Birmingham Sunrise Rotary
Reach Within to Embrace Humanity
Service Above Self
May 15th
Below is a list of Projects and Donations Sunrise Rotary has made to our community. We certainly exemplify the motto- Service Above Self
Sunrise Rotary Projects:
Pig Iron BBQ Tent Set up for Children’s Harbor
Cornerstone School Tutoring (more than 15 years)
Assembling Health Kits for Hurricane Katrina victims
School Playground rebuilds with Jr. League
Collecting toys for Gateway and Toys for Tots
Collecting coats for Gateway and Button Up Birmingham
Collecting eyeglasses for SOSH
Cahaba River Clean-ups
Career Day at Ramsey
Staffing Literacy Council Hotline
Refurbishing DHR shelter
Working for Habitat for Humanity
Sunrise Rotary Donations:
$25,000 — commitment to Children’s Hospital for helicopter
$2,500 — Hurricane Katrina relief
$5,000 — Polio Plus
$38,000 — Adaptive Aquatics
$25,000 — YMCA Youth Center Sunrise Rotary Cafe
$50,000 — Bham Zoo
$5,000 — Bell Center Early Intervention
$4,000 — School playground rebuilds
$1,000 — Gateway school
$12,000 — Young Heroes
Books for Literacy Council
Presidential Classroom
Bikes and Trikes for Kids
Greater Bham Math Partnership
Kid One Transport
Rotaract Ready 2 Read (Future Vision Grant funds)
TOTAL: Over $140,000 donated to our community. And in addition, our members have donated over $170,000 to Rotary Foundation (Paul Harris Fellows)
Everyone in the Sunrise Rotary Club of Birmingham should be proud of the accomplishments of our Club and its members over the years. We have made not just ripples, but waves of positive contributions to our community and to the world.
Habitat For Humanity Project
May 9th
This past Saturday a number of Sunrise Rotary members and their families helped out with a Habitat for Humanity Project. It sounds like everyone everntually made it to the correct jobs site and did a great job. You can see some of the hard work that was done in the pictures below. Thanks to everyone that participated!
Tractors in Russia?
Apr 26th
This past Tuesday Mike Thompson of Thompson Tractor was our speaker. He filled us in on some of their current projects in eastern Russia and the upcoming Regions Tradition golf tournament. The tournament is the week of June 4th at Shoal Creek and is one of five majors for the seniors tour.
Our president, David Dowd, also announced our club won many awards from the District Conference. We received the Presidential Citation, E-Bulletins award for the best among large clubs (Thanks Janet!) and honorable mention for our book service project.
Paul Harris Fellow Presentation – April 10, 2012—–by:Charlie Miller
Apr 11th
The Paul Harris Fellowship is named for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary with three business associates in Chicago in 1905. The Fellowship was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for a contribution of $1,000 to the humanitarian and educational programs of The Rotary Foundation. Those programs include an array of projects that save and invigorate the lives of people around the world and enhance international friendship and understanding. Foundation programs provide educational opportunities, food, potable water, health care, immunizations, and shelter for millions of persons. These activities are funded, implemented and managed by Rotarians and Rotary clubs around the globe. Rotarians may also designate a Paul Harris Fellow to recognize another person whose life demonstrates a shared purpose with the objectives and mission of The Rotary Foundation to build world understanding and peace.
Please congratulate this years Paul Harris Fellowship award winners:
Winn Kelley, Grant Lauderdale, Dan Bundy +1, Barbara McElroy, Jerry Perkins, Jennifer Evans, Michael Alan Tate +1, Kermit Kendrick, Norman Jetmundsen +2 and David Dowd +3
Michael, Winn, Dan, Jerry, Michael, Norman, David, your contribution to The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is allaying suffering, improving living conditions, and providing educational opportunities for young people somewhere in the world. This is a truly selfless action.
Janet, Grant, Barbara, Jennifer, Kermit, you were selected to receive this recognition because our Clubs’ Board of Directors believes that your Actions exemplify the humanitarian and educational objectives of The Rotary Foundation. We thank you for demonstrating in your life and vocation a commitment to helping persons in need here and around the world.
Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to present to each of you on behalf of the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation, these three emblems of a Paul Harris Fellow: the certificate, a lapel pin and medallion. The certificate states that you have been named a Paul Harris Fellow, “in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations between peoples of the world.” We urge you to wear the Paul Harris Fellow pin to all Rotary events, as a symbol of your appreciation for and support of the programs of The Rotary Foundation. Please accept congratulations and sincere appreciation for your commitment to our common goals of world understanding and peace. Please congratulate and recognize our newest Paul Harris Fellows.
