Rotary Clubs are known for supporting community pro- jects of all ...

A few of the faces of those who participated in District Assembly
on Saturday, October 5th at Whispering Woods Hotel &
Conference Center in Olive Branch. More photos on Page 3.
Rotary Clubs are known for
supporting community projects
of all kinds . . . and Tupelo
Rotarians were among
those brewing up batches of
chili in Downtown last week.
The GOLDEN WAVE WILD CHILI team
had a great time during the annual Chili
Fest. Team members shown at left are
(from left) Andy Scoggin, Dr. Gearl Loden,
Julianne Goodwin, Scott Bebout,
Jim Diffee and Jenny Jones

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YOUR CLUB MIGHT WANT TO GIVE THIS
PROJECT A TRY - It’s an annual Pancake
Breakfast fund raiser sponsored by the Cleveland
(Mississippi) Rotary Club. This year’s event
took place several days ago. Proceeds will fund
the purchase of dictionaries for every fourth grader
in the Cleveland School District, along with
sponsorship of the Interact Club at Cleveland
High School and providing scholarships to Delta
State University. For more information, go to the
club’s Facebook page at: https://
www.facebook.com/#!/clevelandrotaryclub
Midtown Memphis Rotary demonstrated
the art of tailgating at Liberty
Bowl Stadium recently. Thanks to Harry
Freeman for the great photo coverage!
Dr. Linda Southward, right,
program coordinator for
Mississippi Kids Count, discussed
the program with
Tupelo Rotarians recently.
Shown with Southward is
Rotary Club of Tupelo President,
Jerry Napier.

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MORE FACES FROM DISTRICT ASSEMBLY - In the interest of saving space, only names, not titles,
are listed. Top row from left - Janice Trawick, Lauren Ganavazos, Tommy White, Cliff Brock;
Bottom row, from left, Tom Wilson, Marty Petrusek, Belinda Campbell, Bob Bickley. The annual
event took place at Whispering Woods Hotel & Conference Center in Olive Branch.
THE OTHER DISTRICT ASSEMBLY - While the District Assembly
was taking place INSIDE Whispering Woods, the OTH-
ER version was underway on the outside. Just wonder which
group accomplished more? Photo by Linda White
The Rotary Club of Olive Branch raised over $4,000 for their
scholarship fund with their 8th annual Masters Golf Tournament
on September 30. Winning team - Performance Toyota!

