Individual Achievement Incentives
 GEM (Good Enthusiastic Member) Award
Performance of Outstanding Service to the Club and Community

These are the requirements for receipt of this award:

  1. Be formally inducted into the Club.

  2. Attend a member orientation meeting.

  3. Serve as a greeter for five Club meetings or functions.

  4. Serve as a committee member.

  5. Attend Club meetings (Perfect attendance is not a requirement)

  6. Work on any Club project or projects for 20 hours.

  7. Attend a Club Board of Directors Meeting.

  8. Attend another Sertoma Club meeting.

  9. Attend a District Conference, Regional or International Convention, or LEAD Program.

  10. Sponsor a new Member in your club or any Sertoma Club.

    The above requirements need to be completed during the first twelve months of membership in your Sertoma Club. All of these will help new members to become more involved in club activities and to get to know other members of the club. A sign up sheet for greeter's is located on the Sergeant At Arms table where you pick up your badges. If you have questions on this or any of the incentives contact me or your sponsor for answers. If you are also working toward a Perfect Attendance Award, meetings can be made up by attending a Board of Directors Meeting or Attending another Club meeting in advance or after the missed meeting.

Bruce Shove

Footprints

Dr. Muriel O’Tuel is the author of Footprings on the Heart, The Caring Path to Prosperity.  Reflections on this book, after having read it, caused me to think of SERTOMA and what we do for this community.  Certainly, we leave our footprints on the small community of Round Rock, Texas.  As we read the Sponsorship report we can see the evidence of success in the stories told each month.  Our footprints continue to be seen out there among those less fortunate or in need of our help.  We do not hesitate to be compassionate and giving.

To emphasize her thoughts and experiences in successful caring she tells many stories, each with its own importance to a person or a place.  You have heard the story about the man walking along the beach where there were hundreds of starfish, picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean.  A young man jogging on the beach told the man he was wasting his time and that he couldn’t save them all and what difference did it make anyway.  The old man picked up another starfish and sailed it back into the surf and said, “I bet it made a difference to that one.”

We don’t always know when our caring, compassionate kindness makes a difference.  We sometimes do know, for example, when the hearing challenged hear for the first time as we helped a child do this year.  From O’Tuel’s writing you can read stories about those who made a difference:

bullet Perspective of the Whole - General Motors
bullet Nuclear Power - The Welder Who Thought
bullet Writing for freedom – Harriet Beecher Stowe
bullet Joy through Volunteerism
bullet Caring as a Career

It truly is not one person in our club doing good deeds, but the sum of the total of our membership.  The leadership we have will continue to flourish, continue to give, continue to influence all of us to care and serve. We have looked at the Golden Rule and live it.  We are making a difference in this world in our SERvice TO MANkind.

Gerald Boyer