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Upcoming Events
Rotary Holiday Gala & Silent Auction
InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront
Dec 07, 2017
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
 
Speakers
Dec 05, 2017
Dec 12, 2017
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library
Dec 19, 2017
10 Lessons Learned From 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs
Dec 26, 2017
Jan 02, 2018
Jan 09, 2018
Hamline University
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Happy Birthday!
Member Birthdays
Stephen B. Young
November 2
 
Donovan Schwichtenberg
November 6
 
Robert W. Jones, D.D.S.
November 12
 
Jim Delamater
November 15
 
Richard H. Zehring
November 15
 
Cindy Shiely
November 16
 
Sue Cammack
November 16
 
Victoria Strobel
November 23
 
Mark Stutrud
November 29
 
Howard Guthmann
November 30
 
Stories
NOVEMBER 21, 2017:
No Meeting - Holiday
There will be no Club meeting on November 21. The next Club meeting will be November 28th. Happy Thanksgiving!
 
 
November 14, 2017 ROTARY IN REVIEW: Steve Young
Past President Chuck Whitaker called the meeting to order at 12:15 pm at the Doubletree Hotel. President Jerry Faletti is out of town this week. Michael-Jon Pease was the song leader and led the group in “America the Beautiful” accompanied by Bob Jones on the piano. The inspiration minute was provided by Steve Young. John Chandler introduced visiting Rotarians and guests of Rotarians. Both Bob Cardinal and Susan O’Neil were greeters and Linda Mulhern was the scribe. Kristine Montpetit reminded everyone that the Holiday Party will be Thursday, December 7th at the Intercontinental Hotel and currently has approximately 50 Rotarians and guests registered for the event. She would like to see many more, so please register! Kristine is also looking for additional items to be included in the Silent Auction, so please think about donating items for the fundraiser.
 
Valdi Stefanson talked about November being Foundation month. He asked that members consider donating to Rotary International in Evanston Illinois. Valdi noted that Rotary International has the highest possible score for charitable organizations and was noted as one of the best organizations changing the world. Donations made by our members do come back to the district, namely through Global Grants. In the past, we have been able to transform a town in Bolivia by providing a water pump, which has helped the townspeople increase their incomes and thereby sending their children off to better educations. He asked that members go the RI website and look for the “Annual fund – Share” to make donations. Joe Kovarik talked about his experience as a GSE member to India in 1978 and how important it was to him. At the conclusion, Sarah Kolar was able to award Arne Bostrock with a Elmer Anderson pin and noted he was a member of the 2nd Century society within our club.
President Chuck talked about a recent article written by Jim Kosmo in the newspaper as well the obituary for Ron Phillippo, noting his years of service with Rotary. We were also able to celebrate and sing Happy Birthday to all members with a November birthdays. Please note there will not be a meeting next week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and we will return to the Intercontinental Hotel for our next meeting on November 28th.
 
We had a few minutes for Happy Dollars and Jay Pfaender introduced our speaker Steve Young, a member of our club and his new book, “The Theory and Practice of Associative Power”.
 
Steve pointed out that the CORD method was developed between 1966 and 1967 by Ellsworth Bunker, while the United States was fighting in Vietnam. At that point in time, President Lyndon Johnson knew that the war could not be won strictly with “hard power” ie military force and was looking for other ways to bring the Vietnamese people to our side of the equation during the conflict. There were many levels of a “soft” approach, which included education, policing, and building up the community. We needed to work with people and create alliances and the ability for self development and self determination. This worked in Vietnam as the insurgency dwindled based on both the hard and soft levels of CORD working together. Unfortunately, we have only utilized our “hard” military to force changes in both Iraq and Afghanistan and the insurgency has been able to infiltrate the population in both countries.  Change has not occurred, especially in regards to gaining sympathy from the civilian population as we were able to achieve in Vietnam. The United States now has to learn how to migrate between the military and civilians through building up the community, education and policing. We need to look at ways to work together and decentralize power at the local communities and therefore marginalize the insurgents in order to achieve an understanding or cooperation in both countries.
 
Steve Young was presented with a certificate donating money to the St Paul library reading program and the meeting concluded at 1:20 pm.
 
Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Mulhern

Scribe

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MEMBERSHIP ACTION:
Application for Active Membership

The board of directors has approved the following for membership.

If no written objection stating reasons is received by the board from any member of the club within 10 days following publication of the name, the prospective member shall be considered to be elected to membership.

John S. Kupris
Major Gifts Officer
The College of St. Scholastica
Classification: Education - College
Proposed by: Dick Nicholson
 
NOVEMBER 7, 2017 ROTARY IN REVIEW: Ann Mulholland
We started the meeting with a moment of silence in memory of Ron Phillippo, long time Rotarian. Dick Nicholson lead the Club in the singing of America with a fork, accompanied by Doug Hartford.  John Andrews shared a moment of inspiration in recognition of Ron, identifying the connection between Rotary and community leaders. Michael-jon Pease shared that we are part of the Rotary International family and recognized friends and family that were guests and visitors. Chad Roberts suggested that any Red Striper who had not yet presented on a Thursday morning contact him and make arrangements to share more about them and their work with club members on a Thursday morning at the Boy Scout Office.
 
President Jerry noted that November is Foundation month, and we ask: Every Rotarian, Every Year … and Each Foundation.  Please be a part of our effort and make at least a $25 donation to both the Rotary International Foundation and to our local St Paul Rotary Foundation.  We believe in the causes, our gifts help illustrate that as we tell the story of the good work done with support of the Foundations. Dan McKeown, president of the St Paul Rotary Foundation, identified the other Club Officers, and explained that the Club identified budget desires, and the Foundation supports specific projects in our budget.  Past President McKeown thanked our Club – as our Club as declined in size our giving has continued as we are raising as much as we did as a larger Club. He asked those that are Elmer Andersen Fellows to stand, and all those who have given to the St Paul Foundation to stand – we had most of the Rotarians on our feet.  Jason DeKuester commented that as a small business owner, it was difficult to donate $1,000 at once, but donating a small amount at a time made it possible.
After celebrating happy news and sharing thoughts on our freedom to vote, Jay Pfaender introduced Ann Mulholland of Minnesota Philanthropy Partners to share why the East Side Matters.  Ann shared – and illustrated – her passion for Saint Paul’s East Side, and noted that it reminded her of her growing up in Ohio. There were two major take aways from Ann’s comments: 1) the East Side reflects the entire history of the City, and 2) it is our future.  She also assigned us all homework – to visit the Flat Earth Brewery and enjoy some of the new restaurants on the east side.
 
The East Side is where St Paul started, it has always been, and continues to be a story of immigration and a welcome for refugees. (60% are non-Caucasian and 39% have a language other than English, compared to 46% and 39% in St Paul.)  It is where manufacturing grew and left roots – and the decline of manufacturing in the 70-80s has left the community struggling to recover.
 
The east side is made up of young families – 45% of families have at least one child compared to 31% in St Paul.  Families are poor, very poor – 40% are at 150% of poverty or below, and 42% of kids under 5 are under the poverty level.  (Compares to 33-32% in Saint Paul.) 
 
The housing stock in East St Paul is naturally affordable; 99.5% of the houses are under $200,000, compared to 69% in Saint Paul.  Many of which are rental.
 
Ann shared much hope for the community.  The East Side has great gems – Lake Phalen, Bruce Vento Nature Preserve, Battle Creek Regional Park, Indian Mounds, Metro State Expansion, Mississippi Market, Flat Earth Brewery and many new restaurants.
 
Much of the history of St Paul is rooted in the East Side, and many of those there now are our future.
 
Remember the Holiday Party – sign up and consider donating something for the Silent Auction.
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REGISTER NOW: Rotary Holiday Party

Join us Thursday, December 7th for the St. Paul Rotary Holiday Gala & Silent Auction.  The festivities will be held from 6 - 9:00 PM at the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront.  Tickets are $65/person. 

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Room Block 
Rotarians are welcome to spend the night at the Intercontinental for a reduced nightly rate; standard room $119/night & $219/night for one bedroom Riverview Suite. Room Block is under Rotary Club.

 

For more news and background: http://saintpaulrotary.org