DISTRICT GOVERNORS
GOALS & OBJECTIVES & RESULTS: 2001-2002
To be effective, goals should be realistic,
attainable, challenging and measurable. The following key district
goals are a short list, by necessity, and do not include all of the
goals of the district governor nor those set by district committees.
· Membership:
Each club is expected to induct one new member a month with a net
gain of five between July 1, 2001, and June 30, 2002. The district
governor requests that at least one of those new members be inducted
as part of the official visit ceremony.
· Achieved:
We started the Rotary year
with 1,556 (our figures) or 1,570 (Rotary International figures because
two clubs did not certify their correct numbers by the deadline).
We finished the Rotary Global Quest at 1,687 as of the May 24, 2002,
deadline. This gain of 131 (117 for the official Rotary Global Quest
numbers) is 60 percent of our goal of 220 new members by June 30,
2002 (53 percent if using RI numbers). This was an incredible performance,
given the population loss and demographics of our area. About half
of the clubs inducted a new member during the official visit. Clubs
which achieved gains of five or more members (as of May 24, 2002)
to complete successfully the Global Quest challenge were: Rome, 15
(from 82 to 97); DeWitt, 11 (from 87 to 98); Auburn, 10 (from 25 to
35); West Winfield, 9 (from 21 to 30); Oneida, 8 (from 83 to 91);
Tully, 8 (from 16 to 24); Utica, 8 (from 148 to 156) Herkimer, 6 (from
26 to 32), and Canastota, 5 (from 22 to 27). In addition, Oswego showed
a gain of eight, although the record will show a gain of just one.
Oswego started the year at 55, was at 56 on May 24; however, seven
of the Oswego Rotarians transferred to the newly charted Oswego Sunrise
Club, which started with 27 Rotarians (20 new and seven from the noontime
club). Oswego Sunrise Club has picked up three additional members
since its chartering, so its membership stood at 30 as of May 24.
Along with these 11 clubs, which exceeded the Global Quest challenge,
15 other clubs showed net gains, including Oneida Shores, Oriskany-Whitestown
and New Hartford, which gained four each, just missing the Global
Quest standard of five. Fourteen of our clubs showed net losses. The
largest was Sherrill, dropping seven from 23 to 16, although its true
number as of July 1, 2001, was 14 not 23. Fayetteville-Manlius showed
a loss of five members, from 27 to 22. The membership of the other
five clubs - Aurora, Baldwinsville, Camden, Eastwood and Waterville
-- remained the same as they began the year on July 1. All in all,
it was a phenomenal membership year - the best in years.
· Foundation:
The district goal is $65,000 in undesignated funds, three major donors,
20 new benefactors and five bequests.
· Achieved:
As of late May, the latest period for which we have figures, we have
exceeded our goal for annual giving with $71,928.40, or 110 percent
of goal. In early June, we went over the top in total giving, standing
then at $89,390 or 100.5 percent of goal. Our Foundation co-chairs
Don Cossette and Ward Vuillemot say both of these figures will show
additional improvement once all of the numbers are counted as of June
30, 2002. We have no major donors, 23 benefactors and one bequest.
· Club extension:
Three new clubs, bringing the number to 47.
· Achieved:
Oswego Sunrise Club leads the way to formation and was chartered in
late March and made official on April 11 with 27 members. It now stands
at 30. A provisional Skaneateles Sunrise Club has been meeting weekly
for the past several months and its goal is to be chartered by October
1, 2002. About 12 members have committed to membership; a club needs
20 to charter. Baldwinsville and South Syracuse are being pursued
as possible new clubs. The Syracuse provisional group has met three
times; Baldwinsville has met several times.
· Theme:
I am asking all Rotarians to embody the 2001-2002 Rotary year theme
-- Mankind Is Our Business -- by performing an appropriate service
project during National Make A Difference Day on Saturday, October
27, 2001. The goal is to have every Rotarian in the district participate
and complete this one-day (or longer) project.