ROTARIANS AT ZONE INSTITUTE - Representatives of District 6800
and a couple of friends are pictured at Zone Institute in Lexington, Kentucky.
They are (from left) Cary Vaughn, District 6800 Governor Nominee;
Tommy White, current District 6800 Governor; Ron Burton, Rotary
International President; Bob Bickley, District 6800 Governor-elect; Larry
Lunsford, RI Director; Barbara Mauldin, Governor, District 6840.
Lars Muller, owner of Condor
Systems Ltd, Vemon BC ,
Canada, used the vectorised
Rotary wheel created by
Tord Elfwendahl to carve
this huge image from several
joined logs. The final work of
art was finished in Blue and
real 23 Carat Gold leaf! Many
newsletter editors and website
designers use Tord’s Library
of Graphics for Rotary
at http://www.graphics‐forrotarians.org/
District Governor Tommy White received a
“BIG” welcome when he arrived at the Summit
Center, venue for Rotary Club of Tupelo meetings
(Top Photo). At bottom, White (left) and
Janice Trawick (center) discuss plans for the
District Conference, slated for April 2014, with
Jimmy Pappas, owner/general manager of The
Summit Center, where the event will take place.
It’s still very confusing, but members of
the Rotary Club of East Memphis now
know more about the Affordable Health
Care Act, thanks to Eric Mounce, CEO of
the West Clinic, who gave a presentation
on the subject. In this photo, Mounce
(right) is given a bag of Community Coffee
by David Leake, club president, as a
“thank you” gift.
Read all about DACdb
on Page 7
Tord created the following
drop of water
with the Rotary
wheel for use by
clubs and districts
in promoting
their
clean water
efforts. Other similar drop of
water are available on the
above website.
Tord shows us the Rotary Wheel,
from beginning to present, above.
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“Shots Felt Around The World”
set for Nov. 1 at Meridian, MS
The second annual “Shots Felt Round The
World” clay shoot project of the Meridian, Mississippi
Rotary Club is set for Friday, Nov. 1. Potential
participants are encouraged
to register soon, since teams are
aligning and event arrangements
are being coordinated.
“One additional benefit to participate
in this year’s shoot is that registration and/
or sponsorship contributions will be credited towards
individual Paul Harris Foundation points on
a dollar for dollar basis.
More information can be obtained on the Meridian
club’s facebook page: https://
www.facebook.com/RotaryClubOfMeridian
WOW, does this foreign exchange
student have something to
talk about when she returns
home!!!
Cecile Kessler, French Foreign
Exchange Student who attends
White Station High School in
Memphis, decided to “go for it,”
and was elected to the school’s
homecoming court! Good for her,
and good for the Exchange Student
program!
Cecil is sponsored by the Memphis
Central Rotary Club.
Past District Governor Ken
Bender dies
Tupelo Rotarians were schooled recently in the game of
Bridge by Robert Hartman, center, CEO of the American
Contract Bridge League. Shown with Hartman are Ron
Ashby, left, Program Chair, and Jerry Napier, President of
the Rotary Club of Tupelo.
Tupelo Rotarians
heard recently from Major
General Bob Chesnut, U.S. Army,
Rered, , who was a survivor
of the aack on the Pentagon
on September 11, 2001.
WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
Week ending Oct. 9, 2013
New polio cases reported in
the past week for 2013: 3
Total number of all cases in
2012 YTD: 162
Total number of all cases in
2013 YTD: 286
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Rotary on the Radio Leadership Team
Tommy White - District Governor
Robert C. “Bob” Bickley - District Governor Elect
Tom Wilson - District Governor Nominee
Richard “Dick” Wieland - Past District Governor
Bethany Huffman - District Treasurer
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In the above photo, District Governor Tommy White
is shown meeting with the officers and board of directors
of the Senatobia club.
At the Quitman County club, DG Tommy is seen
with club secretary Thomas Clayton, left, and Trip
Hawkins (right), the club president.
DG Tommy White (left) with Gary Adams, president
of the Holly Springs club.
Miles Mitchell (left), president of the Olive Branch
club, chats with DG Tommy White.
The latest patient to receive critical heart surgery at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital
via the Gif t of Life program is 17-year-old Habib Osami, who was accompanied
by his sister, Valbona, 20. They are from Kosova (the old Albania). Habib
had been on a waiting list for some five years.
Being so far from home would be traumatic to most of us, but volunteers from
the Olive Branch Rotary Club, under the leadership of Stephanie Lawson, made
them feel right at home.
The surgery was a tremendous success. Doctors had feared that since Habib was
older, there might be some other damage that would linger. However, this turned
out not to be the case. Doctors say Habib should recover fully.
In photo at right, Rotarian Bill Pickens, Gift of Life chairman,
gives Habib and Valbona a goodbye hug at Memphis Int. Airport.

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D6800 clubs urged to use DACdb
DACdb is described as the District and Club database that
now has something for everyone. All District 6800 clubs are
being encouraged to use DACdb, which is free for our clubs
to use. It’s already up, it’s good, and features a robust, high
performance, on-line SQL database, with privacy and security
built in!
IMPRESSIVE GROUP OF DG & ALUMS - While visiting
the Rotary Club of Memphis East, current District
Governor Tommy White (center) visited with two distinguished
Past District Governors from that club.
They are King Rogers, (2008-2009) (left) and Marty
Petrusek (right), (2012-2013).
With DACdb, club secretaries are able to submit their
Monthly Attendance data (or, in a
single mouse click, if they are using
Weekly Attendance module, now with
“bar code” scanning, and BANKED
MakeUps); update their club’s meeting
location and meeting times; maintain their membership roster
(new members, changes, and terminations), and print
name badges or club directories (with members’ photos). Also,
DACdb can print a Rotary Foundation transmittal report
for your annual giving and sustaining member contributions.
In addition, clubs can use the on-line calendar to publish
their meetings, events, and fund raisers, with districtwide
distribution. And, use PMAIL to send personalized
email, individually addressed, to every member in just two
clicks. Also, there is a DUES & INVOICING module for
clubs, with the option for members to pay their dues on-line
with a credit card.
CLEVELAND ROTARY CLUB ON FACEBOOK - The screen shot below was provided by Keith Fulcher, the very able
public relations chairman of the Cleveland club, showing a new Facebook EVENT page that provides information about
each upcoming club meeting, including a bit of information about the speaker. It serves as an excellent reminder for members
to attend. Take a look for yourself and “like it,” if you will!

