BOND. ROTARIANS BOND – FOR THE FOUNDATION.
In recognition of Rotary Foundation month, the Rotary Club of East Nassau, Bahamas, invited Rotarians and guests to attend the world premiere of the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, in November.
The club billed the event as A Licence to help the Rotary Foundation – a take-off on the superspy’s film.
Tickets to the film, which was partially shot in the Bahamas, were sold at a ‘charity’ price, with all proceeds going to the Rotary Foundation’s Annual Programs Fund. The fundraiser, together with the club’s ongoing support of the Foundation, will enable the club to attain $250 USD in per capital giving for 2006-07 and qualify as an Every Rotarian Every Year club. (A club can receive this recognition if 100 per cent of its members contribute to the Foundation’s Annual Programs Fund, and the club has a minimum $100 per capita giving level.)
“We have 17 of [the] 63 Paul Harris Fellows in the District [7020] and 92 of the 102 club members are Rotary Foundation Sustaining members,” says Lindsay Cancino, the club’s Paul Harris Society co-ordinator. “It is incredibly satisfying to know the pleasure I got out of the release of the new James Bond film also translated into [support for] the Rotary Foundation.”
Photo caption: From left, RI Director Barry Rassin, Rotary Club of East Nassau and his wife, Esther; Trevor Sunderland and his wife, Barbara, both of whom appeared in Thunderball, the first James Bond film shot in the Bahamas in 1965; East Bahamas Club Past President, and Foundation Chair, Lindsey Cancino; Andre Feldman of the Rotary Club of Grand Bahama Sunrise (District 6990); event host and East Nassau Club member, Leroy Archer and his associate.
...Editor's Note:
How can we add something exciting to our Second Annual Rotary Foundation Dinner in March of 2008? Get your thinking caps on now and plan ahead!
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