· Achieved:
About 480 Rotarians in about half of our clubs participated. District
7150's effort earned one of the 529 national Certificates of Accomplishment
from USA Weekend for having one of the best efforts in New York State.
District 7150's effort was mentioned in the national USA Weekend recently.
The Rotarian will be doing an article on the District 7150 Make A
Difference Day effort, meaning that our efforts will be viewed by
potentially more than 1.2 million Rotarians in all parts of the world.
· District
Conference: The attendance goal for district conference, September
21-23, 2001, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is 500.
· Achieved:
We had 375 attendees, representing 43 of our then 44 clubs; however,
the conference was universally hailed as a successful one. Presidential
Representative Ray Rigby called it the most organized, interesting
and most successful of any he has attended. We inducted a new member
and presented a Paul Harris Fellow. It also was very successful financially,
with $3,500 returned to the district and $3,000 given to the three
host clubs - Oswego, Fulton and Fulton Sunrise -- to present Paul
Harris designations to non-Rotarians in their communities who have
performed significant community and/or international service. The
three were presented in May. The two Fulton clubs presented theirs
at regular club meetings; Oswego presented its award during its 75th
anniversary of charter dinner. Publicity accompanied the presentations.
Jerry Schemp was the recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow from the
Fulton Rotary Club; Geraldine Hogan-Kasperek, the recipient of the
Fulton Sunrise Club; Lucy Wheeler was the recipient from the Oswego
Rotary Club.
· Training:
Most clubs have pledged to do the community service project; some
have pledged to do the international service project. There will be
a census of these projects at the end of the Rotary year to catalog
them.
· Achieved:
More than 60 District 7150 Rotarians attended the Parts 1 and 2 sessions
at Mohawk Valley Community College, and three attended Parts 1 and
3 in Binghamton. Just two district Rotarians - Joe Rodgers of Skaneateles
and Gustavo Restrepo of Sauquoit - have completed all three parts
of the training program. Joe's certificate of completion was presented
to him as part of the Skaneateles 75th anniversary dinner May 11,
while Gustavo's was presented to him when I visit Sauquoit June 19.
· New Generation
programs: Initiate two new Earlyact clubs, four new Interact
clubs and one new Rotaract club. Create and expand the Rotary Youth
Leadership Award program.
· Achieved:
We chartered a new Interact club, sponsored by the Oswego club on
May 14 at the 75th anniversary dinner. Fulton also is in the process
of chartering an Interact Club. Four new Earlyact clubs were formed
in the Utica and Rome areas this year. The RYLA program began with
an excellent first class. Plans are being completed for the second
class this summer. DGE Don Reese will make the presentations to the
graduates of the second class later in the summer.
· Group Study
Exchange/Foundation partnership: Participate in two matching
grants with our Philippine Group Study Exchange partner -- District
3820.
· Achieved:
The grants have been approved by Rotary International. The programs
are in the process of being completed. Periodic updates are required
to be made to Rotary International. The visit by the Group Study Exchange
team from District 3820 was a huge success. Because of continued concerns
over terrorist activities in the Philippines, we have come to the
regrettable conclusion that an outbound Group Study Exchange Team
to the Philippines, already once postponed, is not a viable alternative,
so the trip has been cancelled.
· Literacy:
Assemble 300 appropriate books for the needy children of the Saratoga
Springs area as part of our district conference host community service
project.
· Achieved:
More than 700 books were donated to this project by generous District
7150 Rotarians. Frontispieces were inserted into each book to indicate
it had been donated by District 7150 Rotarians.
· Major new
districtwide initiative: The district will launch and support
one major new initiative that will have a significant impact on participating
clubs, the district and the Rotary world.
· Achieved:
The Gift of Vision launched with the successful corneal transplant
of Neneo Koromo (affectionately known as ``Nene") of Senegal,
who has since returned to her country, carrying a cornea for a transplant
which was performed there recently by a colleague of Dr. Sylvia Norton,
who performed the corneal transplant on Nenee. The program will continue
under DGE Don Reese's watch.
