Governor’s Corner

District Web Address

Newsletter Of District 7530 George Foster, District Governor, 1517 Mary Lou Retton Drive, Fairmont, WV 26554

Volume 1, Issue 1

July-October, 2004

THE ROTARY CENTENNIAL Rotary International 

Celebrate Rotary

Dear Rotarians

Are you ready for the greatest year in Rotary History? Well hang on, it’s here. This is Rotary’s Centennial Year and every club in the Rotary World will be doing its best to put its best foot forward and CELEBRATE ROTARY. Judy and I have had the pleasure of meeting our International President, Glenn Estess and his lovely wife Mary at both Anaheim and again at Osaka, and we are very pleased with his selection of a theme for this 100th Anniversary of the birth of Rotary ——— CELEBRATE ROTARY. As Rotarians we have so much to cele-brate, from the blessings that we enjoy in our every day lives to the joy that we feel from the good works that we are able to do for the less fortunate peoples of the world. This year our four main areas of emphasis are: • The Rotary Family — The strength of our “Rotary Family” will

determine, in no small part, the amount of good we can do in the world. • Health Issues — Good health is a crucial foundation necessary to allow people to

move ahead in every other area of life. • Literacy — Literacy is the key to helping others to be able to solve many of their own

problems, and without it, one is severely handicapped in all other endeavors. • Water Management — Without clean water for drinking and providing proper sanita-

tion, health problems will be virtually impossible to overcome. We must do more to help provide safe, clean, accessible water sources to all people of the world.

In this year ahead, our new International President, Glenn Estess and I encourage you to expand your Rotary Family. Twin with other clubs for social events, service projects and special programs and projects both in your community and in the world. The larger your Rotary Family becomes, and the more involved your personal family becomes in Rotary, the more gratifying every Rotary experience becomes. Caring is sharing. Share Rotary! Just as you were proud that someone thought enough of you to invite you into Rotary membership — you can be equally proud to share Rotary with a friend you care about. Rotary is always seeking individuals of high moral and ethical standards, and who do you know more about than your friends? Share the “Rotary Experience”. Yours in Rotary,

DG George

Inside this issue:

District Governor’s Corner 1

Assistance for Hurricane Relief Needed

2

Annual Rotary Foundation and Membership Training Seminar

2

College of Governor’s Dinner And RI Convention Information

2

District Conference Information And Golden Gavel Schedule

3

Odds & Ends Corner Projects

4

Tid-Bits - News around The District Rotary Family

5

Youth Exchange 6

Rotary Milestones 7

Attendance 8

Attendance & District Leadership

9

Special Partnership 10

District 7530 web address: www.rotary7530.org

53rd Annual Rotary District 7530 Conference

April 29-May 1, 2005

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Assistance for Hurricane Relief Needed

Annual Rotary Foundation and Membership Training Seminar

The District Rotary Foundation and Membership Training sessions were held from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday, October 2, 2004, at the Westchester Village in Fairmont, WV. This important session provided attend-ing club presidents, club foundation chairs and club membership chairs with important information and techniques needed to help them achieve their 2004-2005 goals.

November is Foundation Month and PDG Sandra Duckworth, Zone 33/34 Annual Giving Chair, assisted us with The Foundation training. Assist-ing with training in membership and other matters were PDG Johnny Robert-son, PDG Jack Porter and Hal Reed (who offered several interesting grant pro-jects to clubs in attendance).

Clubs were strongly encouraged to attend and pay the modest cost of their members, however, attendance was disappointing in spite of it not being a WVU home football weekend. Those clubs in attendance received a thor-ough explanation of how the foundation and grant programs work, and many tips on retaining and recruiting members

We can be proud that the clubs of District #7530 were among the first to dig into their pockets and render assistance in excess of $1,000 cash to the hurricane ravaged Rotary districts of Southeastern Florida.

West Virginia has also suffered significant losses from these terri-ble hurricanes. The State and particularly District #7530 have felt the af-termath of flooding created by hurricane Ivan. It has affected every river city in our district with devastating flooding. Three of the hardest hit areas were Brooke County, Wheeling and New Martinsville. The Rotary clubs in these areas need our assistance to rebuild and clean up their communi-ties.

