The cost of registration is $20.00. This will include Breakfast and Lunch

RI President Barry Rassin and District Governor Dennis Brigham encourage all District 5770 Rotary Clubs to take advantage of the Rotary Club Central program.  The program assists Rotary clubs to plan and track service projects -- from beginning to end.  Click on ROTARY CLUB CENTRAL in the left column under SITE PAGES.

The Rotary Youth Exchange Program does not happen without your club's support.  Recruiting OUTBOUND ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENTS should be a continuous process for district Rotary clubs.  Suggested recruitment sources are school language teachers, Interact, RYLA, church groups, news promotions and your own club or family contacts.

Rotary clubs are asked to recruit students from their communities well in advance of their exchange year. In order to obtain exchanges for long term outbound students ages 15 1/2 to 18 1/2 , the district interviews occur each November for the next school year.  

There are also some short term exchanges that occur during the summer.  One month of family to family visiting between and exchange student and a foreign host family with a student.  These exchanges are from ages 14-19.

The following link(s) may be used to access Rotary Youth Exchange pages and forms:

Details about the Youth Exchange program are found in the left column of this page.  Under SITE PAGES, click on the ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE link.

If you would like to have a club program on Youth Exchange, or need posters to put up at schools, or need more information about the program itself. Please contact Jaci Williams at jacy.5770@gmail.com or Russ Davoren rdavo@cox.net

The November End Polio Now Newsletter from The Rotary Foundation is available by clicking here

Nai-Hua Wu was recently featured on the Rotary International website.  She was sponsored by District 5770 (Norman RC) as a Rotary Peace Fellow from 2005-2007 where she attended the Rotary Peace Center at International Christian University in Tokyo.  She is currently completing a doctorate in management at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School and is one of more than 500 graduates of the Rotary Peace Centers program.

Nai visits Oklahoma whenever possible and considers it her home away from home.  She was a presenter at the 2010 District Conference. 

$1000 COVER WITH TWO RI PRESIDENT SIGNATURES SHOWN BELOW

UNCANCELLED $100 COVER HIGHLIGHTS THE STAMPS AND CANCELLED $100 COVER SHOWN ABOVE WITH ONLY RON BURTON'S SIGNATURE

 Don’t miss a rare opportunity to contribute to The Rotary Foundation and receive a memento honoring our own Rotary District 5770 Ron Burton as Rotary International President (2013-2014).  A $100 or $1,000 contribution to The Rotary Foundation in Ron’s honor under a special offer entitles the donor to a special commemorative postal cover. 

Click here for complete details. 

Every spring, the University of Oklahoma (OU) Rotaract Club does its part to help in Rotary International’s fight to eradicate polio through the PolioPlus Campaign. Since its inception in 1985, the PolioPlus program has helped save the lives of more than two billion children. The thought of a polio free world is what inspired Rotary International’s PolioPlus program and it is what continues to fuel it.

Like past years, the OU Rotaractors will hold their PolioPlus Week on Campus with events every day on the south Oval to raise money for and awareness of PolioPlus. The culmination of  PolioPlus week is The OU Rotaract  PolioPlus Benefit Banquet. This is their largest event and fundraiser for the year. Support their enthusiasm and hard work as they are potential Rotarians and hope for the future of Rotary.

Speaker:               John F. Germ, current vice chair of Fund Development for PolioPlus
Date:                     April 16th, doors open at 6PM
Time:                    Dinner starts at 7PM
Location:               The Associates Room - 3^rd floor - The Oklahoma Memorial Union at The University of Oklahoma

Click here for online and mail-in registration

Click here for link to OU website

Click on the word MORE below to learn about John F. Germ, the banquet speaker.

Rotary District 5770 participated in the 28th Lone Star Presidents-Elect Training Seminar (PETS) at the DFW Airport in Dallas.  Presidents-elect were trained in every aspect of Rotary to help them be better equipped to handle responsibilities as club president.  In addition to the formal training, participants had the opportunity to visit vendors selling Rotary products, heard motivational speakers, and had the opportunity to meet and hear Rotary international (RI) leaders.  Featured speakers were our own District5770 RI President Ron Burton and RI President-elect Gary Huang from Taiwan.

