Rotary Club of Northlakes Toukley In Touch July 2014 | Page 4

PRESIDENTIAL
MESSAGE

and say, "There is nothing I can do." So they do
nothing – and nothing changes.
But this is not the Rotary way. The Rotary way is
to light a candle. I light one candle, you light one
candle – and so do 1.2 million other Rotarians.
Together, we can do so much more than we could
ever do alone. Together, we can light up the
world.
In 2014-15, I am asking each of you to light your
own Rotary candle – and Light Up Rotary together.
There are so many ways to Light Up Rotary. I
hope many of you will choose to host a Rotary
Day, to show your community what Rotary is and
what we do. I hope you will involve your Rotaract
and Interact clubs in your service, to bring the
new generation of the Rotary family closer to
Rotary membership. And I hope you will keep
Rotary strong by inviting new members into Rotary – including your own spouses and family.

Perhaps the most important thing we can do
to Light Up Rotary together is to finish the job
GARY C.K. HUANG
we've been working on for more than a quarter of
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a century: the eradication of polio. We are so
close to our goal. But we will get there only if we
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keep up the fight, keep up the momentum, and
I find many traditional Chinese values reflected close the funding gap for the polio endgame plan.
in Rotary: values of service and responsibility, of
respect for family and for others. Sometimes I Light Up Rotary together is our theme for this
call Confucius the world's first Rotarian, because year, but it is more than just a theme. It is how
even though he died 2,500 years before Rotary we in Rotary see the world and our role in it. We
was founded, his ideas are very much Rotary believe that no one should sit alone in the darkideas. And one of the things he said was: ness. Instead, we can come together, all 1.2 mil與抱，如變.
lion of us, to Light Up Rotary. This is our goal –
and my challenge to you.
In English, you say, "It is better to light a single
candle than to sit and curse the darkness."
I think that one line sums up the way we in
Rotary approach the problems of the world.
There is so much difficulty. There are so many
people who need help. Many people look at this
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