Wheel Spinner (Feb 11, 2020)

THIS WEEK - Joanne Stratton, Women of the Vietnam War

Greeters - 2/13 - Reen Gottron & David Blackwood

2/20 - Debbie Leonard & Chuck Giebel

Inspiration - 2/13 - Bill Leeper

2/20 - Marsha Hutfliess

Elaine Calderbank won the 50/50; responsible for the 2/13 meeting

Last Week - Matt Isola, Generation Exchange

The mission of Generation Exchange is empowerment. Older adults often desire greater confidence and comfort with technology. Younger adults value the resource of life experience and confidence from older adults. Generation Exchange brings these generations together at free workshops on college campuses. For two hours, adults over 40 (Mentees) are paired one-on-one with young volunteers (Mentors) to get answers to questions about any device, app, or technology skill : there is no curriculum. The volunteer Mentors in turn benefit from their Mentee’s wisdom, insights, and connections in careers, relationships, life skills and perspective. To sign up for a workshop, generationexchange.org or call 720-443-2223. For inquiries by email, isola@generationexchange.org. There are Generation Exchange chapters at 3 locations: Boulder (CU), Fort Collins (CSU), and University of Denver (DU). The Spring 2020 Denver workshop dates are: FEB 29th, APR 4th, MAY 2nd, & MAY 16th. Denver workshops are held Saturdays from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Gregg Kvistad Special Events room (AAC 290) at DU

Eric Thompson, Rotary Foundation Liaison

TRF’s Annual Report on Operations. It provides a deeper level of detail complimenting Rotary’s Annual Report, the latest which can be found here: https://www.rotary.org/en/annual-report-2019

Jerry Selinfreund and the nominating committee presented the President-elect nominee, Tom Keyton, and those for the Board: Elizabeth Scofield, Nancy Arkins, Bill Leeper, and Ari Block. The floor nominated and seconded David Blackwood for the Board. Nominations remain open

Austyn Garcia, DTC Rotary, returned this week selling raffle tickets

Scott Davenport is recruiting Sergeant-at-Arms (SAA) to fill positions needed at PETS Feb 28 - Mar 1, Renaissance Denver Stapleton Hotel, 3801 Quebec Street. Follow up with Scott to fill the remaining slots

Take-away from the Future of Rotary dinner: 20% of all international membership comes from the US however we, the US, continue to remain stagnant regarding membership losing as many Rotarians annually as are joining. John Hewco gave us a call to action, "listen to the marketplace, step out of the box and out of our comfort zone. Our values are the glue holding us together, they are unchangeable". As a Club we need to appeal to the demographic we want to recruit; we need to do that with continuity and strategic momentum