If your club is willing to “lend a hand” please contact District Gover-nor George Foster. If you would like to make a donation, please make your check to: Rotary District 7530 and mail to PDG Dennis Shreve, PO Box 2040, Clarksburg, WV 26301. If your club would like to partner with a club in the flood stricken areas, contact District Governor George Foster, and he will pair you up with a club in need.

Celebrate Rotary in the city

where it all began!

The greatest celebration in Rotary's history — the 2005 Ro-tary International Convention — commemorates the organization's first one hundred years of service and will take place on 18-22 June 2005, in downtown Chicago, where Rotary was born. This Centennial Convention will be anything but conventional. It fea-tures an extra day of festivities and a Rotary parade through downtown Chicago! Rotarians are encouraged to register early for this once-in-a-lifetime occasion. As of September 20, 2004, a total of 94 countries have registered with a total of 5,626 paid regis-trants! Log on to www.rotary.org and register on line today for this once-in-a lifetime celebration!

College of Governor’s Dinner

The Annual Fall College of Governor's Meeting was also held at the West-chester Village Conference Center in Fairmont, WV on Saturday, October 2, 2004 . A presentation of the “State of the District” was given by District Gover-nor George Foster, who expressed his disappointment with the poor atten-dance at both the Foundation and Membership seminars and the College of Governors Meeting and Banquet.

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July Literacy Month

August

Membership and Extensions Month

September New Generations Month

October

Vocational Service Month

November Rotary Foundation Month

December

Family Month

Calendar

DELIVERING CLUB RECEIVING CLUB DAY DATE TIME MEETING PLACE Ripley Fairmont Thursday July 8, 2004 12:00 Noon Fairmont Field Club Fairmont Cheat Lake Tuesday July 13, 2004 7:30am Lakeview Resort Cheat Lake Brooke County Thursday July 22, 2004 12:00 Noon Anchor Room, Follansbee Brooke County Weirton Wednesday July 28, 2004 12:00 Noon Millsop Community Center Weirton Weirton Heights Tuesday Aug 3, 2004 7:30am Holiday Inn Weirton Heights Ohio County Thursday Aug 5, 2004 7:30am Train & Toy Museum Ohio County Moundsville Wednesday Aug 11, 2004 12:00 Noon Guest House Restaurant Moundsville South Fairmont Wednesday Aug 18, 2004 7:30am Poky Dot Restaurant South Fairmont New Martinsville Wednesday Aug 25, 2004 12:00 Noon Count Restaurant New Martinsville Clarksburg Wednesday Sept 1, 2004 12:00 Noon First Methodist Church Clarksburg Parkersburg Monday Sept 6, 2004 12:00 Noon Holiday Inn Parkersburg Point Pleasant Wednesday Sept 8, 2004 12:00 Noon Hospital—McNeal Room Point Pleasant Spencer Monday Sept 13, 2004 12:00 Noon Memorial UM Church Spencer Wood County Thursday Sept 16, 2004 7:30am Parkersburg Country Club Wood County Bridgeport Tuesday Sept 21, 2004 5:15pm Damon’s Eastpointe Center Bridgeport Glenville/Gilmer Co. Thursday Sept 23, 2004 5:00pm Heflin Center/Glenville State Glenville/Gilmer Co. Buckhannon Tuesday Sept 28, 2004 11:45am Bicentennial Motel Buckhannon Braxton Co. Wednesday Sept 29, 2004 12:00 Noon Western Steer, Flatwoods Braxton Co. Grafton Wednesday Oct 6, 2004 12:00 Noon 4 Corners Restaurant Grafton Harrison Co. Thursday Oct 7, 2004 7:30am Eat ‘n Park Harrison Co. Westover Wednesday Oct 13, 2004 12:00 Noon Rose Restaurant Westover Weston Wednesday Oct 20, 2004 12:00 Noon Colonial Restaurant—1st & Main Weston Elkins Monday Oct 25, 2004 12:00 Noon Elkins YMCA Elkins Tucker Co. Wednesday Oct 27, 2004 12:15pm The Davis Inn Tucker Co. Kingwood Tuesday Nov 2, 2004 7:30am Heldrith Restaurant Kingwood Morgantown Thursday Nov 4, 2004 12:00 Noon Madeline’s Restaurant—S. High Morgantown Newburg Monday Nov 8, 2004 6:15pm United Methodist Church Newburg Morgantown North Wednesday Nov 10, 2004 7:00am Erickson Alumni Center Morgantown North Wheeling Tuesday Nov 16, 2004 12:00 Noon Wheeling Civic Center Wheeling Northern Hancock Tuesday Nov 23, 2004 12:00 Noon Mountaineer Race Park Northern Hancock Fairmont Thursday Dec 2, 2004 12:00 Noon Fairmont Field Club

