February 2014 President's Message

It is hard to believe that the Chili Open is behind us already. With the preliminary figures in, it looks like we have experienced another record breaking year surpassing revenues and attendance figures. Congratulations and many thanks to Shon, Jim, George and the rest of the Chili Open Committee for an outstanding event.

Cheryl and Dick meticulously redrafted our club’s bylaws based on the recommended club bylaws provided by Rotary International. At our last board of directors meeting, the bylaws were presented by Cheryl and Dick and approved by the board. We will need a quorum of the club membership in order to move forward with these, so I urge you to read them and give us your support in voting for them, should you approve. A special thanks to Dick and Cheryl for your many hours of work.

I would also like to recognize Sarah Buccigross, who not only is doing a tremendous job with coordinating the Dictionary Project, she has agreed to step up and lead our club and chair the Grants Committee. We have great news to announce concerning our action participating in the International Peace Fellowship as well as Gift of Life, and I am confident that Sarah will help propel us forward to even more international program participation.

This has been one brutal winter, but it sure hasn’t dampened the spirits of Akron Rotarians, and for that, I am most grateful.

President Lance