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Sorry we missed you, here is what happened while you were gone. Guests: Carmen Carson 50/50 $23 to Laura Jolly - Congratulations Happy Dollars: Joy is getting married in 2 weeks (which means it already happened!) January 4 from 4-9pm at Earthen Ales she is having an open house. Everyone is welcome to attend. Peter is having his last official day of work. Lindsey is happy for fancy clothes and the Preschool Holiday Program Kathleen is happy to be baking with grand kids Kip heard pitter patter of feet at 3:00am. His daughter's family arrived from Hungary. Laura's former exchange student is arriving for Christmas Sue's grand daughter would like her to sing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer louder so all could hear it. Carmen wanted to say "thank you" to all the families that have taken care of her. Steve told a story how Nathan Tarsa called him instead of St. Francis Church Anne is happy to be here today and Malawi goats have been delivered Tom explained how Rotary Charities adopted a family of 5 for Christmas and Jay gave them a YMCA membership Dave is happy his family is coming to visit Chris is happy for holiday things Jay explained his reign is 1/2 way over and how he has reflected on Christmas and gratitudes Announcements: Board Meeting: January 9 @ YMCA 5:00pm Facebook: Everyone like the page and the word about our good works will get out. January 4 - St. Vincent De Paul is looking for helpers to move a large donation of books into their facility. Please find time that morning to help out. Rotary Minute: Back in 1932, the Creditors of the Club Aluminum Company assigned me the task of saving the company from being closed out as a bankrupt organization. The company was a distributor of cookware and other household items. We found that the company owed its creditors over $400,000 more than its total assets. It was bankrupt but still alive. At that time we borrowed $6,100 from a Chicago bank to give us a little cash on which to operate. While we had a good product our competitors also had fine cookware with well advertised brand names. Our company also had some fine people working for it, but our competitors also had the same. Our competitors were naturally in much stronger financial condition than we were. With tremendous obstacles and handicaps facing us we felt that we must develop in our organization something which our competitors would not have in equal amount. We decided that it should be the character, dependability and service mindedness of our personnel. We determined, first, to be very careful in the selection of our personnel and, second, to help them become better men and women as they progressed with our company. Considerable time was spent in developing four short questions which now make up the Four-Way Test. Here are the four questions: - Is it the truth?
- Is it fair to all concerned?
- Will it build good will and better friendships?
- Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
The constant use of the Four-Way Test caused us to change our policies covering relations with competitors. We eliminated all adverse or detrimental comments on our competitors’ products from our advertisements and literature. When we found an opportunity to speak well of our competitors we did so. Thus, we gained the confidence and friendship of our competitors. The application of the Four-Way Test to our relations with our own personnel and that of our suppliers and customers helped us to win their friendship and good will. We have learned that the friendship and confidence of those with whom we associate is essential to permanent success in business. Program: Jodi Nichols gave away presents to Sunrise Rotarians as she talked about herself. We learned her birthday is August 10th and she celebrates it for a week. Jodi has a daughter attending college is Grand Rapids and Jodi has one younger sister. She is a beginner golfer and is looking for a league to play in. She has a 4 year degree in business from Grand Valley. She use to work for Girl Scouts and then Habitat in Muskegon but now works in Traverse at Habitat for Humanity as a Resource Director. she has lived in Hilton Head, SC and now Traverse City. She enjoys baking, wine tours and the color orange. Inspiration: Noelle inspired us with - I've learned that its now what you have but who you spend it with. |
