Five months to go, but who’s counting? And I think the last five months may be more challenging than the first seven. I still have six clubs to visit and will work to finish that in February.

So, what makes the last 5 months so challenging? For me, there are multiple events be-tween now and the end of June. Those events include The $1 Mil-lion Dinner on March 16th, Lone Star Rotary PETS in Dallas, The Rotary International Convention in Bangkok, Thailand May, 6-9, RYLA Camp June 4-8, Diabetic Camp also in June, and The District 5730 Conference June 8, 9, and 10 in Ruidoso, NM.

Here’s the rundown. The $1 Million Dinner is on for March 16th in Lubbock, Texas at the Texas Tech Club in Jones Stadium on the campus of Texas Tech University. This event seeks to raise at least $1 Million for the Permanent Fund of The Rotary Foundation. Our guest speaker is the current Chair-man of the Board of Trustees of The Rotary Foundation Bill Boyd coming in all the way from Auckland, New Zealand to be with us. Momentum is gaining and growing for this event with new Bequest Society members joining daily. The table cap-tains are filling their tables so IF you want to be part of this event, do not wait to be contacted! PLEASE call me at 806-679-9326 and I can explain how it works and get you signed up.

Lone Star Rotary PETS in Dallas is March 22-25 in Dal-las. In addition to DGE Paul Anderson and the 51 Rotary Club Presidents Elect from D5730, PDG Cesar Caro (Sweetwater), Rotarian Jack Campbell (Midland West), and I will serve as Dis-cussion Leaders. Additionally, Joe Campbell and Johnny Woods (both from Midland West) will serve as Rangers at PETS. Our special guests at PETS is RI President Elect Sakuji Tanaka from the Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan.

The Rotary International Convention is in Bangkok, Thailand May 5-9. Candy and I will be there with RI President Kalyan Banerjee and Binota and all our friends from around the world.

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Rotary Youth Leadership Award Camp is June 4-8 at Lone Tree Ranch in Capitan, NM. Camp Director Ken McIntosh and his crew are already hard at work rounding up eligible campers and getting ready to go with the greatest leadership camp in the country. The District 5730 Diabetic Camp follows shortly thereafter at Ceta Canyon outside of Happy, Texas.

The Rotary District 5730 Conference is June 8, 9, and 10 in Ruidoso, NM. This is not your normal District Confer-ence! It will be inspirational, motivational, and fun! Details will follow soon however I AM pleased to announce that the President’s Representative is PDG Satish Chand “Mark” Mar-kanda from Charlotte, NC. Mark’s Rotary resume is outstand-ing and I look forward to his presence among us.

Most notable for the Rotary District 5730 Conference will be the presence of my friend Paul Martinelli for a keynote address on Saturday. Paul is the most dynamic man I know and he is my friend. Google him or go to www.paulmartinelli.net and get to know him. This will be THE highlight of the Conference.

And somewhere amidst all this activity, DGE Paul An-derson will have his D5730 Leadership Training Seminar, the D5730 Assembly, and whatever else he needs to do. I AM here to support you, Paul!

David Norris Rotary International District 5730 Governor 2011-2012

District Governor’s Message

My dear brothers and sisters in Rotary,

At Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C., stands a memo-rial to the Seabees, formally known as the U.S. Naval Construction Force. An inscrip-tion reads, “With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the im-possible takes a bit longer.”

In Rotary, we already have our own mottoes. If we didn’t, I might be given to nominate those two lines. The power of combined effort, as Paul Harris once wrote, knows no limitation. When we work together, the im-possible becomes possible.

I thought of this when I read, a few months ago, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the premier medical journal in the United States. Titled “The Polio End-game,” it outlined a strategy for a post-polio era, including managing post-eradication risks.

Thirty years ago, such an article could never have been published. Today, it is a testament to the power of dedi-cation, of persistence, and of combined effort. The impossible has, indeed, become possible. A post-polio world, once the stuff of dreams, will soon be here.

