September 24: Rotaract Bi-Monthly Meeting Mount Pleasant Library 6-7pm; Alicia Modoor, Operations Coordinator, Engaging Creative Minds
September 26: Social 6-8pm Dockery’s w/ Daniel Island Rotary Club ECBR September Social
October 8: Rotaract Bi-Monthly Meeting Mount Pleasant Library 6-7pm; Elena Lawson, Director of Special Projects and Business Partnerships, Charleston Animal Society
October 22: Rotaract Bi-Monthly Meeting Mount Pleasant Library 6-7pm; Katy Calloway, Carolina Youth Development Center
Join the East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club as we come together with the Daniel Island Rotary Club, Thursday September 26th from 6 to 8pm, for a joint social event!
Come mix and mingle with your fellow Rotarians!
Please feel free to bring guests!!!
Dockery’s is located at 800 Island Park Drive, Daniel Island.
Come meet your East Cooper Rotaractors at Saltwater Cowboys on Shem Creek for a membership social event! Please bring along potential new members, age 18-30!
August 13th 5-7pm at Saltwater Cowboys on Shem Creek the East Cooper Rotaractors will meet for a Membership Social in the place of their bi-weekly meeting! Come learn what Rotaract is all about! Please bring potential new members: anyone, age 18 to 30, interested in joining together with fellow young professionals over a love of service to the community and professional networking.
“We are the very first community-based Rotaract club in our district! We currently meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month from 6-7pm at the Mount Pleasant library on Mathis ferry road.”
Our 2019-2020 Rotary Youth Exchange Student Ester will arrive on August 2nd from Ribeiras das Neves, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Ester has a first and a third host family but we still need a family to open their home to Ester for the three month span of time in between. The exact dates that a student switches families is up to the families but roughly the time would be start of December until mid March.
Every year exchange students and their parents are required to write a letter to their future host families. I have read these letters from Ester and her parents and I can assure you she is a brilliant, responsible, determined young woman. Ester speaks Portuguese, Spanish and English proficiently. She wants to study medicine and hopefully specialize in neurosurgery. Ester, with the support of her family, has made the most difficult decision that any 17 year old can make: she is leaving her family and friends and the only home she’s ever known in Brazil to come to a strange new place for a year of her life. The Rotary Club of East Cooper Breakfast, the city of Charleston, Rotary District 7770, the state of South Carolina, and the United States of America are welcoming Ester with open arms. I’m asking that someone open their home for 3 short months to this beautiful, courageous young woman. This is not just a life changing experience for the student but for the host families a like. Ester will become a part of your family and you hers; you will create a life long bond.
*Below are some social media ads as well as 2 links to informational sheets that tells you everything you need to know about hosting a student. Send these materials to someone or give me their contact info to reach out myself.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take 5 minutes to post a photo or link from below to any one of your social media accounts- Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, etc. OR PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take a moment to text, email, or call a friend, co worker or family member that you think might be interested.. OR who might know someone who is interested. Ask your church or ask your boss… ask your neighbors..
***There’s been a bigger push for host families this year*** The reason being because our club typically sends a student abroad, an outbound, at the same time as hosting a student, the inbound. It is an obligation of that outbound student to procure families, however this year the district did not have enough outbound students for our club to send one.
AGAIN please take just a moment to ask just a few people to help Rotary in one of our most important programs. Rotary Youth Exchange promotes global peace and cultural understanding as well as encouraging leadership, cultural and language skills.
“My dream is for every 17-year old to become a Youth Exchange Student. If we could achieve this, there would be no more wars.”
– Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar, Rotary International President 2004-2005
Have you signed up for the Rotary Night at the Ballpark? We look forward to enjoying the fellowship with you and having a great time.
If you have not signed up, please
consider doing so. What better way for Rotarians to have fun than with
Baseball, Hotdogs and Rotary? The Camden Singers will deliver the National
Anthem at the ballpark.
Rotarians like to have fun and enjoy the
friendship of fellow Rotarians. Friday, July 26, 2019 has been designated as
Rotary Night with the Columbia Fireflies. This will be an opportunity for
Rotary club members to have a great social time. Tickets are $9.00 each and
food vouchers are $5.00. We will sit together along the first base line and
have a great time. Use the attached flyer to purchase tickets.
Bring your family and friends and join us for a wonderful time together at the ballpark on July 26.
Tripp Hoover, Sean O’Connor, Ted Chestnut, Michelle Whitbeck, and Ellis Gourdin attended the 2018 Fall District 7770 Training Seminar Friday October 21st at SeaCoast Church in Mount Pleasant. Below are photos of some of the speakers. Committee chairs in attendance participated in training of Grants Management, Global Grants, Membership, Youth Programs, Public image through Social media, and “how to” sessions on the District Database and Rotary Club Central. The Keynote Speaker was Past RI VP Anne Matthews.
Wayne Woody received his red badge at this mornings meeting, becoming the newest member of the East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club! Welcome to our club Wayne!
Alejandra Robinson, our current outbound exchange student exchanging club banners with Roger Guichard, the president of her host club, Gardanne en Pays D’aix. Her host club is located in the south east of France near Marseille.
Our club’s 2018-2019 Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Marie, arrived last week from France! Marie will be turning 17 on August 20th and she will be attending Wando High School. At our club meeting last week, Marie gave us a flag from her Rotary club in France and received our flag. If you see her at a meeting please introduce yourself! Marie loves meeting new people and traveling to new places. She is very active, enjoys shopping, and loves to cook. In France, Marie studies economics and wants to work in international relations. Marie enjoys swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball and she is about to have the best year of her life!
The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, August 24th, 2018 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We are pleased to have David Tirard, District Governor, as our speaker. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
David Tirard joined the Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island in 2003. He is a Ten Star Rotarian and holds the Four Avenues of Service Citation. He was elected President in 2011, and he led the club to Large Club of the Year recognition at the District Conference in March 2012. At District level he has served on the Grants Committee since 2010, served as Paul Harris Society Chair since 2013 and as an Assistant Governor from the same year. He holds two Foundation District Service awards, a Distinguished District Service award, and was recognized as District Rotarian of the Year in 2014. He is a Major Donor, Paul Harris Society member and Bequest Society member. David is British by birth, and enjoyed a thirty-three year career with Barclays Bank Plc. Most of his career was spent in the UK, but a tour of duty in Zambia as a bank auditor really opened his eyes to the poverty suffered in a third-world country. (This experience helps fuel his passion for the Rotary Foundation). Upon retirement he came to the United States in 2001, where he met his wife Susan. They moved to Bluffton SC in 2002. She is also a Rotarian, and they enjoy two children and eight grand-children in the USA, and two children and three grand-children in the UK. In the little time they have outside Rotary, they enjoy cooking, gardening and looking after the three Golden Retrievers they have rescued.
The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We will be hearing from our club President Tripp Hoover on the 2018 Rotary International Convention that was held in Toronto in June. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
Greg Meuli (right) completed his red badge requirements and received his Rotary Blue Badge in just three weeks! Congratulations, we’re excited to have you as a member!
