This Week
Double Your Fun! Thirsty Thursday AND a Friday Meeting!
Join us Thursday night at Taqueria Los Hermanos, 5500 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd (near Dunwoody Tavern) for fun and fellowship from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.
Then continue the fun on Friday morning at Maggiano's as Tony Barnhart schools us on the College Football 2025-26 season!
Great opportunities to bring a friend and introduce them to our club - named one of District 6900's Best All-Around Clubs for 2024-25!
Membership
Help Us Grow Together!
You can join Peter Sherman TODAY (Wednesday) from 12 - 1 pm in a Zoom call that covers our plan to grow membership and make a bigger difference in the world!
Just click on https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81789744489 to join the meeting.
You can also look at all the materials we've created to support our membership initiative by clicking on Dunwoody Membership Readout 2025.
Whether you joined us Friday - or you're planning to join the Zoom call today, think about joining one of our recruiting teams - led by Fred Brandt, Alison North or Peter Sherman.
Service Opportunities
Two Great Opportunities to Help This Summer!
Mark your calendar today for two opportunities to make a difference in our community:
- On Saturday, July 26, join us at the Dunwoody Country Club from 10 am - noon as we assemble backpacks for Tapestri
- On Saturday, August 9, we'll gather with our DeKalb Rotary Council friends to collect medical equipment for FODAC.
Watch for more information on both of these activities in the coming weeks.
GRSP Update
Gearing Up for 2025-26!
Last weekend, the GRSP Trustees met in Macon for their summer meeting. At that meeting, our own Lorri Christopher was honored as a Trustee Emeritus - recognizing her 30+ year commitment to the Georgia Rotary Student Program. Congratulations and thanks to Lorri for the many ways she has made GRSP a better organization.
We are pleased to announce that Julia Carlotto Biral will be joining us from Brazil as our 2025-26 GRSP scholar. Julia is 20 years old and will be studying psychology at Oglethorpe University - with the hopes to become a child psychologist. Ardy and Lydie Bastien have agreed to be her host parents - and Carter Stout is our Trustee. Julia says her family is of Italian descent - and she loves to cook! Julia will arrive in Georgia on August 17.
Anchor Place Respite
What Do July 4, Putters, Bottle Caps and Training Have in Common?
They all link the Rotary Club of Dunwoody with Anchor Place Respite. So here's the story:
- Did you know Anchor Place filled the buckets we used as we marched in the Fourth of July parade?
- Do you have a putter collecting dust in your closet? We could use a few more of varying sizes for our games at Anchor Place. We could also use a croquet set if you have one you'd like to donate.
- Thanks for the bottle caps. We are about finished collecting caps - watch for a picture soon of the artwork we'll be creating with them.
- Volunteer training is Tuesday, August 19 from 10am to noon. Anchor Place volunteers are making a real difference for our neighbors whose lives are touched by dementia and social isolation. Come joining our growing community! You can register for training by clicking here.
Mark Calendar: August 2
Take Me Out to the Ball Game ...
Join
us for a fun night with the Gwinnett Stripers at Cool Ray Field in
Lawrenceville on August 2, 2025. Game time is at 6 pm. Prior to the game
there is going to be a car show so you may want to arrive early to check out
the cars. The cars also will parade on the field between innings.
Tickets
are $20 each. Please contact Sherry Levy at sherrylevy13@hotmail.com or speak
with Ken Levy if you want to attend. Everyone is invited. Kids under 15
can attend at no charge. All attendees will be responsible for their own
food and snacks. Like previous years, our seats are under the overhang on the
first base side so we will be sheltered from bright sun or rain should there be
any.
Sunshine Revisited
Are We Related?
Dave Burr spoke last Friday about how closely everyone is
related. Would you like to learn more?
- About 8-10% of the world's
population has blue eyes. A 2008 University of
Copenhagen study found "that all blue-eyed individuals are
linked to the same ancestor. They have all inherited the same switch at
exactly the same spot in their DNA."
- All of us have a common
great-great-great grandmother. Mitochondrial Eve is
the concept in human genetics that refers to the matrilineal most recent
common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. She lived 155,000 years ago
and is the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an
unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of
those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman.
- And all of us have a common
great-great-great grandfather. Y-chromosomal Adam is
the most recent male from whom all living humans are descended through an
unbroken line of their male ancestors. He lived about 200,000 years
ago and is the most recent man from whom all living humans descend
in an unbroken line through their fathers and through
the fathers of those fathers.
These incredible findings about our shared ancestry should
remind us that our interconnectedness is our greatest strength.
