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6 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 ON THE ROAD TO PEACE AND GOOD ROLE MODELS Story and Photo by Mary-Justine Lanyon What if more people in the world incorporated Rotary’s Four-Way Test into their lives? What effect would that have on world peace, dealing with cancer, how we stay physically active, illiteracy and choosing role models? That was the question posed by the five students who participated in the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club’s Four-Way Test speech contest last spring. The students’ task was to weave the Rotary Four-Way Test into their speeches. The four tenets are: • Is it the TRUTH? • Is it FAIR to all concerned? • Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? • Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Sophomore Megan Bradley sees a world where people of different cultures live side by side peacefully. “If every nation adopts the Rotary Four-Way Test,” she said, “we will succeed in having a peaceful world.” Megan urged Rotary International to “step up” and play a more active role in achieving world peace as it has done in eradicating polio. Rotarian Aylene Popka congratulated the five participants in the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club’s Four-Way Test speech contest: Megan Bradley, Jordan Klein, Karen Bogart, Dalma Felenyi and Marie Potthoff. In talking about dealing with cancer, sophomore Jordan Klein noted she has a friend with brain cancer. “It made me curious about what I could do for her,” Jordan said. She addressed prevention and the fairness of getting that information out to more people. And, she said, it’s possible to build goodwill and better friendship by talking to the person with cancer. “It’s OK to touch them, to listen to their questions,” Jordan said. It is true, sophomore Dalma Felenyi said, that staying physically active through sports is the best way to stay healthy. Playing a sport with your friend, she noted, “is more fun than trying to stick to a diet.” Being part of a team makes you more responsible, Dalma said. “You get your homework done so you have time for practice.” And even if you aren’t good at the sport at first, “you will get better.” Being part of a team also helps you learn how to get along with people, Dalma said. “Join a team, make new friends.” “Illiteracy is detrimental to the human race as a whole,” said junior Karen Bogart. A lack of education, she noted, is “linked to poverty, illness and gender inequity” and contributes to the spread of disease. “Education is the key in stopping the spread of HIV AIDS,” Karen said. It was sophomore Marie Potthoff whom the judges felt best applied the Four-Way Test in her speech in which she talked about role models. So many of those role models, she said, are too perfect. “If you want to live up to them, it’s so daunting.” How many of you, she asked, have felt inferior the first time you tried to live up to your role model? “I make mistakes every day and that’s the truth. “You shouldn’t strive for perfection; it’s too easy to get discouraged.” Looking out at the group of assembled Rotarians, Marie said, “We look to you to be our perfectly imperfect role models.”
Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 • 7 GO JUMP IN THE LAKE Each February for the past five years an increasing number of community “leaders” has gathered at the beach of the Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa to salute winter in a unique mountain way - by jumping into the 40° water of Lake Arrowhead! This annual event, the PolaRotary Bear Plunge, brings all of the western San Bernardino mountain communities together in a one-of-a-kind way to raise money for charities of the jumper’s choice and to just plain have fun. The PolaRotary Bear Plunge is the brainchild of Dr. Patrick Rains who is Past President of the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead and (along with wife Jo Bonita) is a former Citizen of the Year. Pat swears he was not on artificial stimulants when he hatched this idea. Jo Bonita thought the concept was “crazy.” Undaunted, and encouraged by Butch Bauman who said he’d participate if Pat put the event together, Pat got the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead to provide the volunteers, the Resort to donate the venue and the rest, as they say, is history. The plunge is the L.A. Rotary Club’s second biggest fund raiser (after the Art and Wine Festival) and the area’s biggest winter charity money maker. The plunge is scheduled precisely in the middle of winter and is wedged between two federal holidays. Its timing is an effort to help the local economy in an otherwise soft period. There is no truth to the rumor that he wanted to piggy-back the plunge with Ground Hog Day due to the similarity in the level of “seriousness” with which the respective participants take the occasions. On Wednesday, January 30 on the NBC Channel 4 news, weatherman Fritz Coleman hyped this plunge in his weather report. He did the same thing in each of the past two years. What terrific publicity for this event and the mountain! Jumper pledges are split 50/50 up to $1,000 between the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Steve Caloca, Dylan Matteson, Ashley Morris from the UCLA Conference Center jumping for Mountain Bruins. Foundation and the jumper’s charity of choice; all moneys raised over $1000 by an individual jumper go to the jumper’s designated charity. As the table below shows, the plunge has raised about $85,000 for nearly three dozen charities since its inception in 2009. Year # Jumpers $ Raised # Charities Weather 2009 20 $11,000 + 5 snow 2010 25 $11,000 + 6 rain 2011 35 $12,000 + 10 mild 2012 57 $24,000 + 19 perfect 2013 50 $21,000 +* 20 residual snow * Preliminary Jumpers have included Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (three years), former Supervisor Neil Derry (twice), Citizens of the Year, school principals, Resort and Conference Center General Managers, service club Presidents, hospital officials, ALA board members and Chamber of Commerce officials. Participation ages range from 18 to 83. Patrick Rains is one of two people (Hugh Bialecki is the other) who have jumped in all five plunges. Jo Bonita Rains (who, remember, thought this whole idea was “crazy”) is one of a half dozen to have jumped four times. For more information visit: www.PolaRotaryBearPlunge.com Chris Cline from Lake Arrowhead Resort jumping for Lake Arrowhead Rotary.
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