Lindsay May OAM
The meeting on Tuesday 31 was an opportunity for the new DG Lindsay May OAMand his wife, Tania, plus Michele, the new ADG to get to meet the Directors of the Club. President Bill Put together
a three ring show that even PT Barnum at his best couldn’t top.
Each Director was allowed three minutes to discuss their accomplishments of the past year and the objectives looking ahead for the next 12 months. It was clear that a collaborative effort has resulted in a very strong performance under past President Paul and promised even more success stories to come under the current President Bill.
In the order of Presentation:
- President/Bill—Set the objective of maintaining the culture and fabric of the Club, while delivering creative, collaborative projects which are focused on the community;
- Youth/Sandra—Working with the Youth Hub, continue to reach out to local youth particularly now during the COVID lockdown when mental states are more fragile;
- Administration/Liz—She is focusing on booking relevant and interesting speakers for remainder of calendar year; her second primary project is working with members to purchase jumpers with the Club logo embroidered on the front;
- Vocation/Jenny—The Cookbook is a collaborative team project under Jenny's leadership, covering both fundraising and publishing; running the POW awards and working with ourlocal business community
- Membership/Bryan—His team is in the process of developing membership programs working in part with Les to develop collateral material; he is also leading a Welfare team to ensure we look after our current members
- Foundation/Phill—Phill’s two primary projects are: 1) Continue to raise funds to support The Rotary Foundation; 2) Separately, Phill is in the process of setting up a three year framework to fund and build “Tiny Homes” for the areas’ homeless. He is working with other Mountain Clubs and local community outreach programs;
- Community events/Andrew—Many of his Team’s programs have been put into a hiatus mode because of COVID. He is working diligently to develop replacement fund sourcing events which are COVID safe;
- Governance/Ann—Ann covered the long list of her responsibilities from maintaining Club records to doing meeting agendas and meeting reports. Ann finished her three minutes by modeling an official NYPD hat which she wears while corralling Club Directors;
- Piercarlo/International—Piercarlo filled the group in on his activities which included already one successful sister Club in Genoa and the possibility of several additional ones;
- Public Image/Les—He reviewed the ongoing communication platforms he uses including FaceBook and the monthly newsletter. He reminded the DG of the 20th Anniversary Special Edition Commemorative Softcover Book that he and Michael Small put together. Finally, President Bill ran the music video that Les had put together to support membership which was very well received. Lindsay had indicated that he would consider airing it during the next regional meeting
- Wrap-up/Lindsay—Lindsay shared his very emotional response that this was the best of the 27 Club meetings he had attended to date.
On behalf of the Club members, the Club Directors and President Bill, we thank you for your very strong support.