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Dear Fellow Rotarians: What a fantastic District Conference! I want to thank all of you for making the conference a great success. I hope that those who attended enjoyed it as much as I did. The conference committee did a wonderful job in making sure that everything came together perfectly. What a great way to visit with fellow Rotarians and celebrate the Rotary year. If you weren’t able to make it this year, please make time in your schedule for next year’s conference. DGE Butch is already busy planning the conference. The Rotary year is winding down but we have much to do before June 30, 2010. It is very important for you and your clubs to submit your donations to the Foundation before June 30th. Please send in the contributions as soon as you are able to in order to get credit for this year. Also, remember the Polio-Plus Challenge and send in your contributions there also. Membership is also important to keep in mind. Continue to ask qualified people to become Rotarians. Give others in your community the opportunity to serve Rotary as you do. There are so many people that would love to serve their communities and the world. What better way to do that but through Rotary. Also, make sure that your membership roster is up to date before May 30th. It is very important to have an accurate membership count before the end of the year. The Rotary International Convention will be in Montreal, Canada this year from June 19th through June 23rd. Many District 5750 Rotarians will be attending. If you are interested in joining us there, please let me know or go to the Rotary International website and sign up. I would love to see you all there! Let’s continue the passion we have for Rotary and end this Rotary year with as much enthusiasm as we did when we started. The Future of Rotary is In Your Hands! Tamie
District Governor’s Letter
District 5750 News
May 2010
Tamie Babb District Governor
DISTRICT GOVERNOR Tamie Babb
1002 E. 9th Street Cushing, OK 74023 918.225.3006 (work) 918.225.6479 (home) [email protected]
DISTRICT GOVERNOR-ELECT
Forest “Butch” Freeman [email protected]
DISTRICT GOVERNOR-NOMINEE
Moush Tourian [email protected]
DISTRICT CO-TREASURER
Myra Reid [email protected]
DISTRICT SECRETARY Myra Reid
DISTRICT 5750 OFFICE Courtney Lynch
DISTRICT WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER Megan Elliott
DISTRICT 5750 WEBITE
www.rotary5750.org
ROTARY INTERATIONAL PRESIDENT John Kenny
Ambassadorial Scholarship
GSE Finland Farewell Dinner
Join us on Thursday, May 27th to say farewell to our new friends from Finland. The dinner will begin at 6 pm. A final location and cost has not been determined but it will be in the Downtown Oklahoma City area. Please RSVP to [email protected]. Once details are finalized, an email will be sent to all attendees and clubs.
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Deadline for
applications:
May 31, 2010
DISTRICT NEWS
The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarships program is to further international under-standing and friendly relations among people of different countries and geographical areas. The program sponsors scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies. While abroad, scholars serve as goodwill ambassadors to the host country and give presentations about their homelands to Rotary clubs and other groups. Upon returning home, scholars share with Rotarians and others the experiences that led to a greater understanding of their host country. District 5750 provides a $25,000 scholarship to study abroad for one year. The multi-year and cultural scholarships ended in 2009. To download a copy of the application, go to www.rotary.org, Students and Youth, Ambassadorial Scholarship application. Deadline is May 31, 2010: Mail six copies of the completed application including a photo to Paulette Woods. Feel free to phone or email with questions.
Paulette Woods, Scholarship Chair 10389 N. 2432 Circle
Weatherford, OK 73096
[email protected] 1-580-772-0649
Wings of Rotary Departure
Our Wings of Rotary Outbound Team will be departing for their 2 week stay in Japan on June 1, 2010.
High school team members of the Wings Outbound Team
Foundation Pins If you are in need of a current Foundation pin (i.e. - PHS, PHS Major Donor, White Hat Bequest Society or Benefactor), please email Foundation Chair Lance Phillips at [email protected].
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Cabo San Lucas Raffle Winner! Congratulations to Steve Norman of the Stillwater Frontier Rotary Club who won a vacation for a week at the southern tip of Baja, Mexico in Cabo San Lucas - including air travel for four! This is a $16,000 package that was awarded to a lucky winner of raffle during the Rotary District 5750 Conference. Portion of the proceeds go to Polio Eradication so thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket!
