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Rotary Club of Mesquite Nevada
We are a community service club serving the greater Virgin Valley area. We meet every Tuesday with a short program from various walks of life. You can get more information about our meetings here. Please contact us for more information.
2011-2012 Club President
President Jake Noll
Jake Noll owns a custom mat and frame shop in Mesquite called TJ’s Mats & Frames. Jake was inducted into Rotary just one year before taking over as President. Jake has fully embraced the ideals of Rotary and will lead the club boldly into the future. You can read the President’s Message on the President’s Page.
Rotary International
RI 2011-2012 Theme
RI President
RI President Kalyan Banerjee
“We need to commit ourselves absolutely and fully and say, What I must do shall indeed be done.”
The RI president’s monthly message
January 2012
My dear brothers and sisters in Rotary!
At Arlington National Cemetary outside Washington, D.C., stands a memorial to the Seabees, formally known as the U.S. Naval Construction Force. An inscription reads, “With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.”
In Rotary, we already have our own mottoes. If we didn’t, I might be given to nominating those two lines. The power of combined effort, as Paul Harris once wrote, knows no limitation. When we work together, the impossible becomes possible.
I thought of this when I read, a few months ago, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the premier medical journal in the United States. Titled “The Polio Endgame,” it outlined a strategy for a postpolio era, including managing post-eradication risks.
Thirty years ago, such an article could never have been published. Today, it is a testament to the power of dedication, of persistence, and of combined effort. The impossible has, indeed, become possible. A postpolio world, once the stuff of dreams, will soon be here.
My friends, the day that polio will be eradicated is close at hand. We have to be ready for it with a powerful Rotary – a Rotary of enthusiasm and confidence, of bold vision and clear ambitions. It is time for us to prepare by taking an honest look at our clubs. Are out projects meaningful, sustainable, and relevant? Are our meetings productive and enjoyable? Are our clubs welcoming to new members, and are out schedules and events friendly to young families? And once people join us, do we welcome them properly, involve them enough? Do we make them a part of the family of Rotary quickly enough?
The figures tell us that while enough new individuals join Rotary every year and everywhere, too many exit Rotary, on an ongoing basis. That unfulfilled hope do they leave with? What expectations are we not meeting? Can we do more and better?
Now is the time to focus our energies on out clubs, and on the way people see them. It is time to show our communities that the Rotary of today is not the Rotary of their preconceptions. Rotary is a way to connect, to do more, to be more – it is a way to take our idealism and our vision, and turn them into reality.