In prior years district 5770 participated as an invited guest.  2014 is the first year that the district is a sanctioned member of the organization.  Lone Star PETS serves nine Texas districts and district 5770 from Oklahoma.  Currently there is a total of 576 Rotary clubs encouraged to participate at this event.  District 5770 has 34 clubs with 24 in attendance this year.  District presidents-elect met with governor-elect Bob Dill on Friday and then on Saturday in small groups based on club size with clubs from the other districts.  Some members of the district 5770 Leadership Team served as volunteer presenters and discussion leaders. 

The Oklahoma legislature honored Ron Burton on March 10 in the State Capitol Senate Chambers. Ron was there and personally accepted the proclamation and a good showing of Oklahoma Rotarians were in attendance.  The Senate sponsor was Sen. Rob Standridge of Norman. He is a member of the Norman Rotary Club which is Ron's home Rotary club.  A reception which included Rotarians followed the presentation.

Join us for the annual Bi-District Rotary Foundation Banquet. Our featured guest will be Rotary International President Ron Burton who hails from the Rotary Club of Norman in our district. What a great opportunity to celebrate the work of The Rotary Foundation with Ron!

Sheraton Midwest City Hotel
Reed Conference Center
5800 Will Rogers Dr
Midwest City, OK

February 22, 2014
6:15 - Cocktail Reception
7:00 - Dinner and Program

If you are a sustaining Rotarian through personal donations, or club dues, of at least $100 to The Rotary Foundation, your ticket price is for the meal only. All other Rotarians must pay $150 for the event; $100 TRF contribution and meal. Spouses and Guests of ALL members may attend for the price of the meal, $50.

Registrations for the event must be received by end of day on Monday, February 15, 2014. Hotel rooms will be available for reservation at a reduced rate of $99 at the Sheraton Midwest City Hotel. Please use the group name "Bi-District Foundation Banquet" when making your reservations.

Click here for Banquet Registration

Click here for Hotel Registration 

Map, directions, and other information are found in the right column of this page under EVENTS. Click on the title BI-DISTRICT RI FOUNDATION BANQUET.

If you have any questions regarding your registration please contact:

Linda Holt, Registrar
Telephone: 405-317-5689
Email: holt4982@yahoo.com

Keep up with the New Generations programs - Interact, Ryla, Rotaract, and Youth Exchange.  Interact clubs are invited to submit entries in the fourth annual Interact video contest. 

Click on NEW GENERATIONS PROGRAMS under SITE PAGES in the left column for the September newsletter and video contest instructions.

Engage Rotary and Change Lives - This is your Opportunity to learn about changes in the Foundation and Membership that that will bring more money and members to your club. 

 Foundation & Membership Seminar

Saturday, August 10

8:30 Registration & Coffee

The Church of Christ

2nd and Kansas, Cyril, Oklahoma 

In addition there will be a class for Club Secretaries to learn about changes at RI that will make your life easier.

Any questions please contact:

PDG Glenda Thomas, Foundation Chair

glthomas2501@sbcglobal.net

m-geiger@sbcglobal.net

Here is a link to the photos I took this weekend at the District Conference in Norman. These include both photos from the Friday evening dinner and Saturday's events.

If you would like individual photos, note the photo number and send me an e-mail with that number. Also, let me know what size you want the photo. I can format them to be used either on the internet (web pages or e-mail) or for printing. 

Here's the link to the photos:

District Conference 2013 Photos

RI president Elect Ron Burton (Norman RC) and his wife Jetta (Norman Cross Timbers RC) are already busy preparing for his 2013-2014 presidential year.

Ron and Jetta marched in the Evanston, Illinois July 4th parade with the Evanston Rotary Clubs.  Jetta remarked " It was hot but still fun!" This is a really big event in Evanston with 111 parade entries.
 

The District Assembly is scheduled for June 2, beginning at 8:30 am.  Registration and continental breakfast will start at 8:30 (some may arrive earlier), then the program will be from 9 to noon so attendees will be free for lunch on their own (and some might want to have lunch together somewhere).

The meeting is an important time to finalize plans for 2012-13 and ensure our clubs are ready for a great year.  The purpose of the assembly is to prepare incoming Rotary club leaders for their roles.  It will be beneficial for club presidents, secretaries, board members, and other officers to attend for updates & information.

The meeting location is the Common Ground Building (of the 1st Baptist

Church) - 327 West Main in Norman (just east of University Street, on the south side of Main).Click on the following address for map directions.
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=327+West+Main+in+Norman.&hl=en&ftid=0x87b269db1e568f87:0x5b76eb91f47ae01f

Contact Governor-elect Phil Moss at pmoss@cox.net and advise him of those who will be there from your club.

