Downtown Rotary
Heidi Doerhoff Vollet
International flair was much in evidence at the Jefferson City Rotary Club meeting June 20, when Jason Lamb reported on this year's Rotary International convention, at which he represented the Club. The convention was held in late May in New Orleans.
"Before attending this convention I never gave much thought to Rotary beyond the local level," he said. "But seeing 19,000 attendees representing more than 200 countries was a real eye-opener to Rotary at the global level. Although we can make a difference locally, a lot of the issues we face are the same at their roots."
Among the issues addressed at workshops Jason attended were branding for Rotary at all levels, from local to international, and moving Rotarians along the continuum from membership to engagement. Jason urged members of the Jefferson City Rotary Club to think about those issues and potential ways the Club can address them.
The keynote address was delivered by Bill Gates, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, who focused on the challenges of eradicating the last pockets of polio, a mission shared by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International's End Polio Now program.
