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 Here I am, writing my first message as Chairman of ICUFR, sitting in Carl’s sitting room in Hemet, after almost two amazing weeks of RI Convention in Salt Lake City, followed by a whistle stop tour of some of the most “awesome” scenery in Southern California.
It seems that my first message will be full of thank-you’s. Carl has been a super host to Ernie and me, and thanks to him, I have achieved a dream – to see the Grand Canyon.
My first task is to thank Dave Flinn for being our Chairman during the past three years, and the members of the Board who are ending their term of office at this time. Without someone to take office there would be no fellowship, and that would be a great shame, as I am sure many of you will agree.
To those board members who are continuing, and the new board members, again thanks for volunteering to take the job. I hope that you will find that it will be a worthwhile experience, and I know I am going to appreciate your support and that of all the members, in the coming year.
The ICUFR Booth was successful again this year, even though we had the usual frustration of maintaining good connections via the Wi-Fi to send out our reports and pictures. We had a good number of new sign-ups and renewals, and I have a stack of forms to process once I get home - hopefully, before Carl sends out the newsletter.
Thanks must go to Irwin, who set up the booth for us, and for all those who volunteered to man the booth, so that we had someone there at all times to welcome the visitors, particularly Dave, Carl, Irwin, Steve Henderson, Chuck Farrah, Pat Reightley, Jim & Virginia Soudriette, Jay and Claire Quick, Warren Nordgren, Bernie Brown, Cees Dilweg, and any others I may have missed out, if they volunteered when I was at a session.
The Convention itself was great! To experience the whole world of Rotary in that way is indescribable, but one fairly new Rotarian I asked summed it up for me, “ I am going back to my club as a Rotarian,” he said.
A new Rotary Year is ahead of us. Congratulations and good wishes to all who will be taking office in their club. I hope it will be a rewarding year for you all. What are my hopes for ICUFR? I have just one – that somehow you, the member reading this message, will participate regularly and come up with the topics for discussion on the forum and/or the Taranto lists.
What is missing? What can you suggest which will make this fellowship one of the outstanding ones? I am sure there is still a place for this fellowship, especially with RI so keen to further the use of technology for the benefit of Rotary, but we need to start a dialogue so that the Board of Directors of ICUFR can be sure that we are catering for your needs.
I am looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible at the Conference in Lancaster, UK in September. Roger is putting together a good programme and the rates for participating are very good. Lancaster is a good centre of anyone wishing to make a holiday of it, but even if you can only make a day of it on the Saturday I am sure you will find it worthwhile. The fellowship at ICUFR gatherings is second to none!
Please try and come.
Stella Russell, Chairman |
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I just got home late last night from a post SLC Convention 5 day 2000 mile tour of 6 National Parks in our South West, where I took Stella and Ernie Russell (the high light was the 118 degree F in Death Valley.
Sure glad the AC continued to work). I haven't yet checked any of the 800 messages (after MailWasher), so figuring that I worked hard enough for you at the convention, I will cut this months Editor's message short and Maybe add more in the August edition. |
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First Report:
I send a Welcome from the ICUFR both at the RI Convention in Salt Lake City. We have just arrived on the opening day and are getting the booth set up.
Below are a couple photos of the booth showing Ernie Russell, our Incoming Chairman Stella Russell talking to the RIBI President Peter Offer. Also, seated are Ernie, Steve Henderson - Treasurer, and Stella. More later,
Carl P Cardey, Editor - Director
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2nd Day Report at SLC RI Convention.
Yesterday at the end of the day, some of us walked (I rolled) down to an Italian Restaurant for dinner. Fellowship - That's what we're all about.
For breakfast this morning I represented ICUFR at the RGHF Rotary Global History Fellowship - In less than a decade they have advanced the cause of collecting History about Rotary to the point that they have over 3000 pages of information collected on the website, and 1,000,000 hits a year. |
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An interesting display is the House of Peace. They have a wall where people can climb up and add their own personal message of Peace. They also take pictures , and give one a Bricks‚ booklet, similar to a Visa book, where people can exchange pictures and address/phone information.
