Welcome to the Rotary Club of Dr. Phillips web site.  We are located in the Dr. Phillips neighborhood in the Southwest part of Orlando, Florida.  If you’re a part of our community, we hope this site will help you learn about the many programs we do to support local charities and worthy causes.  Perhaps you’ll even consider joining us!  If you’re a fellow Rotarian,we would love to have you visit our club.  We meet Wednesday mornings at 7:00am at the Bay Hill Clubhouse.  Click here for the details.

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District Conference

Our District 6980′s annual Conference was held the last weekend in April and was a rousing celebration of our own Art Brown’s year as District Governor.  The success of the Conference was in very large part a result of the huge year-long efforts of many of our own Club members, starting with Conference Chair Sally Kamrada but also featuring many of our members in leadership roles too numerous to list.  The Dr. Phillips Rotary Club set a high standard in putting together a top-notch, fun Conference and had a lot of fun in attending, too.

Upcoming in May

• Saturday, May 19 –  District Assembly

This year’s District Assembly will be held on Saturday morning, May 19 at Edgewater High School.  The annual District Assembly serves in effect as a sort of kickoff event for each Club’s incoming President and his or her leadership team — but all members are welcome and are encouraged to attend and learn more about Rotary.  Our own President-elect Laura Sherman’s team will be there in force to learn more about Laura’s ideas and direction for her Presidential year.  Opening event is breakfast at 7:30 a.m.

• Monday, May 21 –  Board Meeting

Our May board meeting will be held Monday night, May 21 from 6:00 to about 7:30 at Bay Hill.  All members are welcome to attend and of course Board members are requested and encouraged to be there.

• Wednesday, May 30 –  Fireside Chat

Our next Fireside Chat will be held on May 30 in Larry Lynch’s offices at 7680 Universal Boulevard.  The Fireside Chats provide a wealth of information about Rotary that’s aimed at new members, but all members are welcome.  For new members this is a chance to swap your red new-member badge for a blue old-member badge.  (Wait, that didn’t sound right.)  Contact President Larry Lynch or Past President Michael Hanley for more information.

Rotary’s Lighter Side

A woman called her husband on his cell phone and said, ”Be careful driving home.  I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on the freeway.”  “One?” he replied.  ”It isn’t just one — every other car out here is going the wrong way!”

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Composer Frank Loesser wrote the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” as a duet for himself and his wife.  After the marriage soured, he began referring to her as “the evil of two Loessers.”

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There are three kinds of people, those who are good at math and those who aren’t.  -  Sheryl Sowdon

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There are 10 kinds of people, those who are good at binary math and those who aren’t.  -  Jim Johnson

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The sole purpose of a child’s middle name is so he can tell when he’s really, really in trouble.

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Ollie was a smooth-talking Norwegian serving in the Minnesota National Guard who was called up for active duty.

Ollie’s first assignment was in a military induction center.  Because he was a good talker, he was assigned the duty of advising new recruits about their government benefits, especially the GI insurance to which they were entitled.  The officer in charge soon noticed that Ollie was getting a 100% sign-up rate for the more expensive supplemental GI insurance.  This was remarkable, because it cost these low-paid recruits $30 a month for the higher coverage, compared to what the government was already providing them for free.

The officer decided he’d sit in the back of the room at the next briefing and observe Ollie’s sales pitch.  Ollie stood up before the latest group of inductees and said, ”If ya haf da normal GI insurance an you go to Afghanistan an get yourself killed, da government pays yer beneficiary $20,000, eh!  But, if ya take out da supplemental insurance, vich cost ya only t’irty dollars a mont more, den da government has ta pay yer beneficiary $200,000, eh!”

“Now,” Ollie concluded, ”vich bunch you t’ink der gonna send ta Afghanistan first?”

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An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall.  They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.  The boy asked, ”What is this, Father?” The father, never having seen an elevator, responded, ”Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life.  I don’t know what it is.”

While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, an old, bent-over lady using a walker struggled up to the moving walls and pressed a button.  The walls opened and the lady went between them into a small room.  The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the numbers above the walls light up sequentially.  They continued to watch until it reached the last number, and then the numbers began to light up in the reverse order.  Finally, the walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old blonde woman stepped out.  The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son, ”Go get your mother.”

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Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, ”How old was your husband?”