Golden Gavel Schedule Rotary Year 2004-2005

Mark your calendars now to help us Celebrate Rotary’s 53rd Annual District Conference to be held at the Stone-wall Jackson Resort in Roanoke, WV from April 29-May

1, 2005.

This is Rotary’s 100th Birthday, and this year’s confer-ence will be a spectacular Birthday Party as we

CELEBRATE ROTARY

53rd Annual Rotary District 7530 Conference

WHAT ARE WE UP TO? Moundsville & Weirton — These clubs are working on a joint project to gather up medical and other supplies for an international project with a club in Mexico. They intend to obtain a “BUS”, pack it with these supplies and head South to deliver it all to an orphanage with a need for all of the above. The bus will remain with the orphanage — only the Rotarians will return. How can you help you ask? Well, pull out all the stops — contact all your resources and let’s help the clubs find a suitable vehi-cle. Surely one of us has a “Board of Education”, “Transit Authority” or other connection that can help locate a free or reasonably priced bus for these clubs to use for this project. Kingwood — The members of the Kingwood club have been busy packing up a nice round Centen-nial 100 FLOOD BUCKETS to provide cleaning materials and supplies for flood victims. Many of these flood buckets proved to be very timely for the Northern Panhandle area that were ravaged by the remnants of hurricane Ivan. South Fairmont — Elected a literacy project, they partnered with the local Salvation Army and pro-vided around 60 school backpacks, with many school supplies, for less fortunate students in their area. This project is only one of their ambitious plans this year. More about the others later Buckhannon — This club applied for and received a Blane Immunization Grant to provide for flu shots for local indigent citizens. This $1,000, coupled with a District Simplified Grant of $1,000 and $1,000 in local funds provided a total of $3,000 for immunizations. Although he shortage of flu serum has altered the thrust of this program, pneumonia vaccines are being considered instead. Elkins — Amidst the many things the Elkins club is involved with during the annual fall spectacular known as the “Forest Festival”, they also supplemented the Festival’s coffers by $700 to assist with funding for a performance of the Wheeling Symphony. The money was to be used to purchase tickets for students to attend the performance. Weirton — The Weirton club has a unique project. They sponsor their own radio talk show every Saturday morning at 8:00AM. Dr. Ray Greco hosts a guest on various health issues. (Also filling in for Dr. Greco during a brief trip were Dr. Gary Larsen and Connie Quinn). A recent show guest was Dr. Shalu Singh, with the topic “Headaches, how to get one, how to give one” . Sounds like good advice with a humorous twist. Newburg — Rotarians in Newburg, in addition to several other community projects, are in the midst of plans for a community Halloween party for local youth. This annual event provides a safe venue for the local children to enjoy their costumes and goodies in a supervised environment. On the interna-tional scene, they are involved with a project in Nicaragua (more later). Morgantown North — I love this one. The Morgantown North Fellowship Fund, in August, began distributing $100 each month to a different, randomly chosen Rotary Club somewhere in the world. Recipients are encouraged to match the contribution and to use the $$ for a club project. In the proc-ess they will seek to share their own understanding of Rotary with each recipient club and to get a full report back on how they were able to work with the other club (unexpectedly) in service! The project is expected to provide great fun and fellowship as they do service, and expand their Rotary Family. Many other wonderful club projects are on the drawing boards — or in process, and each month I will try to hi-light several so that you may know what is developing in our district. We still have plenty of funding available to assist you with your projects — Grant applications are available from your District Governor, George Foster, or the Grants Committee Chairs, Hal Reed or Jon Mc Curdy. This is Your Money — money you donated 3 years ago to the Foundation — back to help you with your projects as I explained during my official visit to your club. Let’s put it to work.