Utah is in the high mountain part of the US and home of many Indian tribes now and in the past. Near us there is an display of Indian Teepees/Wigwams and other exhibits.
And Personally, between using a Laptop which I hate, to fighting for more bandwidth, I am having trouble not turning the air blue around me. At the last minute RI sponsored free wi-fi access in the HOF, BUT, there must be 10,000 people trying to connect all at once.
So, until the next time.
Carl P Cardey, Editor Director |
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Report Day 3
Day three opens with a bang again with hundreds/thousands of people walking around the HOF.
First Plenary session Sunday (a bit late)
An excellent couple of hours of entertainment interspersed with the introductions and opening of the Convention.
An International choir of nearly 200 dressed in their traditional dress made a colourful and tuneful start to the proceedings. They were followed by a Maori group who performed the traditional ceremony of greeting for RI President Bill.
President Bill, later introducing some members of his family then left the lectern to sit at the front of the stage to give his opening address. Most of his talk centred around the question he had been posed “What is the best project he had seen during his year. Bill said it possible to isolate one project as there were so many excellent ones showing just how much Rotarians worldwide have achieved, individually and together. However he did tell about some of those projects which had really made a lasting impression on him and Lorna during their travels.
Paul Harris Recognition Luncheon Sunday. Over 200 Rotarians were in attendance and were most surprised that CHICKEN was NOT on the menu. <g>
The atmosphere was very friendly and the meal was excellent as was the service.
Speakers included Past RI Presidents, Bichai Rattakul, Jonathon Magyagbe and Luis Giay. The main emphasis, as is often, was on the money, but the actual hands-on service provided by the Rotarians who work on many of these projects was the most important aspect of Foundation.
Presentations were made to two new PHF, one of whom was a local policeman (off-duty) who had kept a crazed gunman occupied in conversation until back-up arrived, with thought only for the other people in the Shopping mall.
Thanks to Stella Russell ChE, for this part of the report.
This morning I spent a little time taking pictures to give you a quick showing of what is going on.
Transmission of data is very difficult, especially pictures. At the last minute the Organizers decided to supply a wi-fi connection for everyone, which does work, but is very slow because of so many people using it, so it drops off a lot as well, but I'll keep trying. Today I will try to give a little better close up of the HOF. Another close up of the House of Peace wall showing people writing their Peace messages; Pictures of the general rest areas; Some of the Fellowship and commercial booths: and finally a specific project of a young lady hiking for Polio.
The young lady is Chrissy Wallace, the Daughter of Two fantastic Rotarians in my District 5330, who has desided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail: 2,658 miles from Mexico through California, Oregon and Washington States, and across the tops of the Pacific mountain chain. She began on April 21, 2007 and hopes to finish approximately October 1, 2007, stopping at communities along the trail to visit Rotary Clubs and spread the word about Polio Eradication by raising money. Follow her progress at www.pct4poliofreeworld.com Want to help, email Chrissy at pct4poliofreeworld@yahoo.com
More Later,
Carl PL Cardey, Editor, Director
Carl P. Cardey ICUFR Chairman 2001-2004 |
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Good Morning from the beautiful mile high mountain Salt Lake City on Day 4.
The first event of the day was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We were seated shortly after nine, for the 9:30 broadcast performance, to find the choir and orchestra in rehearsal, so we were treated to the last part of the show twice. It was announced that the regular procedure was to completely dress rehearse the show before it goes on. Of course, we had heard the choir many times on the radio, but it was really impressive to be there in person.
The facility is huge, and there were lots of empty seats, even with the thousands there. Although we were asked to be as quiet as possible during the broadcast and not applaud, it was amazing how quiet the audience actually was. Once it was over, however, the whole place erupted with a standing ovation for the choir, orchestra and guest soloist, Dame Malvina Minor. After this, we met a bunch from our District and chatted for a while, then on to the rest of the day.