My friends, the day that polio will be eradicated is close at hand. We have to be ready for it with a powerful Ro-tary – a Rotary of enthusiasm and confidence, of bold vision and clear ambitions. It is time for us to prepare by taking an honest look at our clubs. Are our projects meaningful, sustain-able, and relevant? Are our meetings productive and enjoya-ble? Are our clubs welcoming to new members, and are our schedules and events friendly to young families? And once people join us, do we welcome them properly, involve them enough? Do we make them a part of the family of Rotary quickly enough?

The figures tell us that while enough new individuals join Rotary every year and everywhere, too many exit Rotary, on an ongoing basis. What unfulfilled hope do they leave with? What expectations are we not meeting? Can we do more and better?

Areas of Focus are The Causes That Drive Rotary

Areas of focus are the causes that drive Rotary. We are now halfway through the pilot of our Future Vision Plan, and as I look to the future I think the most signifi-cant change will be the adoption of the six areas of focus -- and not just for our Foun-dation. I recently heard RI Director Stuart Heal, the chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, say that our areas of focus fit very comfortably into our RI Strategic Plan.

Today’s generation supports causes rather than or-ganizations, and so we in Rotary should be able to clearly identify the causes that drive us. When somebody asks you what Rotary is, you do not have to fumble for words. Tell the person that we are an organization of service-minded individ-uals around the world who are working to make the world a better place with our efforts in water and sanitation, basic education and literacy, maternal and child health, disease prevention and treatment, economic and community devel-opment, and peace and conflict resolution. You can say that in 20 seconds!

You can see how this may bring new members to Rotary and increase the giving to our Foundation. If you ap-proach corporations for a contribution, they are much more likely to respond if they know how their money will be spent, and that we will spend it wisely. We are building on a strong record of performance over a long period of time. Bill Gates has said as much on a number of occasions. He has shown his faith in us through his significant gifts for polio eradication.

While I am writing this from a Foundation perspec-tive, the membership factor should not be overlooked. Plenty of organizations talk about issues, but Rotary is about action, not words.

Bill Boyd

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The RI President’s Monthly Message Now is the time to focus our energies on our clubs, and on the way people see them. It is time to show our com-munities that the Rotary of today is not the Rotary of their preconceptions. Rotary is a way to connect, to do more, to be more – it is a way to take our idealism and our vision, and turn them into reality.

Kalyan Banerjee

The Trustee Chair’s Monthly Message

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As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.

To Date To Date Total Cases 2012 2011 2010 Globally 8 652 1352 in endemic countries: 8 342 232 in non-endemic countries: 0 310 1120

New Polio Cases Reported in January India 0, Nigeria 1, Pakistan 5, Afghanistan 0, Niger 1

2011 Polio Case Breakdown by Country: (Green Numbers Are 2010 Totals) Endemic Countries: 1 India (42), 58 Nigeria (21), 197 Pakistan (144), 80 Afghanistan (25) Importation Countries: 5 Angola (33), 132 Chad (26), 92 DRC (100), 7 Mali (4), 0 Mauri-tania (5), 0 Nepal (6), 0 Kazakhstan (1), 6 Niger (2), 0 Russian Federation (14), 0 Senegal (18), 0 Sierra Leone (1), 0 Tajikistan (458), 0 Turkmenistan (3), 0 Uganda (4), 1 Congo (384), 1 Ga-bon (0), 36 Cote d’Ivore (0), 3 Guinea (0), 0 Liberia (2), 1 Kenya (0), 21 China (0), 3 CAR (0), 1 Cameroon (0)

PolioPlus: Rotary’s Permanent Gift to The Children of The World.

$203.7 Mil Now Raised to Exceed The Polio Challenge

6,000,000 Children Saved from Polio Since 1985.

Polio Eradication January Update

Well, it is time to start thinking about RYLA for next year. RYLA 2012 will happen June 4-June 8 at Lone Tree Ranch in New Mexico.

Our committee has met four times already this fall and we have selected a theme, set a budget, and updated all the forms. A RYLA 2012 Packet has been mailed to all Club Presidents.