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THANKS — Thank you to the several clubs that made cash donations to help the clubs in Southern Florida with the Hurricane recovery efforts. The funds were greatly appreciated. At home — New Martinsville’s meeting place was under 4 feet of water, Wheeling’s meeting place was likewise submerged, Hancock County had millions in damage, Brooke likewise, Victor Greco’s business was wiped out , Moundsville, Glendale— the list of damages goes on and on. Our District has funds available to assist with projects in areas recovering from flood damage in West Vir-ginia also. Please apply. At a recent Rotary Zone meeting we saw pictures of the terrible devastation in the Carribbean also. Places like Haiti, the Caymans and many other islands were ravaged. The president of the Grand Cayman Rotary Club lost his home, his boat, two cars and his business, and they were out trying to physically account for all of their members per my last e-mail correspondence. These hurricanes took property and lives. PDG Dennis Shreve and his wife Kenette made Andy Cogar a Paul Harris Fellow. You remember Andy — He was the WVU “Mountaineer”, an Ambassadorial Scholar, and regular speaker at the RYLA youth leadership conferences at Jackson’s Mill. Congratulations ! Did you Know — The Cheat Lake Rotary Club has become the first club in the world to be recog-nized as a 100 percent Paul Harris Club for the second time. This designation means that every mem-ber of the club is a Paul Harris Fellow. In 2002, Cheat Lake Rotary was the 186th club in the world to become a 100 percent Paul Harris Club, and now they have become the first ever to be certified for a second time. Last year the Cheat Lake Club donated nearly $20,000 to the Foundation. Note • The Morgantown club has changed its meeting place from the Chestnut Emporium to the Madeline’s

Restaurant on South High Street • Point Pleasant no longer meets at the Moose Lodge — their new meeting place is the McNeele

Room at the Hospital • The Rotary Club of Ripley has changed its meeting time from Thursdays at 5:15 to Wednesdays at

noon. Did you know — The Wheeling Club gave out 22 pins for perfect attendance this year — the long-est of which was for 56 years — and the second longest was 51 years. Go team! District Simplified Grants — to let you know — these are for “hands on” projects, locally or around the world. Rotarians from the district must be actively involved in each District Simplified Grant — they are not just for money to be turned over to some other organization that is doing a project such as Sal-vation Army, Red Cross etc. Joint projects with such organizations do qualify if Rotarians are actively involved. Don’t forget your club’s pledge commitment to the Polio Plus campaign of last year. Several clubs are behind in tendering their funds. Polio Plus committee chair, Rejeana Palma will be contact-ing clubs shortly to remind them. Bus Trip — No we haven’t forgotten. Area IV Assistant Governor Jody Light advises me that plans are just about ready, and that details will be available to clubs very shortly for the charter busses to the spectacular CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION in Chicago. Every club will get the de-tails as soon as they are formalized. International Dues — RI advises me that 5 clubs from our district have not yet submitted their July 1 billing payment for their International dues. GSE to Germany — We have a team. A leader and outstanding team of 5 non-Rotarians have been selected for the 2005 Group Study Exchange team to Germany. Details next month. Thanks again to PDG Dave McMunn, DGN Dave Cavender, DGE Dr. Jay, and their great GSE committee for a wonder-ful job.

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Welcome Picnic—Lake Floyd

Nathan Rakestraw & Larry Dean—Gauley River Whitewater Rafting

The Real Thing

Camping fun In the

bunkhouse Marshmallows anyone? New River Bridge—before Jose went home.

Riding the Rotary Float at Walnut Festival Gaby enjoys The fall leaves

Corinna at Blackwater Falls with the Governor

And First Lady

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Rotary Milestones

1905 First Rotary club organized in Chicago, Illinois, USA

1908 Second club formed in San Francisco, California, USA

1910 First Rotary convention held in Chicago

1912 The Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, becomes the first club outside the United States to be officially chartered. (The club was formed in 1910.)

