SGR and the PDG

PDG Jim Coleman’s eclectic presentation on just about “all things Rotary” was preceded by the induction of SGR’s newest members Holly Laird, a recent “transfer” from Grand Junction, Colorado sponsored by Janet O’Riley and Steve Brough, Director of Commercial Banking for Zions Bank in Southern Utah sponsored by Linda Sappington.

Jim’s program focused primarily on his recent attendance at the Rotary Zone Institute in San Antonio, TX but was also punctuated here and there with a reading of a poem he wrote during the funeral service for Evan Woodbury:

I Know You Don't Want to Hear This

With wit and humor, both story and joke

Would come forth without a miss.

Fun and laughter came from all

With: “I know you don’t want to hear this.”

When Evan Woodbury stood in Rotary,

All present would expect a fix

After hearing those tantalizing words

“I know you don’t want to hear this.”

Evan delighted touching others—

There was always a gleeful twist—

When he uttered those branded words

“I know you don’t want to hear this.”

Now with the passing of this great man,

The St. George Rotary club will miss

Our Rotary friend and brother and the words

“I know you don’t want to hear this.”

He also performed a solo or two on his guitar.  This devout Rotarian, who joined SGR in 1984, then presided for six years over the Dixie Rotary Bowl, invited members to take part in a National Immunization Day in February in India and to attend the Zone Institute, held in October 2016 in Salt Lake City. 

“Rotary International has lost more than 50,000 members worldwide in the past five years,” he noted.  “We are in crisis so there are big changes coming.”

For more information, e-mail him at jim@rotarymatters.com.