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AMBASSADORIAL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

Download 2013-14 Ambassadorial Application

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

The Ambassadorial Scholarships program supports the mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International to advance world under- standing, goodwill, and peace by:

•           Increasing awareness of and respect for cultural differences by sending ambassadors of goodwill to study in another country

•           Instilling in scholars the Rotary ideal of Service Above Self through active participation in Rotary service projects

•           Encouraging scholars to dedicate their personal and professional lives to improving the quality of life for the people of their home communities and countries

•           Developing leaders who can address the humanitarian needs of the world community

•           Impacting all areas of the world through a balanced geographical distribution of scholars

•           Encouraging Rotarians worldwide to increase the educational opportunities for scholars from low-income countries

•           Fostering a lifelong association between Rotary and its scholars

Candidates should consider these program objectives carefully before applying and be prepared to explain in their essays and during the interview process how their study plans will support the objectives. For example, scholars can contribute to impacting all areas of the world through balanced geographical distribution of scholars by being flexible in their preferred study institutions. Scholars are encouraged to request to study in countries that host relatively few scholars, such as Japan, Korea, Scandinavia, and developing nations in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America. Other ways of demonstrating support for the objectives include a commitment to community service or international humanitarian service and to long-term involvement with Rotary International.

Contact Information:

Shirley Browning

Scholarship Chair District 7670

274 Christian Creek Road

Swannanoa; NC 28778

e-mail:  scbrowning@bellsouth.net

Phone (H) 828-298-7925   Cell (not always on) 828-279-6596  Please do not call UNC Asheville as I am now part time and this summer will not be in my campus office.

Rotarian and Assistant DG Connie Backlund was quoted in the North Carolina Our State Magazine, 2012 March issue on page 124.  Below is a direct link to the online article.

http://www.ourstate.com/carl-sandburg-connemara/

Volunteers are needed March 17th to usher, collect votes, sell concessions, staff the box office and maybe one or two people to help backstage.

Rotarian volunteers should contact Susan Huffman at 828-850-2183 or email susan_h_huffman@yahoo.com.

20 Finalists Chosen

The Hickory Rotary Club has announced the 20 finalist for Rotarian Idol scheduled for 7:00 pm, March 17, 2012, at P.E. Monroe auditorium on the campus of Lenoir Rhyne University. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased in advance at Allen Finely Advertising (downtown), Hickory Community Theater (downtown), Hickory Tree Consignment (Old Lenoir Highway), Lenoir Rhyne University P.E. Monroe auditorium and Office Furniture USA (Hwy 127N in Viewmont).

Competing for the top prize of $2500 will be: Mike Brooks, Leslie Cline, Jimmy Cooper, Molly Cummings, Tiffany Gray, Amanda Harren, Leona Hunter, Phuong McKinney, Thomas Michaels, Jordan Alexander Randall, Julia Rush, Christa Shuford, Savannah Spencer, Greg Suddreth, Alex Swanson, Destre Tashjian, James Matthew Taylor, Victoria Whetzel, Cristy White and Lauren Winkler. The runner up will receive $1500, and the “crowd favorite” will receive $500. Proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit local education initiatives.

For more information please visit: http://www.hickoryrotary.org/BlogEngine/page/Rotarian-Idol.aspx

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I do not know if you have received this notice re the Chapel Hill / Duke Peace Scholar Presentations?  If not here it is.  I hope you can attend.  I have attended a few of these and they are very much worth the time.  At present I am registered for this session – hope to see you there -

PDG David has also attended several of the presentations and can answer questions you might have about his impressions -

Secondly would it be possible to place this information in the District bulletin, etc. so all Rotarians in our District might learn of the opportunity ?

thanks

Shirley

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** This message is going to the College of Governors for Rotary District 7710 **

Investing in peace: Peace Fellows Take Action

The Co-directors and Rotary Peace Fellows of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution invite you to the ninth annual Spring conference. Ninth Annual Rotary Fellows Spring Conference

“Investing in peace: Peace Fellows Take Action”

Saturday, March 31, 2012
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
FedEx Global Education Center
301 Pittsboro Street
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

You will have a chance to hear the nine graduating Fellows make their presentations and to be involved in a short Q&A session after each presentation. At lunch (which is free and buffet-style) you will have a chance to interact with Fellows

Registration for this event is through a link on the Peace center’s web site

http://www.rotarypeacecenternc.org/RegConfirm.html
This is a free event open to Rotarians, students and the public

BarryPhillips

Host Area Coordinator

Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution

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Rotary District 7670 Conference 2012

Friday, April 20th‐Sunday, April 22, 2012

Register Now for District Conference

THEME:        District 7670 Racing to Embrace Service

Pick up your Registration Packet at the District Conference check in desk of Embassy Suites Hotel – Concord, NC (Follow Conference Check In Signs).

DRESS CODE FOR WEEKEND:

Friday – Traveling Clothing.

Saturday – Business Casual for Sessions except Saturday night, which is coat and tie for the gentlemen and professional attire for the ladies.

Sunday – Business Casual.

