Join us for a spectacular evening at Fenway Park for Rotary Night as the Boston Red Sox take on the Chicago White Sox on Friday, September 22nd! Rotarians, friends, and family from across multiple districts could join us for only $39 per ticket while supporting our Foundation. $5 of each ticket purchased will come back to us to support The Rotary Foundation! Enjoy a Friday evening game at this gorgeous park and check out the city of Boston while you are here.

Tickets for the Rotary Night game must be purchased at: https://fevogm.com/event/Rotary in order for us to be grouped together and for the donation to get back to our district. The DEADLINE for ticket purchase is September 18th at 11:59PM so don't wait! We would love you to wear your Rotary gear and we look forward to seeing you at Fenway Park!

Join us on Thursday, September 28th at 6:30pm to learn about some fascinating pollinator research being done right here in Massachusetts!

 

Dr. Robert Gegear founder of the Gegear Lab at UMass Darthmouth and his team are attempting to answer questions such as: What is the significance of floral display complexity? Why does foraging vary among pollinator species? What are the causes and consequences of global pollinator decline? How effective are different restoration and conservation strategies for native pollination systems?

 

To address these questions, they use highly integrative experimental approaches that combine concepts and methodologies from fields such as animal behavior, human psychology, molecular biology, community ecology, and computational biology.

 

Click to learn more about the Gegear Lab.

 

Click HERE to register!"

Visit BecomeSustainable.org to learn how YOUR club can become carbon friendly in its meetings, events, and other activities. The site identifies projects that clubs can consider doing, and ideas on how to make what you're already doing more gentle on the environment. The process can also be used for your residence, other organizations you may belong to, businesses and municipalities.

If you’d like a slideshow to use to present the idea to your club, click HERE to download.

Needham Rotary has an artifact that was lovingly crafted for our club: a wooden wheel 74 inches in diameter and 19 inches wide, which is painter blue and gold and inscribed “Rotary International.”

 

Over the past several years, we have used it once a year. We roll it up a ramp onto a pickup truck to be displayed in Needham's Fourth of July Parade. Some of our members with commercial warehouses graciously housed it for us. But then, our fuel dealer consolidated, and it went to a wine merchant, who found it blocked his loading dock, so it found an uneasy home during the pandemic...in President Don's garage. It's time for a new home. 

I’m writing to ask whether and how I can serve up this offering to a club that would appreciate this iconic symbol of Rotary. Contact Needham President Don to become the proud steward. 

There are many different reasons why you should join Rotary Leadership Institute. RLI will offer you a positive experience with other Rotarians and the more you learn, the better Rotarian you will become.

1. You will gain a greater understanding of Rotary. 
2. You will be in an environment where you can exchange ideas.
3. You will be engaged with other Rotarians just like you.
4. you will improve communications.
5. You will learn how to build teams.
6. You will gain project leads.
7. You will be an enhanced member.
8. You will understand public image.
9. You will have fun!

The Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley is delighted to announce that the David and Eleanor Morley Endowed Global Grant Scholarship has been awarded to Katherine Painter, a lifelong resident of Stow. RNV sponsored Katherine as a candidate for this scholarship and is thrilled that she was selected! This unique Scholarship was established in 2002 by David and Eleanor Morely, to be granted to a resident of Rotary District 7910 who will be doing graduate-level study outside the US in one of Rotary’s areas of focus. David Morley was a Rotarian, a graduate of Worcester Polytech Institute, and had a long career at General Electric. 

 

Photo: Katie and RNV members

It is the beginning of this year’s nominating cycle for District leadership positions and this is an exciting time for District 7910. The future of our clubs depends on qualified candidates serving in leadership roles throughout the District. In order for our Clubs to grow and have more impact addressing local and international needs, there must be Rotarians who will fill leadership roles and provide vision and management skills in support of the business aspects of running our District. The link for the general call for nominations is found here, and the link for the applications for DGND and District Trustees is found here.

This year's Learning Agenda begins with a series of interviews with recent club Presidents who have successfully led their clubs forward. In each interview we focus on the "secret sauce" brought to the club by this leader, and provide hints for making the club more exciting and successful over time.