[Dilworthian] Feb. 20 Issue

[Gunter, Lamar]

The Dilworthian

(Issues posted at www.charlottedilworthrotary.org)

February 20, 2009

Club Welcomes David Kirkpatrick

Into Dilworth South End Rotary

The club inducted David Kirkpatrick into membership at the February 13 meeting and then he was introduced as the speaker.  David's classification is training consultant and his sponsor is Kay May.  

 

David is a former member of the Vestavia Hills Rotary Club near Birmingham, Ala.  He was very active in the Vestavia Hills club, serving as chairman- corporate sponsors for the club's annual Roast, and serving on the 4-Way Test Committee, the International Projects Committee, and the Community Project Committee.  He was a Rotary Guest Program speaker at 12 clubs annually in District 6860 and has been a guest speaker at the Dorchester Rotary Club, Dorset, United Kingdom.

 

Some of our members have vacation homes in the mountains, and some have them at the beach, but David and his wife Jan have a vacation cottage in Dorset southwest of London in the U.K.  He visits the Dorchester Club often on his vacations at the Dorset Cottage.  When he and Jan are not vacationing there, it is available for lease.  If you are interested in vacationing there,  Gaol Cottage, Cerne Abbas,  has its own website  www.dorsetcottage.org/. It was a former jail and quarters for the jailer.  Since David and Jan have owned it, they and the cottage have been featured on BBC and in newspapers.

 

His father's profession as a Methodist minister indirectly led to the Dorset Cottage.  His father periodically traveled to Oxford to participate in an international Wesleyan organization and those trips exposed David to England. He said he fell in love England at the age of 12 went he first glimpsed Southampton through on a porthole in the ship on which the family traveled.

 

David is a member of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, the American Society for Training & Development and is a Myers Park Methodist Church volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.   He has received the Blue Chip Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Small Business Person of the Year from the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, the Emil Hess Humanitarian Award from Parisian Inc., and the Marketing/Customer Service Award from Mitel, Inc. 

   

David enjoys cycling, sailing and hiking.  He said he has participated in four "century" (100 miles) rides and eight "half century" rides.

 

He and Jan have two adult daughters, Celia and Amanda and one adult son, Drew.

 

DilWorth Noting

 

Club Nears Funding Second WW II Veteran

Our club is within $40 of raising enough money to fund a second veteran for the April 18th Flight of Honor.  If we can raise that and an additional $200, it will fund a guardian to go on the flight to assist the veterans who may need assistance with wheelchairs.  One of our members could apply to be the guardian our club funds.  Contributions, if made through our club's Dilworth Charities, are tax deductible.  Just mark the memo line of the check: Flight of Honor.  

 

Rotary Foundation "50/50" One Time 

And Benefactor Opportunities

 

By James Stump

Past District Governor

 

Over many years, through various fund raising projects and the generosity of many past Dilworth Rotarians, your club has accumulated unassigned Rotary Foundation "Recognition Points."  For a very limited time in order to achieve/exceed our $7,200 annual giving goal for 2008-2009, your club's Foundation Committee and its Board are offering two ONE-TIME ONLY ways to become either a new or Multiple Paul Harris Fellow.  These new Paul Harris Fellow (PHF) recognition opportunities are available for you to recognize others such as a spouse, parent (living or deceased), a child, a friend, or yourself.

 

We are offering TWO very attractive options: (1) a "one-time only, once-in-a-lifetime only" opportunity for the first 10 Dilworth Rotarians who create either a full new or multiple PHF, the opportunity to do so for $500 IN CASH/CHECK.  The club would then apply 500 recognition points creating your new Paul Harris Fellowship for the beneficiary of your choice (generating additional new cash for the Rotary Foundation that otherwise has not been forthcoming to help us reach/exceed our goal of $7200 for this Rotary year); (2) a second "one-time only, once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity for those members who are WITHIN $500 of finishing either their first or a multiple PHF with a 50/50 "match" for their cash/check and our club's points.  

 

As examples:

 

A. Dilworth Rotarian "Bill" is a new Rotarian and has not yet started his plan to become a Paul Harris Fellow (PHF).  Bill gives $500 to the Rotary Foundation and Dilworth Rotary transfers 500 available club points to Bill.  Bill will become a new Paul Harris Fellow.

 

B. Dilworth Rotarian "Kim" is already a Paul Harris Fellow and has made $600 in actual cash contributions toward a second PHF. For the second PHF, she would have a remaining balance of $400 before reaching the $1000 required.  Under our one-time 50/50 option, Kim contributes $200 in cash and the club would offer 200 points and Kim can create a new PHF (she plans to name her husband which is OK).

 

C. Dilworth Rotarian "Martha" has $400 towards her first PHF.  To be within $500 of completing her PHF (thus eligible to receive the 50/50 match), Martha contributes $100 (to get her to the $500 eligibility threshold) and then another $250 (which the club matches with points). Martha becomes a PHF.

