Newsletter - Current  Jan 30, 2012

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Tennessee's First Breakfast Club - Brenda Thornburgh - President 2011 - 2012 Rotary Club No. 3878 - Oak Ridge, Tennessee - District 6780 VOTED DISTRICT 6780 BEST ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER - 2007-2008
Volume 32 - No. 30	Lydia Birk - Breakfast Bytes Editor	January 30, 2012

Valentine's Social Thursday, February 16
5:30 to 7:30 at the Comfort Inn

This social will replace our regular breakfast meet on Wednesday, February 15. Bring your spouse, friend or significant other, along with your choice of alcoholic beverage. We'll have some finger food, but if you have something you'd like to share with the group, please bring it!

See you then!

submitted by Nancy Donsbach  

Visiting Rotarians:

Bill Wilcox from the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge

Announcements:

January 31 is the deadline for ads for our World Rotary Day newspaper insert. Please see Pete or Austin about purchasing an advertisement. They are available in all shapes and sizes to meet everyone's budget!

Tom Clary shared highlights from his recent trip to Haiti.  He had the opportunity to check on our club's clean water project, and even drank water from the sand filters.  Please visit this website www.cnphaiti.org to learn more about our clean water project.

Today we honored two more Paul Harris Plus 1s, Ed Statzer and Jim Michel.

Don't forget we will NOT have a meeting on February 15 instead, we have a have a club social on the next day, February 16 at the Comfort Inn.  Please make plans to attend.

Happy Members:

Our rooster, Freda Hopper fined herself $20.00 after she inadvertently fined some folks! Thanks, Freda - as you always remind us, your job is to collect money!

Robert Weir told us about a recent article in the paper about a new website he has started for folks to help them do their taxes online. Visit www.nobull.taxes.com to find out more.

Ray Smith shared that our local PBS TV station is doing a series of specials for the next four Thursday's at 9:00 p.m. about the history of Y-12. PBS is hoping to air their programs nationally some time.

Ray also invited everyone to Ed Wescott's 90th b-day party at AMSE on Monday, January 30.

Pat Parr just returned home from a family trip to Disney World . The trip was in memory of her father who loved Disney World!

Pat Postma shared a success story of how Linda Brown recently helped a young family purchase their first home in Oak Ridge. Thank you Linda!

Tom Lakers shared that Willow Ridge was just named one of the Top 100 Garden Centers in the US in a recent publication. Woo hoo!

Jim Bradbury reminded us our Dictionary Project deliveries are in full swing! He congratulated Mason Oakes who made our first delivery to Grand Oaks Elementary School. Thanks, Mason!

Brenda is continuing to prepare for her trip to India for a Rotary National Immunization Day trip. She will be gone from Feb. 14 through 28. She is very excited.

The Speaker:

Ray Smith introduced us to our speaker today, Sandy Smith. Sandy is long time Oak Ridger who does all kinds of management and leadership training for companies of all sizes all around the country.  To see more of what Sandy does, please visit his website http://www.sandysmithseminars.com .

Today Sandy shared some insights into the next generation of Oak Ridgers, the Millennials. Sandy shared some very interesting points on what shaped this generation's different values and attitudes.

Sandy had everyone in the room nodding and laughing out loud as he shared some of the differences of the" Y" or "Why" generation and the "Baby Boomer" generation. From Mr. Rogers Neighborhood to instant gratification, the Millennials have always had at least 57 TV channels to choose from.

One of the first slides he showed us was a picture of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and a older gentleman who looked a lot like Nikita Khrushchev - then Sandy asked us "just what would these two folks have in common chatting around the water cooler?"

Soon over 38% of our work force will be the Millennial generation and we need to find a way to engage them to keep them - not only at their jobs but in our community as well.

As Sandy said, "this generation will either quit and leave or worse quit and stay".

He finished his talk with this question, "When the millennial discover the Secret City just what will they find"?

Thanks, Sandy for such an entertaining and thought provoking program.

ORBRC Rotary Foundation

	Club GOAL	STATUS January 1
Annual Programs Fund	$10,500	$14,170
STAR Club Recognition (1)	100%	95%
STAR Club Recognition (2)	$100 / capita	$133.68
Polio Eradication	$4,500	$5,774
Paul Harris Fellowships	100%	88%

Annual Programs Fund: goal for each club member to donate $100 to the Foundation each year

STAR Club, Goal No. 1: 100% club members are donors

STAR Club, Goal No. 2: $100 per capita

Polio Eradication: goal is each club member donates $40 to the Grand Challenge

Paul Harris Fellowships: goal is 100% of club members are fellows. 

ORBRC's UPCOMING EVENTS
FEBRUARY is World Understanding Month
Feb. 1	Agata Kamecka, Youth Exchange Program student from Poland
Feb. 8	Anita Henderlight, From Bullets to Ballots for Freedom - South Sudan
Feb. 15	No Meeting
Feb. 16	ORBRC Social at 5:30 at the Comfort Inn
Feb. 22	L. Anthony Wise with an update on Pellissippi State