Members: Brad Eads-Chair, Ken Williams

Members: John-David Sullivan and Kent Sutherland-Co-Chairs

Change: This committee has been merged with the Information Committee

Meeting time: Call of the Co-Chairs
Purpose:

1. To provide information about the Club and club members for all members of the Club in a timely manner.
2. To provide an efficient way for the club to report to the district and Rotary International.
3. To make the jobs of the secretary and treasurer as efficient and easy as possible.
4. To make suggestions to the club board of directors about purchases that will improve information gathering and delivery.
5. To create a new club directory at a time specified by the board of directors and to provide timely member updates.

 

Guidelines:

1. The club database will be the Rotary International Club Administrative Software, RI-CAS.
2. The club database will be managed and maintained by the club secretary in a timely manner.
3. The club database will be used by the secretary, treasurer an others for club, district and RI reports and documents.
4. Club information will be made available to club members using all available information sharing methods.
5. Seek input from the club board of directors and club members about the purposes and guidelines on a yearly basis.
6. Maintain club information on the web and update in a timely manner.
7. Review club information on the web for appropriateness on a yearly basis.
8. Prepare, communicate and implement a schedule for creating a new club directory.
9. Maintain club communication equipment and train appropriate club members in the use of such equipment.
10. Maintain close links with other club committees that are involved with needed information, particularly the Membership, Bulletin/Photography and Program committees.

Members: Alan Ashbaugh-Co-Chair, Lannie Boyd-Co-Chair, Bart Kingham, Claude Piche, Donal Johnson, Sankaram Mantipragada, Chuck Rutenberg

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose: To develop news releases and other public relations efforts that can communicate club activities to the community and serve to maintain /enhance the image of Rotary.

Guidelines:

1. Keep in contact with Program Committee concerning upcoming programs so they can be advertised, if appropriate.
2. Compile list of events or club activities that might warrant publicity. Items that may be of general interest may include:
   • Rotary Centennial's push for polio eradication
   • Rotary partnerships
   • International Projects
     

Members:Connie Pfeiffenberger, Chair, Gene Markley, Pat Pellicane, JJ Johnson, Rex Smithgall, Marj Walsh

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose: : To make the environment of the club meeting as orderly, effective, comfortable and safe as possible for all in attendance including our guest speaker(s).

Guidelines:

1. Normal physical environment: Room shall have round tables for eight, no head table, with podium situated on north wall. One table beside podium will be for president, speakers, introducers, etc. (It should always be full, with vacant chairs filled by members.)
2. The Committee member on duty should arrive about 11:30 to begin set up and to check on room arrangements, and to see if the club president or the speaker need anything. Take responsibility of contacting Lincoln Center staff if there is problem with heat, mike, lights, equipment, etc.
3. Provide the club president or chair person an agenda that contains the list of members, presenters, introducers, and guests that are part of the program. A form is available from the committee chair.
4. A hand held mike should be up at the podium; test it (note that it has two switches). After the introduction of guests return the mike back to podium. Note: if the program requires 'input' from audience be ready to take the traveling mike around.
5. The Committee member on duty should check out the audio-visual equipment early before the presentation time to avoid, or at least minimize unnecessary last minute glitches.
6. The Committee member on duty will also be responsible for turning the lights on and off as required for our programs. The control panel is located in the Northeast corner. Take time to practice operating it (it was changed several times in the last few years!). The control for the screen is also located on the panel. (Also know where the switch for the East screen is located, if needed)
7. The Committee member on duty should 1) coordinate with Program Committee to prepare meeting room each week. Schedule is published in advance in Rotogear. Check to see if speaker needs help.
8. The New Member Services Committee will have a new Rotarian greeting people as they come in. This member should read the visiting Rotarians list. Be sure to ask. You are your own backup. Be helpful if someone from another club comes in and needs help.
9. The Committee member on duty should collect copies of the Rotogear left on the tables after the meeting and deliver them to the club secretary.

