If ever it seems that your bulletin editor is desperate to find interesting content, well, that's just Reality rearing its ugly head. Some weeks, I will make a story out of anything! This week, my source was an email from Rotarian Weldon, in which he informed me that my name was drawn in the golf tournament's prize raffle. I don't know what prize I won; probably a putter. Whatever the prize, I'm glad to know that my contribution to the raffle paid off.
Friday's tournament, the second (annual?) C.A. Roy & Floyd Walker Memorial Golf Tournament, evidently was a great success. (I won a prize, didn't I?) Seriously, the tournament will certainly prove to be a major fundraiser for Rotary (Burleson Rotary and Burleson Area Midday Rotary), and the Burleson community will turn out to be the greatest benefactor. Thanks to Scott Finks, David Lockard, and all BURROtarians who contributed to the tournament's success. Your dedication, your time, your contributions (including your labor, as well as your dollars) all combine to benefit the various organizations in Burleson who depend on our community for support.
In the meantime, if you have information that would make a good newsletter story, please, please let me know. Almost anything is useful, as long as it might hold interest for Rotarians. Just send it along, and I'll take it from there. Otherwise, you may find here a story about my shiny new putter.
Choose the winning book title and you could win a trip to the convention
The Rotary Foundation will celebrate 100 years of Doing Good in the World in 2016-17. To commemorate this momentous occasion, we commissioned Rotary member and author David Forward to write the definitive history of our Foundation. Every great book deserves an equally great name, so we're asking your help to choose one.
From now through 15 June, you can vote for one of four selected titles or submit your own. To enter the lottery for a free copy of the book, please provide your name and email address on the survey. Ten winners will receive a book signed by the author, and one lucky winner will also receive a paid registration for two to the 2017 Rotary Convention in Atlanta. Both the winning title and the lottery winners will be announced in July.
The book will be available in early 2016 in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Interact students feared dead in South Korean ferry tragedy
Fourteen Interactors are among the 350 passengers who are dead or missing and presumed dead after a ferry capsized and sank on 16 April during a routine trip off the coast of South Korea. Six fellow Interact club members were rescued.
Of the 476 passengers and crew on board the 7,000 ton ferry, 339 were high school students and teachers from the Ansan Danwon High School, where the 30-member Interact club is based. The students were on an outing to the southern island of Jeju.
Rotary Districts 3750 and 3610 in South Korea are working with local Rotary clubs to provide volunteer services and support to victims’ families. Rotary Korea magazine is also planning a memorial event to commemorate Interactors who lost their lives.
Rotary began in Korea with the Rotary Club of Gyeongseong in 1927. Today there are 1,580 Rotary clubs and 708 Interact clubs.
Surely you jest
Scotch with water
A lady goes to the bar on a cruise ship and orders a Scotch with two drops of water.
As the bartender gives her the drink she says, 'I'm on this cruise to celebrate my 80th birthday and it's today..'
The bartender says, 'Well, since it's your birthday, I'll buy you a drink. In fact, this one is on me.'
As the woman finishes her drink, the woman to her right says, 'I would like to buy you a drink, too.'
The old woman says, 'Thank you Bartender, I want a Scotch with two drops of water.'
'Coming up,' says the bartender.
As she finishes that drink, the man to her left says, 'I would like to buy you one, too.'
The old woman says, 'Thank you. Bartender, I want another Scotch with two drops of water.'
'Coming right up,' the bartender says.
As he gives her the drink, he says, 'Ma'am, I'm dying of curiosity. Why the Scotch with only two drops of water?'
The old woman replies, 'Sonny, when you're my age, you've learned how to hold your liquor. Holding your water, however, is a whole other issue.'