The Youth Exchange SCHEDULE for haschanged and Rotary clubs must RECRUIT, RECRUIT NOW!!!

The rest of the world does their district interviewing in the fall, and we need to ADAPT, ADAPT, ADAPT, Always a key work for Youth Exchange.

POTENTIAL 2013-2014 OUTBOUND STUDENT APPLICATIONS ARE DUE TO LOCAL CLUBS BY OCTOBER 15 AND FORWARDED TO THE DISTRICT BY OCTOBER 31 TO JACI WILLIAMS P.O. BOX 1087, NORMAN OK 73070

0RIENTATION FOR POTENTIAL OUTBOUND STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS WILL BE IN NORMAN ON  SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23.

DISTRICT INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD IN NORMAN ON NOVEMBER 17-18

The Outbound Coordinator for District 5770 is Rotarian Denise Kueny of the Norman Sooner RC.  She will be working with recruitment and with our outbound students. Any club interested in scheduling a program on Youth Exchange should contact either Jaci Williams, jacywilliams5770@yahoo.com , Russ Davoren rdavo@cox.net ,or Denise at sparkyace29@yahoo.com

Most inportant is if anyone in any club has a student or potential host family interested in Youth Exchange, please forward the name(s), address, e-mail, and phone number to one of us as soon as you are contacted so we can inform them about what they need to do to participate.  Thanks to everyone who helps make this program a success each year.

Jaci Williams
D5770 YEO
P.O. Box 1087
Norman Ok 73070 ( mail address)

2745 Broce Dr., Norman Ok 73072
Norman Ok 73072 (physical address)
405-321-5999 (work with voice mail)
405-321-5035 (home)
405-321-6996 fax

2012-2013 RI PRESIDENT - SAKUJI TANAKA
Rotary Club of Yashio, Japan


   PRESIDENTIAL THEME -  PEACE THROUGH SERVICE  

 CLICK HERE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S MONTHLY MESSAGES

Rotary’s Challenge for polio eradication has reached the US$200 million milestone. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded The Rotary Foundation an additional $50 million grant, which is not a challenge grant, in recognition of Rotary's early achievement of this milestone. To date, Rotarians worldwide have contributed more than $1 billion toward the eradication of polio, a cause Rotary took on in 1985.

Additionally, Rotary club members worldwide are cautiously celebrating a major milestone in the global effort to eradicate polio. India, until recently an epicenter of the wild poliovirus, has gone one year without recording a new case of the crippling, sometimes fatal, disease.

 Click here to read more  

District Rotary clubs need to prepare for the next RYLA camp to be held June 18-22, 2012.  Your club can improve the local community by sponsoring a camper to be one of tomorrow's leaders.  

RYLA is a program conducted by Rotarians and Rotary clubs that participate in developing qualities of leadership, good citizenship, and personal development in the young people of their communities by providing a fun training experience.  District 5770 offers the annual training at Goddard Youth Camp near Sulphur, Oklahoma to high school students who will be between their junior and senior years.  Eligible students should apply through their local Rotary club. 

The 2012 RYLA Handbook provides specific information, guidance, and forms about the district program.  The handbook, required applications/forms for students, clubs, and camp counselors can be accessed by clicking the RYLA link under Site Pages on the left side of this Home Page.  Please pay particular attention to the Dates to Remember on page three of the handbook. 

Norman Rotary clubs represented District 5770 by hosting this year's Rotary Youth Exchange Reunion Camp for 26 outbound students who studied abroad during the 2010-2011 high school year.  Reunion students are from the South Central Rotary Youth Exchange (SCRYE) Program which consists of 15 states and 36 member Rotary districts in the south and central part of the country.  D5770 clubs sponsored three long-term outbounds to Argentina, Brazil, and Switzerland.  One short-term student went to Chili and Germany.  Sponsoring clubs were Elk City, Norman, Norman Cross Timbers, and Norman Sooner.  Norman Rotarians home hosted eight district Youth Exchange Officers during the camp.

The reunion camp is designed to assist returning students adjust to being back home, share experiences, and allows returning students to enjoy fellowship with other students who attended a SCRYE outbound camp prior to starting their year abroad.  They joined Youth Exchange (YE) alumni called ROTEX who meet for fellowship and to support the YE program through promotion and involvement in YE.