Rotarians,I have been asked many times if I am ready for my year to come to an end. I jokingly say "that the back table is calling me home". The reality is that this has been the best exercise for me as a community member, leader, and Rotarian. Taking this step into leadership has been humbling and honoring. Currently, I am witnessing my successor go through all the exciting times of taking his role as our guide. For the past year we have been asked to IMAGINE ROTARY. We have fully imagined what Rotary is, can be, and our future is bright.
This Week President-Elect Jeff will unveil the new Rotary theme. This theme is a perfect fit for our club. He will also be outlining some of the key goals for 2023-2024 and create space for us to grow from IMAGINING to CREATING.
See you Friday!My number #5 memory looking back was the Backpack Buddies Bag Filling Project with DG Shannon! Shannon was worried as we got closer to the 1pm time and we were only halfway done. She said should we tell them? I said no! We are going to get this done and boy did we! 800 Bags...the largest number of bags filled by a club in the entire year!Quick Reminder: No Meeting Next Week (June 2nd)! We will be having the Rotary Golf Tourney and 19th Hole BBQ! Then only three Club meetings left until the Debunking Celebration on June 30th!
President Cat 
A large group of members of the Rotary Club of Georgetown TX attended our District 5870 Conference of Clubs in Corpus Christi. With 57 clubs spread across eleven counties in Central Texas, representatives from all over Central Texas descended upon Corpus Christi for a weekend of fellowship, inspiration, and fun.
District Governor Shannon Coleman designed a conference agenda loaded with opportunities for members to get to know one another better in the hope of future collaboration, and provided attendees with plenty of opportunities to get outside their "comfort zones" and engage more fully with others.
DG Shannon also shared this short video re-capping the amazing success of her District-wide service project, held in conjunction with her visits to every club in the District.
Members of the Benold Mixed Choir performed before an audience at a regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Georgetown TX.
Benold Mixed Choir was founded in 2017 as a top level group in 3 & 4-part harmony. Composed of 7th & 8th graders, these students sing a wide variety of music including a cappella, vocal jazz, pop, broadway and barbershop music. Performing a 4 concert season with Mixed Choir, these students are also enrolled in a second choir class at Benold.
Besides Mixed Choir, they are also performing with Tenor-Bass Choir or the Varsity Treble Choir. Every Spring, each of these choirs also competes at the state level in the UIL Concert & Sight Reading evaluation. In March at the UIL competition, the Tenor-Bass Choir earned Division 2 Excellent ratings in Sight Reading and Division 1 Superior ratings in Concert. For our Sopranos & Altos in the Varsity Treble Choir, they earned the Sweepstakes Award! This means that every judge in both the Concert & Sight Reading evaluation gave them Division 1 Superior ratings!
Over the past four years Benold Mixed Choir group has competed at the Capitol City Showcase in Cedar Park, earning such recognition as the "Stars to Watch" and "Audience Favorite." This summer, a new quartet of four 8th grade girls known as the "Showstoppers" will head to Dallas to compete in the Sweet Adelines International Rising Star Quartet competition.
This story was written and distributed by the Rotary Club of Wimberley:
At this week’s meeting, the Wimblerley Rotary heard from Jim Deuser of the Georgetown Rotary’s Racial Unity & Peacebuilding Committee. The committee first convened in June 2020 following an escalation of racial tensions in the U.S., and has been meeting weekly for almost three years now. It has expanded to include committee members in other parts of the world. They promote the belief that: when people work to create peace in their communities, the change can have a global effect.
Jim shared the committee’s mission and vision, and provided guidelines for difficult conversations. One local symbol that has developed are the “peace poles” that can be placed throughout the community. The local Georgetown Rotarians are involved in making sure each of the community’s schools have a Peace Pole area for students.
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