Our theme for 2012 is this –

COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP: ACHIEVING MARVELOUS SUCCESS AND SERVICE

Last year, we built a camp experience around the theme of Transformers. This year we will be building the RYLA experience around the theme of Marvel comic heroes.

Once again, John Scott is the chair of the RYLA plan-ning committee, and I am honored to serve another year as the RYLA Camp Director.

Look for future updates as we move toward the event next June.

Even though the deadline for early camper fees is March 15, this is a reminder that you can get your camper names and fees to us any time. The fees are the same as last year -- $450 per camper mailed prior to March 15; and then $500 per camper if mailed after March 15.

This deadline also is deadline for the various forms -- application, health, and code of conduct forms.

We must have all registration forms and fees by May 7. So far, we have received 26 names and fees.

We need a minimum of 100 campers for this camp to be successful and to pay for itself.

Please send names, fees and forms to: Debbie Wegman, 215 W. 3rd. St, Big Spring, TX 79720

You can direct questions to Ken McIntosh at revkm@yahoo.com

Camp RYLA 2012

Register now for 2012 RI Convention in Bangkok, Thailand for an unforgettable experience in the Land of a Thousand Smiles! To at-tend the convention and experience the fellowship of Rotary at an in-ternational level : Check the preliminary schedule to help plan your trip. Register for the convention and ticketed events Reserve your hotel room online or by filling out the reservation

form Reserve group housing Explore alternative housing opportunities Download pricing information Download visa forms Download the 2012 RI Convention promotional brochure (also avail-

able in Thai and Chinese .) Visit the Host Organization Committee's website for more infor-

mation on host events Purchase host event tickets Pre-register for the 2012 RI Convention by 1 December 2011 for the most economical pricing of 160 USD for most registrants. After 1 December the price will increase to 195 USD until 1 March 2012, when it will in-crease to the on-site price of 245 USD. After that register for the convention by submitting the downloadable reg-istration form by 1 March or online via Member Access through 30 April. Reserve your hotel room through Experient. Reservations are taken on a first-come, first-served basis, so please book early to secure your preferred hotel. Booking for RI Convention housing begins Saturday, 21 May 2011. Confirmations will be issued beginning in June. Contact Experient by e-mail, phone, fax, or online for the latest housing availability and other infor-mation. Return your completed reservation form to Experient by 17:00 Central Daylight Time 6 April 2012 . All housing changes and inquiries must be made directly with Experient by 17 April .

E-mail: rotary@experient-inc.com (for correspondence only) Phone: 800-650-6913 (toll-free in North America) or 847-996-5885

Fax: 847-996-5401 Mail: Experient

568 Atrium Drive Vernon Hills, IL 60061

Local Rotarians on the Host Organization Committee (HOC) have arranged several cultural excursions and host hospitality events to help visiting Rotarians enjoy their stay in Bangkok. Continue your convention ex-perience by taking a host-sponsored tour before or after the convention. Some of these events have limited ca-pacities, so be sure to purchase your tickets early.

Please note that you must register for the convention in order to purchase tickets for host events and tours.

Information: http://www.rotary.org/en/Members/Events/Convention/Pages/ridefault.aspx?housead

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It is time to consider nominations for District Governor for the Rotary year 2014 – 2015. All nominations must be post mark by March 30, 2012.

The guidelines and instructions as established will be followed in nominating a Rotarian for Governor. These are attached with this newsletter and are also posted on the district website: www.ridistrict5730.org,

Article III. Nominations Committee of “District 5730 Rotary International By Laws” approved May 14, 2005 (pages 1-3). Protocol for Nominating a District Governor Governor –Nominee Data Form

Nominations must be mailed to the District Committee Chair PDG César M. Caro. Please mail to:

PDG César M. Caro District Nomination Committee Chair

100 Mesquite Court Sweetwater, Tx 79556

If you have any questions, please contact DG David Norris or PDG César Caro.