District 5750 Conference Success Our District Conference was just spectacular. I personally am so proud of how it turned out. Not proud because of what I did. I'm proud of the number that attended. I'm proud of how much of themselves the presenters put into their messages. I'm proud that the event was truly a celebration and appreciation for the work Rotarians throughout D5750 put into their communities, the district and the world throughout this year. Mostly, I proud that it was a celebration honoring my best friend and one of the best Dis-trict Governors this district has ever had, Tamie Babb. To quote PDG Chuck Musgrave, "She's a rockstar and she doesn't even know it." That's what makes Tamie so special. I'm also very proud and appreciative of all the DC Planning Committee. Those who made this district conference happen were Tamie, Chuck, Will Beckman, Michelle Schaefer, Art Bode, Myra Reid, Moush Tourian, Butch Freeman and Mike Babb. We also appreciate Lance Phillips who allowed us to use his conference room in Bricktown for our meetings. John Rhoten also worked diligently providing the best hospitality suite ever. John's a great host and helped everyone to relax. I must also thank Scott Gentry and staff at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel. They charged PLENTY but did a great job. They were a pleasure to work with and were respon-sive to every request, large or small. Thanks to all who attended. We value your friendship and enjoyed your company. PDG David Reid District Conference Chair
District Conference
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DG Tamie Babb & PDG David Reid
L-R: 2nd place receiving a plaque and winning $300.00 is Falan Fronko sponsored by the Rotary Club of Edmond, 1st place
receiving a plaque and winning $500.00 is Austin Morris spon-sored by the Mustang Rotary Club, 4th place receiving a plaque
is Clarissa Howry sponsored by the Geary-Hinton Rotary Club, and 3rd place receiving a plaque and winning $200.00 is
Brian Barton sponsored by the Cushing Rotary Club.
Members of the Inbound Finland & Italy GSE Teams with members of the Outbound teams at the closing banquet
L-R: Marty Postic (Midtown Rotary, 07-08), Steve Garrett ( Club 29, 96-97), Val Webb (Stillwater Rotary,89-90), Tony Thomas (Midwest City Rotary, 75-76), David Reid (Cushing Rotary, 03-04), Bill Bowden (Club 29, 08-09), Bob Schaefer
(Newkirk Rotary, 98-99), Chuck Musgrave (Bricktown Rotary, 00-01), Don Hellwege (Kingfisher Rotary, 76-77), Jerry Burger
(Club 29, 06-07), Ronnie Valdez (Enid Rotary, 05-06).
DG Tamie Babb, Edgar Cruz, Mike Babb
District Conference Award Winners
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Thank you to all District 5750 Rotarians that made 2009-2010 a hugely successful year. District Governor Tamie Babb recognized the below Rotary Clubs and Rotarians at the Annual Awards Luncheon held during the District Conference.
Club with the largest percentage net membership gain: Cleveland 27% Club with the largest net gain of members: Stillwater Frontier – 8 Club with the largest per capita giving to the Foundation: East Oklahoma County $226.04 per
capita Club with the highest average meeting attendance: Capitol 85.68% Club with the highest percentage of members attending the District Conference: OKC Midtown
79% Small Club of the Year: OKC Midtown Medium Club of the Year: East Oklahoma County Large Club of the Year: Midwest City Assistant Governors Recognition
District Committee Chairs Recognition
Other Awards and Recognition: Michelle Schaefer-District Trainer Myra Reid-Treasurer Megan Elliott – Web Administrator David Reid-District Conference Chair Rotarian of the Year Megan Elliott, OKC Midtown
Presidential Citations Bricktown Cushing Geary-Hinton Midwest City Oklahoma City OKC Heartland South OKC Weatherford Woodward Governor Citations Bronze Level: Capitol Silver Level OKC Heartland Woodward
Silver Level (cont.) Ponca City Stillwater Mustang Edmond Summit Geary/Hinton OKC Midtown NW OKC West OKC Gold Level Midwest City East Oklahoma County Weatherford Edmond Cushing
Art Bode Michelle Schaefer Paul Diggs Will Beckman
Bill Cubbage Deena Fisher Karl Mengers
Karen Schuenemann Raj Phansalker Mike Turek
Butch Freeman Charles Stout John Rhoten
Will Beckman
Blake Sonobe John Little Mary Austin
Barbara Cardin Randy Goodman Jerry Burger Marty Postic James Moore Lance Phillips
Larry Davis
Larry Stone Page Dobson Chuck Musgrave Brian Stone Sheila Stinson Megan Elliott
Paulette Woods
Courtyard by Marriott - OKC North 13511 Highland Park Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK 73120 Thursday, 7:15 a.m.
