Meetings are at Kenwood Golf and Country Club (map) every Tuesday at 12:15 pm Upcoming Events- Strut Your Mutt is on Saturday May 16th
- Installation Dinner - Thursday, June 25th at the Bolger Center in Potomac
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| | Meeting Schedule- May 19th - John Hanson - Paul Harris & Greg Wims - Africa Trip
- May 26th - Irving Spitzberg - Tocqueville
- June 2nd - Randy Motz & Georgia Harris - Appalachin Trail
- June 9th - Patrick Cullinae - Golf Courses
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Congratulation to Greg Wims for being the recipient of the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Humanitarian Award in Montgomery County Founded in 1933, the Rotary Club of Bethesda Chevy Chase is a local chapter of Rotary International, a worldwide organization of business people who have been dedicated to service projects for over a century, fostering goodwill and world peace through helping communities in need. The Rotary motto is "Service Above Self." Locally, the BCC Rotary provides grants to numerous local organizations that assist community residents, from children to the elderly, as well as offering hands-on participation in community charity events such as Community Service Day, Strut Your Mutt and Turkey Chase 10K. Worldwide, Rotary International and its member clubs assist in many projects from health to education, but they are best known for starting and being one of the biggest sponsors and participants in the "Polio Plus Project" dedicated to eliminating Polio from the entire planet through complete vaccination of all children. In addition to its charitable work, another goal of the organization is to foster fellowship among its members, through regular meetings of each club. The BCC Rotary meets every Tuesday at the Kenwood Country Club. These luncheon meetings offer opportunities to meet and greet with fellow Rotarians, as well as hear from weekly visiting speakers discussing current world developments.
Every Thanksgiving for the past 25 years, thousands of runners have gathered in Bethesda to run in the Turkey Chase in support of the YMCA's Youth and Family Services, YMCA Bethesda-Chevy Chase and the B-CC Rotary Club Foundation. Here's a YouTube video on last year's event.
This year the Travel Channel, our Title Sponsor, invites you and your family and friends to participate in one of our three great races. Our USATF-certified 10K race and 2 mile fun run/walk are open to the entire family.
Last year we introduced the 50m Tot-Trot where kids 8 and under chase our Turkey mascot on our infield track. Every child in the Tot Trot will win a prize.
The 4th annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival is set to take place on Saturday, May 16, 2009 in downtown Bethesda, MD. Organized and sponsored by the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club, past years have brought together over 5,000 participants and hundreds of dogs for a day of fun. This year's event features a parade, dog fashion show, dog contests, kids play area, and much more! With more than 60 exhibitors and sponsors each year, Strut Your Mutt has raised close to $40,000 each year for the benefit of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad, a public service that relies on private donations.
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Our own President-Elect Greg Wims, and Guy Semmes, President-Elect of Potomac-Bethesda met with Rotary International President D.K. Lee at the Rotary Membership Conference in Greenbelt last month.  Will Naron, was inducted on April 21st. Will’s father and brother attended the ceremony. |
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Motivational speaker Brian Germaine spoke about transcending fear, as a life goal. Fear is a response to a high-stress situation perceived as beyond what we can comfortably handle. It is physiological and psychological in nature. Evolution has come up with three instinctive individual responses to a dangerous situation. These are fight, flight, and freeze. We need the ability to stay calm and take appropriate action. Scared people recoil from whatever frightens them. Relax, Focus and Flow is the paradigm for handling our fears. Relaxing gives you the space and time to see what’s happening. Relaxing is also essential because the body and mind are linked, the easiest way to calm down is to slow your breathing. Focus on the situation, not on your fears or doubts. Then it’s time to flow. Flow is being at one with what you’re doing. Being in a flow state is using the right path or response, without wasted effort or focusing on the cause of our fear. Bringing your body and mind in balance becomes the solution to overcoming fear. |
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This week’s speaker was Bob Kahn, the inventor of the Internet. Mr. Kahn was the principal designer of the first computer network, ARPANET, for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972. He later experimented with Packet Radio Net and Packet Satellite Net. Mr. Kahn, along with his co-partner, developed TCP/IP Protocol. TCP/IP is the common language and set of rules that allows computers to “talk” to one another. His idea of open architecture networking set the stage for the internet as we know it today. After a 13 year career with DARPA, Mr. Kahn founded Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) which is a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure. Mr. Kahn has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal Freedom awarded presented to him by President Bush in 2005. |
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Bhavesh Naik spoke on “how do you sell without being a sales person”. Being perceived as a salesperson by the prospect has many disadvantages. Most people have a negative image of salespeople and develop a “System,” which is much better than the salesperson’s “System.” When a selling person puts her 4-step Traditional System in practice,(1. Qualify, 2. Present, 3. Close, 4. Chase), the prospect, in the interest of self-defense, put his own System to use, (1. Lie, 2. Steal, 3. Lie, 4. Hide). The dynamic between these two systems results in a buyer-seller relationship that puts pressure on both parties, and the result can be exhausting at best and humiliating at worst. A new system is needed: 1) Bonding and Rapport, 2) Up-front Contract, 3) Pain, 4) Budget, 5) Decision, 6) Presentation, and 7) Post-Sale. The New System presents a dignified, self-respecting approach to selling that puts the buyer at ease and compels him to see the salesperson as a Trusted Advisor. This system was developed by David Sandler in the 1980’s and is now taught worldwide. |
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