District Directory 2011-2012

Printed copies of our district directory are in the mail to every Rotarian in the district.  That's rather like "the check is in the mail," since it is being sent directly from the printer at  Pratt & Whitney, a division of  United Technologies, located in East Hartford, CT.  So, we hope it is in the mail.  P&W is doing this gratis for our district, and I am very grateful.

In the meantime, a digital version is available on the district website, and, directly from me if you have trouble accessing it from the website.

Enjoy!

Literacy Efforts Around our District

This week I am polling D7890 club presidents about literacy projects and will share best practices with them soon.  But, of immediate note, Pittsfield has gone beyond the usual third-grade dictionary project to provide an interactive talking dictionary when a student in 3rd grade is visually impaired.  Seems like a great idea, worth sharing.  If you club provides dictionaries to 3rd graders, please consider this option as well.

One possible source of such a talking dictionary is found online at
http://www.independentliving.com/prodinfo.asp?number=246000

Happy New (Rotary) Year

Treated myself to a bit of Rotary browsing this holiday weekend.
I recommend  watching "Why Rotary Now?" on youtube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3q0dMjZ_-I

Some clubs are actually spending a little time this month showing this video at a meeting.

Enjoy.