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DISTRICT 5240 MONTECITO ROTARY CLUB AXISIS JULY 16, 2015

Rotary International!K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran!President 2015-2016!!District 5240!!Jim Bell!District Governor 2015-2016!!Bob Braitman!Executive Assistant Governor!Region 3!2015-2016!!Joseph Kirkland !President 2015-2016!!Bernadette Bagley!Secretary & President Elect 2015-2016!

George Thurlow III!Treasurer!!John Glanville!Past President !!Directors!

Dusty Baker, Membership!Conner Rehage, Service!Rober Mislang, Youth & RYLA!Jennifer Goddard- Combs, !Programs!James Fenkner, Public Relations!Paul Kresmer, Grants & RI

ROTARY CLUB of MONTECITO Tuesday’s @ Noon at the Montecito Country Club!

P.O. Box 40218, Santa Barbara, CA 93140

Presidents Message July 16, 2015

Greetings Rotarians,!!Hard work pays off! It was great to see all those District Dignitaries, who took time from their busy schedules, to come to our Club and recognize our efforts in Membership and Ignite Reports, headed up by Past Membership Chair Lynda Nahra and Past-President Marc Fleischman. !!With a great foundation to build upon, New Membership Chair Dusty Baker and I will continue to move our Club forward and look to carry on the level of excellence set by our predecessors.!!We were also treated to a rousing review of our Foundation and all it entails by Past Club and Foundation President John Glanville. Most interesting of all, our proprietary 6% KRR (Kurt's rate of return). !!Please be sure to join us this coming Tuesday for a presentation on the Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association with Jennifer Ono and Steve Heinze. !!One more thing, be sure to visit our brand new Facebook page, Montecito Rotary Club, put together by our very own Emily Solomon. Have a great week and be a gift to someone!!!Yours in Service,!Joe Kirkland

Executive Assistant Governor, David Velarde, addressing the Montecito Rotary Club.

Congratulations to our club, for achieving Premier Club status for the IGNITE membership program! EAG and Sunrise member David Velarde presented the honor with DGEN John Weiss, DGE Nick Frankle, DG Jim Bell, and RC Montecito President Joseph Kirkland.

This week’s Member Moment, Carla Lemon.

Dusty and Marc looking happy as can be, after receiving the Premier Ignite Award from Executive Assistant Governor, David Velarde.

We were so pleased to have such highly regarded Rotarian Dignitaries at our weekly lunch meeting this past Tuesday. We appreciate how you honored our club and we hope you will be impressed with what we have in store this year.


OTHER ROTARY NEWS

We’re on Facebook!

The Montecito Rotary Club has finally entered the 21st, Century, where social media is fun, confusing and necessary. If you haven’t already Liked the Facebook page, please support the club by taking a minute to do that.

Social Media Challenge!!To kick our social media engagement into high gear, I am holding a contest. For the person who posts the most to our Facebook page from now until August 28, will receive a bottle of delicious wine! This does not mean posting a ton of photos and comments on the

last day of the contest! !!Posting Guidelines: Any news relating to Rotary or Photos of

Rotary events are perfect! !!Good luck Rotarians, may the best social guru win!


SONG OF THE WEEKAll Shook Up!

By- Elvis Presley!!Elvis Presley's version of "All Shook Up" was #1 on "Billboard's Top 100" on April 13, 1957,

and stayed there for 8 weeks. It was either composed by Otis Blackwell after someone, shaking a bottle of Pepsi, suggested Blackwell write a song based on the phrase "all shook

up" or Elvis had a vivid dream and woke up "all shook up." With Blackwell, he received co-writing credit, his last. The song knocked Perry Como's "Round and Round" from #1. It

was the #1 song for 1957. The most recent version was by Billy Joel for the movie, "Honeymoon in Vegas," in 1991.!

A well'a bless my soul!What'sa wrong with me?!I'm itchin' like a man in a fuzzy tree!My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug!I'm in love ! ! UH!!I'm all shook up!Mm, mm, mm, mm, yay, yay, yay.!!Well, my hands are shaky and my knees are weak!I can't seem to stand on my own two feet!Who do you think of when you have such luck?!I'm in love! ! UH!!I'm all shook up !Mm, mm, mm, mm, yay, yay, yay!!Well, please don't ask me what'sa on my mind!I'm a little mixed up, but I'm feeling fine!When I'm near that girl that I love best!My heart beats so it scares me to death!!!My tongue gets tied when I try to speak!My insides shake like a leaf on a tree!There's only one cure for this body of mine!That's to have that girl that I love so fine.!!She touché my hand what I chill I got!Her lips are like a volcano when it's hot!I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup!I'm in love! ! UH!!I'm all shook up !Mm, mm, mm, mm, yay, yay, yay!Mm, mm, mm, mm, yay, yay,!I'm all shook up!!