Members:Bonnie Titley, Chair, Garth McCann, Vice-Chair, Alan Ashbaugh, Frank Lutes, Dan Mackey, Lloyd Thomas, and Judy Macdonald

Members:Don Johnson-Chair, and Alan Ashbaugh

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose:

1. To monitor attendance of Club members, including make-ups;
2. To develop and implement procedures to alert members of their poor attendance;
3. To record weekly attendance for report to caterer.

Guidelines:

1. Consider sending a "we missed you" card after two absences (or make a phone call).
2. Monitor "leave of absence" dates and call LOA member two weeks before LOA is up to invite them back.
3. Notify Board when attendance falls below 60% level.
4. Use the Rotary International RI-CAS software to record and report attendance.

Members: Michael Anderson, Lannie Boyd, John Matsushima; Co-Chair ,Kent Sutherland; Co-Chair

Meeting time: Call of the Co-Chairs
Purpose:

1. To promote the Club's sense of community by doing thoughtful acts for members and families that console, comfort, and encourage them during times of trauma and distress;
2. To promote Club fellowship by planning and coordinating social activities for Rotarians and their family members;.
3. To enhance Club fellowship by arranging various recreational activities.

Guidelines:

1. Care should be exercised so that illness/death of a Rotarian or a close family member is acknowledged by the Club within a week of the announcement of the circumstances at a Club meeting.
2. Condolences to family as soon as possible.
   

Members: Judy Boggs; Co-Chair, Sue Wagner; Co-Chair, Shelly Godkin, Lorraine Williams

Members: Lloyd Thomas and Tayloy Hall-Co-Chairs,

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose:

1. To develop and oversee the weekly publication of club bulletin.

Guidelines:

1. Editarian is to keep copies of all club bulletins. 
2. Work with Program committee to remain informed of upcoming programs.
3. Coordinate with club technology committee for inclusion on website.

Members: Warren Garst-Editarian; Jim Bragonier, Connie Pfeifferberger, Dave Dennis (photography); Lannie Boyd and Alan Ashbaugh - Liaisons for Web page version.

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose:

1. To extend congratulations or consolation in situations affecting Rotarians.

2. To share informatin about Rotarian activities.

3. To offer recognition via podium, cards and bulletinboard.

Guidelines:

1. Encourage all club members to notify committee members about important activities, life changes, and honors, of their own or other Rotarians.

2. Send cards on hehalf of the Club and maintain a bulletin board in a timely fashion..

3. Visit Rotarians in appropriate situations.

4. Offer recognition from the podium.

Members: Marj Walsh-Chair (Bulletin Board), Susan Stuessie ( Cards), Rob Cagen (Visits),

Purpose:

1. To provide an inspirational prayer or thought at the beginning of each meeting.

Guidelines:

1. Invocations of all kinds are to be encouraged. As many members of the club as possible should be scheduled during the year
   
   

Members: Jonathan Hole and Larry Kunter

Purpose:

1. To enhance club fellowship through song.
2. To provide such special music as may be required for occasional programs.

Guidelines:

1. Some variety in songs to be sung should be strived for.
   
   

Members: Steve Busch , Jim Bragonier, Bill Moellenhoff, Neal Carson and Lorna Reeves

Meeting time: Fourth Wednesday of each month; special, if needed, by call of the Chair
Purpose: To schedule diverse, interesting, informative, inspiration programs for all regular meetings.
 

Guidelines:

1. Follow prescribed principles governing program content from RI.
2. Stand-by programs should always be available
3. 5th Wednesday of any given month should be left available for fellowship/special programs.
4. Coordinate with Bulletin committee - person arranging the program should provide bio and photo of speaker to Editarian Warren Garst
5. Coordinate with Information Services and the Club webmaster
   
   

Members: Dick Dunn, Chair, Phylis Abt, Bob Lawrence, Pat McKee, Bob Meroney, Connie Pfeiffenberger, Tanis Roeder, C. J. Streit, John-David Sullivan, Lloyd Thomas and Lannie Boyd, Web site liaison.

