Prayer. Gracious God, as we unite in prayer, we give thanks for the spiritual dimension of human existence in which we find help and hope amid the secular realities which make insistent claims upon our time and effort. Having retreated from those pressures for this time of renewed fellowship with friends, we pray that you will grace our gathering with your presence.
Accept now our thanks for all the earthly provisions for our needs and for spiritual resources to pursue opportunities to serve others.Amen.
Club Announcements:
Member's Passing. It is with great sadness that the Rotary Club of North Jackson, announces the passing of long-time Rotarian, Paul Miller. Mr. Miller, a retired attorney, returned from a neighborhood walk on Monday afternoon and experienced a fatal heart attack. He was a 36-year member of the club having joined January 1, 1983. Paul served our Club as President during the 1998-99 Rotary year. He was a generous supporter of The Rotary Foundation, recognized 3 times as a Paul Harris fellow, and also recognized as a Benefactor for his support of the Permanent Fund of the Foundation. We express our condolences to his family. He will be missed by all.
Birthdays and Anniversaries:
Birthdays:
Hugh Johnson February 05
Trace Swartzfager February 05
Judy Lyons February 07
Wedding Anniversaries:
None
Membership Anniversaries:
Larry Anderson 3 years, February 09
Matt Monsour 3 years, February 09
Social Media. Do you want to keep up with the service activities and members of the Rotary Club of North Jackson? Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter (@RotaryNorth) and Instagram (rotarynorthjackson)
Rotary Foundation Thought. This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about District Grants.
District Grants. District Grants allow Rotary clubs to identify, plan, and fund worthy projects in their own communities or internationally. Grants can fund improvements such as kitchen equipment for a food pantry, assistance for after-school programs, dictionaries or encyclopedias for primary school children, or renovations to a playground. The more we contribute to our Foundation’s Annual Fund, the more opportunities and funding we will have for such projects.
The Rotary Foundation allows us to “do good in the world” here in our own community, as well as internationally.
Billy Brumfield House. The Rotary Club of North Jackson is serving supper once a month at The Billy Brumfield House, a Stewpot Community Services ministry. Our club serves on the 1st Tuesday of each month. Interested members need to meet @ Baker Donelson located at the corner of Eastover Drive and the I-55 North Frontage Road @ 5:15 PM and then travel together to Billy Brumfield. Also, if you are interested in sponsoring a month, the est. cost is $180 for the food. Mike Dawkins is project chair and can be reached @ 601-351-2428 or mdawkins@bakerdonelson.com.
Between the Lions. Please remember to sign up for Between the Lions. During the school year, we read weekly to pre-Kindergarteners at William Walton Elementary School on Bailey Ave. It is a wonderful experience! The children are truly information sponges and very willing learners. Please sign up for 2018-2019. Call Bill Osborne @ 601-594-5698 to sign up. This year we will be reading on Tuesdays and Fridays at 09:00.
Member Care Committeereminder: for anyone who needs assistance getting to a meeting, please call Luther Munford at (601) 985-4418.
Thinking of Proposing a New Member?
First, discuss with Classification Committee which will provide a membership application, check classification availability and discuss occupational qualifications. Due to the passing of Classification Committee Chair Paul Miller, Club Administrative Secretary-Treasurer Don Roberts is filling this role on an interim basis effective January 25, 2019. You may contact him on his mobile phone at 601-540-8911 or by email at donroberts71@outlook.com.
Rotary Membership Occupational Qualifications Applicant should be one of the following:
A corporate officer
Professional (Attorney, CPA, Physician. Engineer, Architect, etc) A Proprietor
An Agent of a reputable company
A Manager or Supervisor of a department or section of a business
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Motivational speaker, educator, and historian, Ms. Pamela Junior, Executive Director of the Mississippi Civil Right Museum, spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the Club’s January 29, 2019, meeting. In her speech, she took the club members on an aural tour of the museum gallery by gallery. She said that in the first year of the museum’s existence, it received a total of 250,000 visitors vs. a projected attendance of 180,000.
