Membership & New Club Development
 
Rotary Year 2022-2023
August Updates
 
 
Rotary Month Theme: Membership and New Club Development
 
Zones 25B and 29 – August 17 Webinar from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. central time
“Imagine Your Inviting and Engaging Rotary Club” with guest presenters PDG Tom Gump and Past Rotary International Director Stephanie Urchick.
Meeting ID: 825 7641 8862     Passcode: 578795
 
Please invite your Rotary and Rotaract Club Presidents and their membership Chairs!
Healthcare Worker Appreciation Week
Rotary International and Rotary Foundation
Show Your Appreciation to Healthcare Workers – August 21 – 27, 2022
 
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have dedicated their time, energy, and skills to ensure our safety. As they provided vaccinations, administered tests, tracked outbreaks, and cared for patients, they sometimes put their health at risk to do so.
With the pandemic far from over, we have an opportunity to show our appreciation for them. From 21-27 August, we're recognizing the work of health care professionals in communities around the globe, and we're asking you to join us.  Need some ideas – click here.
 
If you are honoring your local healthcare workers, please make sure you are promoting it to the public as healthcare workers are still under great stress and fatigues.  Also, consider entering your program into Rotary Showcase and highlighting your initiative so that other Rotary members can and possibly replicate what you are doing.
Rotary Regionalization
ROTARY REGIONALIZATION
WHAT IS IT; WHERE ARE THE PILOTS; AND WHAT ARE THE FUTURE EXPECTATIONS?
AUGUST 29  - Zones 25A, 25B, 29 AND OTHER NORTH AMERICA ZONES
August 29 Webinar – 4:00 p.m. Central Time
 
Rotary International Vice President Nicki Scott will join us for a discussion on Rotary Regionalization and explain what it is and the pilots that are occurring in Zones 19 and 20A (Great Britain and Ireland) and Zone 8 (Australia, New Zealand, and 12 other small and island countries). Registration Material will be coming shortly.
 
If you have questions that you would like answered in the webinar, you can either send them to Director Pat Merryweather-Arges at dg6450pat@aol.com or pose them in the Q&A Zoom box the day of the event.  This webinar is being held in response to many questions raised on what is regionalization, what are the pilots, and how can a Zone start the process for applying for a pilot regionalization.
 
Register in advance for this meeting: ZOOM LINK
 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
District End Polio Now Chairs
Consider Sending End Polio Now Chairs to Zones 25B and 29 Institute
 
Please consider sending your District End Polio Now Chairs to the Zone Institute.  We have a special educational program for them at the Institute and are spotlighting Polio at the Friday Dinner. 
 
As you know, we have had a few more polio cases this year compared to last year and one in New York --- so we know Polio can only be a plane ride away.  They will benefit so much in networking and sharing and learning with other End Polio Now Chairs.  See the syllabus.
Get to Know RI Director Pat Merryweather-Arges
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Pat Merryweather-Arges
Rotary International Director - 2022-2024
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Rotary Action Group Board - 2019-2025
Rotary District International Services Chair 2016-2023
District Representative to Council on Legislation and Resolution 2020-2023
Rotary Foundation COVID Task Force
Rotary Club of Naperville
 
Pat Merryweather-Arges is a Rotarian from the Rotary Club of Naperville. She has a long list of service in her club, district, zone, and RI globally. She served as the Club President and received her Club’s Rotarian of the Year and Four Avenues of Service Awards.   She has served the District as District Grants Chair and Diversity Chair and as District Governor of District 6450 (Northern Illinois) in 2012-2013.  She has served as the Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator, Zone 28-29 2016 Chair and Chair of the Presidents International Peace Conference held in Chicago.  The list goes on and on...   
 
As a Rotarian Pat has traveled to about a dozen countries working on Rotary projects and has attended Rotary Day at the United Nations and a Rotary Middle East Peace Conference in Turkey. Her projects include solar ovens, water wells, and medical equipment and missions. Pat has received the Rotary Foundation Meritorious Service Award and the Rotary International Service Above Self Award.

Professionally, Pat is Executive Director of Project Patient Care where she works with patients, families, and caregivers to have their voice heard in health and healthcare through advocacy, public health policy, and collaboration with providers. She is a strong business development professional skilled in Nonprofit Organizations and has lead quality health improvement initiatives with the federal government and served in executive leadership roles in a hospital membership association.
 
Pat is married to George, a Rotarian, and they have four sons, three daughters-in-law, and 7 grandchildren!
 
Pat and George are Major Donors, Paul Harris Society and Polio Plus Society members, and Benefactors to the Rotary Foundation.  
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