The faces of RI President Ron Burton, as photographed by Linda (Mrs. Tommy) White at Zone Institute in Lexington, Kentucky
When someone asks, “What does your Rotary club do?”
How do you respond?
By Jim Buffington
Inevitably, someone at some time will ask a member of your club just what your Rotary club does - do you support
community activities or organizations, do you sell light bulbs or brooms? And, just as inevitably,
many of us are unable to respond with a satisfactory answer. For that reason, I drew up
the following information a few years ago for the Aberdeen (Mississippi) Rotary Club after one
of our members expressed the belief that we “don’t do anything.” Ours is a small club of 44
members, so larger clubs with more resources of one kind or another probably are involved in
more projects. Your club might want to have the secretary-treasurer or someone else with
knowledge of just what your club is about, draw up a similar document just so the information will be at hand when
the need arises. By the way, this is good information to give prospective or new embers:
“The club promotes education and the future success of our youth annually by giving three scholarships of $500 each to graduating seniors
at Aberdeen High School, Hamilton High School and Oak Hill Academy.
Annual recognition is given to top scholars in ninth through twelfth grades at the above three schools, including certificates of
recognition and brass medals for four‐year recipients.
Also in furtherance of education, each year the club presents personal dictionaries to all third grade students in Aberdeen, Hamilton, and
Oak Hill Academy.
Each year the club sends two or three area high school juniors to the District 6800 Rotary Youth Leadership Conference, an internationally
recognized program that helps prepare youth for leadership roles in the future.
Aberdeen Rotary sponsors and maintains a decorative garden at the intersection of Commerce and Meridian Streets, the main intersection
in downtown Aberdeen, as a community beautification project.
The club gives $1000 or $2000 to The Rotary Foundation each year. These funds help to eliminate polio in the world, provide clean water
for those who live in areas where cholera runs rampant because of the lack of clean water, and many more such beneficial projects.
The club sponsors and staffs Aberdeen’s annual Christmas parade.
Two blood drives per year are sponsored by the Aberdeen club, in conjunction with United Blood Services, as a community project.”
The District 6800 Newsletter strives to includes photos and information about all Rotary clubs in the district.
PLEASE let us know about your club and its activities in order that we can let the other clubs know what you
are doing. Please send your information to jim@jimbuffington.com
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THE SENATOBIA ROTARY CLUB honored Kirk Moore (center, light
blue shirt) as the 2013 winner of the Sam Morris Award, which recognizes
the club’s Rotarian of the Year. Moore, who has been an active Rotarian
for 50 years, is a Paul Harris Fellow, and previously served as
Club President as well as District Governor. The award memorializes the
late Sam Morris, a Senatobia Rotarian who exemplified a passion for
Rotary and a desire to see others become involved in Rotary. Pictured
are (from left) Bobbie Moore (Kirk’s wife), Martha Moore Clinton
(Rotarian and Kirk’s daughter), Leah Morris (wife of the late Sam Morris),
Moore, Parke Pepper (Rotarian and presenter of the award), and
Matthew Raff (club president).
Bartlett ala’ Carte is very
successful; will help fund
numerous charity programs
More than 300 guests enjoyed a diverse
selection of food and helped support various
programs for youth development, community
development
and educational
programs in Bartlett,
Cordova and other
areas of Shelby
County. The occasion
was the sixth
annual Bartlett a la
Carte, a joint effort
of the Northeast Shelby County Rotary
Club and the Bartlett Area Chamber of
Commerce. A silent auction directly benefits
Youth Villages, a Bartlett-based organization
that works nationwide to support atrisk
youth and keeping families together.
Ken Lee of the N.E. Shelby Rotary Club
and co-chairman of the fund-raiser, said
response was overwhelming from vendors
and guests alike. Guests paid $75 per couple
to sample food and beverages from
Italian, Mexican, Danish, and American
vendors. An array of dishes, ranging from
barbeque, pizza, crabmeat and shrimp
with hot sauce to bison meat balls in
cream sauce - and many others - were
featured.
The Cleveland club’s annual pancake breakfast produces funds that are used for advancing the education of
students in the Cleveland School District. Read more Page 2.
DG Tommy White (right) presents a Rotary
theme banner to David Leake, president of the
Rotary Club of Memphis East. Tommy was
greeted by Past Governors King Rogers and
Marty Petrusek, and Future Governors Tom Wilson
and Cary Vaughn.