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DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S NEWSLETTER VOLUME 1, ISSUE 12, PART 3

District Governor’s Message

Rotarian of the Year went to P Billie Addleman and PE Mark Wood. Willie Grauberger presented RIPR

Greg Podd with a clock with quarters from the four states in District 5440 made from beetle kill wood, while

our gift was Jim Steinberg’s Colorado Scenic Byways. DGE Mary McCambridge used a novel way to intro-

duce the site for her District Conference by getting audience participation in singing YMCA! Bryan & Carolyn

succeed in getting folks on the dance floor with a “Snowball Dance” to the theme song by the John Mills Or-

chestra. The Conference concluded at 11 pm with Bill Kehl leading us in song with “Auld Lang Syne.” Caro-

lyn & I want to thank Conference Chair Mark Wood and his Committee for making this one of the smoothest

run District Conferences! Thank you Team!

Bobbe Fitzhugh and Bill Moellenhoff led the Youth Exchange program and concluded with our theme song Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a wonderful World, singing and signing “Love in any Language” and “Let there be Peace on Earth.” Seventeen Clubs earned the RI Presidential RIP & Governor’s Citations. Nine Clubs earned the RIP Citation with Distinction and Jackson Supper Rotary Club earned RI’s Sig-nificant Achievement Award. RIP Citations were given to Five Interact Clubs and two Rotaract Clubs. ShelterBox Presidential Volunteer Service Award went to Tia Farmer, The Rotary Foundation Global Alumni Award went to Dr. Richard Kemme and as it is RYLA’s 25th Anniversary, 4 Pioneers and 17 Am-bassadors were honored.

Saturday Afternoon saw over 70 Youth Exchange, RYLA, Interactors & Rotaractors and Rotarians earn a

yellow T-Shirt that said “a brush with kindness” as they painted the Habitat for Humanity Office Building.

Both Live & Silent Auctions raised money for Polio. MC PP Dr. Douglas Armbrust invited Carolyn

Cooke to give the inspirational message and PAG Judy Boggs to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. MC

Mark Llewellyn then introduced our Mystery Speaker, Dr. A, the man from Comely Bank aka Paul Harris,

who remembered our fallen District Rotarians.


Upcoming EventsUpcoming EventsUpcoming EventsUpcoming Events

6/18/11 - Pirate Pig Roast - Passing of the District Gavel from DG Bryan to DG Mary

7/7/11 - DG Mary’s club visits begin with

Gillette-Energy, WY

Assistant Governor~Chuck Rutenberg

Chuck was born in Rochester, NY and spent the majority of his 31 year career at Kodak and Johnson & Johnson in Sales, Marketing and Finance. He moved to Fort Collins in 2000 where he is a partner in a small Financial Services Agency. Chuck joined the Rotary Club of Fort Collins in 2001 and served as President in 2007-2008. In 2007 he was honored as “Rotarian of the Year” by District 5440 and is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. Chuck is the District Chair for Club Visioning, a member of the District Membership Committee as well as a member of various club committees such as Fundraising, Public Relations and World Community Service. As part of the World Community Service Committee, Chuck travels to Gualan, Guatemala each year to work with the local Rotary Club on community projects. Chuck also served as President of Rocky Mountain RYLA, Chair of RYLA and YRYLA, and senior counselor at both RYLA and

YRYLA. He is also on the Board of Directors of SAINT and the Board of Directors of CARE Housing in Fort Collins. Chuck and his wife Lynn have a son who lives in Castle Pines, CO and three daughters who live in New Hampshire and New York State. They also have five grandsons, two granddaughters, and one grandchild on the way.

Chuck serves the Rotary clubs of Greeley.

Assistant Governor~Peter Youngers

Peter was born and raised in Kansas and graduated from Wichita State University with a BFA and MFA. He moved to Sterling, Colorado in 1965, when he joined the teaching staff of Northeastern Junior College. He was an instructor and served as Associate Dean for the Humani-ties and Human Services Division until his retirement in 2000. Pete continues to teach a stained glass class and assists in the art gallery at NJC. Peter joined the Sterling Rotary Club in 2001 and served as President in 2005-06. He is active in Rotary. He is on the NJC Foundation Board, the Alumni Heritage Center Committee and the Rundus Foundation. Pete continues to produce paintings, drawings and stained glass. His wife, Jeanne, helps in the glass studio and actively helps with Rotary activities. They have a son,

daughter and three grandsons. Pete serves the Rotary Clubs of Sedgwick County and Sterling.


