Fredericksburg Rotary - A Message from the Club President

I am both honored and excited to have this opportunity to serve as your President. In the four years I have been a member of this Club I have been constantly impressed with the attitude and actions of its membership. I look forward to working with you to continue making this club the finest service organization if the Fredericksburg area. The willingness of the members of this club to extend themselves on behalf of others convinces me that this will be a successful year.

I believe Rotary is about service, as its primary theme states - Service Above Self. To that end your new Board and I have adopted a focus on Service Through Fellowship. This means that the closer we work together - and the more of us who do so - the better we can serve our community and each other. With input from you, the Board, and our past presidents we have determined to continue our successful activities, add some new ones, and in some cases return to some old practices.

At the end of this Rotary year we will judge our success in the following ways:

Did we grow our membership?
Did we improve attendance?
Did we increase participation in Club functions?
Did we broaden our community support?
Did we have fun?

If we can answer YES to these questions 12 months from now we will all be better for it and our community will have benefited even more than we. This Fredericksburg community we call home - for some native and others adopted - is a great place to live and work. This club has a 60 year record of making it even better. It is my personal goal that we continue to do so.

The history of this Club is a great one, and every one of us - even our most recent member - should take pride in it. But keep in mind - our history is still being written! We will all be a part of writing it, and it is my intent that - with the help of every member of this Club - this coming year will become one of its best chapters!

Thanks for the confidence you have shown in asking me to serve, and for the support I know you will happily deliver.

Sincerely,

Mike Elvir

President Fredericksburg Rotary Club 2010-2011