The opening plenary session started at 2:30. The opening was a traditional Maori welcome ceremony with dances and singing. After the usual formalities of welcomes and adoption of the program of the Convention, Bill Boyd was introduced. In turn, he introduced the Governor of Utah, who spoke briefly and then Bill introduced his own family.
With all these traditional items out of the way, Bill set out on his Keynote Address. He delivered this in his usual informal and folksy style, seated on a stool on stage. He gave an impressive review of some of the Rotary projects he had seen over the course of his year, and emphasized that the ideas and projects come from some individual's dream.
The wrap up entertainment was a good show by Donny Osmond. The day concluded in Pioneer Park, a few blocks away, where a special event Rendezvous in the Park was being held. This was a demonstration of Indian Dances and native crafts, early pioneer military operations and things like that, along with food.
Today's Plenary Session was scheduled to include Announcements and Credentials by Ed Futa; Introduction of the Foundation Trustees; a Keynote Address by Luis Giay, Chairman of the Trustees; a presentation by a Rotary World Peace Fellow and Bill Gates Sr. on the Role of the Charitable Foundation in Today's World. Since I did not attend, I cannot report further on this. The same holds true for a multitude of breakout sessions held during the afternoon, since I basically spent the entire day in the House of Friendship looking around, talking with the ClubRunner people about using their system in our District and Club, and of course helping out in the ICUFR Booth.
This is always a good spot to enjoy fellowship, meet new and old friends and get a feel for the overall tenor of the Convention. This evening was the Rotary Foundation Major Donor Dinner, which I had been invited to but did not attend. I'm sure it was worth while, but my experience with such events in the past is that they are crowded and it is usually somewhat difficult to enjoy the program. In this case there were 94 tables set for 10, so that was a lot of folks.
Instead, we went to one of the Host Committee events, an evening of musical theatre and opera, which was excellent. It was put on as a sampling of this summer's season of the Utah Festival Opera. It featured a very diverse cast of singers, with some very good soloists, and a good orchestra. The selections included opera and American musical theatre, from early times up almost to the present. In my personal opinion, this was one of the top three events of the week, so far, with the other two being the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Sunday and Frank Devlyn's Amigos' Reception on Saturday night.
Thanks to Chairman Dave Flinn, PDG
Today I tried to concentrate on the people who are stopping at the booth. We have had a couple dozen new members sign up, along with an equal number of renewals. We are back to back with the ROTI booth so are trying to compete with them for members>G<, but there is a lot of interest in both. They have their free membership with $10 for a pin, and we have our $10 for member, and a free pin, so a lot of friendly rivalry. |
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Day 5 from Beautiful Salt Lake City:
Today is the last day of the Convention. It has been a great inspirational learning environment and experience. I will try to get a few more pictures for you. I will focus this last article on what Chairman Dave has written, part of which is an award that we have given to Irwin.
Carl P Cardey,
Editor - Director
As per my report 2A, please interchange today's and yesterday's plenary session reports. Since I did not personally attend either one, all my information is from the Convention program book and reports from others. I did hear that Bill Gates Sr. gave a very good presentation, however.
I spent my day in and around the House of Friendship, moving around with my computer testing out the signal strength in various locations. I did find it to be definitely stronger in areas away from our ICUFR booth, unfortunately, but service was still a bit slow, probably due to the amount of users. I did find an interesting fact in that, at the booth, I had trouble accessing almost any web site; but had no trouble chatting on Skype.
Stella Russell and I, representing ICUFR, went to the Fellowships meeting, where Abe Gordon presided, as Chairman once again of the Fellowships Committee. Introductions were made all around, with most folks saying a bit about their particular Fellowship(s). Probably the most significant concern expressed was one which had also been presented in the past. Generally, it is the seeming lack of concern for the Fellowships at the RI level when training new Governors. This, in turn, passes to the districts and the training of Presidents. Both PRIP Cliff Dochterman and Incoming RI President Wilf Wilkinson were in attendance and offered words of encouragement. Wilf, particularly, indicated that he would push for some improvement. Today seemed a bit more active in the House of Friendship, as attendees seem to be getting more comfortable with what is where and moving about.
