Bemidji Rotary Club in Northern Minnesota

As you know, the situation in Haiti, though improving, is still very desperate for the poor people living there. Through Rotary, we have a way to help. Rotary endorsed Shelter Boxes are available to be sent to Haiti right away. They will provide shelter, warmth and dignity to the people affected by the disaster. We are seeking donations from our membership. The club Board of Directors has agreed to match all funds donated up to $1000.00. If we succeed, we will be able to supply two boxes for the relief effort. Any funds donated beyond that amount will also be sent for the relief effort. One of the best parts of your donation is that Rotary will send 100% of the funds to Shelter Box. So, bring you check book with you to Monday's meeting and give generously. Check out their web site...shelterbox.org.... for more details.

Rotary has teamed up with Google to make nearly 100 years of The Rotarian available free online. Full-color, searchable scans of all issues of the magazine from 1959 to 2008 are now available through Google Books, with more issues to follow. Users can select from a gallery of issues organized by decade or click "Search all issues" to search the entire catalog for a word or phrase. The collaboration is part of an initiative to make Rotary's historical resources more accessible to Rotarians worldwide. "Google is doing all of the scanning and indexing to make the material searchable -- and at no cost to Rotary," says Stephanie Giordano, archivist for Rotary International.

More than 72,000 pages will be available once Google finishes scanning and uploading all 1,100 issues. The first issue was published in January 1911, when the magazine was called The National Rotarian. Some issues of interest include December 1979, which reported on Rotary's first polio immunization project; the February 2005 centennial issue; and issues from the 1980s discussing the admission of women into Rotary.