 

If you have questions, please call Jim Stump (704 843-6755) or any of the other members of the club's Foundation Committee (David Hodgkins, Joe Morris, Frank Kiker, Tony Thompson, Chuck Lapp, Ernie Rider, and Dennis McGarry).

 

Equally exciting, your club is also asking you to consider becoming a Rotary Foundation Benefactor (Rotary Foundation Benefactors are individuals who pledge $1000 or more to the Rotary Foundation after their death).  There are currently 14 Foundation Benefactors in our club and we would like to create at least 10 more new Benefactors.  President Ranjit has asked all Dilworth Rotarians to consider becoming a Rotary Foundation Benefactor.  Foundation Benefactors support the Permanent Fund (the endowment) of the Rotary Foundation and are recognized in a very special way comparable to that of becoming a Paul Harris Fellow.

 

President Ranjit, your Board, and your Foundation Committee are planning a very special Rotary Foundation program in April to recognize the new Paul Harris Fellows and the new Foundation Benefactors.  The individual recognitions will be very meaningful for both the recipients and their families/guests.  If you  want to seize a great opportunity to become a Paul Harris Fellow, recognize someone dear or yourself as a PHF, or become a Foundation Benefactor, NOW is the time to STEP UP!

 

Please consider what YOU can do now to help support and strengthen the "heart and soul of Rotary", YOUR Rotary Foundation.  Lives depend on it!

 

News about Members

 

Happy Birthday              
Tony Thompson, Feb. 26

  

Programs

 

Feb. 20         "Talk Radio - Rush Limbaugh and all" -- Rick Jackson, General

Manager of WBT Radio Station.

 

Feb. 27         A gourmet cheese tasting and discussion of pairing -- Regina Healy

Regina is the cheese expert at Dean & DeLuca

          

 April 24:       "Alto Cayma - The Big Picture" - Jim Hintz, University City 

                    Rotarian.

           

Service Opportunities

 

 

 

Weekly at Meetings:

 

International Projects - 

 

·      Participate in the weekly lottery.  Half the proceeds go to benefit our

     International projects. 

·     CART - Donate your loose change to the Alzheimer's research project by 

           tossing it into the blue bucket at the check-in table.  

          

Have News for The Dilworthian

  

Have news for The Dilworthian? Deadline is each Tuesday at 9 p.m. Call Lamar Gunter, 704/442-7838 (office) or 704/525-0569 or fax it to 704/442-9903; or e-mail to Lamar at lgunter at catevo.com, or gunter4283 at bellsouth.net <mailto:gunter4283 at bellsouth.net>   or e-mail him on Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary's Web site, www.charlottedilworthrotary.org <http://www.charlottedilworthrotary.org/> .  

 

Dilworth Rotary's Web site is a valuable source of information on committee chairs, upcoming programs and events, projects and other club matters.  Other important Rotary links on the Web are www.rotarydistrict7680.org <http://www.rotarydistrict7680.org/>  and www.rotary.org <http://www.rotary.org/> , the Rotary International Web site. 

 

Please report changes of e-mail address by using the "contact us" feature on the Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Web site.  Please report changes of postal mailing address to Tricia King, assistant secretary-treasurer, thekings at carolina.rr.com <mailto:thekings at carolina.rr.com> , or P. O. Box 471211, Charlotte, NC, 28247-1211.

  

Make-Up Opportunities

All  makeups should be mailed to Tricia King, Dilworth Rotary, Post Office Box 471211,  Charlotte, NC 28247-1211. Club projects and committee meetings count as make-ups.  All meetings listed below are at 12:30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.

MONDAY

Charlotte North - Byron's South End, 101 W. Worthington Ave.

Matthews - The Senior Center, 1050 DeVore Lane, Matthews, NC 28105 

Charlotte Top-of-the-Week  -  7:30 a.m., Dunhhill Hotel, 237 North Tryon, uptown.

Charlotte South  -  Zebra Restaurant on Sharon Road in SouthPark. 

TUESDAY

Charlotte - Crowne Plaza, 201 S. McDowell St. 

Charlotte University City  -  7:30 a.m., University Hilton, 8629 J. M. Keynes Dr.

WEDNESDAY

Charlotte West  -  Carolina Golf and Country Club, 2415 Old Steele Creek Rd.

North Mecklenburg - 12:15 p.m.  -  Peninsula Country Club, Hwy 73, W. Jetton Rd., Cornelius

Charlotte SouthPark - 7:30 a.m. Marriott SouthPark Hotel, 2200 Rexford Rd.

THURSDAY

Charlotte East  -  Red Rocks Café, 4223 Providence Rd.  

Lake Norman-Huntersville - 7:30 a.m. NorthStone Country Club, 15801 Northstone Rd.

Waxhaw-Weddington - 7:30 a.m. in Rippington's Restaurant in Waxhaw.

Mint Hill - 7:30 am at Pine Lake Country Club, Mint Hill 

FRIDAY

Mecklenburg  County-South  -  7:30 a.m., Raintree  Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane

 

Ballantyne Rotary - City Tavern, Stonecrest

 

 

 

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