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District Governor Nomination 2014 - 2015

Lone Star Presi-dents-elect training is a program to prepare YOU as an in-coming Rotary club president for a confi-dent leadership role… to help YOU build YOUR club team… to help provide insight into recognizing and meeting the needs of YOUR community… to bring YOU current with

the recognized programs of Rotary International… and to pro-vide YOU with resources and materials that will help guide YOU through the year while serving as Club President.

Lone Star P.E.T.S. 2012 will be held at the Hyatt Regency DFW, located inside the Dallas-Fort

Worth Airport March 22 - 25

Register on-line at: http://www.lonestarpets.org

Howdy!

My name is Jack Campbell and I am the Youth Exchange Officer for Rotary District 5730. I know that everyone is always looking for a speaker for their club meetings, and it’s that time of year for the Youth Exchange Committee to reach out to the clubs in our

district and offer to do a presentation at your club meetings. If you are interested in having someone from the committee come talk to your Rotary club, please email me at Jack@RYE5730.org and we will setup a time. If you have not heard of the wonderful opportunities for your club involving Youth Exchange, contact me today.

Thanks,

Jack W. Campbell Youth Exchange Officer Rotary District 5730 P.O. Box 1331 Midland, Texas 79702 Jack@RYE5730.org direct line (432) 262-1333 Cell Phone (432) 528-1191 fax line (432) 683-2217

Presidents Elect Training Seminar Youth Exchange Program

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The $1 Million Dollar Dinner will be Friday, March 16, 2012 at the Texas Tech Club in Jones Stadium on the campus of Texas Tech University. Past Rotary International President and current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rotary Foundation Bill Boyd will be our guest for that event honoring people who make a current bequest or major donation to TRF.

There are many different ways to structure your gifts, so please get with either:

PDG Roger Sepulveda - District Foundation Chair 806.681.7537

sepulveda-rj@sbcglobal.net

or

David Norris - District Governor 806.679.9326

dnorris@happybank.com

One Million Dollar Dinner 2012 District Conference

The 2012 District Conference will be held on the 8th, 9th and 10th of June 2012 in Ruidoso, New Mexico. This will be a celebration of Rotary, Rotarians, and our accomplish-ments during Rotary Year 2011-2012. Don’t miss out on this wonderful event and mark your calendar and reserve the dates.

January: Future Vision

“You can view the glass as half full or half empty on the topic of Future Vision. However, as we have worked through the steps needed to qualify our clubs and district, smaller clubs have begun to embrace the process and actively seek ways to work with other clubs, both within and outside our district, to create larger, more sustainable projects. Thou-sands upon thousands of people can be positively impacted by such projects and then we can truly claim that we are living up to our mission of Doing Good in the World. I challenge Rotari-ans to think big about the Future Vision Plan.”

Rotarian Cecelia Babkirk

Foundation Thoughts

What Paul Harris Said

“What is Rotary? Thou-

sands have made answer each in

his own way. It is easier to note

what Rotary does than what it is.

One recently has said, “If Rotary

has encouraged us to take a more

kindly outlook on life and men; if

Rotary has taught us greater toler-

ance and the desire to see the best

in others; if Rotary has brought us

pleasant and helpful contacts with

others who also are trying to capture and radiate the

joy and beauty of life, then Rotary has brought us all

that we can expect.”

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Rotary International has succeeded in meeting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s US$200 million match in fund-ing for polio eradication, raising more than $202.6 million as of 17 January.

“We’ll celebrate this milestone, but it doesn’t mean that we’ll stop raising money or spreading the word about polio eradication,” Rotary Foundation Trustee John F. Germ told Rotary leaders at the International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “We can’t stop until our entire world is certi-fied as polio-free.”

The fundraising milestone was reached in response to $355 million in challenge grants awarded to The Rotary Foun-dation by the Gates Foundation. All funds have been ear-marked to support polio immunization activities in affected countries where the vaccine-preventable disease continues to paralyze children.

