This Week: January 23, Craft talks by various members. A potpouri of who am I, why am I, and is anybody listening? Good fun, fellowship, and even educational.

Next Week: January 30, Experiences of a Rotary Scholar. Michael Gordon, graduate student attending UNLV, is our Rotary Scholar from South Africa.

Mark Your Calendar
February 6, Group Study Exchange Presentation March 31, Spring Fest Fund Raiser

Nevada Ballet Theatre, Cindy Fox, Director of Marketing, and Bruce Steivel, Artistic Director, of Nevada Ballet Theatre spoke. NBT, whose academy is here in Summerlin, is in its 35th season.

Each year, NBT puts on 7 different performances. This year, in addition to Dracula and The Nutcracker, NBT will be doing Peter Pan, Fusion, Fire & Ice, and an evening entirely of Ballanchine, From Tchaikovsky to Gershwin. Their performances are high energy and world- class.
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Beverly Mathis, Principal of Booker Elementary, came to thank us for our mini-grant and to give us an update on the math material they purchased for the program.

Amerique Rhodes and Cole Nikodemus gave us an update on their experience at Youth Leadership Training Camp held later last year at Idelwilde, CA.

There's no fellowship in an empty chair.
Your guests and visiting Rotarians help kindle the flame of fellowship

Our guests were: Beverly Mathis, Principal, Booker Elementary
Kassie, Charles and Jordan DeLaSalle, Booker Elementary
Cole and Donna Nikodemus, and Amerique and Shelley Rhodes, TLC
Judith Filangeri, guest of Dennis Filangeri

Spring Fest, our annual fundraiser, is on March 31. At Spring Fest, we raise most of the money we need to support our charities, programs and service groups. We raise money primarily from our silent and live auctions.

We’re written two letters that can be personalized and used for soliciting donations for our Spring Fest. We now have on the website a download directory where members can download files. Please note that the second one requires you to enter a date. There's also an area in italics where you can put in what you are requesting. Feel free to change the “mail to” information in either letter to your address.

We need all Rotarians in the Northwest Rotary Club to "Lead the Way" and to secure items for the auction and to help make this year’s Spring Fest another huge success.

Fireside Chat
The Fireside Chat was at Jim & Elizabeth White’s beautiful home. Dinner was a spectacular chicken curry with all the accompaniments, which Elizabeth prepared herself.

The event was very well attended. We even had a guest, David Gosse--a local analyst, who is interested in joining a service club. We hope we made a favorable impression.

More on Spring Fest Jim Cady is asking for two volunteers to work with Neil and him this year on the Spring Fest.

Their desire is to get two people involved so that next year the club develops a rotating group to manage this most-important event. What would be ideal is to always have an overlap each year so that we add a new person each year that will sit on the committee for two years, since it is only a two month obligation each year and every year that goes by it should get to be more routine it is an easy job.

If you are interested please let Neil or Jim know as soon as possible, since organizational meeting will be held in a week or so.

Group Study Exchange
Learn more about GSE. On February 6, we will have the past team leader, Gene Hernandez, present his team and their experiences in Central Europe. Gene is the 2007-2008 District Governor Nominee. The team will be accompanied by DG-Elect Charles Barr and Tom Novotny-Executive Assistant Governor.

Darrell Cavanaugh, one of our two newest members, has agreed to take over as membership chair to relieve Eric Tarbox, whose job schedule prohibits him from continuing in that position. Darrell is a long- term Rotarian who moved here from Laguna Beach.

This Rotarian has been wandering around for a while, but no one has seen her in years. You probably have a hidden Rotarian in you too. Let's bring them out. Announcing our Beautiful Baby Contest. Over the next few weeks we will collect your favorite childhood images. Everyone will have an opportunity to identify the Rotarian hidden in the picture.

There will be a prize given to the person who can correctly identify the most "Rotarians in the Rough" as well as a prize for the picture of the Rotarian who has been identified the least--no telling anyone which is your picture.

Any picture of you, black and white, or color, print, slide, or digital can be used. We will scan prints and slides if you like and return the pictures in the same condition in which you presented them. Pictures must be of you from high school age or younger (sorry no sonograms or X-rays). You may enter up to three pictures--this often confuses the contestants.

Greeter: Diane Cabral
Pledge: Jim White
Inspirational:Frank Kautzmann
Musicologist: Dennis Ortwein

If you would like to be a guest for one of our programs, please contact Darrell Cavanaugh at membership@rotarysummerlin.org