1917 Endowment fund, forerunner of The Rotary Foundation, estab-lished

1932 4-Way Test formulated by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor

1945 Forty-nine Rotarians help draft United Nations Charter in San Fran-cisco

1947 Rotary founder Paul Harris dies; first 18 Rotary Foundation scholar-ships granted

1962 First Interact club formed in Melbourne, Florida, USA

1965 Rotary Foundation launches Matching Grants and Group Study Ex-change programs

1978 RI's largest convention, with 39,834 registrants, held in Tokyo

1985 Rotary announces PolioPlus program to immunize all the children of the world against polio

1989 Council on Legislation opens Rotary membership to women world-wide; Rotary clubs chartered in Budapest, Hungary, and Warsaw, Poland, for first time in almost 50 years

1990 Rotary Club of Moscow chartered first club in Soviet Union

1990-91 Preserve Planet Earth program inspires some 2,000 Rotary-sponsored environmental projects

1994 Western Hemisphere declared polio-free

1999 Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict

Resolution established

2000 Western Pacific declared polio-free

2001 30,000th Rotary club chartered

2002 Europe declared polio-free; first class of 70 Rotary Peace Scholars

begin study

2003

Rotarians raise more than US$118 million to support the final stages of polio eradication

Using where we have been As a compass to provide direction

As to where we are going

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Dist. Gov. Nominee AREA I

David Cavender Bill Duvall

328 High Street 229 Scenery Drive

Morgantown, WV 26505 Weirton, WV 26062

304-292-8867 (H) 304-723-5297 (H)

304-292-6125 (B) 304-723-1430 (B)

Cavender@Labyrinth.net drjay@pulsenet.net

AG Area VI AG Area VII

David Riggleman Jack Crogan

1310 Fairmont Avenue P O Box 67

Fairmont, WV 26554 Kingwood, WV 26537

304-842-9162 (H) 304-329-0021 (H)

304-367-3430 (B) no e-mail

driggle@alleghenyenergy.com

AG Area III —VACANT POSITION

AREA II

Dr S. Jayakmur

764 Locust Avenue

Washington, PA 15301

724-228-8302 (H)

724-228-1301 (B)

AG Area VIII

Steve LaCagnin

150 Clay St—suite 500

Morgantown, WV 26501

304-291-6269 (H)

304-284-4108 (B)

slacagnin@jacksonkelly.com

District Leadership

Rotary Club

Attendance %

MAY ‘04 Total

Members Braxton County Bridgeport 58.75 27 Brooke County Buckhannon Cheat Lake Clarksburg 53.00 55 Elkins Fairmont 47.00 71 Glenville/Gilmer 62.00 6 Grafton 67.90 21 Harrison County 66.00 19 Kingwood 77.50 32 Morgantown Morgantown North 81.00 28 Moundsville Newburg 96.16 13 New Martinsville Northern Hancock Ohio County Parkersburg 40.15 156 Point Pleasant Ripley 80.70 35 South Fairmont 51.00 40 Spencer Tucker County Weirton 75.00 54 Weirton Heights Weston Westover Wheeling Wood County 65.55 28 DISTRICT TOTAL %

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Rotary Club

Attendance %

JUNE 04 Total

Members Braxton County 56.20 21 Bridgeport 65.00 26 Brooke County 68.00 22 Buckhannon 63.00 63 Cheat Lake 80.97 49 Clarksburg 50.54 57 Elkins 72.40 82 Fairmont 38.50 73 Glenville/Gilmer 79.00 6 Grafton 21 Harrison County 70.00 19 Kingwood 32 Morgantown Morgantown North 81.00 28 Moundsville Newburg 13 New Martinsville Northern Hancock Ohio County Parkersburg 156 Point Pleasant 60.00 29 Ripley 51.00 35 South Fairmont 51.00 40 Spencer 54.54 32 Tucker County Weirton 78.00 53 Weirton Heights 60.71 28 Weston 32.00 45 Westover Wheeling Wood County 88.40 29 DISTRICT TOTAL %

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District Governor District Governor Elect

George Foster Dr. Subramoniam Jayakumar

1517Mary Lou Retton Drive 764 Locust Avenue

Fairmont, WV 26554 Washington, PA 15301

304-366-4359 (H) 724-228-8302 (H)

304-366-2992 (B) 724-228-1301 (B)

FOSTER@DG2004.com drjay@pulsenet.net

AG Area IV AG Area V

Jody Light Karen Wilmoth

25 Pinnell Street 110 High Street

Buckhannon, WV 26201 Elkins, WV 26241

304-472-6566 (H) 304-636-0961 (H)