“In recognition of Rotary’s great work, and to inspire Rotarians in the future, the [Gates] foundation is committing an additional $50 million to extend our partnership,” said Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer of the Gates Foundation. “Rotary started the global fight against polio, and continues to set the tone for private fundraising, grassroots engagement, and maintaining polio at the top of the agenda with key poli-cymakers.” Raikes also addressed Rotary leaders at the Inter-national Assembly.

The new $50 million grant from the Gates Foundation is not a challenge grant.

Since 1988, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99 percent, from about 350,000 cases annually to fewer than 650 cases reported so far for 2011. The wild po-liovirus is now endemic in only four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. However, India on 13 January marked a full calendar year without a case, paving the way for its removal from the endemic list.

But other countries also remain at risk for polio cases imported from the endemic countries. In Africa in 2011, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo had significant out-breaks. Also in 2011, a small cluster of polio cases in China, which had been polio-free for a decade, was traced to Paki-stan.

Rotary Challenge Reaches 200 Million

Rotary club members not only reached into their own pockets to support the Gates challenge, but also engaged their communities in a variety of creative fundraising projects, such as a fashion show in California that raised $52,000, benefit film screenings in New Zealand and Australia that netted $54,000, and a pledge-supported hike through Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, that brought in $38,000. Many events were planned around 24 October, widely observed as World Polio Day.

To date, Rotarians worldwide have contributed more than $1 billion toward the eradication of polio, a cause Rotary took on in 1985. In 1988, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion joined Rotary as spearheading partners of the Global Po-lio Eradication Initiative. More recently, the Gates Foundation has become a major supporter. In 2007, the Gates Foundation gave Rotary a $100 million challenge grant for polio eradica-tion, increasing it to $355 million in 2009. Rotary agreed to raise $200 million in matching funds by 30 June 2012.

Reaching children with the oral polio vaccine in the disease’s remaining strongholds is labor- and resource-intensive due to a host of challenges, including poor infra-structure, geographical isolation, armed conflict, and cultural misunderstanding about the eradication campaign.

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RI President-elect Sakuji Tanaka will ask Rotarians to build Peace Through Service in 2012-13.

Tanaka un-veiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2012 Internation-al Assembly, a train-ing event for incom-ing Rotary district governors.

"Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary," he said. "Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic strug-gles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways."

Peace has different meanings for different people, Tanaka said.

"No definition is right, and no definition is wrong," he said. "However we use the word, this is what peace means for us.

"No matter how we use, or understand the word, Ro-tary can help us to achieve it," he added.

Tanaka, a businessman from the greater Tokyo metro-politan area, shared how becoming a Rotarian broadened his understanding of the world. After joining the Rotary Club of Yashio, in 1975, he said, he began to realize that his life's pur-pose was not to make more money, but to be useful to other people.

"I realized that by helping others, even in the simplest of ways, I could help to build peace," Tanaka said.

He noted that the Japanese tradition of putting the needs of society above the needs of the individual helped his country rebuild after the tsunami and earthquake in March.

2012—2013 RI Theme

"This is a lesson that I think the whole world can learn from, in a positive way. When we see the needs of others as more important than our own needs -- when we focus our energies on a shared goal that is for the good of all -- this changes everything," he said. "It changes our priorities in a completely fundamental way. And it changes how we under-stand the idea of peace."

Tanaka will ask Rotarians to focus their energy on supporting the three priorities of the RI Strategic Plan , he said. He added that he will ask the incoming leaders to pro-mote three Rotary peace forums, to be held in Hiroshima, Ja-pan; Berlin; and Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

“In Rotary, our business is not profit. Our business is peace,” he said. “Our reward is not financial, but the happi-ness and satisfaction of seeing a better, more peaceful world, one that we have achieved through our own efforts.”

Celebration Event: Rotary International District 5730 $1 Million Dinner Date: Friday, March 16, 2011

Location: The Tech Club in Jones Stadium on the campus of Texas Tech University

Guest Speaker is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Rotary Foundation and Past Rotary International President Bill Boyd.

