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District 6540 Matching Gift Campaign

Rotary District 6540 is making a special offer. From November 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020 your personal donation of $100-$5,000 to the Annual Fund of The Rotary Foundation will be matched with FOUNDATION RECOGNITION POINTS. These Recognition Points can the be converted to dollars in your Rotary Foundation account, or transferred to another individual with an account in the Rotary Foundation. For example, a $200 contribution will result in the value of your Foundation account increasing by $400.

To participate, mail a personal check payable to "The Rotary Foundation" to District Rotary Foundation Chair, Judy Walker, along with the form including donor information.

Forms and details are available at our meetings.

December Trivia Question Theme

The theme for our Trivia Questions for the month of December is: REINDEER.

Creating a MyRotary Account at Rotary International Website

While anyone can access the Rotary International website, members of Rotary are able to learn more detailed information including his/her contributions to the Rotary Foundation, information on Gary Rotary, and information on our Rotary District. To do this a member needs to register, or create an account on the website. Here is how you do it:

To gain maximum use of the Rotary International website, each Rotarian must create an account with Rotary. With this account you will be able to view your Rotary profile, as well as check your contributions to the Rotary Foundation. Here are the steps to do this.

Go to www.rotary.org, go to "For Members" and click on My Rotary or click on My Rotary where ever you see it.
Click on Sign In/Register.
If you are a first time user, click on Create account.
Fill in the Account registration information and click on Continue. If club number is requested we are club #3359. Our District is 6540.
You will be informed that an e-mail has been sent to you.
Check your email for the address you provided in step 5. You will receive a message which will ask you to click on the blue link to finalize the process.
Fill in all the mandatory information and click on Create account.
When the screen refreshes you will be given information describing what you can do with the MyRotary account. After reading, click on Continue.

If you are not a first time user, after step 2, just enter your email address and password and click on Sign In.

Membership Meeting
Beach Cafe

Dec 19, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Gallery Gallop
Lake Street Beach, Gary, IN.

May 09, 2020
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Sister Peg Spindler, Sojourner Truth House

Dec 19, 2019 12:00 PM

Programs of Sojourner Truth House

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Member Birthdays:

Jason Harris

December 8

Join Date:

Jack Tonk

December 5, 1985

34 years
George McGuan

December 28, 2008

11 years

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