WHAT TO BRING TO THE CONFERENCE:

• Club Display Project (table registration required)
• 1 Door Prize‐$50 value (per club)
• Presidents – Please bring your club banner
• Item to be designated to support Concord Rotary Clubs’ Community Project

HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP:

• Door Prizes
• Club Project Displays
• Club Awards
• Talent Show – Local Talent (or non-talent) from District Clubs

IMPORTANT (Badge must be worn to receive meals)

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Thursday

• 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.  Early arrivals may register and pick up conference materials at reception desk

Friday

• 10:00 a.m. Registration opens
• 10:00 a.m.  House of Friendship opens for Club Display Setup
• 1:30 p.m. – Conference begins
• 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Plenary Session I – Business Session Club’s voting delegate must attend (Welcome from Concord Mayor J. Scott Padgett, District Governor Allen Langley, District 7680, Rotary International President’s Representative Remarks)
• 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. – Check in to hotel.  Set up Club Displays in House of Friendship
• 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Plenary Session II – Vocational Service
• 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Reception
• 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. – Carolina Traditional Barbeque Dinner on the Patio (or indoors if inclement weather)
• 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. Plenary Session III – Club Service (RI Representative’s Keynote Address)
• 9:30 – 10:30 – House of Friendship Drawing for 3^rd Prize Polio Plus Raffle, Door Prizes

Saturday

• Hot Breakfast Cooked to Order – 7:00‐8:00 a.m. ‐ Lobby
• 9:00‐10:30 a.m. Plenary Session IV‐New Generations (Closing Remarks from RI Representative)
• 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. – Club Awards (President Citation, Changemaker Award, Governor’s Awards for Excellence)
• Lunch on your own
• 11:30 – 5:30 p.m. – Free time (Shopping, Spa, Tours, Golf).
• Reception – 5:30‐6:30 p.m.
• Dinner – 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
• 8:30‐9:30 p.m. Plenary Session V‐International Service (PDG Subrahmanyam Ganesh Presentation, RI Director John Smarge’s Keynote Address)
• 9:30 House of Friendship – Drawing for 2^nd Prize Polio Plus Raffle, Door Prizes
• 9:30 – 11:00 p.m. – House of Friendship – Talent Show

Sunday

• Hot Breakfast Cooked to Order – 7:00‐8:00 a.m. ‐ Lobby
• Memorial Service (House of Friendship) – 8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
• 8:00‐11:30 a.m. Plenary Session VI‐Community Service
• 11:30 – 12:00 noon. – House of Friendship – Drawing for 1^st Prize Polio Plus Raffle
• 12:00 noon – End of Conference

SOME OF THE SPEAKERS:

• RI President’s Representative–PDG Sue Poss
• Keynote Speaker RI Director John Smarge
• GSE Team from District 1430 Finland
• Rotary Youth Exchange Students Skits
• PDG Subrahmanyam Ganesh-Jaipur Limb Factory in Haiti
• Wheelchair Delivery to the Philippines-DGE Frank Dean

THINGS TO DO IN AND AROUND CONCORD, NC:

Information will be provided in your registration packet and at the conference registration desk.

• Lowe’s Motor Speedway Tours
• Golf at the Rocky River Golf Club
• Shopping at Concord Mills Shopping Center
• Spa treatments in the Embassy Suites Hotel
• White Water Rafting

Let me take you back a few months to the first day of my exchange…It Was September 7th and I didn’t speak a word of Italian. I was sitting in my Rotary counselor Mauro’s office with his good friend (and fellow Rotarian) Lorenza.  While we were waiting for my host parents to come home from work, we were talking (or should I say attempting to talk through ridiculous hand motions seeing as neither one of them spoke English.) I began to show pictures of my home town and where I cam from and they of the travels that they had been on, including what looked to be an incredible trip to Africa just last year.  As I inquired more about this trip I found how incredible it really was; they went on Safari, built a children’s hospital and even hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro! As I became more jealous with each passing second I admitted to them that it has always been one of my life goals to go to Africa and to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Upon saying that Mauro immediately responded with “Vero! Volete venire con noi?” or “Really! Would you like to come with us then?”. I laughed thinking that it was a joke simply taunting me, but when they didn’t laugh back, I realized that they were serious. As I inquired more about this I found that it was actually a Rotary sponsored service trip to Tanzania. I immediately asked Mauro what I had to do to be apart of this incredible experience, but he was already one step ahead of me.

The next week we attended a meeting discussing the details of the trip and I found that Rotary does something truly amazing.  The entire service trip is around three weeks long. We will leave Thursday, December 22 from Milan Malpensa Airport with a flight of Turkish Airlines, we will stop in Istanbul and will arrive in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We will be in Dar es Salaam for three days then we will have the opportunity to visit the city. We will then rent a car and we will be accompanied throughout the journey by a driver. The purpose of this trip is to visit the hospital in which, thanks to the Association Ikelu Pamoja non-profit organization, the Sycamore Rotary Club and many other non-profit organizations, was opened October 7, 2011 and to visit to the “Village Tumaini” which currently houses about 100 orphans. The route from Dar es Salaam to Ikelu will last about 12 hours, where we will see for miles across Africa.

From Ikelu we move to Ruaha National Park, the second largest national park in Tanzania, to do a safari. We will stay 2 daysand will spend New Year’s there. Then return to Ikelu to lend a hand both in the hospital in an orphanage. After our work there is done, we will return on January 9th, 2012. I immediately received permission from both my family in America and Italy and of course my sponsor Rotary club who were all more than excited for me. In just a few days I will begin my regimen of vaccinations (one of the aspects of the trip that I’m not ecstatic about).

I can not tell you all how happy I am for the opportunity that Rotary International has presents me with; I am forever grateful. Thank you to everyone who has helped me thus far in my exchange and I look forward to the other unexpected and life changing experiences that Rotary allows me to have. Thank you all! Grazie mille!

-Alex

P.S. Seeing as all of the details of the trip are not yet pinned down, you can find useful information for this trip at the following website: www.pamoya-onlus.it, Pamoja Association.

P.S.S. If you would like a postcard from Tanzania be sure to email me your address! I would love to send you one!

-Alex K

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