President's Message
Peacebuilders
At last week’s meeting, our high school youth stood before our membership announcing which city council members they would represent in the 71st annual youth day parade. I continue to be impressed with this generation of young leaders and future Rotarians. The weather Saturday morning could not have been better for the youth day parade. This tradition is one of the many things that truly makes Roswell unique and a great place to live, work and play. Our float was manned with lots of young candy throwers showing off their Youth Peace in Action and tie-die peace T-Shirts.
Last week's meeting also saw the induction of four new members into our club! According to our Membership Chair, Lee Patrick, we have many more in the queue. I anticipate that with the new creative membership categories, we will be welcoming more new friends who will be joining us in giving back to the community and having a blast doing so.
This week help me welcome our District Governor Mary Ligon to our meeting on Thursday. We will also have our Interact leadership present our YPA progress and our plans to create peace through our young Peacebuilders. Wear your tie-die Rotary Peace shirt!
District Governor Visit in 2 days
District 6900 Governor Mary Ligon
Be sure to attend this Thursday to hear from our District Governor
Welcome DG Mary Ligon to Roswell!
Mary Ligon joined the Rotary Club of Dougherty County (Albany, GA) in 2002 serving in several capacities before becoming President in 2009-2010.
At the district level, Mary has served as an Assistant Governor, AG Trainer/Coordinator, multi-district PETS facilitator and District Grants chair. She has been recognized as District Rotarian of the Year in 2017, with the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service in 2018 and is a Rotary Foundation major donor.
Having served on numerous community boards and with over 20 years of experience participating in, volunteering in, and leading community leadership programs, Mary understands the opportunity and benefits of focus and scale in achieving impactful results. She is an alumnus of several community and regional leadership programs and served as the director of Leadership Albany for 17 years. In 2016 the National Association of Leadership Programs recognized Mary with their Preceptor Award and she is currently serving as Resources Director for the organization.
Mary has a BBA degree from Georgia Southern University in Management/Information Systems and began her career with IBM. Established in 1994, she maintains a consulting business - Mary Ligon, ETC (Effectiveness, Training, Consulting). Mary and her husband Jim have two grown daughters.
Group Picture: Former District Governors with current DG Mary Ligon in center.
A message from Jonathan Crooks
Compelling Testimony for Roswell Rotary Blood Drive
This is Jonathan Crooks writing to you today. Most, if not all, of you know me as your Rotarian brother who just came through the long bout with the COVID-19 Delta Variant.
I’ve been asked to write to you today to ask you to consider donating a pint of blood at our annual blood drive on November 3rd. As I struggled through my battle with COVID-19, I personally received 3 pints of blood and one infusion of COVID-19 antibodies. I don’t know who it was who donated them, but I thank God for them.
As Rotarians, we give of our time, our gifts, and our dollars, living up to our motto, “Service above Self”. This is truly an opportunity to give OF ourselves. Our opportunity to gift to someone else a part of ourselves we can’t give any other way. You’ll never know who it was who received your life-giving blood, but I guaranty, you will sleep better at night knowing you did so. As I personally strengthen, my plan is to take part in the “COVID-19 Delta Antibody Harvesting” program, so that I may help someone else. If my doctor allows me to do so, I’ll be lying next to you in November as we give this precious gift.
So please join your fellow Rotarian Brothers and Sisters and give this gift of life to someone else. As one who recently received this gift, I thank you for those who will receive what we will do. May God bless you for doing so.
Please click the link below, sign yourself up, and particularly if you can't donate blood, inspire your friends and neighbors to.
Truly Giving of Yourself: Click here to reserve your time on Nov. 3rd to donate