Meeting time: Call of the Co-Chairs
Purpose:

1. To recognize and honor the Colorado State University Student Athletes and Coaches from each Inter-Collegiate sport.
2. To acknowledge specific team and individual "special" accomplishments during the academic year.
3. To continue the traditional annual "MVP" Awards luncheon at a Rotary Club meeting for the selected Student Athletes. The "MVPs" are determined by the coaches/teams, as appropriate.
4. To enhance public awareness of the Colorado State University Athletic program.

 

Guidelines:

1. During the academic year, student athletes and coaches from the university will be invited to attend the weekly Rotary Club meeting for lunch, introductions and brief remarks.
2. Invitations will be extended on the occasion of "out-of-the-ordinary" accomplishments in any inter-collegiate varsity sport. Examples of such accomplishments are: Conference Player of the week; setting a school, conference or national record; being selected as tournament "MVP," and numerous other possibilities.
3. The annual Awards luncheon at Rotary will take place in mid-April of each year. Each "MVP" will be presented an appropriate engraved plaque.
4. Team trophies for each team, sponsored by the Rotary Club and individual Rotarians, will be displayed at the meeting and engraved with the "MVPs" name after the Awards luncheon.

Members: Shelly Godkin-Co-Chair, Bill Schaffter-Co-Chair, Don Eversoll, Frank Lutes, Joe Looper, and Dave Stewart

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose:

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Guidelines:

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Members: Karrol Steeves - Chair, Jim Mitchell, Chuck Rutenberg, Lloyd Thomas, Bonnie Titley, Sue Wood

Meeting time: Call of the Co-Chairs
Purpose:
To promote fellowship and community service by maintaining the section of Highway 14 (Mulberry) adopted by the Rotary Club of Fort Collins between the Sundance Saloon east to I-25.

Guidelines:
Organize a group of club members 2 - 3 times per year (including Rotoract and Interact) to clean up trash and treasurers that accumulate in the median and sides of the adopted section of Highway 14.

Members: Ron Stoops - Chair, Dave Dilley, Mike Anderson, Stacy Baumgarn, John Privette, Lorraine Williams, Troy Tofoya, Steve Busch, Melanie Chamberlain, Joe Looper, Stacy Plemmons, Glenn Schmidt, Dan Mackey, John Matsushima, Pat Pellicane, Jon Radtke,

Meeting time: Call of Chair but generally around 5:30 p.m.

Purpose:
Rotary READ Fort Collins' (RRFC) mission is to foster a love of reading in elementary school-aged students, with a special focus on students in grades 4 through 6. This emphasis is given by the program to help instill good reading habits before students experience junior high school and high school demands. RRFC is a unique coalition of the four Fort Collins, Colorado, Rotary International Clubs , the Fort Collins Public Library, and the Poudre School District (Fort Collins, Colorado). The RRFC is comprised of representatives of all three coalition members. RRFC's activities (see below) focus on being an effective adjunct to educators' and library professionals' efforts to increase reading habits at an early age.

Goals:

1. Place books in the hands of elementary school-aged students by having a Rotary READ week each fall. During the week have each student read (or have someone read to them) at least 15 minutes per day for one week.
2. Energize budding writers and readers with a personal knowledge of popular writers and understand how books are written by having one or two noted authors make presentatiions to each of 6 to 8 schools, public libraries, and/or private schools in the Fort Collins area each spring.
3. Have Rotary READ Fort Collins 100% self funded.

Members (our Club): Brian Burck - Chair, Jim Bragonier, Brenda Carns, Judy Macdonald, Garth McCann, Herman Meyer, Essi Shamardian, Susan Stuessie, Bonnie Titley

Meeting time: Call of the Chair

Purpose: To foster goodwill and understanding between the urban and rural communities.