1. One person can make a difference and together as Rotarians we can have a stronger impact. (I am one-Rotary as many.)!

2. For camaraderie, and new friendships.!

3. To serve locally, nationally or internationally.!

4. To learn more about other cultures.!

5. For a way to share your talent and resources effectively.!

6. To have a place to go each week to connect with like-minded people who motivate you.!

7. To make life-long relationships.!

8. To be part of something bigger than yourself.!

9. to hear an interesting speaker each week and learn what is going on in the community.!

10. To be able to take advantage of the true “family” of rotary while traveling nationally or internationally.

Upcoming Programs!July 21- Greater SB Ice Skating Association/ Jennifer Ono and Steve Heinze!

July 28- The Art of Making Wine/ Joe Weiland !

Aug 4- Cutler’s Artisan Spirits/ Ian Cutler!

Aug 11!- The Organized Artist Company/ Sam Bennet!

Aug 18- The Art of Montecito Real Estate/ Garrett McCaw and Dusty Baker!

Aug 15- Foundation Grant Awards/ John Glanville

FOUR WAY TEST!

1. Is it the TRUTH?!

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?!

3. Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?!

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

!Day: Club: Place: Time:

Tuesday!

!Wednesday!

Thursday!Friday!Any Day at all,!24/7/365!

Goleta Noontime!Goleta (2nd and 4th)!Rotaract (1st and 3rd)!Carpinteria Morning!Sant Barbara Sunrise!Santa Barbara North!Carpinteria!Santa Barbara Downtown!One World Rotary Club

Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course)!Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course)!Silvergreens on Chapala!Carpinteria Women’s Club!Santa Barbara Club!Harry’s Plaza Cafe!Lion’s Community Park!Fess Parker Double Tree!http://www.oneworldrotary.org/

11:45 am!06:30 pm!06:30 pm!07:00 am!07:00 am!12:00 noon!11:45 am!12:00 noon!

Missed a Meeting? Make it up!

Weekly Assignments!July 21, 2015!

!Invocation/ Flag Salute: Murray Ray!Backup: Rosslyn Ray!50/50 Raffle: Conner Rehage!Greeter: David Solomon!!July is the GREEN Team!!Setup/Breakdown Team: The Green Team includes: Sherry Melchiori, Robert Mislang, Lynda Nahra, Phil Palmquist, Arthur Rachwald, Murray Ray, Ross Ray, Conner Rehage, David Solomon, George Thurlow and JT Turner.

The Top 10 Reasons to Join the Montecito Rotary Club


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Presidents Message July 2015

We in Rotary aspire to great deeds. We admire those who gave great gifts to humanity: Abraham Lincoln, who gave the gift of human dignity to the downtrodden; Mother Teresa, who gave the gift of compassion to the forgotten; Mahatma Gandhi, who gave the gift of peaceful change to the oppressed. Their very lives became gifts to the world.!

We can be inspired by their example. We can be inspired to ask, how can I, in the life that I live – without neglecting the responsibilities that are so dear to me – how can I, too, become a gift to the world? As I considered my theme, I thought of the lessons I have learned through my Hindu faith. I thought especially of the story of Sudama.!

Sudama was a poor child and a bosom friend of Krishna, who was born in a royal lineage as an avatar – an incarnation of the divine. As the two boys grow up, they drift apart, and while Krishna becomes a military leader and king of great repute, Sudama remains a humble villager.!

The years go by and Sudama's poverty deepens. Finally, he lacks even food to feed his children. His wife reminds him of his childhood friendship with Krishna: Perhaps it is time to go to the mighty ruler for help. Reluctantly, Sudama agrees, but resolves that he will not go empty-handed. He gathers together a few handfuls of rice – all the food his family has left – and wraps them in a piece of cloth as a gift for his friend.!

When Sudama enters the palace, he is overwhelmed by the grandeur and by Krishna's gracious welcome. His meager gift, so carefully prepared, seems a humiliating reminder of his poverty. Krishna embraces Sudama, who hides the hand holding the rice behind his back. Krishna asks what he is holding.!

Far from being disdainful, Krishna accepts the rice with gratitude and consumes it with joy as the two sit and talk together. Hours pass, during which the pleasures of their rekindled friendship push all thoughts of his desperate plight from Sudama's mind. When evening falls, Sudama sets out for home – and only then realizes that he has neglected his task. He is returning with nothing, and Krishna has eaten his family's last grains of rice.!

Sudama steels himself to return to his hungry children. But standing before his gate, as dawn begins to break, he sees that the hut he left yesterday has become a stately home, and waiting to greet him is his own family: well-dressed, and well-fed by the baskets of food that appeared in their kitchen as Krishna ate each grain of Sudama's rice.!

Krishna understood what Sudama had brought him: everything he had to give. In return, Krishna gave him everything he needed. It is never the material value of a gift that matters – it is the love that comes with it. Just as Sudama's gift to Krishna became a gift to Sudama, what we give through Rotary becomes a gift to us. And we all have a choice: whether to keep our gifts to ourselves or give them to others, and Be a Gift to the World.!

We have only one chance at our lives. And we will have only one chance at this new Rotary year. This is our time. Let us grasp it. Let us Be a Gift to the World.!

K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran!President 2015-2016


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