The simplest way to describe the $1 Million Dinner is this. We seek to raise at least $1 Million for the Permanent Fund of the Rotary Foundation. The Permanent Fund is the Foundation’s endowed fund, with gifts held in

perpetuity. Spendable earnings from the fund supplement the Annual Programs Fund and support Rotary’s

highest priorities, including global grants and the Rotary Peace Centers. The Foundation has set a goal of $1 billion in Permanent Fund assets by 2025, ensuring its capacity to meet future needs.

The simplest way for us to do this is by joining the Bequest Society of The Rotary Foundation with a Level 1

minimum bequest of $10,000. Current members of the Bequest Society may attend with an additional bequest to the next recognition level.

There are 10 Event Captains. Each captain makes a qualifying bequest of $10,000 and recruits nine other individuals (or couples) to do the same. Ten bequests at $10,000 each is $100,000…. times 10 Event Captain

doing the same thing equals our target $1 Million.

An individual may make the bequest of $10,000 minimum.

An individual donor may bring a guest without the guest making a donation.

A couple may make a joint bequest of $10,000 minimum.

Donors typically support the Permanent Fund through outright and planned gifts. In addition to bequests

commitments, other opportunities include Life Insurance, Marketable Securities, Real Estate, and Charitable

Trusts or Annuities. Permanent Fund recognition opportunities also include Bequest Society, Major Donor, Arch C. Klumph Society. Help with more details using these opportunities is available.

Contributions to The Rotary Foundation make it possible for clubs to transform lives worldwide. Your generous

support funds projects in Rotary’s six areas of focus:

Peace and conflict prevention/resolution Maternal and child health

Disease prevention and treatment Basic education and literacy Water and sanitation Economic and community development

Formal Invitations for you and your spouse or guest to the dinner will be mailed upon receipt of your written commitment or outright gift.

Questions…Contact: - DG David Norris (Amarillo) (806)679-9326 - Roger Sepulveda (Borger) (806)681-7537 - Susan Brints (Metropolitan Lubbock) (806)781-1753 - Dianne Anderson (Midland West) (432)684-4560

Deadline for Paperwork & Outright Gifts: 1 March 2012 Mail of Fax all Paperwork & Mail Outright Gifts to:

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International Attention: Sean Allen 1560 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL 60201 Fax 847.528.3260

Bequest Society Form: http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/098en.pdf Sample Codicil: http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/codicil_us.pdf

DAVID NORRIS Rotary International

District 5730

District Governor

2011-2012

1004 Crockett

Amarillo, TX 79102

Cell: (806) 679-9326

Fax: (809) 418-2078

E-Mail: dnorris@happybank.com

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Governor-nominee Data Form

District governor candidate: Please complete and sign this form, have your club secretary sign it, and submit it to the district nominating committee.

Governor year of service District Zone

Family name First name Middle initial

Call name as it should appear on your badge

Male Female Single Spouse/Partner Widowed Divorced

Member, Rotary Club of

(official name of club, including country)

RI membership ID number Year you first joined Rotary

Current (or former, if retired) classification

Per RI Bylaws 15.070.3, a qualified Rotarian must have served a full term as club president, or as charter president from the date of charter to 30 June (six-month minimum), at the time of nomination.

Rotary club(s) Length of membership Rotary year served as president

Years -

Years -

Phone (include country/city or area codes) Fax (include country/city or area codes)

Residence Residence

Business Business

Mobile E-mail address (RI's preferred mode of contact for correspondence and publication in Official Directory and International Assembly Participants book) ___________ Preferred mailing address* *If this address is a post office box, please provide an alternate address for courier delivery.

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Country Language Preferences Language(s) you wish to use for communicating with RI (listed in order of fluency):

Read ___________ Speak ___________

For each of the following, please choose one only:

International Assembly sessions English French Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish

Rotary publications produced in 6 languages English French Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish

Rotary publications produced in 9 languages English French German Italian Japanese Korean

Portuguese Spanish Swedish

Rotary publications produced in 14 languages Arabic Chinese English Finnish French German Hindi

Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish Swedish Thai

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Governor-nominee Data Form

Photos If you are selected as governor-nominee, RI will need a head-and-shoulders photograph of you and of your spouse/partner (individually, not as a couple) for the International Assembly Participants book. Digital photos in high-resolution .jpg format are preferred. E-mail your photo, along with your full name, district number, and the Rotary year in which you will serve, to dgn.photo@rotary.org. Photos are due by 30 June.