A little before noon, we held a presentation ceremony at the ICUFR booth. We presented Irwin Taranto with a set of wine glasses in appreciation of his many years of service to ICUFR, particularly as Treasurer. Although we had informed him in advance that we wanted to make a presentation, to insure that he and Arlene would be there, he was genuinely surprised at the gift. Of course, Irwin continues to be of service to ICUFR, as he was responsible for getting our booth set up and, of course, maintains our mail lists.
Dave Flinn PDG, Chairman
Carl P. Cardey ICUFR Chairman 2001-2004 |
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ICUFR Viruswarn:
Trojan disguises itself as greeting card. |
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What it is
You may have noticed greeting card invites in your inbox this last week, purported to be July 4th greetings form people you don't know, or other greeting cards with a variety of headings and formats. The thing they all have in common is that the web address you go to on the greeting card is usually just an ip address looking something like:
http://###.##.##.##/?[a long string of characters]
These greeting card invites are enticing you to go to a site which will take advantage of a windows/internet explorer vulnerability to install a Trojan program on your machine. If you have up to date security patches for Windows XP and Internet Explorer, and you have an active up to date virus and spyware blocker you should not need to worry if you accidentally clicked on one of these. It is a good idea to scan your machine manually for threats however.
The Storm Trojan is also called Trojan.Peacomm - and has been around since January as an attachment email (an executable program attached to an email). The program itself is not new, recently however there's been a drastic uptick in the number of attempts to broadcast the software, and the method of installing it by the user visiting an infected website increases the danger of this particular application.
What to do
To avoid the problem never click on a greeting card link that doesn't specifically list: · The person sending the card - this should be someone you recognize · The site the card is sending you to - this should not be an ip address (remember to hover over the name to see where it's REALLY sending you vs. what it shows in the message), it should be the name of a legitimate card company (hallmark, blue mountain, etc.). · Does not have any attachments - greeting cards are never sent as attachments by these companies - they're always links to sites.
You should also of course have up to date antivirus/antispyware software on your machine and you should keep your patches up to date by visiting http://update.microsoft.com and be sure to load the new windows update if you have a "green button" inviting you to do so on this page.
If you did click on it you should update your security software and scan your machine for viruses, just in case. The Storm Trojan allows a remote person to take over your machine and use it either directly or as part of a botnet to attack other machines.
Further references
Storm Trojan uses July 4th greeting message:
Symantec threat warning:
Trojan Peacomm: building a peer to peer botnet:
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A different
perspective
of the
History of Rotary
by Dan Mooers |
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Continued from last month.
As the world was beginning to recover from the depression, and Rotary was faced with challenges of misunderstanding, other world events seemed to be marshaling against Rotary. What were the challenges?
In 1932-33, Clinton P. Anderson, a young, 37 year old insurance man and Rotarian from New Mexico, became Rotary’s International President. In 1932, he was yet to serve as the State Treasurer of New Mexico, or for that matter, as a Congressman from New Mexico, or as the post war Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. Nor had he been a United States Senator from New Mexico, where he served with distinction for 25 years, nor had he yet been a candidate for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States. In 1932, he was just a Rotarian from New Mexico, but he displayed the strengths for which he would later be known worldwide. [As an aside, for a time I ran the elevator in the senate office building just across from Senator Anderson’s office and, as a young college student, had the privilege of talking with him almost daily. At that time I did not know, nor did I care, that he had been Rotary International President. -Dan ]
Let Clint Anderson tell you about some decisions he had to make as RI president, in the words he used in a private letter in 1951 to Past RI Director Joe Caulder.