Guidelines:

1. Recognize contributions of the rural community to the quality of urban life as well as to the important economic, environmental and cultural contributions by:
1. Annually recognizing an outstanding farm/ranch individual or family who has made a significant contribution to the community with the "Master Agriculturist" award. The club awards a Paul Harris Fellowship in the name of the awardee.
2. Annually recognize an individual or company not directly involved in agriculture production, who nevertheless contributes to the betterment of the rural community, with the "Service to Agriculture" award.
3. Annually award $2,000 in scholarships to Laramie County 4-H youth.
2. Make the recognitiions and awards at a Rotary Club meeting in late January or early February. The program will also include a speaker who discusses a topic of interest to both rural and urban citizens.
3. Schedule at least one additional speaker to discuss an important and topical agricultural/rural issue at a club meeting.
4. Be responsible for the agriculture heritage and education activities at the Martinez Farm.

Members: Kirvin Knox - Chair, Bob Brookover, Bob Heil, Dean Johnson, John Matsushima, Bob McCluskey, Jr., Jim Mucklow, Claude Piché, Milan Rewerts,  Stony Stonaker

Meeting time: Call of the Chair
Purpose: To recommend to the Board recipients of all small and major financial grants and arrange appropriate event for awards to be presented.

Guidelines:

1. It is expected that all grants be made upon written request only.
2. Requests for applications shall be made publicly.
3. Board approval must be made on all grants prior to announcement or award.

Members: Michael Anderson, Lynne Baker, Abdel-Aziz Fouad, Donald Johnson, Barton Kingham, Allan Kirkpatrick, Dan Mackey, John Matsushima, Jerald Megilligan, Amy Pezzani

Meeting time: Call of the Chair. Most activity occurs during the Spring after scholarship applications are submitted by the students at their respective high-schools/colleges. There are typically 3 to 4 one-hour meetings utilized to review some 50-60 applications. Based on these applications about 30 students are selected for oral interviews, which occur during early April at each school. School interviews require about 2-3 hours at each school. Committee members participate in as many sessions as they can fit into their schedules.
Purpose:

To award need-based scholarships to students who have demonstrated the scholarship necessary to succeed in post-secondary educational or vocational programs.

Guidelines:

1. Awards are made to graduating seniors selected from:                 

Fort Collins High School

                

Fossil Ridge High School

                

Rocky Mountain High School

                

Poudre High School

                

Centennial High School

                

Frontier High

2. In addition, one award is given to a student currently enrolled in a degree or certificate program at the Larimer campus of Front Range Community College. This award is not limited to traditional-aged students. Finally, there are three named scholarships established to memorialize individuals. These are need-based awards for students who have demonstrated the scholarship necessary to succeed in college. Thus we select nine recipients total.

3. To qualify for awards, all recipients must enroll full-time in degree or certificate programs at Colorado State University or the Larimer campus of Front Range Community College. Application forms are provided by the counseling centers at the various high schools and Front Range Community College during January-February of each year.

4. All awards are $2000 for one academic year. Half of the award ($1000) will be given at the beginning of the academic year. The second $1000 will be awarded if, after the first semester, the student has earned at least a 3.0 grade point average. The 3.0 GPA is based on the system where a 4.0 GPA would be earned for straight A's. Funds are to be deposited in a student account at the institution and may be used for tuition, fees, books, and necessary supplies or equipment. If a recipient withdraws from the institution or drops out of the degree or certificate program, unused funds will be returned to the Fort Collins Rotary Club.

5. Selection will be based on need, scholarship, community service, and leadership. Each applicant is required to submit a paper in which they comment on Rotary's Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do.

6. Interviews of finalists will be conducted in the spring and the awards announced not later than May 30.

7. Award recipients will be expected to provide a 3 minute report (in person, if possible) of their college experience to the Rotary Club of Fort Collins lunch time meeting at the Lincoln Center during the Fall Semester.

Members:Bob Meroney (Chair), Phyllis Abt, Del Benson, Jim Butzek, Dawn Davis, Shelly Godkin, Judson Harper, Bill Jones, Phil Kendall, Pat McKee, Kae Moore, Dave Schump, C.J. Streit, Lloyd Thomas, and Henry Weisser 

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Copyright © for the Rotary Club of Fort Collins, Colorado by Landis L. Boyd, April 2, 2002