If you choose to submit a hard-copy photograph, it must measure at least 4 x 5 in./10 x 12.5 cm. The photo with your full name, district number, and the Rotary year in which you will serve clearly printed on the back must be submitted with this form.

Please indicate how your photos are being submitted:

Digital photos e-mailed to dgn.photo@rotary.org

Hard-copy photos attached (do not staple photo to this form)

Spouse/Partner Information (if applicable)

Male Female

Family name First name Middle initial

Name as it should appear on your badge

Phone E-mail Fax

Language fluency for International Assembly discussions (choose one): Chinese English French German Hindi Italian

Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish Swedish

Language preference for RI mailings (choose one): English French Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish

For Rotarian spouses only:

Spouse/Partner ID number

Member, Rotary Club of _________________________ (official name of club, including country)

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Governor-nominee Data Form All signatures on this page must be handwritten (electronic signatures are not acceptable).

CANDIDATE’S STATEMENT

I hereby state that I understand clearly the qualifications, duties, and responsibilities of the office of district governor as set forth in the RI Bylaws and that I am fully qualified for said office and willing and able, physically and otherwise, to assume and fulfill the duties and responsibilities of that office and to perform them faithfully. Further, I have read and agreed to abide by the district governor code of ethics, as detailed in the Rotary Code of Policies. I agree in advance to accept the decision of the RI Board concerning my election to office without recourse to any non-Rotary agency or other dispute resolution system and further accept that any court costs and attorney's fees incurred by RI in enforcing this agreement shall be reimbursed by me in their entirety. I understand that if selected, I must attend, for their full duration, the governors-elect training seminar in my zone and the International Assembly to be held the Rotary year before taking office. I have read this form in its entirety and certify that all the information provided on this form is true and correct.

________________________ __________________________________ Date Signature

CLUB’S STATEMENT OF CANDIDATE’S QUALIFICATIONS

The candidate herein mentioned is a member in good standing of the Rotary Club of . The club further attests that this member has been duly suggested for the office of district governor under RI Bylaws 13.020.4 and meets the qualifications as specified in RI Bylaws 15.070 and that the club membership information on this form is accurate.

_______________________ __________________________ _____________________________ Date Club Secretary’s Name Club Secretary’s Signature

CERTIFICATE OF DISTRICT NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The undersigned members of the District

Names

Nominating Committee hereby certify that the candidate whose name appears on this form, to the best of the committee’s knowledge, has not violated any of the rules on campaigning, electioneering, or canvassing as stipulated in RI Bylaws 10.060. (If the committee has more than five members, please attach a separate list.)

Signatures

CERTIFICATE OF NOMINATION

The Rotarian named on this form is a member in good standing of the Rotary club listed and was duly nominated for district governor in accordance with the provisions of the RI Bylaws.

_______________________ __________________________ _______________________________ Date District Governor’s Name District Governor’s Signature District governor: Please mail, fax, or e-mail this form to your CDS representative by 30 June.

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DISTRICT 5730

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

BY LAWS

APPROVED May 14, 2005 ARTICLE I. Purpose.

The purpose of Rotary District 5730 shall be to help individual Rotarians and Rotary Clubs advance the Object and Principles of Rotary. All Rotarians and Rotary Clubs of District 5730 shall be governed by the Constitution and By Laws of Rotary International and these By Laws.

ARTICLE II. Definitions. As used herein, the following terms have the following meaning: “RI” means Rotary International.

“The Board” means the duly elected and currently serving Board of Directors of Rotary International.

“The By Laws” means the duly adopted and current By Laws of Rotary International.