He wrote:
“As I think back over things now, one of the most important things that happened was the decision of Adolph Hitler soon after he obtained power in Germany to bar non-Aryans from membership in the 40 Rotary Clubs of Germany. That decision came while I was attending the R.I.B.I. conference in England and since his action gave some time for further consideration I was able to deal with it. He had told the Rotary Club that unless at their District Conference in the next few days they passed a resolution barring all non-Aryans from membership in the Rotary Club, he would compel them to disband all the clubs. Since a few days would intervene I cabled to the District Governor of Rotary and to several German Club presidents notifying them that if they did take that action at the District Conference I would cancel the charters of the 40 German Rotary Clubs. They cabled me back asking for my authority to cancel the charters, and I told them that I would cancel the charters and find out if I had the authority to do so afterwards. I pointed out that we had taken something into Germany, which was Rotary, and if they wanted to make it something which was not Rotary they would have to call it by a different name.”
“The interesting thing was that Hitler permitted the German Rotary Clubs to continue without barring non-Aryans. I have thought of that many times since in connection with the explanations of appeasement.”
Rotary in Germany lasted for another 7 years relatively the same. Then it came to the year of Walter D. Head, who was president of RI in 1939-40 (Walter, by the way, was born on September 17, 1881 in Revere, Massachusetts). Here’s how Walter described what happened in 1939:
“Now as to ‘my year’: It was an unusual one due to the fact that Germany marched into Poland on December 1st, 1939. We wondered if the Rotary house was falling down around our ears but yet there were very encouraging manifestation of loyalty. I wish I had saved some of them. . . . At any rate, there were numerous Rotarians and Rotary Club Officers who wrote in saying that although they had been officially banned, they would never give up their interest and would even in many cases, if possible, continue to meet clandestinely.”
“I remember particularly one letter from Otto Fischer of Stuttgart, Germany, saying about the follows: ‘Although we have been officially forbidden to meet, we continue to foregather from time to time in the same old restaurant where formerly we had so many happy reunions and also we are not allowed even to mention the name Rotary, but we look into each other’s eyes and understand.’”
Other RI Presidents faced similar challenges during these pre-war years. For examples, Ed R. Johnston, the 1935-36 president had to confront the situation in another Axis Country. Here’s what he wrote to Joe Caulder:
“It had been planned for months to have a Regional Conference in Venice, Italy during the latter part of September 1935. Shortly before that, the world became aware of what Premier Mussolini had in mind regarding Ethiopia. When his plan became known, we commenced to receive suggestions that the Conference be postponed or canceled and at the same time, we received communications from Italian Rotary Clubs or Rotarians to allow the Conference to proceed as planned. After another conference with Secretary Ches Perry in Chicago, and with Alex Potter after I arrived in London, on my way to the Conference, it was decided that no change would be made. . . . Also, it was an easy decision to let the Conference, which turned out to be a very fine affair, go ahead - - for to have done otherwise, would have, in the eyes of some (who were saying that Rotary as such) disapproved of the actions of Premier Mussolini. Temporarily, at least, I think we saved Rotary in Italy…. I too remember, while I was in Venice, Alex Potter and myself saw Rotarian Bossi, who was really the head of Rotary in Italy, and got his agreement to allow R.I. to stand for Rotary International rather than Rotary Italiana.”
Sometimes I think we have failed to keep in our memory those great statesmen around the world who carried Rotary forward. For example, here is what the RI president in 1938-39, George Hager, wrote to Joe Caulder about his year.
“At the request of Cordell Hull, Secretary of State of the United States, and a long time member of the Rotary Club of Carthage, Tennessee, I was the first president from North America to visit Rotary clubs in Central and South America. Mr. Hull had ascertained at three Pan American regional conferences, where all but one or two member were Rotarians, that the Rotarians of lbero America resented the fact that North American presidents were not visiting their clubs. Therefore, Grace Hager and I visited clubs in every country in lbero America.”
What were the challenges to Rotary after the Second World War?
Continued in the next month’s newsletter. |
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