Oriental Rotary Club

19 October 2009 Program
Dan Roberts
Investment Perspectives
Fasten your seatbelts as Dan takes us on the rocky road of investments. We have all felt shock and awe over the recent, volatile financial markets. Dan is here to map out some commonsense investing.

Currently Dan is with Edward Jones Investments. He is an accredited asset management specialist in addition to a licensed insurance broker. Dan has a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina’s Wilmington campus. Dan’s prior experience included restaurant management in Havelock and New Bern and school supply business in Pollocksville.

Dan, wife Kathy, and sons Merritt and Matthew live in New Bern. Dan enjoys fishing, hunting and golf.

Rotary and Google
Rotary has teamed up with Google to make nearly 100 years of The Rotarian available free online. Full-color, searchable scans of all issues of the magazine from 1959 to 2008 are now available through Google Books, with more issues to follow.

The collaboration is part of an initiative to make Rotary’s historical resources more accessible to Rotarians worldwide.
“Google is doing all of the scanning and indexing to make the material searchable — and at no cost to Rotary,” says Stephanie Giordano, archivist for Rotary International.
More than 72,000 pages will be available once Google finishes scanning and uploading all 1,100 issues. The first issue was published in January 1911, when the magazine was called The National Rotarian.
Some issues of interest include December 1979, which reported on Rotary’s first polio immunization project; the February 2005 centennial issue; and issues from the 1980s discussing the admission of women into Rotary.
Oriental Rotary
and the Chacala, Mexico Project
Dale Elks, Past District Governor and member of the New Bern Rotary Club will be the featured speaker for our 26 October meeting. Chacala, Mexico is a fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. The Rotary Chacala story started in 1996 when Oriental Rotarian and teacher, Dale Reinhardt (who died in 2007) realized his dream to build a library for Chacala’s children. The funding came from a modest matching grant from Rotary International and ORC partnering with the closest Mexican Rotary club in Compostela, about 35 miles from Chacala. The Chacala project has been enormously successful and includes participation from other Rotary clubs in the United States. The program should provide an informative update of the continuing good works of Rotary in this Mexican village.

Highest Duty:
My Search for What Really Matters
In this day of nickel and dime pop stars, peevish politicians, and self serving posers, Captain Chesley Sullenberger is an authentic standout. His book, recently released, gives us an understanding about his life prior to that pivotal moment when he and his First Officer Jeff Skiles executed an emergency landing on the Hudson River.

People tell Sully that his success on January 15 showed a high regard for life. Their words led him to reflection. “Quite frankly,” he says, “one of the reasons I think I’ve placed such a high value on life is that my father took his.” Suffering from depression, Sully’s father killed himself in 1995. “His death had an effect on how I view the world…I am willing to work hard to protect people’s lives, to not be a bystander, in part because I couldn’t save my father. I am now the public face of an unexpectedly uplifting moment,” Sully says and he accepts that. Still, he’s not comfortable with the ‘hero’ mantle. “A hero runs into a burning building,” he says. “Flight 1549 was different because it was thrust upon me and my crew. We turned to our training, we made good decisions, we didn’t give up, we valued every life on that plane – and we had a good outcome. I don’t know that ‘heroic’ describes that. It’s more that we had a philosophy of life and we applied it to the things we did that day.”
(WSJ 10/14/09)
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