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Vol. 60, No. 17                                    October 26, 2011                                                Rich Ahrens, Editor
Celebrating Our 60th Anniversary

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2011-2012 Officers and Directors

President:

Frank Fontana

President-Elect:

Paul Huber

President-Nominee:

Rich Kirschner

Treasurer:

Steve Stolz

Secretary:

Mia Delk

Past-President:

Jay Crandall

Director:

Rich Ahrens

Director:

Hal Atzingen

Director:

Ryan Blauch

Director:

Nancy Graham

Director:

Ron Gustason

Director:

Jennifer Hoy


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Meetings


Membership
Club Roster (requires login)
Featured Member, Jeanette de Kort
Jeanette deKort
Jeanette retired at quite an early age after carreers in very different fields.  She served as a teacher (physical education), an airline stewardess and during the last several years working as an independent registered nurse. 
 
Jeanette has many different interests but most of all she likes to travel, meet people from all kinds of horizons and backgrounds and experience their culture. She thinks her daily attitude is more or less determined by what she found best in these experiences.

Jeanette feels being a part of Rotary enlarges her view still more. She spends a large part of the year in Naples and the other part in France - as a base to explore other parts of the world. She has two adult children and a little grandson named Lucas.

Featured Member, Steve Wheeler
Steve Wheeler

Steve is the Senior Director of Development at Lee Memorial Health System Foundation and is responsible for securing gifts in Collier County in excess of $25,000 for the support of health system programs and projects. Steve is currently responsible for helping with the "Gift Of A Lifetime" $125 million campaign to build America's Newest Children's hospital. 

 

Steve and his wife, Kathy,live in Wyndemere with their 13 year old son, Andrew, a student at Seacrest Country Day School. Their daughter, Emily, is a 16 year-old junior at Culver Girls Academy in Culver, Indiana. 

 

"I love the people who are involved with Rotary. They seem like the most honest and selfless people in the community."

 

Steve enjoys travel, photography, plants and landscaping.


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Michael Orden - October 2
Phil Smith - October 11
Karl Fry - October 11
Jim Connell - October 29
Don Evans - October 29
Al Hackney - October 31
Kevin Pendley - October 31

 
Precise and Accurate

Greetings!

In the spirit of Vocational Service Month, this week's message will continue to outline principles from industrial engineering, statistics, and portfolio management that can be applied in other professions.  These concepts are also helpful for planning Grapes & Apes 2012.

 

Do you know the difference between precision and accuracy?  Imagine a dart board.  If there are five darts clustered together, but the cluster is nowhere near the center of the dart board, this is precise but not accurate.  On the other hand, imagine five darts scattered on the dart board, roughly around the center, but nothing is close to being a bull's-eye.  This is accurate but not precise.  A bull's-eye is precise and accurate.

 

Our operations (for Rotary and our respective businesses) should strive to be precise and accurate.  How do we achieve this?

 

First, we focus on precision.  When we are precise, we are repeatable.  We achieve precision by clearly defining processes.  Once all of the steps in a process are defined, we have total clarity on how to achieve a particular result.  We know exactly how things get done and we can repeat this consistently.  Variance is low.

 

Just because we are precise, though, does not imply we are accurate.  If we are not hitting our target, we should incrementally tweak the process until we are hitting it.  The result is improved accuracy while maintaining precision.

 

As you are helping to plan Grapes & Apes 2012, strive to be precise and accurate in every detail.  By doing so as a team, we will realize our vision for the event and create an amazing experience for our guests!

  

Yours in Rotary Service,

Frank

Frank Fontana
President, 2011-2012

 

Blood 

This Week's Meeting

 

Name:  Ms. Mandria Moore
Organization:  Community Blood Center
Topic:  You Give...Others Live
  • The power of helping others is within you.  In the time it takes to watch 2 television sitcoms, you can save 3 lives by giving blood.  In less than 2 hours, you can literally help someone very ill, such as a cancer patient needing platelets, truly feel better and celebrate another day.

Meetings

  • We will be meeting in the Sunset Terrace on the Gulf of Mexico side of the hotel this week.

District Conference Cruise

  • The 2012 District 6960 Conference will be a 4 night cruise on the Celebrity Millennium from April 12th to 16th.  The ship leaves Miami on Thursday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m., visits Key West and Cozumel, and then returns to Miami on Monday, April 16 at 7 a.m.  Rotarians will do a service project in Cozumel.  The Rotary Club of Naples has budgeted $1,800 toward the cruise, which will be divided equally among all members who make reservations for the cruise.  For example, if six members (and their spouses) make reservations for the cruise, each Rotarian would be reimbursed $300 by the club.  Prices start from as low as $549.51 per person (including all taxes, fees, prepaid gratuities, meals, entertainment, and special conference events).  To book reservations, call VIP World Travel at 941-377-0017.  Please let Sue Cobb know about your reservation as soon as it has been made (no later than November 30, 2011) so that we can plan for reimbursements. 

 

 

 

 

Click on the following links for more project information:

Grapes & Apes     Bell Ringing     Collier Harvest     Gift of Giving     Past Projects


EndPolioNow

Click on the following links for more project information:

The Rotary Foundation     Gift of Life     Mandeville Rotary Club     Past Projects

 

Dictionary Day

  • Today is the last day for you to sign up to assist with Dictionary Day this coming Friday morning. If you want to participate, please sign up or email Jacques Groenteman.

Rotaract

 

On Saturday, October 15th, members of The Rotaract Club of Naples volunteered their time at The Garden at Eden where they painted and cleaned out a shed to help the garden get ready for another growing season.

 

Rotaract at Eden 

 

Click on the following links for more project information:

Dictionary Day     Interact Club     Rotaract Club     Scholarships     S4TL

 

Philharmonic
Larry Martin, Hank Dawson and Lisa McCarthy at Naples Philharmonic

Click on the following links for more project information:

Rotarians in Business     Vocational Day

Much of what you need to know is only a click away. Our club website is a wealth of information and resources for you to be more involved, to access important documents and to take your knowledge as a Rotarian to the next level.  Go ahead, CLICK!

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