“Governor” means the duly elected and serving District Governor of Rotary International District 5730. “Governor Elect” means the duly selected District Governor Nominee of Rotary International District 5730 who will become District Governor on July 1 of the next ensuing calendar year. “Governor Nominee” means the duly selected District Governor Nominee of Rotary International District 5730 who will become District Governor Elect on July 1 of the next ensuing calendar year. “Treasurer” means the duly selected District Treasurer of Rotary International District 5730.

ARTICLE III. Nominations Committee.

Section 1. Responsibility.

The Nominations Committee has the responsibility to seek out and propose the best available candidate for Governor Nominee.

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Section 2. Composition.

(a) Subject to Sections 2 (b) and (c), the Committee shall be composed of the three Past District Governors who have most recently served as Governor who are living in the district and who are willing to serve, and two Past Club Presidents appointed by the Governor.

(b) No Rotarian shall serve on the committee for more than three consecutive years. (c) Each member of the committee must be a member of a different Rotary Club.

Section 3. Convener and Chair.

The Past District Governor who has most recently served as District Governor shall be convener and Chair of the Committee.

Section 4. Publication of Names of Members.

The names of committee members shall be posted on the district website or published in the District Directory, as the Governor may elect.

Section 5. Required Resignations.

(a) In the event a member of the committee is suggested as Governor Nominee, that

member shall immediately resign from the committee.

(b) In the event a Rotarian who is a member of the same Rotary Club as a member of the committee or who resides in the same city as a member of the committee, is suggested as Governor Nominee, that committee member shall immediately resign from the committee.

Section 6. Vacancies.

(a) In the event a Past District Governor member of the committee is required to resign or becomes unable or unwilling to continue to serve, the Past District Governor who has most recently served as Governor, who is living in the district, and who is willing to serve shall fill the vacancy. (b) In the event a Past Club President member of the committee is required to resign or becomes unable or unwilling to continue to serve, the Governor shall appoint a Past Club President to fill the vacancy.

Section 7. Quorum.

Three members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.

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Section 8. Nominations.

(a) Following the procedure set out in the By Laws, the Governor shall invite clubs to submit their suggestions for Governor Nominee.

(b) Such invitation shall outline the status, qualifications, and responsibilities of the

Governor.

(c) In submitting suggestions Clubs shall comply with the requirements of the By Laws.

(d) The committee is not limited in its selection to those Rotarians suggested by clubs.

Section 9. Interviews and Selection.

(a) The committee shall interview each prospective nominee and their spouse.

(b) The committee shall select the best qualified Rotarian who is available to serve.

Section 10. Election as Governor Nominee.

(a) The Governor shall comply with the By Laws in announcing to the clubs the Rotarian selected as Governor Nominee by the committee.

(b) If the selected Governor Nominee is not challenged as provided in the By Laws, the

Governor will declare and certify the nominee in accordance with the procedure required by the By Laws.

(c) If a challenge is made in accordance with the requirements of the By Laws, the

procedure set out therein shall be followed.

(d) After election at the RI Convention, the selected nominee shall become Governor Nominee.

Section 11. Campaigning.

All Rotarians shall observe the letter and spirit of the By Laws concerning campaigning, canvassing and electioneering.

Section 12. Election as Governor Elect. Upon election at the RI Convention, the Governor Nominee shall become Governor Elect.

ARTICLE IV. Governor’s Advisory Council.

Section 1. Members.

All Past District Governors residing in the district who remain active in district affairs shall be members of the Governor’s Advisory Council.

Protocol for Nominating a District Governor

If a club wishes to nominate a Rotarian for this position: 1st Read RI Bylaws starting at 15.070.1 for

qualification 2nd The nomination comes from the board after

presenting it to the club. 3rd Write a letter to the District Nomination

Chairperson stating this nomination with a copy of the board meeting minutes.

4th A letter and information will be sent to the

candidate.

CÉSAR M. CARO District Governor 2010-2011 Rotary International District 5730

100 Mesquite Court Sweetwater, TX 79556 Cell: (325) 864-3230 Fax: (325) 933-4243 E-Mail: cmcaro@live.com