about Girls on the Run, a unique 12 week after ‐school program led byspecially trained female coaches that guide and mentor girls through a fun, uplifting, and proven curriculum.

*In honor of the upcoming Centennial Celebration, we will have regular “History Moments,” brief “clips” of Holyoke Rotary history.

************************************************Member BirthdaysRoss O’Connell, Maureen Feb 09 Shealey, Glenn Feb 16 Woods, Gill Feb 16 O’Leary Sullivan, Eileen Feb 27Rotary AnniversaryWoods, Peggy 24 years Woods, Gil 24 years MacGregor, Rebecca 3 years Casey, Melissa 1 Year***********************************************Emily Post for Rotarians! Have you ever thought about how it looks to our “volunteer” speakers when you have to scoot? Soften the blow by introducing yourself to the speaker before the meeting and apologize in advance if you will have to scoot. There is nothing worse than being introduced and looking out as a table worth of people exits the room.***********************************************THE HISTORY OF ROTARY’S MOTTOESRotary’s official mottoes, Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best, trace back to the early days of the organization.

In 1911, He Profits Most Who Serves Best was approved as the Rotary motto at the second convention of the National Association of Rotary Clubs of America, in Portland, Oregon. It was adapted from a speech made by Rotarian Arthur Frederick Sheldon to the first convention, held in Chicago the previous year. Sheldon declared

that “only the science of right conduct toward others pays. Business is the science of human services. He profits most who serves his fellows best.”

The Portland convention also inspired the motto Service Above Self. During a convention outing on the Columbia River, Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, talked with Seattle Rotarian J.E. Pinkham about the proper way to organize a Rotary club, offering the principle his club had adopted: Service, Not Self. Pinkham invited Paul P. Harris, who also was on the boat trip, to join their conversation. Harris asked Collins to address the convention, and the phrase Service, Not Self was met with great enthusiasm.

At the 1950 RI Convention in Detroit, slightly

modified versions of the two slogans were formally approved as the official mot toes of Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and Service Above Self. The 1989 Council on Legislation established Service Above Self as the principal motto of Rotary, because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best was modified by the 2004 Council to They Profit Most Who Serve Best and by the 2010 Council to its current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves Best.***********************************************THE FOUR-WAY TESTIn 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created The Four-Way Test. The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:Of the things we think, say or do

Is it the TRUTH?Is it FAIR to all concerned?Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose con-vention speech inspired Rotary’s secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best.