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Welcome to the 2008-2009 Rotary
Year!
Communication issues are the nemesis
of great plans.
In honor of your good plans and mine,
I will send out monthly newsbriefs on literacy news,
options, and recording expectations from District 6900
and from Rotary International.
I appreciate all you do for
Rotary, and I know time as well as up-to-date
information are essential in your work to
make dreams real
through
literacy.
Brenda
Erickson
District Literacy Chair
berickson@counterpane.org
770-335-2743
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Literacy Information Meetings
First, let me correct an
error in the directory: Literacy Month is in
March, not July. That means we have ample
time to plan our wonderful works for that special
literacy month; however, it does not diminish the
immediate need to know what Rotary International's
Literacy Resource Group has established as goals for the
literacy work of Rotary in 2008-09. RILRG meets
each May in Evanston, IL, to chart a direction for
literacy activities in the coming Rotary year. That
information is important, and in order to best equip
each club for a successful literacy year, I am
scheduling literacy information meetings in several
locations so that every club in our district will have
one of the meetings within comfortable reach. Attending
one of the meetings is important for club literacy
chairs, Presidents, and Assistant Governors, as there
are changes in literacy expectations that will
definitely impact your clubs.
Refreshments will be
served, connections will be made, and ideas will be
shared - tossed lightly with a bit of fun.
Meeting #1 - Thursday,
August 21 - Columbus
The Ridges Clubhouse at
Green Island Hills
6400 Green Island Drive,
31904
6:30
P.M.
Meeting #2 - Tuesday,
August 26 - Bainbridge
The home of Dean and
Marlene Free
1908 Lake Douglas Road,
39819
6:30
P.M.
Meeting #3 - Thursday,
September 4 - Atlanta
Ravinia Club
Two Ravinia
Drive / Suite 100, 30346
6:30 P.M.
Meeting #4 - Thursday,
September 11 - Villa Rica
The home of Alicia
Michael
147 Jasmine Way, 30180
6:30
P.M.
Meeting #5 - Thursday,
September 18 - Milner
Spalamar
491 Camp Road,
30257
6:30 P.M.
Final Meeting #6 -
Tuesday, September 30 - Fayetteville
The home
of Brenda Erickson and Norman Hough
839 Hwy 314,
30214
6:30 P.M
Please call 770-335-2743 or email berickson@counterpane.org if you have
questions.
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District
6900 is making dreams real in literacy!
Several rotary clubs and two
Interact Clubs in District 6900 are implementing a
literacy program in their community that was first
pioneered in 2006 by the Rotary Club of Peachtree City -
Souns for literacy. In 2007-08 Souns was
introduced district-wide with the support of PDG Bill
Woulfin.
The program has
received a District Simplified Grant, was invited to
exhibit at Rotary's International Assembly in San Diego,
and was a Rotary literacy project at this year's
International convention. Souns currently joins several
early language programs on the list of options compiled
by Rotary International's Literacy Resource Group.
The Rotary Clubs in District 6900
offering the Souns for literacy program to date are:
Alpharetta, Coweta-Fayette, Dunwoody Sunset, Henry
County, Lake Spivey, North DeKalb, and Peachtree City.
Interact Clubs that are introducing the Souns program
for infants and toddlers or family literacy
opportunities are Counterpane Montessori School and
Marietta High School. Community libraries that offer
infant/toddler programs are great opportunities for the
Souns program; however, there are many other
applications.
Rotarians at work for
literacy are impacting lives forever.
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