It’s All About Membership! By Pat Butts, Membership Chair

For those of you who attended the 2011 Rotary District 5440 Conference in Greeley, CONGRATULATIONS! You were part of one of the best Rotary conferences this district has ever held. For those who missed out, mark your calendars for June 7-9, 2012 to be part of Mary’s conference in Estes Park, Co. You’ll be so glad you did!!! As your membership chair, I walked away from this conference with a renewed commitment to the value of Rotary in the work-ings of our world. From the generous hospitality extended by the Greeley Interact Club to our Teton Valley Interact students who attended the conference and those Greeley Rotarians who started off the conference with home hospitality in the finest tradition to the many inspiring presentations by former Rotary ambassadorial scholar recipients, to the poignant inspirations, to the featured speakers, everything focused on the value of Rotary. My appreciation to Phyllis Abt, incoming president of the Fort Collins Rotary Club and Scott Marr, Steamboat Springs Rotary Club’s Membership Chair for sharing insights and efforts to strengthen membership within our clubs during our membership breakout session. Watch for more contributions from these two fine Rotarians on the District 5440 website under membership. It takes members to keep this fine organization going (and members contributing to the Foundation to keep the projects moving forward). As we look to start the next Rotary year, think about how your club can strengthen and enhance your membership. Now is the time to plan for the year ahead. Picture yourselves crossing that stage to receive a president’s award (or just finishing out the year with the knowledge that this was the “best year yet” for your club) If there is any way your district membership committee can help you out, give me a shout. My e-mail is [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you.

Public Relations Tid-Bit

Every company, organization or commercial product has a “brand.” Rotary is no exception. Protect-ing the “brand” is an essential part of our public image when used properly. The words "Rotary" and "Rotary club," and the Rotary emblem are trademarks of Rotary International registered in over 60 countries. Did you know, for instance, that the word Rotary used on its own refers exclusively to the Rotary International organization? If the name Rotary is used in connection with any club or district activity, that entity’s name must be included: i.e. Rotary District 5440.

Today there are 27 authorized Rotary logos or emblems representing a variety of Rotary entities in-cluding Interact, Rotaract, RYLA and the Rotary Foundation. (The proliferation of Rotary logos is a growing concern at Rotary International as far more emphasis is being placed on Rotary’s worldwide identity.) But one thing will not change; the Rotary “wheel.” It was adopted in 1924 with 24 cogs and six spokes. A key-way was added to signify usefulness. Did you know that nothing can be added to the Rotary wheel nor can the wheel be obscured, placed over a picture or background, or elongated or misshapen in any way?

Before you design any signage, create any poster, produce any newsletter, brochure, business card or other printed or website graphic using Rotary trade-marked materials, log onto WWW.Rotary.org and type in 547-en for the English version of the RI Visual Identity Guide which governs the use of the Rotary marks.

Clubs, districts and Rotary Entities are urged to use the Rotary emblem subject to these official guidelines.

You can find downloadable versions of approved Rotary trademarked logos and graphics including various versions of the Rotary “wheel” at the Ro-tary website. Search “RI Logos and Graphics.” Help all of us promote Rotary at the local and international level by using these dynamic symbols of our or-ganization properly.

Rotary District 5440 PR Committee


The Moonlight Cowboy Ride will take participants on a summer evening bicycle ride throughout Cheyenne, with options for a 10-mile or 5-mile route. Entertainment, costume contest, a team challenge, prizes and breakfast will all be part of the event, truly unique to our community.

What it’s all about The Moonlight Cowboy Ride will be a fun family event that will reach the entire community and benefit the Rotary Club of Cheyenne. Created in 1919, the Rotary Club of Cheyenne funds international projects such as delivering clean water in Guatemala, Ghana and Nepal, assisted in funding dengue prevention and educa-tion in Guatemala, providing medical equipment to poor hospitals in Brazil and supporting the worldwide eradication of polio. Our Rotary Club also supports local projects such as the Cheyenne Children’s Garden, dictionaries for all third-graders in Laramie County, and an international student exchange program. Finally, the Moonlight Cowboy Ride will raise community awareness of the good work done by club members.

Sponsorships Being a sponsor of the Moonlight Cowboy Ride is not only a great way to support our Rotary Club and show your pride in Cheyenne, but it is also a valuable form of advertising. Your sponsorship will go directly to offset costs associated with this exciting event. The participants will be from all walks of life in our local community and the surrounding area. In addition to being a worthwhile marketing tool, your sponsorship will show your business’s civic pride and commit-ment to the Cheyenne way of life.

