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WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
YEARS OF SERVICE
Rotary Onlinehttps://thomasvillerotary.org
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| President | Kim Walden |
| President-Elect | John Brown |
| Immediate PP | Andre Marria |
| Vice President | Terry Rouse |
| Treasurer | Rick Piper |
| Treasurer | Teri White |
| Secretary | Angela Williamson |
| Foundation | John Glenn, Jr. |
| Membership | Adam Carvin |
| Sergeant-at-Arms | Danny Braddy |
| Program Director | Jay Flowers |
| Bulletin Editor | Susan Backofen |
| Sergeant-at-Arms | Mary Beth Donalson |
| Public Image | Mike Bixler |
VIRTUAL Wine or Whine Tuesday at 5:30
Grab your favorite beverage and join us on Tuesday, May 5 at 5:30 for a virtual Happy Hour. Invitation and link will be sent separately.
Rotary Update from President Kim
Hello Rotarians! You probably know the Plaza Restaurant is not open this month and we also want to be sure to keep safety first so we will continue to have our Rotary meetings online via Zoom. Please remember, you can call in and listen to our meetings from your phone or you can click the link from your cell phone or computer and see the meetings online. It's so great to see our Rotary Family faces and catch up!!! We've been starting 15 minutes early so we can visit for a while prior to the beginning of the program.
Your Rotary Board has been busy. We've reviewed the Club Bylaws and will share those with you when we are together, the pandemic has given us time to look at what we do as a Club and consider ideas to grow our Club so we can continue to be the best ever Rotary Club. Although all of our programs and projects have been cancelled we are hoping to be able to gather together in June and give an update on the Rotary year. We have accomplished many wonderful things both near and far and I'm looking forward to sharing that recap with you all when we can meet together again. In short, I'm working on 'year end' reports and awards and President-Elect John Brown is gearing up for his year to begin July 1!
Please reach out to your Rotary friends and Stay Safe!
This week our program will share the challenges of education during a pandemic and insights for education in the next year
Dr. Andy Sheppard, President of Thomas University and Dr. Randy Watts, Headmaster at Brookwood will share some of the challenges they have faced during the Covid 19 outbreak. They will also share insights about what to expect in education in the coming year. Be sure to tune in to hear about this program.
ShelterBox: 20 Years of Disaster Relief
Thank you to Bill Tobin, Rotary Relations Manager, for a wonderful program on ShelterBox USA
Bill began as a volunteer for ShelterBox after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Since then Bill has shared the ShelterBox story to thousands of Rotarians, organized fundraisers and awareness events for ShelterBox USA and helped lead the team of USA Ambassadors in raising over 1.4 million dollars for ShelterBox in 2017. For his volunteer efforts with ShelterBox USA, Bill has received the United States Presidential Volunteer Service Award seven times.
Here are some additional resources for you and your members, I highly recommend the family activity page while we’re all ‘sheltering in place’.
Links
1. Our Website: https://www.shelterboxusa.org NOTE: direct to volunteer page https://www.shelterboxusa.org/volunteer
2. Action Tool Kit: https://www.shelterboxusa.org/actiontoolkit
3. Family activities: Educational and fun, something for everyone. https://www.shelterboxusa.org/coronavirus/family_activities
4. Sell a House, Give a home- Our vocational philanthropic partnership for those in Real Estate. https://www.shelterboxusa.org/giveahome
- VIDEO: 20 Years of ShelterBox (6 min 13sec) https://youtu.be/Kagua1_lLrs
- VIDEO: Kunyumba- Home. (6 min 34 sec, Subtitled) Having lost everything after Cyclone Idai in 2019, Stephano and Mary were determined to rebuild their livelihoods in Mwalija, Malawi. https://youtu.be/U-11SdugQjU
BIG DAY OF GIVING: We have a donor who will match at least $15,000 of the online contributions through our website made during a special Big Day of Giving on Thursday May 7th. http://www.shelterboxusa.org/donate
GRSP Awards Thank you for your generosity to this amazing program.
GRSP began in Thomasville and so it is with great pride that we share the amazing support by our many members for this program!
Our Goal for 2019-2020 was $25,500.00. We raised $33,787.63!!! That's +$8,287.63!!! Last year, we raised 2018-2019 $28,887.00
Our New Awards! Thank you so much for your generosity!
Ronnie Waller Fellow - Philip Cargill Watt and Teri Hurst White
Jake Cheatham Fellow - Carol Jones
Kendall Weisiger Fellow - Wilson Carraway III, Powell Jones, Rankin Smith, Jr.
Hue Thomas Fellow - Mary Beth Donalson, Dale Hodges, Bradford Jackson, Frances Parker, Gerhard Sommer, Michael Stephenson and Jeffery Zoller
Will Watt Fellow - Mark David Lowe
| WWF Honoree Awards April 16, 2020 | GRSP Donor |
| Jill Carraway Evan Carraway Wortman | F. Wilson Carraway, III |
| Ross Andrew Jones Linda McGarrah | Carol Jones |
| Betsy Melissa Jones | W. Powell Jones |
| Mary Tomlinson | Harry Tomlinson |
| Alston P. Watt | Philip Cargill Watt |
| Edna Graves Hurst | Teri Hurst White |
| Machelle Watt | Past President’s |
Governor’s Associate - Christy Cooke, Shanna Derby, William Dickey, Tim Filston, Frank Helms, Cameron Jahnke, Janet Liles, Vann Middleton, Wayne Newsome, Shelba Sellers, Howard Stephens, Randy Watts, Angela Williamson
Sustaining Member - Alexzandria Bighams, John Blackmon, Matt Brown, Will Brown, Julie Cannady, Gerry Gilmer, Lorraine Williams Rahming, Susie Shin, Dawna Bicknell Tanner, Barbara Williams-Anderson
Special Thanks to our GRSP Endowment Fund Committee!!!
Debbie Goodman, Wallace Goodman, Scott Rich, Teri White, John Brown, John Glenn, Carol Jones, Homer Pankey, Harry Tomlinson, Gary Tucker, President Kim Walden, Will Watt III and Angela Williamson