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A man and his wife's world journeys via tramp steamer after World War II are
related in a journey of observations revealing some amazing trips to Ireland,
Wales, Spain, Egypt, and other countries. Enjoy a lively and fun story which
charts post-War nations in an unusual light.
Book Description
Travel the world in 1950 on tramp steamers, after World War II, and observe
Ireland, Wales, Spain, Egypt, and other countries in an unusual light, when
America had won the war.
Book Description
Volunteer labor in the United States is worth billions of dollars, and the
President of the United States called for more volunteer work after the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Member retention is a necessary focus if
volunteer organizations are to provide increasingly important services. While
increased and sustained volunteer work is needed, there is insufficient
knowledge of what motivates people to do volunteer work and how their motivation
might relate to continued volunteering. Using a quantitative approach, this
dissertation investigated two research questions: (a) what motivates
members of the participating Rotary clubs to do volunteer work with their club,
and (b) how did their motivation relate to their intention to continue
doing volunteer work with their club? During club meetings, 108 participants
completed questionnaires comprised of the 30 questions in the Volunteer
Functions Inventory (VFI), one question about intent to continue volunteering,
and 7 demographic questions. The VFI measures six volunteer motives: values,
enhancement, protective, understanding, social, and career. Data were analyzed
using descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, stepwise multiple
regression, and correlation analyses. Results indicated the values and
protective motives were predictive of intent to continue volunteering. The
values motive is defined by humanitarian interests and the protective motive is
defined by a need to compensate for life problems. For the Rotarians in this
study, the stronger the values motive and the weaker the protective motive, the
more likely they were to indicate an intention to continue volunteering. These
findings will assist the Rotary club leaders with club recruitment and
retention. Positive social change will result from more effective volunteer
management in support of community needs. Society directly benefits since more
resources will be available to directly help the members of the community who
are the intended beneficiaries of the volunteer efforts. Recommendations for
future research include additional focus the nature of values and the
incorporation of longitudinal measures to determine whether intent to continue
volunteering is predictive of continued volunteering.
Service
Clubs in American Society: Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions
From Library Journal
Charles (history, North Central Coll., Ill.) explores how indispensable these
service clubs were for middle-class businessmen and professionals adjusting to
economic and social transformations caused by corporate capitalism. The author
focuses on the formative years, 1900 to 1940, of the Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions,
when they "comprised 90 percent of the total service club membership."
He asserts that these clubs became popular when community service was a
middle-class ideal. In his examination, Charles touches upon such topics as
ridicule from social critics (e.g., H.L. Mencken), the Great Depression, and
race and gender. Graduate history students will benefit most from this book,
which is based on Charles's dissertation. Recommended for academic and research
libraries.
- Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib., Pa.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Hardcover: 226 pages
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press (November 1993)
A Century of Service: The Story of Rotary International
- Hardcover: 354 pages
- Publisher: One Rotary Center (January 2003)
Midwest Book Review
A man and his wife's world journeys via tramp steamer after World War II are
related in a journey of observations revealing some amazing trips to Ireland,
Wales, Spain, Egypt, and other countries. Enjoy a lively and fun story which
charts post-War nations in an unusual light.
Book Description
Travel the world in 1950 on tramp steamers, after World War II, and observe
Ireland, Wales, Spain, Egypt, and other countries in an unusual light, when
America had won the war.
