February 13, 2019
Snow on Maui
Today's Meeting
Meeting Opened at 12: 06 p.m. by President, Joanne Doell.
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Inspiration by: Joanne
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: ‘Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
Hawaiian Word of the Day: KAHO’OLAWE-Once called KANALOA – Hawaiian God who cares for the foundation of the earth and the atmospheric conditions of the ocean and Heavens; God of the Deep sea.
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KAHO’OLAWE means “Carrying away by currents”; KEALAIKAHIKI POINT and channel is the “path to KAHIKI…also known as Tahiti…on the side that we cannot see.
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The island was taken over by the United States under Martial Law in 1943. The island was used for bombing practice. Hawaiians fought for possession of the island and were successful in 1985. There has been ordnance cleanup but it is not “bomb free” yet. You must have special permission to venture on to the island. Groups are visiting the island and replanting native species. It is hoped that rain will return to the island when there is more vegetation. There would often be a rainbow from MAKENA to KAHO’OLAWE. Joanne’s father and others would go goat hunting on the island. It is said that “goats and bombs destroyed the island.
Introduction of Guests:
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Eric Germain, and Armin P. from: Edmonton, Alberta
Joanie: Big Rapids, Mich.
Judy Gray: Looking forward to becoming a member of our club
Gary McIntosh: White Rock….Many years
Sally Dean: back from Nova Scotia.
Maui Minute: Visitor name—Jim Samly, Maui Memory: “Lobster Skin”-Jim flashed us the very bright beginnings of his Maui tan! He is the most hated man in his home club because he is here, and it is snowing and cold where he lives.
Announcements:
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Karin, our Fundraiser Chair, gave us an update and introduced her committee chairs.
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Jay Encouraged us to sell tickets and said that we sold 112 tickets sold so far and pointed out that sponsors have donated quite a bit of money for the fundraiser.
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Our District Governor (DG), Win Schoneman will be our visitor next Wednesday, Feb. 20th.
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Speaking of Win, Joanne and Suher were his chauffeurs to RYLA this past Sunday, braving the wind and rain on the way out. “We know more about “submarines” than evah before!” Said Joanne. 43 students attended from Maui County and 10 from KCS
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John Moore is still seeking a project leader for Cynthia’s landscaping project at the hospice. See the signup sheet in the binder.
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Members are requested to fill out and return the profile information that was emailed last week. Your information, phone numbers, address, email, etc, will be used to update and check out our membership rolls. Please complete and return it by email or print it out, fill in legibly and bring in to next week's meeting.
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Stuart and Joanne are continuing efforts to update and add to our website.
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Next Pau Hana—potluck at Keawakapu Beach on the Green next to 5 Palms—this is an opportunity to invite prospective members and just have fun! Thursday, February 28th at 5 p.m. Sign up in binder ​
Speaker's Schedule:
February 20 Paula Baldwin, President, Cold Cup of Water
February 27 Meet & Greet Gathering, Place TBA
March
March 6 Skippy Hau, Division of Aquatics. Resources for State of Hawaii
March 13 Kit Zulueta, Mystery Maui Escape Room
March 20 Chris Wood, Police Suicide and Welfare Fraud
March 27 Meet & Greet Gathering, Place TBA
Todays Speaker
Mark Harbison
Mark Harbison, the club’s “International Grants-and-Local-Project-and-all-things-monetary-guy", who keeps the nitty-gritty details sorted out and gives us regular gentle nagging and encouragement to get new members”. He pointed out that globally, women are becoming more of a force in activities and numbers, and have been a big boon in membership growth.
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Mark, who has been responsible for our club winning several International grants due to his savvy leadership, gave a very interesting presentation on the “monetary” side of the Club’s membership importance. Membership is the key—more members equals more money for our local and international service projects.
Our donations go to the Rotary Foundation, which invests them for three years and then returns them to the club in the form of grants. The income from the investments pays 97% of the Rotary International administration fees (earning Guidestar's top 5-star rating) and the rest of the income is distributed to the districts, who distribute it as District Grants to the clubs. So our donations are matched at least once by the District, and sometimes more from other grant sources.
For example, RCKW donated $1227 for the Rescue Tubes. The District matched that number for a total of $2554.
Africa and South East Asia are getting more attention for assistance now.
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Here are some Rotary details:
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1,195,107 members in 2018 (down 2,817 from 2017)
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35,681 clubs worldwide (up 25 from 2017)
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Average club size: 33; Most common: 20; Median size: 27
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Asia: 50,000 have joined in the last 5 years; Asia now has 31% of the world’s Rotarians
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Japan: After years of decline, has slowed losses and beginning to gain—due to women being admitted into clubs.
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Genders: 78% Male, 22% Female
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USA, Canada & Caribbean lost about 15,000 members
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Mark can be reached at markaharbison@gmail.com; C: 808 874-1942
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Here's Mark's slide show with showing details and grants for our club projects.
Rema Bagshaw collected Happy Dollars.
Many Happy Dollars were donated as a thanks for Mark’s presentation, and some sponsorships were donated.
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Dennis and Rema were very happy that their granddaughter’s medical test results came out negative.
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Karin was happy that the fundraiser was almost completed. She and others have been working very hard to make our 2019 fundraiser a success
“Acts of Kindness”
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Joanne and Suher were very thankful for a gentleman with a chainsaw showing up while they were stuck behind a downed tree on “the road to Hana” during their trip to Camp RYLA during the storm. He cut up the tree and opened the road for them.
Magic Marble:
Dave asked our speaker, Mark, draw the lucky ticket. Eric’s ticket was drawn. He stated while he was drawing the marble that he was going to donate the winnings back to club if he drew the “Magic Marble”, but nope—next time perhaps!
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Pot value: $468 Number of Marbles: 27
In the World of Wacky and Unusual Commemoration Days
“GET A DIFFERENT NAME, DAY”. Take 60 seconds and discuss at your table what name you would give yourself, other than the name you were given…..GO! Some names that came up: Bob, Scarlett, and “I’ll keep my own name.”
Meeting ended at 1:16 pm
Stuart—sang us out the door. Mahalo nui loa—Thank you very much and a hui hou! --until we meet again.