Heartland - Change of location
Inaugural WOODWARD ROTARY CLUB
4-Person Bass Pond Tournament
Saturday May 22nd
Coveted Area Private Ponds (TOP SECRET)
Winning Team Trophies Big Bass Cash $$$$
ENTRY LIMITED TO THE FIRST 20 TEAMS
Saturday, May 22, 2010 Breakfast and Registration 8am -- Fishing Starts at 10:00am
First United Methodist Church, 1111 Downs Ave., Woodward, OK
4-Person Team ($200.00) / Big Bass ($10) / Sponsor ($100.00)
Call Bret Brewer for more information at 580-273-5939. Proceeds will be used for the maintenance of Rotary Park and Local Charities
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Woodward - Inaugural Bass Pond Tournament
The N.W. Rotary Club will be feeding 35 children and 10 adults from the Baptist Children’s Home on June 14. The event will be the Sailing Event held at the Oklahoma City Yacht Club. Members of the Yacht Club will be taking the children on boat rides on Lake Hefner while the Rotary feeds everyone hamburgers and hot dogs.
Northwest OKC - Baptist Children’s Home
CLUB NEWS
20+ Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Tulsa visited Club 29 in the annual "OKC-Tulsa" meeting… Guest speaker was Tulsa Mayor, Dewey F. Bartlett Jr.
Oklahoma City - OKC/Tulsa Meeting
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On the 1st May the Midwest City Rotary Club held their annual fund raising breakfast at Chelino's in Midwest City. Numerous members of our club were kept hopping serving just over 370 meals to members of the community. The proceeds benefit scholarships; Shoes for Children; Dictionaries for third graders and Character First to name a few.
Midwest City - Annual Breakfast
Club President - Ken Bartlett and Rotarian Ed Miller enjoying the repast!
Dr. Joanne Stafford who headed this up and one of our Rotarians - Sen. James Howell.
Weatherford - New Members
The Weatherford Rotary club has inducted the following two new members on Wednesday, May 12, 2010: Rotarian Stewart Berrong and Rotarian Jared Deck.
Do you have exciting club news, photos or fundraising projects you’d like to share? Send in all of your information to share with the District on the
website and in our monthly newsletter.
Send all information to: Megan Elliott
DISTRICT EVENTS
May 27, 2010 Finland GSE
Farewell Dinner
Jun 1, 2010 Wings of Rotary
Outbound Departs
Jun 12, 2010 District Membership
Seminar
Jun 20 - Jun 23, 2010 Rotary International
Convention
May 2010 Page 8
West Oklahoma City - Fountains at Canterbury Lunch The West Oklahoma City Rotary Club held their May 5 club meeting with the Rotarians Gene and Barbara Baker at the Fountains at Canterbury. With 59 years of combined service to Rotary International, Barbara and Gene are stellar examples of Rotarians. Anyone who knows the Bakers would agree. Gene claims that he did not know anything about Rotary before he was introduced to Rotary in 1957. He started reading everything he could about the organization and hasn’t stopped since! We affectionately call Gene “Mr. Rotarian” because we’ve yet to find a Rotary factoid for which Gene does not know the answer. Gene regards Rotary’s classification principle as one of the organization’s most valuable tenets. To this day, he benefits greatly from associating with people outside of his own vocation. He enjoys this avenue to new acquaintances and friendships. With 42 years of perfect attendance, Gene has held numerous leadership positions within Rotary, including being a charter member of the Southwest Lubbock Club and the Northeast Amarillo Club. Gene served as president of both of these clubs as well as the West Oklahoma City Club. Although Gene is retired now, he traveled extensively for his long-time employer Hobbs Trailers. Because of this travel schedule, Gene belonged to several Rotary Clubs, including the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City (Club 29) and the Fort Worth and Irving, Texas, Clubs. Gene served as Rotary District 5750 District Governor from 1995-96. Barbara Baker was invited to join the Rotary Club of West Oklahoma City in 1990 under the classification of nursing. She served the Club as the first woman president from 1996-97. Rarely will you see Barbara without Gene and Gene without Barbara. We greatly appreciated and enjoyed our time with the Bak-ers. We also had the pleasure of meeting Gwen Thomas, who joined us for lunch. Her husband was a Rotarian and Past District Governor.
Ponca City - RYLA Sponsorships Ponca City Rotary Club continues it's long term practice of supporting local area youth. We are sponsoring three students at the upcoming RYLA camp and have just selected two graduating seniors at Ponca City High School as recipients of our club's annual scholarships. Dr. David Pennington and his new group of officers and directors are busy planning the installation banquet for the 2010/2011 year.
