GSE and the UN
It has been quite a successful couple of weeks for the Canyon Rotary Club.
First of all, our Group Study Exchange team nominee, Kim Bruce, a faculty member at West Texas A&M University, was chosen for the team! (I wasn’t surprised.) Just as a reminder, Rotary District 5730 is sending a team of four professionals (which will be led by a Rotarian team leader) to the Dominican Republic for one month during May-June 2012. Kim and her colleagues will serve as ambassadors for Rotary, for Texas — even for the United States. They will visit Rotary clubs throughout that country and live with Rotarians during their stay there. Our club is very excited about Kim’s participation.
I had the great fortune to visit the United Nations in New York City this past weekend to participate in the annual Rotary-U.N. Day conference. Here’s a picture of me goofing around just a little bit during a break inside the U.N.’s chambers.
It was a humbling experience to learn about just a few of the many programs and initiatives Rotary is working on to improve people’s lives across the globe. I don’t know when I’ll get another chance to attend this conference again, but I certainly can recommend it to all Rotarians. I came back to Canyon even more energized about Rotary’s mission in our community.