Donations/Volunteers To ensure the Moonlight Cowboy Ride continues to be a successful annual event for our community, we are asking for your help. In-kind donations of products and services as well as volunteers are greatly welcomed and appreciated.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Pony Express Family Ride – 10:00 p.m.

Mustang Ride – 10:30 p.m.

Brimmer Ampitheater @ Lions Park

Cheyenne, WY


CLEAN WATER FOR A PERU VILLAGE Estes Valley Sunrise Rotary Helped Fund Project

By Steve Mitchell

A glass of clean drinking water seems like such a simple thing. But for the small village of Llacamate in the coastal foothills in northwestern Peru, clean water is but a dream. Families collect their drinking water from an open ditch that runs through the community. Animals walk through it and drink from it. It’s no surprise that the village children are sick with cholera and diarrhea. So the University of Colorado’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter decided to bring clean water to Llacamate. Accord-ing to Sunrise Rotarian Bruce Grant, Sunrise Rotary supplied $5,000 of the $30,000 grant for the project. The EWB team designed a gravity fed water system with a catch-ment box to capture pristine mountain wa-ter. The water flows

downhill three miles through high density polyethylene (HDPE) piping where it is distributed to simple taps, or piletas, outside each home in the village. Team member John Usery said the work was grueling. “We had to hike one hour to the location of the break tank. Donkeys and wagons carried the concrete.” “I only have wonderful things to say about working in the community,” said team member Lauren Schmeisser. The EWB CU Peru project won the EWB-USA Outstanding Project Award for 2011, making it one of the top eight projects out of 350 EWB projects worldwide.

Villagers work along side of EWB Members

Ryan Mahoney, John Usery and Lauren Schmeisser


Paying it Forward – Unusual Results in Nepal

Following a visit to Nepal in 2000 Past District Governor Jack Morrison, a Steamboat Springs Rotarian, spearheaded fund-raising efforts by the Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs to raise $15,000 in member contributions and another $15,000 in Rotary grants to purchase and deliver an x-ray machine to a small clinic in Phaplu, a remote Himalayan mountain village in Nepal. The location was so remote that reaching the nearest functioning road to Katmandu required a four day trek. With the help of the Katmandu, Nepal Rotary Club the new x-ray machine was flown into the Phaplu clinic by helicopter in 2002. Last year author Dave Norman stumbled into the high mountain village suffering from a life-threatening lung condition called “pulmonary edema.” In a recent letter to the Steamboat Springs Rotary club, Norman said “I would like to thank you for the role you don’t realize you played in saving my life!” Norman and his wife had been trekking in the Himalayas when he fell ill. “My overburdened wife navigated us straight-away to the village of Phaplu, where we were

sure to find a phone to call a rescue helicopter or plane into their tiny gravel airstrip.” Un-fortunately, the last plane out had already departed with nothing further scheduled for an indefinite period.

“Annie—my wife-cum-Sherpa—dragged me uphill to the Phaplu Clinic, which we identified by the red crosses painted everywhere and the large number of sick and mangled people milling hopefully in the courtyard. Then it was back across the courtyard so the doctor could x-ray me for pneumonia.

“Standing shirtless and shivering, my chest pressed against a freezing steel plate... I spotted a tiny brass plaque on the ma-chine that read “Courtesy of the Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Rotary Club. Then the machine zapped me with enough radiation to explode a potato.”

The x-ray didn’t show pneumonia, but Norman’s heart appeared significantly enlarged due, possibly, to cardiac edema. With the x-ray in hand, he was able to convince officials at the nearby airstrip that evacuation was essential and a special flight was arranged for him and his wife a few hours later.

“The support of your Rotary Club made a tremendous difference to the Phaplu Clinic and the people it supports. As one of its few Western patients, I am tremendously thankful to their staff and for the role your service played in empowering the Phaplu clinic to save people’s

lives,” Norman said. “What a story,” Jack Morrison said. And Rotary’s involvement in the Phaplu Clinic has continued. Morrison stayed in touch with the clinic’s director Dr. Mingma and helped the Steamboat club raise another $8,000 to install the first telecommunications satellite system in Nepal at the clinic. “The satellite has provided the means for this very remote hospital to consult with experts elsewhere on patient diagnosis and treatment,” he said. “I feel quite sure that this satellite was also important in the diagnosis of Dave Norman's problem. This wonderful story should put a smile on all of our faces," Morrison said. (Dave Norman is the author of four books, including the forthcoming

"Following Josh" (October 1st, f/64 Publishing). More of his writing is avail-

able at www.davenorman.net.)

