District Governor Crabil Visits Kentland Club
Posted by John H. Frischie
October 3 brought Mike Crabill, (pictured left) District
6540 Governor to the Kentland Rotary Club for the noon luncheon meeting. Crabill met with the Board members at prior to
lunch and the remaining Rotary members joined with him for lunch. Mike is a member of the Elkhart Morning
Rotary Club and will be serving until July 1, 2012. He congratulated the local club for being
the number one club in the District for donations to the Rotary Foundation and increasing
club membership in the past year. Mike
also wanted to learn how the Kentland Club has been so successful with their
Truck Raffle Project for funding local scholarships and projects.
Mike challenged the members to follow International Rotary
President Kalyan Banerjee of Valpi, India and work on personal goals based on
the RI theme of “Reach Within to Embrace Humanity”. Mr. Crabill suggested that each member
consider a goal relating to family, community, and change. He especially focused on the change theme and
encouraged thinking outside the box to consider better ways of doing projects
or even consider new projects that would be more beneficial to the community
than ones that may have been conducted for years. There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than
200 countries and geographical areas of the wo
rld. District 6540 has 55 clubs in the northern
third of Indiana.