Bulletin 2017-01-12 (Jan 12, 2017)

Guest Speaker Jordan Cooper to Address Local Government Services and Infrastructure Issues, especially WSSC, on January 12, 2017

Jordan P. Cooper has been consistently engaged in public service for the past 16 years and has spent 8 of those years being actively engaged in Maryland politics. Jordan works on Health IT and Health Information Exchange implementing Obamacare for the District of Columbia’s Department of Health Care Finance. He ran as a Democratic Candidate for Delegate in the 2014 election cycle. He served as the President of the Luxmanor Citizens Association (2013-2014) and currently serves on the Western Montgomery County Citizens Advisory Board, the White Flint Downtown Advisory Committee, the Rockville Selective Service Board, and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Customer Advisory Board. He is an Area Coordinator in District 16 for the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee and is a member of the District 16 Democratic Board. Jordan has a master's degree in health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a bachelor's degree in political science from Vassar College. Jordan was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland.

Rotarians Packed 96 Boxes of Food at Manna on January 10, 2017

Posted by Bob Nelson on Jan 11, 2017

[L-R] Bob Nelson, Tom Lewis and Alex Naron at the Manna Food Center on January 10, 2017. The Rotarians and volunteers packed 96 boxes of food for needy families in Montgomery County.

Rotarians and Guests Enjoyed the Holiday Party on December 22, 2016

Posted by Bob Nelson on Dec 23, 2016

2017 Rose Parade Rotary Float "Doing Good in the World"

Posted by Bob Nelson on Jan 04, 2017

2017 Rose Parade Rotary Float

"Doing Good in the World"

- Photo by Bob Nelson

"The 2017 Float promotes and celebrates the 100 years of The Rotary Foundation. The Foundation empowers Rotarians to travel throughout the world and create and complete projects which serve people in need in six areas of focus which are: promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local economies. The spectacular and colorful dragon is clearly a world traveler carrying luggage decorated with the six symbols of the areas of focus. The Dragon also is proudly wearing a necklace with a medallion marked 100 for the 100 years of service."

Art Blitz gave a review of Historian Joseph J. Ellis' Book "The Quartet" at the Rotary Club meeting on December 15, 2016

Posted by Bob Nelson on Dec 22, 2016

Art Blitz gave a review of Historian Joseph J. Ellis' Book "The Quartet" at the Rotary Club meeting on December 15, 2016. Tom Lewis convened the meeting for the President.

Rotarians Distributed 1000 Dictionaries to 3rd Graders at 10 Elementary Schools

Posted by Bob Nelson on Dec 14, 2016

Above is just a sampling of the many thank you notes that were received by the Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club from third-grade students who had received a dictionary.

President Bob Fuhrman presented a Rotary Cookbook to Dr. Joseph Goldberg to thank him for his talk, “India - Potential for Terrorism and Armed Conflict” at the Rotary Club Meeting on December 1, 2016.

The Rotary Foundation Announces Top Clubs for 2015-2016

Posted on Nov 22, 2016

The Rotary Foundation Announces Top District Clubs for 2015-2016

Top Three Highest Clubs in Annual Per Capita Giving-- Catonsville, Ellicott City, and College Park

The Rotary Foundation (TRF) recently announced club recognitions based on annual foundation giving for the 2015-2016 Rotary year ending June 30. The Rotary Club of Catonsville with contributions to the Annual Fund of $341.67 per capita was ranked first in District 7620. The Rotary Club of Ellicott City ranked second with per capita giving of $322.61 and the Rotary Club of College Park ranked third with per capita giving of $316.30. These clubs were three of only 1564 clubs worldwide to achieve Top Three Highest in Per Capita Annual Giving honors. Only clubs with a minimum of US$50 per capita were eligible.

100 Percent Giving Clubs

Eleven district clubs were recognized as a 100% Foundation Giving Club. They were: Aberdeen, Baltimore, Bonds Meadow, Catonsville, College Park, Columbia Town Center, Crofton, Elkridge, Metro Bethesda, Potomac, and Potomac-Bethesda. Only 4,609 clubs worldwide attained this status. To be eligible, 100% of all active members must personally contribute to TRF and the average contribution must be at least US$100.

Every Rotarian, Every Year/Sustaining Member Clubs

Six district clubs were among the 2,253 clubs worldwide to attain 100% Foundation Sustaining Member Club status. They were: Aberdeen, Baltimore, Bonds Meadow, Columbia Town Center, Metro Bethesda, and Potomac-Bethesda.

The above clubs received banners noting their accomplishments.

Twenty Clubs were honored for supporting the End Polio Now Campaign with an annual donation of $1,500 or more to the PolioPlus fund. The clubs, recognized with a certificate of appreciation, included Aberdeen, Annapolis, Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Bonds Meadow, Carroll Creek, Charles County (La Plata), College Park, Columbia, Columbia-Patuxent, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Glen Burnie, Lake Shore-Severna Park, Lexington Park, Montgomery Village, Parole, Potomac, Potomac-Bethesda, Silver Spring-Kensington, and South Anne Arundel County.

Congratulations to each of the clubs recognized. These contributions to TRF help to fulfill the dream of sixth RI President Arch Klumph when he envisioned an endowment for the purpose of “doing good in the world” one hundred years ago.

Rotary District Governor Anna-Mae Kobbe

Alan Grant and Bob Nelson distributed dictionaries to third graders at Waters Landing Elementary School on November 15, 2016

Posted by Bob Nelson on Nov 15, 2016

Alan Grant and Bob Nelson distributed dictionaries to third graders at Waters Landing Elementary School on November 15, 2016. [Below] Students at the Melvin Berman Hebrew Academy display new words they found in their dictionaries.

Back from photo safaris in Botswana and South Africa on November 10, 2016, Nancy Mason and Bob Nelson showed some of their photos from their exciting journey.

Posted by Bob Nelson on Nov 17, 2016

Back from photo safaris in Botswana and South Africa, Nancy Mason and Bob Nelson showed 167 photos from their exciting journey. Nancy received the Rotary Cookbook from President Bob Fuhrman for her presentation. Bob Nelson celebrated his birthday at the Rotary Club meeting.

Foundation Update - Amazon and Fundraising

Posted by Nabil Bedewi on Feb 02, 2015

Here is a very easy way to help us with fundraising. If you are an Amazon shopper please bookmark this link http://pbrotary.org/Page/amazon in your browser and ask your friends and family to do the same. Whenever you start your Amazon shopping from this page the club gets a percentage. See the link above for details. You can also get to it from our website banner at http://pbrotary.org.

Webmaster Update - NEW Foundation Webpage

Posted by Nabil Bedewi on Feb 02, 2015

We now have a page which serves as a launching point to our club’s Foundation. Check it out at http://pbrotary.org/Page/our-foundation. You can get to it in three ways from our home page (www.pbrotary.org) : Look for “Foundation” located on the banner or under the menu choices “About Us” or “Services/Projects”. Besides evolving content and links to internal and external resources, on that page we can now accept online donations for everything we do.