Author Dave Norman posing in Nepal under healthier condition.

This sign provides a cheery welcome to visitors searching for medical treatment in the remote

regions of Nepal.

Because of the extremely remote and rugged terrain, locals must carry per-sonal goods and supplies some four days to the nearest navigatible road.

Kellie Tovar 3729 W. 22nd Street Greeley, CO 80634 [email protected] 970-506-1036

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5440, INC. OFFICE

Judy TeSelle P.O. Box 755 Windsor, CO 80550 [email protected] 307-259-5028

Service Above Self

We’re on the Web!

www.rotary5440.org

Rotary International

NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Apr. - 11 Apr. - 11 July - 10 Change Change Apr. – 11 Apr. - 11 July - 10 Change Change ROTARY CLUB Attendance Members Members YTD Per Mth ROTARY CLUB Attendance Members Members YTD Per Mth Buffalo 59.00 31 31 0 0 Lander 64.85 69 66 +3 0 Casper 52.75 180 181 -1 0 Laramie Not Rep’d 101 102 -1 0 Casper 5 Trails Not Rep’d 54 60 -6 0 Laramie Sunrise Not Rep’d 27 28 -1 0 Cheyenne 56.00 214 205 +9 -3 Loveland 78.86 163 167 -4 -1 Cheyenne Sunrise 56.43 36 34 +2 0 Loveland Mtn View 59.29 35 43 -8 -1 Cody 60.00 80 81 -1 0 Loveland TV 64.29 35 33 +2 0 Craig 66.00 20 21 -1 +1 Morrill Not Rep’d 19 20 -1 0 Douglas 69.00 31 33 -2 0 Powell 66.00 23 32 -9 -2 Estes Park 93.90 123 133 -10 0 Ranchester/Dayton 72.00 25 23 +2 0 Estes Park-Long’s Peak 100.00 23 20 +3 0 Rawlins Not Rep’d 29 32 -3 0 Estes Valley Sunrise 75.64 69 64 +5 0 Riverton 47.71 51 57 -6 0 Evanston 73.00 46 46 0 -1 Rock Springs 65.00 32 27 +5 0 Ft. Collins Not Rep’d 162 187 -25 0 Scottsbluff/Gering 52.68 112 112 0 +1 Ft. Collins After Work Not Rep’d 20 20 0 0 Sedgwick County 73.30 30 27 +3 0 Ft. Collins Breakfast 91.12 77 76 -1 0 Sheridan 55.80 127 126 +1 +2 Ft. Collins Foothills 63.00 108 105 +3 +1 Ski Town, USA 88.89 30 27 +3 0 Gillette 37.12 66 67 -1 0 Star Valley Not Rep’d 13 18 -5 0 Gillette-Energy Not Rep’d 52 52 0 0 Steamboat Springs 69.51 88 85 +3 0 Greeley Not Rep’d 141 147 -6 0 Sterling 51.37 37 37 0 +1 Greeley After Hours 78.05 21 19 +2 +2 Teton Valley 67.77 30 41 -11 -1 Greeley Centennial 66.92 104 104 0 0 Thermopolis 60.00 31 31 0 0 Greeley Redeye Not Rep’d 28 32 -4 0 Torrington 63.26 66 65 +1 -1 High Plains (Eaton) 88.16 19 29 -10 0 Windsor 66.00 30 32 -2 -2 Jackson Hole Not Rep’d 197 198 -1 0 Worland 46.00 37 39 -2 0 Jackson Breakfast 70.00 14 14 0 0 Jackson Supper Not Rep’d 45 38 +7 0 Johnstown/Milliken 77.00 25 20 +5 0 Kemmerer Not Rep’d 25 24 +1 0 TOTALS 3251 3311 -60 -4

Club Attendance and Membership - April, 2011

All of the photos from the 2011 5440 District Conference of

May 12th

through 14th

are available for you to view and

download, if desired.

Instructions are as follows:

1. Go to www.lidiakphotography.com

2. Under Featured Events click on District 5440 Conference

2011

3. Click on the Welcome photo above the District Confer-

ence title. This will bring you to the photo gallery where you

can view all of the images taken during the conference.

If you would like to download any images to your own com-

puter, do the following:

1. Click on any photo that you would like to download.

When it displays to the right, hover your cursor over this

larger image. A fly-out menu will display in the upper

right corner of the photo.

2. Click on the yellow folder icon to begin the download

process.

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