A Note From The Podium
Take advantage of
early fellowship opportunities each week.
The lunch buffet will begin
serving at noon
and meetings will begin at 12:30pm.
Stayed Tuned For
This Year’s Programs
August theme
is Environmental
September
theme is Political
October
theme is Sports
November
theme is Corporate
Welcome
New Member, Brendan Bledsoe
Brendan is our newest member and
will be "on duty" at the door greeting members
for the next few weeks. As he gets to know
each of you, we will get to know him as well.
Brendan is the River Bend District Executive for
the North Florida Council, Boy Scouts of
America. He attended Episcopal High School
and has a Bachelors degree in Business
Administration majoring in Marketing from the
University of Mississippi. Brendan played
football for Northeastern University in Boston,
MA before transferring to UM. Brendan
lives in St. Nicholas and may be seen out
walking his dog, Bowen. He coaches the
shot-put team for Episcopal High School and is
mastering the art of home-brewing!
Congratulations!!!
Warner Webb
and Sharon Calvert (nee Adams) were married in a
private ceremony on July 3, 2010. Sherrie is the
coordinator of the Jacksonville Symphony
Orchestra Guild. We couldn't be happier
for our newest newlyweds!!
Rotary’s Official
Mottoes
Rotary’s
official mottoes, Service Above Self and One
Profits Most Who Serves Best, trace back to the
early days of the organization.
In 1911, He Profits Most Who Serves Best was
approved as the Rotary motto at the second
convention of the National Association of Rotary
Clubs of America, in Portland, Oregon. It was
adapted from a speech made by Rotarian Arthur
Frederick Sheldon to the first convention, held
in Chicago the previous year. Sheldon declared
that "only the science of right conduct toward
others pays. Business is the science of human
services. He profits most who serves his fellows
best."
That convention also inspired the motto Service
Above Self. During a convention outing on the
Columbia River, Ben Collins, president of the
Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA,
talked with Seattle Rotarian J.E. Pinkham about
the proper way to organize a Rotary club,
offering the principle his club had adopted:
Service, Not Self. Pinkham invited Paul P.
Harris, who also was on the boat trip, to join
their conversation. Harris asked Collins to
address the convention, and the phrase Service,
Not Self was met with great enthusiasm.
At the 1950 RI Convention in Detroit, slightly
modified versions of the two slogans were
formally approved as the official mot¬toes of
Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and
Service Above Self. The 1989 Council on
Legislation established Service Above Self as
the principal motto of Rotary, because it best
conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer
service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best was
modified by the 2004 Council to They Profit Most
Who Serve Best and by the 2010 Council to its
current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves
Best.
Dog Days of Summer
PE Odette's family of
rescue dogs. From Left to Right: Bindi, Pascale,
Raya and Brumby.
