ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
GOVERNOR’S MONTHLY LETTER

OFFICE OF GOVERNOR OF DISTRICT NO. 123

 

 

HOMER KINGSLEY EBRIGHT Bich
BALDWIN, KANSAS
No. 6 Fellowship and Service December 1943

 

To the Presidents and Secretaries of Rotary in District 123;

Christmas Greetings. May every Rotarian enjoy the spirit of Christmas this year in
spite of the war. May tne Christmas germ be more contagious and infectious than
the flu bug has been recently. Mey every Rotarian radiate this feeling of the
Christmas time all through the year. |

1. Dickens.

Every Rotarian has noticed the interesting pictures of the Christmas Carol in the
December Rotarian, and also the article by Channing Pollock.

Rotarians shake hands with our new member EBENZER. When Charles first proposed the
name Scrooge, everybody blackballed him. But that selfish, frozen-hearted, miserly
curmudgeon has changed. We shall call him by his first name now EBENEZER. That
word means HELP. That is a good old Bible name, I Samuel 7:12. Ebenezer can laugh
now and is chairman of the committee on crippled children's work. Do you remember
what cracked his old selfish heart? It was the word of the spirit Jacob Marley who
said:

"It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his
fellow-men, and travel far and wide. If that spirit goes not forth in life, it is
condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world and witness
what it cannot share but might have shared and turned to Happiness."

If that isn't Rotary, will somebody please find the right text. We live too much
in our own affairs, We get all wrapped uy in ourselves. That makes a very small
package. HEBENUZE:, we welcome you into Kotary. You have a real Rotary name, HELP.

&. Hundred per cent men.

Our November letter mentioned four clubs which reported that they had members who

had a perfect record of attendance for the last year. That brought word from

Bonner Springs that 6 of their members have a 100% attendance for the year, and 5
since the club began in 1935, Lawrence informs us that 2 of their number have that
record for the last year, and 2 for 4 years, and ene for 1S years, That is Karl.
Ottawa tells us that 13 have not missed for a year. Emporia boasts 9. Paola 7.
Leavenworth adds that not only did 7 have a perfect resord for the year, but that

John Feller has not missed for 846 consecutive meetings. Has any other club a report?

Soe District Conference,

We are able to announce that our district conference will be held next spring in
Topeka, That is the most central place in the district. Everybody likes to go to
the capital city. The Topeka club did such a fine job as the host club last spring,