Rotary Leadership Institute

The first District 7720 Rotary Leadership Institue was held at East Carolina Vocational Center (Thanks DGE Dan Lerue for the use of the facility). Approximately 20 Rotarians and Rotaractors (Brody School of Medicine) came to Greenville to learn about Rotary from under the hood.

The group consisted of new Rotarians with less than a month experience to Rotarians that are Presidents of the Club (Michelle Kiefer, Three Eagles in Goldsboro), a GSE Leader to India, and our own District Governor Brenda Tinkham.

Bevin and Pam Wall served as Senior Facilitators and were assisted by two additional instructors (Raffielle and John). Tony Khoury from Greenville Rotary and I served as joint Facilities Coordinators.

The next RLI will be held in Morehead City October 15, 2005.

Click here to see a few photos from the event.

Dictionary Project

A the Monday, September 19 meeting the Wilson Rotary Club pasted Book Plates in the front of the Student Dictionary's in preparation of delivery to every third grade student in Wilson County.

Special thanks are to be extended to all of those that contributed funds or got someone else to contribute funds to the project. A big thanks to Billy Lamm for storing and moving the dictionaries from place to place.

A big hand and pat on the back for Jolly Barnes ! You did a great job and the children of our community are better for your efforts.

On the next Friday, Fred Horne and I met for breakfast and headed over to Elm City Elementary School. We met with Ms. Woodard (3rd Grade Lead Teacher) to distrubute dictionaries to three classes at ECES. Fred and I had a great time and we incorporated the WCS Character Education Program, AJ Rightway, into the dictionary presentation by having the children look up one of AJ's words, RESPECT and having a student read the meaning aloud.

Fred and I also lead the children through some of the other cool elements of the book, such as the Constitution, World Maps, and of course some science, the planets.

The children enjoyed writing their name in the book and to a student all we excited that this was their book.

I must say I am so proud to be a part of this effort and it is one of the best projects I have ever been a part of.

Wilson Rotary Reaches Katrina Relief Goal!

Wilson Rotary Club surpassed the $9,000 goal for Hurricane Relief!

Thank you Rotarians for your generosity to this worthy cause!