PRESIDENT'S CORNER
President Will MacArthur's Welcome Message
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs, I welcome you to visit our club and experience the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs' hospitality and energy. We meet on Monday for lunch at 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Hilton Perimeter Suites, 6120 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Sandy Springs, GA 30328. You can reserve a spot by going to our website at www.sandyspringsrotary.org. Join your fellow professionals, and community and business leaders, and learn how Rotary can fit in your future. Experience Rotary Making A Difference!
UPCOMING PROGRAM
September 11, 2017 - Dell Spry, Retired FBI Agent
Text taken from Jerry Williams/Author/Podcaster at http://jerriwilliams.com/dell-spry-cia-betrayal-al...
"Retired agent Dell Spry served in the FBI for twenty years. During his career, he primarily worked counterintelligence, counterespionage, and counterterrorism investigations. While assigned to FBIHQ, Dell was a member of the National Security Council Counterterrorism Working Group. He was liaison to the CIA Counterintelligence Center, Counterespionage Group and was the lead investigator for the FBI in the Aldrich Ames case. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Dell is interviewed about the two-year-long investigation where he, as the FBI case agent, along with a team of FBI and CIA personnel, was successful in identifying Ames as a KGB mole. Ames, who was directly responsible for the execution of several Soviet and Russian assets and operatives, was charged and convicted of espionage in 1994 and is serving a life sentence. Dell received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence in a Counterintelligence Investigation and the CIA Director’s Meritorious Service Award for his efforts. Prior to retirement, Dell supervised a Counterintelligence squad in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, as a consultant, Dell teaches an advanced course of instruction to novice and experienced FBI personnel on human intelligence (HUMINT) collection, intelligence tradecraft, and counterintelligence matters."
UPCOMING PROGRAM
August 21, 2017 Joe Jones on Georgia Rotary Student Program
On Monday, August 21, 2017, Joe Jones, a GRSP Trustee and member of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs spoke to the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs about the Georgia Rotary Student Program. Pictured below L-R Gene Jordan, Barbara Evans, Joe Jones during special GRSP recognition of the late David Evans.
"What is the Georgia Rotary Student Program?
Since 1946, Rotarians in Georgia, USA, have promoted world peace through understanding by offering scholarships to international students for one year of study in Georgia colleges and universities. Georgia Rotary Clubs sponsor students recommended by a Rotary Club in their home country.
The students become adopted members of a Georgia “host family,” living on-campus at the school they attend. This is a scholarship program, not an exchange!
Each year, about 60 students from all over the world make friends in the United States and other nations and learn about differing cultures and life styles. Georgia Rotarians believe “Peace is Possible” and through GRSP promote international goodwill through friendship and understanding."
Here's a link to the Official Handbook provided to incoming GRSP students. http://grsp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2014GEO...
SPECIAL EVENTS
August 28, 2017 Somm Into the Bottle Wine Tasting
This Family of Rotary Event was held at the Home of Nate & Susan Kongthum, on August 28th, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in place of the regular Monday luncheon Meeting.
See more photos at http://rotaryclubofsandysprings.zenfolio.com/p9403...
UPCOMING EVENT
HERITAGE SANDY SPRINGS FESTIVAL, SATURDAY/SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23-24
President Will MacArthur: Call for Volunteers: As an early reminder, the Club, as in the past, will have a booth at the Sandy Springs Festival on Saturday (9/23) and Sunday (9/24) and we will need volunteers to man our booth on both days. If we allow for 2 hour shifts and 2 volunteers per shift we will need 16 members to volunteer. Please check you calendars and plan of volunteering at our booth. We will have sign up sheets available at our meeting on the 11th and the 18th.
Then plan to attend the Festival. Bring your family. Best of all, it is FREE!
CLUB ESSENTIALS
GREETERS/INVOCATION
Next Week's Greeters and Invocation
September 11, 2017
GREETER A: George Duncan
GREETER B: Candace Apple
INVOCATION: Gene Jordan
If you are unable to serve as a greeter or give the invocation, please be responsible for finding a replacement.
ROTARY MONTHLY THEME - SEPTEMBER - BASIC EDUCATION AND LITERACY MONTH
Realizing that getting children into schools isn't enough to solve illiteracy, Rotary shifts to mentoring and coaching teachers
On Carolyn Johnson’s second visit to the central highlands of Guatemala, she met a first-grade teacher who made a shocking confession. Before taking part in the Guatemala Literacy Project, the teacher was convinced that her students could not learn to read.
“She said ‘We were willing to go through the program because it was a day out of class and you gave us books and you provided us with a nice lunch, but we knew that you were crazy,’ ” says Johnson, a Rotarian who helped design the curriculum for the project and now serves as a technical adviser for the Guatemala Literacy Project.
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