- Hardcover: 407 pages
- Publisher: Emerald Ink, Inc./Emerald Ink Publishing; 1st edition (May 15, 2005)
The
Rotary Club Murder Mystery
From Kirkus Reviews
A return outing for 80-ish southern grande dame Harriet Bushrow, a major
participant in solving the author's first--The Famous DAR Murder Mystery. Here,
the Rotary Club's district governor Charles Hollonbrook--now in Harriet's town
of Borderville, Virginia, to address local members--is found shot to death by
his own gun in his locked-from-the-inside motel room. Club members, unconvinced
by the police report of suicide, assign Harriet to look further. This she does
with a will, driving her ancient De Soto to Hollonbrook's hometown of Stedbury,
where her old friend Maud Bradfield gives her plenty of leads--to Hollonbrook's
first wife Linda and their feckless son Jimmy; his second wife Alice; current
mistress Kim and others in between; his once-thriving real-estate business and
his basement gun range. When a car bomb destroys the De Soto in front of Maud's
house, Harriet knows she's on the right track--it only remains to make the right
connections. The southern charm remains, but the lack of tension, slow pace, and
overplotting make for a respectable but less than compelling second outing. -- Copyright
©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Australia's
First Rotary Club: A History of the Rotary Club of Melbourne
Book Description
This history of Rotary in Australia, from its formation in 1921 by a group of
Melbourne's leading citizens, to its spread across southern Australia, and its
growing prestige under the leadership of Sir Angus Mitchell, the first
Australian president of Rotary International, is related against the backdrop of
the great social and historical events of the 20th century. Detailing members'
valuable contributions to Rotary Australia's social and educational programs and
its transformative power on the quality of life for the elderly and
disadvantaged, this biography will appeal not only to past and present
Rotarians, but also to those interested in the social history of the past
century.
About the Author
Owen Parnaby is a fellow of Queens College, University of Melbourne, and the
author of Queen's College and Britain and the Labour Trade in the South-west
Pacific.
- Hardcover: 252 pages
- Publisher: Melbourne University Press (December 2002)
Le
Rotary-club en France sous Vichyby: Claude Malbranke
1996
Edition and text in FRENCH
- Unknown Binding: 394 pages
- Publisher: L'Harmattan (1996)
- Language: French
- ISBN: 2738441777
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Barbara Mauldin said even though watching the fury of Hurricane Katrina from her window was an event she would never forget, watching the response of Rotarians worldwide was even more amazing.
"As the winds laid 75% of our trees on (our) roofs, broke our power poles, exploded our transformers, uprooted our water pipes and isolated us from the outside world, my telephone still operated," recalled Mauldin, DDS, a dentist and partner of DiMa Homes in Petal and past president of Rotary Club of Petal. "Even as the last of the rain abated and the winds died down, and we crept out to check on our neighbors and count the losses, Rotarians from all over the U.S. and the...
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Title: Petal dentist, homebuilder becomes point of contact for
Rotary International.(50 Leading Business Women 2005)
Author: Lynne Jeter
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
(Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 17, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Worldwide vaccinations : An article from: Business People
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Most of us consider polio a disease that was wiped out years ago when Dr. Jonas Salk discovered a potent polio vaccine. That was in 1952, when 57,000 cases of polio were recorded throughout the United States. To make distribution of the vaccine even easier, Dr. Albert Sabin discovered an oral polio vaccine. If you are old enough to remember, those were the days when children lined up with hundreds of others to orally take a sugar cube filled with a dose of polio vaccine. After these wonderful discoveries to combat polio, we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. What most people don't realize is that polio is still very real, and especially threatening, in many...
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This digital document is an article from Business People, most recently
published by Michiana Business Publications, Inc. on January 1, 2003. The length
of the article is 975 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical
300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your
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Title: Worldwide vaccinations
Author: Judi E Loomis
Publication: Business People (News)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Michiana Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 15 Issue: 12 Page: 72
My road to Rotary;: The story of a boy, a Vermont community and Rotary
by: Paul
Percy Harris
01 January, 1948
Comments: Chicago, Illinois; Rotary International; 1937; Booklet; 1937 Rotary song book, with 121 tunes. There are patriotic songs such as the Battle Hymn of the Republic, club songs such as R-O-T-A-R-Y, folk songs like Clementine and a few rounds, like Row, Row, Row Your Boat. The booklet has 96 pages.
Rotarians Make a Difference: Inspirational Short Stories About Rotarians & What They Do