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The Northern Valley Rotarian JULY 2, 2014 Service Above Self At today s club meeting, 14 members and 2 guests enjoyed fellowship and great food.

WHY THE ROTARY YEAR BEGINS 1 JULY Northern Valley Rotary PO Box 9 Closter, NJ 07624 Chartered January 2, 1965 www.clubrunner.

of the month at 6:30 PM) Madeleine's 416 Tappan Road Northvale, NJ 07647 Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended.

1 The Northern Valley Rotarian JULY 2, 2014 Service Above Self At today s club meeting, 14 members and 2 guests enjoyed fellowship and great food. The club was happy to welcome Steve Saxon and Michael Humphreys. Happy New Rotary Year! WHY THE ROTARY YEAR BEGINS 1 JULY Northern Valley Rotary PO Box 9 Closter, NJ Chartered January 2, Officers President: Michael Cataldi Secretary: Don Humphreys Treasurer: Stan Levenshus Past District Governor: Raj Bhatia Meetings Wed. 12:15 PM (3rd Wed. of the month at 6:30 PM) Madeleine's 416 Tappan Road Northvale, NJ Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended. The convention of the Rotary Clubs of America was held in Rotary s birthplace, Chicago, in Ever wonder why the Rotary year begins 1 July? The international convention initially played a key role in determining the start date of our fiscal and administrative year. Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended, on 18 August The fiscal year also related to the convention, beginning with the first day of the 1911 convention on 21 August. At its August 1912 meeting, the Board of Directors ordered an audit of the International Association of Rotary Clubs' finances. The auditors recommended that the organization end its fiscal year on 30 June to give the secretary and treasurer time to prepare a financial statement for the convention and board, and determine the proper number of club delegates to the convention. The executive committee concurred, and at its April 1913 meeting, designated 30 June as the end of the fiscal year. This also allowed for changes to the schedule for reporting club membership and payments. Even The Rotarian changed its volume numbering system to correspond to the fiscal year (beginning with vol. 5, July 1914). Rotary continued to hold its annual conventions in July or August until Delegates to the 1916 event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, approved a resolution to hold future conventions in June, mainly because of the heat in cities where most of them occurred. The next one was held June in Atlanta, Georgia. The term "Rotary year" has been used to signify Rotary's annual administrative period since at least An article in The Rotarian that July noted, "The Rotary year that is rapidly drawing to a close has been signalized by several highly successful joint meetings of Clubs that are so situated as to assemble together easily and conveniently." Since the executive committee's decision in 1913, the end of the Rotary year has remained 30 June.

2 Annual Golf Raffle A letter from our Golf Raffle Chair All, Thank you for participating in this year s Northern Valley Golf Raffle. This could not have been a more successful event (unless we had even more prizes) as we sold all 100 tickets with more requests to buy tickets, but we promised to sell up to 100 tickets and we stuck to our word. The winners are: Grand Prize, Foursome at Manhattan Woods Rick Plummer (Bronxville, NY) 2 nd Prize, Foursomes at Alpine & Patriot Hills Paul (Closter) 3 rd Prize, Foursomes at Rockland & River Vale Ken Tuchman (Alpine) 4 th prize, Foursome at White Beeches Joe Saccoccio (Norwood) 5 th Prize, Foursome at a Bergen County Course Norma Boyer (Old Tappan) 6 th Prize, Foursome at Old Tappan Thomas Tomat (Wood-Ridge) 7 th Prize, 4 Buckets of Balls at Closter or Tappan Driving Range Kirk Vanden Berg (Alpine) 8 th Prize, 4 Buckets of Balls at Closter or Tappan Driving Range Tom Gilbert/Nick Fornaro (West Nyack, NY) 9 th Prize, 3 Buckets of Balls at Closter or Tappan Driving Range Phil Ball (Teaneck) Again, on behalf of all our Northern valley Rotary members, sincere thanks to all of you for participating in this fund raiser this year. Some of the proceeds will be going toward a purchase of a bus for the Veteran s Home in Paramus (in conjunction with the American Legion), a fishing pier project for Spectrum for Living, Polio eradication, Rotary s Gift of Life program (heart surgeries) as well as other charitable causes. As the funds are deposited in the Donor Advised Fund account, money can only be donated to recognized 501(c)3 charities. Sincerely, Ray Cywinski - Golf Chair

Committees The Northern Valley Rotary Club turns 50 years old on January 2, 2015!

Celebration. Join Mike, Alan and Marian and help make it a day to remember!

Drug Coalition. The event will help raise funds and awareness to help keep kids off of drugs.

Have an idea to help the community and the passion to follow it through? We need you!

3 Committees The Northern Valley Rotary Club turns 50 years old on January 2, 2015! President Mike is looking for a few people to join him on the committee to plan our 50th Anniversary Celebration. Join Mike, Alan and Marian and help make it a day to remember! The Northern Valley Rotary Club is organizing a drug awareness event in October to help the Northern Valley Drug Coalition. The event will help raise funds and awareness to help keep kids off of drugs. Please contact Jim Boyer if you would like to serve on this committee. Have an idea to help the community and the passion to follow it through? We need you! We are currently looking to do more community service projects and raise money to help the communities that we serve. Club Business Treasurer Stan handed out the new invoices for this Rotary Year. The billing has been simplified to be fair to all concerned.

Club Calendar Pass the Gavel Dinner coming soon!

Rotary year and install the new Club officers.

4 Club Calendar Pass the Gavel Dinner coming soon! We are currently working on dates and venues for our Annual Pass the Gavel Dinner. At this event, we honor the Club officers that served this past Rotary year and install the new Club officers. Milestones Birthdays: Rich Hogg Join Date Anniversaries: Don Humphreys - 5years; Joyce Pizzi - 7years Club Meetings Club Assembly - Wednesday, July 9 12:15PM Madeleine s

Photo Gallery The Northern Valley Rotary Club New Member Induction PDG Raj

Welcome Bill, John, Raffi and Larry. (Sorry we missed you Michelle!

Presidential Citation and the Rotary Club Central Award from RI President Ron

5 Photo Gallery The Northern Valley Rotary Club New Member Induction PDG Raj Bhatia inducts 4 of the club s 5 new members in May. Welcome Bill, John, Raffi and Larry. (Sorry we missed you Michelle!) Governor Lenny s Honors and Recognition Dinner (L) The club was awarded the Presidential Citation and the Rotary Club Central Award from RI President Ron Burton. (R) Jim was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow by Governor Len for his service to the District as Chief of Staff.

The Bergen Center for Child Development receives the Interact Presidential Citation Award President Mike Cataldi presents the RI Interact Presidential Citation to Sunny B.

6 The Bergen Center for Child Development receives the Interact Presidential Citation Award President Mike Cataldi presents the RI Interact Presidential Citation to Sunny B., President of the Interact Club. The award was only one of two citations awarded in our District! Congratulations and thanks to our Interact Advisors - Laura Joles, Josephine Taylor and Arelis Guzman!

Rotary Club Self-Evaluation of Performance & Operations

Rotary Club Self-Evaluation of Performance & Operations This form is to conduct a self-evaluation and review of your club s current performance and operations. It is NOT intended to grade your club, but