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Meets Tuesday at 7:00 AM, Cultural Center of Charlotte County, Port Charlotte, Florida
Rotary Club of Charlotte Harbor
OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS
2014-2015
PRESIDENT Dave Powell
PRES-ELECT Mark Payne
SECRETARY Nancy Lisby
TREASURER Sherry Penfield
PAST PRESIDENT Darryl Keys
SERGEANT AT ARMS
Bob Clendenin
DIRECTORS
Stephen Carter Bob Clendenin
Joe Rezek
Club #4308
Rotary International President: Gary Huang District Governor, District 6960: Pete Doragh Assistant Governor, Area 7: Sherry Penfield
The Conquistador The Conquistador February 17, 2015 Volume 35 - Issue 32 Chartered April 4, 1980
CarlRehlingdoesthehon-orsofinduct-ingColletteTomlinsonintoourclub.Shehasspentherentireliveinthebankingield,andiscurrentlytheBranchManag-erofFloridaCommunityBank.ShewasproposedformembershipbyMeeraAdhi.
There’s no ques on as to what team John Mozzicato supports!
“Rotary must be renewed constantly at the club level to avoid stagna-tion and at the international level to avoid retrogression. But Rotary at all levels de-pends on the individual Ro-tarian.”
James F. Conway,
RI President 1969-70
If for some reason you will not be able work on this date, it will be your responsibility to find your replacement or swap dates. Please let Tom know of any changes, so he can update the master list.
Sunday, February 22 Bob Clendenin and J. Holtegel
Thursday, March 5 John Mozzicato and Tom Fisher
Sunday, March 22 Craig Olsen and Mark Payne
Thursday, April 9 Chris Gover and Darryl Keys
Sunday, April 26 Cliff Fisher and PJ Fisher
Thursday, May 7 Jim Hageman and Steve Vollmer
Sunday, May 24 Nick Carter and Steve Carter
Thursday, June 11 Don Helt and Steve Vollmer
Sunday, June 28 Register TODAY!
Our speaker last week was Bob McDuffie’s daughter, Su-zanne. Suzanne has recently returned from India, where she tried to free young girls from slavery. She has had mixed re-sults, but is commi ed to returning and pursuing her work.
ARCADIA ROTARY CLUB - INVOLVEMENT IN TENDING TO THE
GRAVES OF BRITISH AIRMEN (article from 1987)
The Bri sh Union Jack, fading in the relentless Florida sun and flapping in the gentle breeze, looks strangely out of place amid the palms and sand of the Oak Ridge Cemetery.
It flies above 23 tombstones bearing the names of 23 peach-fuzz-faced Royal Air Force cadets who met death during World War II--death that came an ocean away from the real ba les as they has ly learned to fly.
On Memorial Day, the residents of Arcadia, a quiet cow town 40 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, will gather the way they have for more than three decades to honor the Bri sh airmen who never made it home. "There's something unique about it," said Tim Adamson, editor of the Arcadian, the local weekly newspaper. "Here's a li le bit of foreign soil tucked right here in the middle of citrus and ca le country. It's a li le bit of England."
Said Richard Wood, 70, a re red high school teacher who has been coordina ng the annual Memorial Day service on behalf of the Arcadia Rotary Club since 1972: "There's quite lot of pride in the town about this. We really feel good about it."
Longstanding Bri sh tradi on stated that Bri sh soldiers were to be buried where they fell. In the United States, there are 952 iden fied Bri sh graves at 448 sites, accord-ing to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Arca-dia's Oak Ridge Cemetery, with the 23 Bri sh graves nes-tled among the burial sites of local residents, contains one of the largest congrega ons of Bri sh war dead.
But it is the manner in which the townsfolk of Arcadia, have opened their hearts to the fallen cadets that sets this place apart. Star ng in 1956--and every year since--Arcadia has held a Memorial Day service at the cemetery for the Bri sh fliers, an excep onal touch since Britain does not celebrate America's Memorial Day and few residents remain with personal recollec ons of the cadets.
Each of the modest tombstones, set in two rows shaded by trees, is adorned with miniature Union Jacks and flowers for the service. Bri sh officials rou nely a end the ceremo-ny, as do visitors from Canada and World War II veterans from elsewhere in Florida. The service features bagpipes and the singing of patrio c songs that Britain and the Unit-ed States share in tune if not words--"God Save the Queen" and "America."
Arcadia officials stay in contact with the cadets' next of kin each year and keep the Bri sh plot neatly maintained. Un l recently, when the last elderly flag-keeper died, Arcadia residents raised and lowered the Union Jack every morning and evening. While the search is on for another volunteer, the flag flies 24 hours a day.
The cadets buried in Arcadia were among 15,000 Bri sh troops trained in aerial warfare in the United States during World War II. They were shipped across the Atlan c simply because there was no place closer to home where they could train without being thrust into ba le.
Ironically, these 23 cadets--all assigned to Florida airfields and most s ll in their teens--died in the cause of war with-out firing a shot. 19 were killed in training flight crashes that were blamed on primi ve aircra and overzealous young pilots eager to learn too much in too li le me. 2 died in a car accident, another of meningi s and s ll anoth-er of pneumonia. By homeland, there were 18 Englishmen, 2 Scots, 2 Welshmen and an Irishman.
THE
FOUR-WAY TEST
Of things we
think, say or do
First, Is it the TRUTH?
Second, Is it FAIR
to all concerned?
Third, Will it build
GOODWILL & BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?
Fourth, Will it be
BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Port Charlotte High School
Advisor
Rick Hayman Nick Carter
“ The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk”
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Arcadia Rotary (cont)
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Revised 23 December 2014
Charlotte Harbor Roster
Thursday Englewood Lemon Bay Sunrise
7:00 am - Englewood Hospital
Murdock 7:15 am - Perkins Restaurant
Breakfast at 7:00 am
North Fort Myers 8:00 am - Capt’n Fishbone’s
at the Shell Factory
Punta Gorda Noon - Isles Yacht Club
Nearby Rotary Clubs For Make Ups Wednesday Cape Coral
8:00 am - La Venezia Ballroom
Cape Coral North 6:00 pm - Palmetto Pine Country Club
1940 SW 9th Court
Harbor Heights - Peace River 7:00 am - Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club
Except first Wednesday - 7:00 pm
Placida 7:00 am - Rotonda Hills Golf Club
Monday Fort Myers South
12:15 pm - Crowne Plaza Bell Tower Shops
Tuesday Arcadia
Noon - DeSoto Memorial Hospital
Englewood Noon - Englewood Hospital
North Port Central
Noon - Heron Creek Country Club
Club mailing address: P.O. Box 510391, Punta Gorda, Florida 33951-0391
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