In addition to the aural tour, Ms. Junior discussed “Spirits of the Passage”, an upcoming exhibition in the museum, “The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”, which will be at the museum February 2 - August 11, 2019. The exhibition will feature artifacts recovered from the wreckage of a sunken slave ship. From one of history’s most devastating chapters rise tales of strength, resistance, and fortitude. It sounds like a “must see” exhibit.
We thank Ms. Junior for her very interesting and informative presentation to our club and for her commitment and service to her fellow Mississippians. She is shown below before her speech with club Past President Ann Somers who introduced her, during her speech, and following it with club President Anna Powers (left) and Past President Ann Somers (right).
Eddie Woods, Sr. Vice President, Partner, Director of Integrated Marketing Strategy with the Ramey Agency in Jackson spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the Club’s January 22, 2019 meeting. The subject of Mr. Woods’ speech was digital marketing for 2019. It was entitled “Big Data, Why it Matters and How to Use It.” In the speech, he discussed how marketers obtain and use data, principally data on the Internet, on consumers and other potential buyers to target their marketing campaigns. These data can come from previous purchases, memberships in organizations, demographic data and other such sources such as emails, letters to editors, social media, etc.
We thank Mr. Woods for his very interesting and timely presentation that left the audience enlightened and some of them somewhat concerned. He is shown in the following photos with club member Bob Potesky, who introduced him before his speech and with club president Anna Powers following his speech.
Dr. Kevin Freeman spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson about the Opioid Crisis and Counter-measures that are being developed to combat it at the club’s January 15, 2019, meeting. Dr. Freeman is a native of the Jackson area. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Mississippi and his doctorate in psychology at the American University in Washington, DC. He is currently a Behavioral Pharmacologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Dr. Freeman discussed the history of the opioids in the U.S. including the introduction of opioids as “safe, effective,non-addictive” pain medicines. Counter-measures he discussed are pharmaceutical combinations that reduce the impact of heroin and fentanyl on the human brain. These combinations have been thoroughly investigated on mammals The next step is clinical trials on humans. We thank Dr. Freeman for his work on behalf of Mississippians and his work at the Medical Center.
Ed Thurmond, Rotary District 6820 Governor Nominee for 2020-2021 presented the Rotary Club of North Jackson with a Certificate from The Rotary Foundation highlighting the club’s contributions to the project to eliminate polio. Since 1985, when annually there were 350,000 cases of polio globally, a total of $1.65 billion has been spent on eliminating polio in a project started by and headed by Rotary International. This project has reduced the number of annual cases by 99.99%. In 2017, there were 22 cases of polio in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
In the following photo, Mr. Thurmond is shown presenting the certificate to club Vice President Greg Campbell. The certificate follows that photo.
Mississippi Today Sports Columnist Speaks to Rotary Club of North Jackson
Rick Cleveland, Sports Columnist with “Mississippi Today” spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackso at the club’s January 8, 2019 meeting. Mr. Cleveland discussed his career, which started with the "Hattiesburg American" in 1979 at age 13, including changes in the journalism profession and some highlights of his career, which includes induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and stints as a Sports Reporter and Sports Editor of the Jackson “Clarion-Ledger”. He said that print journalism has severely declined since he began his career and that he sees the future in community newspapers such as Jackson’s “Northside Sun” and online newspapers. According to Mr. Cleveland, his staff at the “Clarion-Ledger” when he was Sports Editor consisted of 5 sports reporters. Today there is one sports reporter reflecting the change in print journalism.
Mr. Cleveland also relayed personal stories from his career including an interview with Alabama Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant when he was a young reporter. He is shown in the following photos during his presentation and following it (left) with club Vice President Greg Campbell (center) and Rotarian Mark Kennedy (right) who introduced him. We thank Mr. Cleveland for his commitment to Mississippi sports, to our state, and for his presentation to our club.
