The 681st meeting of the Rotary Club of Dixie Sunrise was a special event for our club. We were honored to host the second All Clubs Meeting for Southern Utah and even more honored to welcome PDG Wally Brown as our guest, speaking on Literacy.
Our guests also included District Governor Gil Trujillo and AG Glade Hamilton who got up at an incredibly early hour to drive down from Cedar City to join us. We were so pleased to be joined by so many members of the St. George and Red Rocks Clubs. It was a room FULL of Rotary Energy. Governor Gil and AG Glade reminded us of the upcoming District Conference (May 13- 15) and encouraged us all to attend. Linda Sappington, Conference Coordinator outlined details of the exciting agenda.
PDG Wally’s program was absolutely eye opening. He spoke of the great cost to society as a whole of illiteracy. The statistics are sobering regarding how poverty, unemployment, crime, incarceration, and lack of development in “developing” countries is so strongly tied to the ability to read. It is sad to know that so many of the world’s women are unable to read and thus are unable to help their children out of ignorance and poverty. He stressed the need for Rotarians to be involved in literacy. We can, as we have been doing, gather books for the prisons and jails, we can continue with The Dictionary Project, we can volunteer to read to and with children in schools, and any number of other options to open the world of the printe
d word to those who have not experienced reading.
I could go on and on about the quality of this meeting but will let the photos speak for themselves.
And, again, thank you for sharing this great meeting with us.
Marla Shelby-Drabner, President
Our guests also included District Governor Gil Trujillo and AG Glade Hamilton who got up at an incredibly early hour to drive down from Cedar City to join us. We were so pleased to be joined by so many members of the St. George and Red Rocks Clubs. It was a room FULL of Rotary Energy. Governor Gil and AG Glade reminded us of the upcoming District Conference (May 13- 15) and encouraged us all to attend. Linda Sappington, Conference Coordinator outlined details of the exciting agenda.
PDG Wally’s program was absolutely eye opening. He spoke of the great cost to society as a whole of illiteracy. The statistics are sobering regarding how poverty, unemployment, crime, incarceration, and lack of development in “developing” countries is so strongly tied to the ability to read. It is sad to know that so many of the world’s women are unable to read and thus are unable to help their children out of ignorance and poverty. He stressed the need for Rotarians to be involved in literacy. We can, as we have been doing, gather books for the prisons and jails, we can continue with The Dictionary Project, we can volunteer to read to and with children in schools, and any number of other options to open the world of the printe
d word to those who have not experienced reading.I could go on and on about the quality of this meeting but will let the photos speak for themselves.
And, again, thank you for sharing this great meeting with us.
Marla Shelby-Drabner, President
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