Dear Emmaus Rotarians,
Are you getting your V’day party on?
Why not make Rotary a part of your celebration?
To help you, here is a cut and paste of reasons other Rotarians across the country give for loving Rotary. Try them out to see which one best matches your experience.
I love Rotary because I love the people who join it. Rotarians are the most ridiculously positive people, always trying to make something better in their own way. Doesn’t matter if its club related, community-related, or globally-related, Rotarians seem to want to make things better. In my old age, I’ve found that hanging around with positive people is a necessity.
I love that Rotary members tend to be community leaders. I realize that this definition is a little squishy, but for the most part, I can get in touch with most people in my town with no more than two to three degrees of separation from the members of my Rotary club. One degree of separation if I count the Rotarians in other clubs in town. The non-Rotarian leaders of my community still make it a point to come to visit us and let us know what they are up to. They obviously think that our group is relevant, and I really like that.
I love that Rotarians truly are the “heart and soul” of polio eradication.
I love the Rotary Foundation. Where else can I donate money and have 75 cents on the dollar returned to people I know for local or international service projects?* If I give a dollar to cancer research and they give me the money back and ask me to figure it out, I’m probably going to be a little upset. It’s truly extraordinary to support a Foundation that depends on Rotarians just like me, for the most part in my District, and around the world, to accomplish our humanitarian objectives, together.
I love my Rotary club because we enjoy laughing out loud before 830 a.m. Friday morning. We do good in the world. But at the end of the day, we enjoy each other’s company.
I love Rotary because it gives you a chance to push WAY out of your comfort zone. Rotary let me hone my leadership skills and do good for others in my Rotary club, in my Rotary district, and my Rotary zone.
That’s 6 reasons from 6 Rotarians. Is yours there?
No? Not a problem. Fill it in here---
I love Rotary because ___________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Lexa Shallcross
Emmaus Rotary President 2020-2021