BURR & FORMAN ATTORNEY RECOGNIZED
Apr 5th
I am pleased to announce that Gene T. Price, Birmingham Sunrise Rotary Club member and attorney in the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman LLP has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading practitioner in the area of Corporate / Commercial for 2012. The qualities that determine rankings include technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence and commitment.
Story Below:
Thirty-nine Burr & Forman LLP attorneys have been ranked as leading practitioners in 12 different practice areas in the 2012 edition of Chambers USA, a highly regarded directory featuring client-led intelligence on America’s leading lawyers for business. This number represents 16 percent of all attorneys at Burr & Forman, and includes five attorneys with first appearances on the list.
In addition, the firm’s Birmingham office received top rankings in the following practice areas:
Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Corporate/Commercial, Labor & Employment, Real Estate, and Litigation: General Commercial. TheAtlantaoffice received top rankings in Banking & Finance and Bankruptcy/Restructuring.
“Providing added value to our clients is our number one priority. We thank them for recognizing our services and attorneys through the Chambers rankings,” saidW.LeeThuston, managing partner of Burr & Forman LLP.
Royal Cup Coffee Speaks to Sunrise Rotary
Mar 15th
For anyone who missed Tuesday’s rotary meeting you sure did miss a treat. From the Welcome as you stepped off the escalator, to the made to order coffee drinks, the meeting was one for the ages. I won’t go into too much detail, but for those of you who are not familiar with Royal Cup, they are the leader in the hospitality industry when it comes to coffee. To show how wide spread they are, two of their great customers are Blackberry Farms in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee and Shari’s Restaurant in Portland Oregon. There are two thing I will leave you with, if you have a chance to hear their presentation do it, and try their coffee, it’s really good!
American Heart Association Local Walk
Mar 2nd
This week our speaker talked about the American Heart Association’s upcoming “Heart Walk.” Here is some additional information.
The American Heart Association is launching our local Heart Walk next week. If any members are interested in attending and learning more about the Heart Walk (which is June 30th) and it’s free, wellness resources, we’d love to have them.
Below are the details. They can simply email me so we know they’re coming.
Heart Walk Executive Breakfast
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7:30-8:30am
Vulcan Park & Museum
1701 Valley View Drive
Birmingham, AL 35201
Overview: My Heart. My Life. is the American Heart Association’s groundbreaking national campaign that calls on Americans and their employers to create a culture of physical activity and health to promote longer, heart-healthy lives. In fact, physical inactivity doubles the risk of heart disease, the number one killer of men and women in this country. Promoting this culture can reduce healthcare costs, increase productivity and improve the quality of life and longevity of your workforce.
The American Heart Association is working hard to reach people where they live and work. We have the opportunity to aid them in their goals and to improve the health of our employees.
Literacy Council and Sunrise Rotary
Feb 8th
On January 4th, the Birmingham Sunrise Rotary Club delivered tutoring book to the Birmingham Literacy Council. The Books will be used for their adult literacy program. This was a part of Sunrise Rotary’s future visions grant. A lot of thanks goes out to Tom Norton and Clinton Smith for making this happen.
Pictured-David Dowd(L, President); Beth Wilder(M, Literacy Council and member); Tom Norton(R, Director Community Service)
Importance of Rotary Speakers—-By:Aaron Nelson
Feb 1st
I don’t know how many of you read the paper this morning, but in the business section there was an article about Health Insurance. I did not read it or even see it as I looked through the paper. As my wife was reading it, she said something to me about the article and insurance costs. I proceeded to give her a couple of figures and she said, “how do you know, did you read this already”. Of course I said no and reminded her that Terry Kellog with BCBS spoke to Sunrise Rotary yesterday. So what is my point in all this. Since joining Sunrise rotary almost a year ago, we have had some great speakers. From them I have learned more than I could imagine about Birmingham and things that go on in this state. They have all been very educational and some even entertaining. I hope those in Sunrise Rotary will agree with me, and those that are not will join us to experience it themselves.
Large vs Small, is my current strategy right for me?—–By: Aaron Nelson
Jan 3rd
In your typical strategic allocation, buy and hold strategy, you will see an over-weighting of large caps to small caps because it is presumed that large cap stocks (McDonald’s, IBM, Alcoa, Caterpillar or Exxon)are not as risky as small cap stocks (Flower Foods, Carlisle & Co., Teradyne or Tanger Factory Outlet). Plus this type of strategy will typically re-balance once a year and take from the higher performing and give to the lower performing. Take a look at the picture below and see if this would have made sense over the course of the last 9 years.
Many of you use this exact strategy or a slight variation of if it, and unfortunately it has not worked over the past 9 to 10 years. Why not incorporate Tactical Allocation in your overall investment portfolio. It keeps you in the strong and away from the weak. It allows you to get out of an area of the market when it begins to decrease so you don’t ride it all the way to the bottom.
