Million Dollar Hole-in-One Contest

Dear Fellow Rotarians,

The big weekend approaches of our signature fund raising event - the Million Dollar Hole In One Shootout.
Thank you to all who helped sponsor the event, promote the event to other Rotary Clubs, solicited restaurant gift certificates and other prizes. And, a special thanks to all of our volunteers who will help make this event happen.
 
A FINAL list of volunteers is attached, as well as a brief description of their duties.
 
NOTES to Volunteer:
1. Please show up approximately one half an hour before you are schedule to work the event. (This will allow you ample time for overall event orientation and on-the-job training.)
2. Attached are the rules for the event. You are not expected to be an expert on these rules, but you should read through them a time or two, so you are at least familiar with them. Also attached is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
3. Bring a folding chair, or lawn chair, if you would like to sit down during your shift. we will be set up on the 9th hole of the Par 3 9-hole course at Kennedy Golf Course and there are no chairs or benches provided.
4. We will be using our cell phones as a major means of communication. Please have your cell phone fully charged, and bring it with you.
5. In a few instances, you may have been assigned to different duties than you originally signed up for. Please be flexible. No one has been re-assigned to a different shift; only to different duties within the same shift.
6. Water and light snacks will be furnished to volunteer workers.
7. Wear comfortable clothes, appropriate for the weather. Blue jeans and T-shirts are generally NOT acceptable attire for a golf course. sunglasses are recommended and if the weather looks bad, you may want to bring an umbrella.
6. If you own a digital camera, please bring it with you. After the event, we will be soliciting copies of any "action shots" that you may have captured.
 
Thanks again, and see you on Saturday morning!
 
Marion Leggett & Geoff Noble Co-Chairs of the Denver Mile High Rotary Golf Hole In One Shootout Fund Raising event
 

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Mile High Rotary Banner Collection

 

Let's hear your stories!  Our club has a collection of banners from Rotary clubs all over the US and around the world where our club members have visited or we've had guests.  For a full list go to our website:

 

http://www.denvermilehigh.org/AboutUs.cfm  and see the link to "Catalog of U.S. and Int'l Banners Received".

 

The list shows 200 banners from clubs in every state except Delaware, Idaho, Utah, and West Virginia.  Internationally we have nearly 200 banners from 60 different countries.

 

In your travels this summer please take one of our banners with you, visit a Rotary club, and exchange with them.  Let's make our U.S. state collection 100% by visiting clubs in one of those states - Delaware, Idaho, Utah, and West Virginia.  We'd really like to hear your stories of visits to other Rotary clubs.

 

We've been displaying these banners on the tables all year.  They're interesting and every visit encourages Rotary fellowship and interaction between clubs.

 

Happy Travelling!

There are many other ways in which we could get the information out to members.  Please send me your ideas about what else we could do to make the Club more aware of the great work that we are doing in the local and world communities.

Dear Fellow Rotarians,

 

We had a great representation at the District Training Assembly this past weekend. I want to thank every Rotarian who took time out of their weekend to attend. If you could not make it this year, hopefully you can attend next year.

 

List of attendees: (This should also count as a Make-Up for attendance purposes.)

Carolyn Schrader (as an instructor)

Dan Himelspach (as an instructor)

Geoff Noble (That's me)

Lee Mulberry (Club Secretary-Elect)

Mark Pedigo (Club Treasurer-Elect)

Joe Pahl (Club President Elect Nominee)

Betty Speir (Club Seargeant at Arms)

Patricia Fiske (Club Trainer)

Steve Sehnert (ADG)

Joanne Thompson

Janny Fuller

Ed Wittman

Tom Gregory

Melanie Gentz

Loy Dickinson

(I hope that I did not miss anyone.)

 

Thanks!  What a great turnout!

 

Geoff Noble

President-Elect

Denver Mile High Rotary Club

 (Sat. May 29) Karol and I had the enormous great pleasure to play golf at Vail golf course with Jargal, an old and dear friend to us all.  He and his wife came for their daughter Auriana's graduation from Grinnell College Iowa, Sunday May 23rd.   From there they went to Chicago, then Denver and Vail.  They left Denver on Tuesday for San Francisco and then home.   He told us that he'd had time with Dan  but regretted missing Chuck.   Auriania’s immediate plan is to spend perhaps a year in Mongolia and then move to France.  (major French Literature and French)  Jargal did mention in passing that he felt a new sense of freedom, having the high tuitions off his back.

 

He refreshed my memory that his Daniels School of Biz Masters was in 2002 - did seem like it was such a short time ago.  As you know he had been in banking and finance until just this March when he took a position as CEO of a new leasing company.  One condition was that he would be attending Auriana's graduation and would be away for several weeks.   They did feel better about that when he produced capital investors with $3 million.

 

During the past few years he has traveled about one fourth of the time to all parts of the world, most recently to Peru for a Finance Conference at which he was a panelist.   The most important trading countries for Mongolia are Russia, China and the US.  (this is the order which he named them)  Mining, not agriculture is its most important economic factor.  A new and very large copper find will probably transform the economy of the entire country  (population 2,500,000)

 

Jargal is now one of the premier economists in the country and writes a very good column every week.   You will find it quite interesting reading.

 

Here is the link to Jargal's blog:

www.djargal.blogspot.com

 

It is a great world we live in!

Loy

 

We met Jargal initially when Jargal was initially doing a 6 month study in American Political Systems at CU Boulder and I went up to hear him speak at Boulder Rotary.  I asked him to speak at DMHR, which he did.  Several months later, he enrolled at DU for an MBA and we asked him to visit and eventually he was asked to be an honorary DMHR member. He completed his MBA in about 1 1/2 years while frequently attending our meetings.  During that time at DU, his daughter Auriana  joined him and went to a small high school on the DU campus.  When Jargal completed his degree, he returned to Ulaanbaatar and Arianna stayed with Himelspachs’ for maybe another year to complete her studies.

 

 

During one trip to Mongolia, Jargal took me on a 12 hour 4WD trip into the forests where we camped for 3 nights on a river so rural that it was a full 30 miles from the last Ger ( also called Yurt) and sign of civilization.  We could hear wolves howling at night and all the Mongolian fisherman took rifles strapped to their back while they were fishing.

 

Chuck Rudolph