A Speaking Technique from Michael Angelo Caruso (PDG)

Here's a speaking technique from Michael Angelo Caruso who was a District Governor in Michigan a few years ago. He also teaches people how to improve their public speaking skills. Here's his "Yell at the Dog" technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCjdlZzpLGs

Our District Interact Board attended the Assistant Governors Meeting

High school Interact students cover our District much like the Assistant Governors do.  Their job is to help the Interact clubs in our District and do some projects to promote Service and Interact.  There was great sharing of ideas and thoughts at the AG meeting on Nov 14.

Here are the Interact District leaders Matt and Pauline discussing how to enhance our Interact program. Each of the Interact Area leaders then talked about his/her area and thoughts. In the foreground is District Governor Elect Larry Gardner on the right and Colin, the Interact events coordinator.

Here's Mike from the Hopkins School near New Haven. Last year he was also a student director at RYLA

And here's Jason who always has interesting comments

And here's Jessica who has three of our AG areas to cover.

Meeting of Orange Rotary club-November 10

At a meeting of the Orange Rotary Club on November 10 there was lots of Rotary activities.
Lynda Hammond talked about the projects she is working on.

 The President, Robert Sigler, talked about some of the activities the club is planning.

 Orange is Governor Trish's home club and although she was not there because of other District obligations, her Governors flag was.

 The speaker was Mike Papale, who at the age of 17, almost died due to cardiac arrest. He has started a nonprofit to help install Automated External Defibrillators and to provide training and help in their use.

East Hampton Rotary Club 11/8 Rotary Foundation Boots

On Wednesday, November 8 the East Hampton/Marlborough Rotary Club had a Rotary Foundation Boots on the ground event. But first Red McKinney gave a Paul Harris plus one to President Kevin Reich

 Tari Marshall Day gave a fine presentation on the Rotary Foundation, its good works and the East Hampton's clubs participation. However a key enabler was Mark Morgano's AV contribution.

RYLA-What's 109!(that's factorial) Its the Hugs at the end

RYLA is a leadership training event for high school students. District 7980 holds one in the Fall and one in the Spring each year. One was held October 27 to 29 at Camp Hazen in Chester, Connecticut.
The students come in on Friday knowing no one and after a short period the facilitators get the whole group dancing together.


Here are the facilitators dancing and getting the students to start dancing

and here's the facilitators talking about the next activity

After spending about 60 hours together the group has bonded and really cares about each other. The last thing the group does is hug each other. There were 109 people at Camp Hazen(86 students, plus all the facilitators, student directors and RYLA chairs) on Sunday and they all hugged each other. Let's see 109 people and each wants to hug the other 108. That's 109! hugs(109*108*107*106.....) That's a lot of hugs. Of course during this hugging process the parents who are picking up their students are trying to put 100 cars in a parking lot which can handle 50 cars.

In any case the students became leaders and created a support system of students and facilitators.

Hugs at end of RYLA

The students prepare a proposal for a service project. On Sunday we heard 12 proposals for projects which were judged by a panel of Rotarians. They were very interesting. Here's one team. Below that is the team of Rotary Judges including Mark Cibula(East Hampton), Cathy Mauritz(Naugatuck), John Coleman(Trumbull), Kevin Guptill(New Haven) and Trish Pearson(Governor and Orange)

RYLA Challenge Judges

Presidents Council in District 7980

Presidents Council on October 28. Membership, What Presidents would like to have known and Youth were discussed. A great Rotary Scholarship recipient from Yale talked about his journey.

Here's Larry Gardner, Governor Elect listening to Presidents discussing what they would have liked to know about being President

And here's Governor Trish listening and talking about what's coming up.

And here's our speaker who was a Doctor in England and decided he wanted to be involved in public health. He got a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to help achieve his dream. He wants to have a bigger impact than a single doctor can have.

And there was an afternoon conversation about our Communication, etc effort led by Bob Friend. This is the proposed Mission of that effort.

Milford Rotary club-October 26, 2017

Milford rotary club meets on Thursdays for lunch at the Gusto Trattoria in Milford.
Their Sargent did a great job bringing out the fun for the day.

Here's the President Winthrop Smith Jr. discussing with the Sargent at Arms. He ran a great meeting we had a good lunch and they discussed their future activities.
Then the President of Southern Connecticut State University, Joe Bertolino, talked about his school. Which all agreed has grown and is now first class. The President and I discussed starting a Rotaract club and using their facilities and he wants to help with both.