304-472-3033 (B) 304-637-1374 (B)

jody@msys.net kbwilmoth@gomountaineers.net

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Rotary Club Attendance % July ‘04

Total Members

Attendance % August ‘04

Total Members

Attendance % September ‘04

Total Members

Braxton County 59.53 22 .51.12 22 64.55 22

Bridgeport 57.89 26 63.16 26 73.53 25

Brooke County 65.00 22 65.00 22 68.00 21

Buckhannon 74.00 61 64.00 60 69.00 63

Cheat Lake 87.34 49 86.80 49 91.52 49

Clarksburg 52.98 56 43.92 52 55.65 52

Elkins 72.40 81 76.83 81 80.23 82

Fairmont 37.00 72 41.30 72 43.40 72

Glenville/Gilmer Co 67.00 6 79.00 6 80.00 6

Grafton 58.75 20 60.00 19 64.20 19

Harrison County 72.50 18

Kingwood 72.25 31 68.73 31 72.25 31

Morgantown 66.00 58 77.00 57

Morgantown North 78.00 29 90.00 29

Moundsville 84.00 38

Newburg 82.05 13 90.77 13 100.00 12

New Martinsville 60.00 42 68.00 42 42.00 42

Northern Hancock 64.00 11 64.00 11

Ohio County 48.00 58.00 50.00

Parkersburg 45.51 139 40.17 135 49.56 135

Point Pleasant 66.00 27 84.00 27 60.00 26

Ripley 55.00 35 51.40 35 54.00 34

South Fairmont 50.00 39 52.00 39 66.00 39

Spencer 68.03 32 67.94 33 67.91 32

Tucker County 76.90 13

Weirton 69.00 53 72.00 53 68.00 53

Weirton Heights 63.00 27 52.78 27

Weston 32.00 45 28.00 45 39.00 45

Westover 53.00 16 56.00 16 65.00 16

Wheeling 60.00 130 60.00 130 59.00 124

Wood County 57.81 28 57.81 28 68.46 26

Attendance

Your attendance reports are very important to the district. Please help keep this from being such a burden chasing this information down. They should be made to your Assistant Governor by the 8th of the month following the month being reported on. Area III clubs should report directly to the District Gov-ernor. If you are not able to report, make arrangements for someone to do so.

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My fellow Rotarians — we received the following invitation to partner with the wonderful Make-a-Wish organization that makes dreams come true for children with life threatening ill-nesses. I am personally acquainted with Marian Silverstein and would recommend her highly to any club considering partnering with this excellent group. She has spoken to and worked with many Rotary clubs, and has a great track record. Marian is not just looking for money, but rather for partners to help in fund raising, partici-pate in the proceeds of the fund raising, and to help with the excellent work for which this wonderful organization is so well known. I invite you, as she does, to give her a call and listen to what you can do for each other.

Dear Rotarians, It is with pleasure that I write this letter to all Rotarians asking that you help us make a difference in your community. I’m Marian Silverstein, President & CEO of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern West Virginia. Our chapter is headquartered in Morgantown and serves 32 counties in Northern West Virginia. In my 7 years with this wonderful organiza-tion, I have traveled to each area speaking on behalf of our children with life threatening illnesses. My favorite people I’ve met and have much respect for are you, “The Rotari-ans”; your motto “Service above Self” says it all. Our Children are very special to us and have been through so much in their young lives that it is difficult for us as adults to understand. When given the opportunity to see the happiness in their magical moments it makes our job complete. Since our fiscal year be-gan, September 2004, there are over 30 wishes in progress. I come to you for support in making a child’s wish come true. As you celebrate 100 years of service, we would like to ask each club to become a partner with Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern West Vir-ginia, by becoming a “Wish Maker”. This program not only makes a child’s dream come true, but also allows your club to be a part of that child’s wish. I would be delighted to attend any Rotary meetings and speak further regarding this pro-gram for a potential partnership. We at Make-A-Wish believe that lifetimes should be measured in memories not years. Together we can help share the power of a wish. Con-gratulation Rotarians on 100 years of service! Best Wishes, Marian Marian Silverstein (304) 641-9229