IN THE ZONE

Past District Governor Debra Warner and District Trainer Linda Marrin are In the Zone … and so are you!

 

You are a part of a large and amazing organization!  Rotary International has 1.2 million members organized into 35,000+ clubs in over 400 countries. 

 

Those 35,000+ clubs are organized into 535 districts to support them in fulfilling the Object of Rotary*.  Our District (#5580) is made up of 66 clubs.  District leadership is selected from Rotarians in our clubs. These leaders are charged with supporting our clubs by offering information and assistance to issues identified by club members throughout the district.

The 535 Districts are organized into 34 Zones set up to provide information and assistance to the districts.  A Zone Director, who serves as a member of the Rotary International Board of Directors, heads two zones. The Zone Director is nominated by the clubs in the zone and elected by the convention for a term of two consecutive years.  Our district is a part of Zone #28 which is made up of 13 districts.  We are paired with Zone #29 for training and support.  Each zone has coordinators for Membership, Foundation, and Public Image with assistants selected from districts in that zone.  We are fortunate to have 2 Zone assistant coordinators selected from our district. 

 

Past District Governor Debra Warner is the Zone 28 Assistant Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator.  In this position, Debra works with clubs and district leadership to encourage participation in community and international projects which are made possible because of the generous contributions that you as Rotarians make to The Rotary Foundation.  If you have a Foundation Chair, please email the contact information to Debra at debrawarner13@gmail.com. 

 

District Trainer Linda Marrin is the Zone 28 Regional Membership Assistant Coordinator.  In this position, Linda works with clubs and leaders from 3 districts to share and encourage effective membership attraction and engagement processes.  Preceding Linda in this zone position was Irene Sotille from Thunder Bay. 

 

Gary Nolte from the Moorhead club was the Zone 28 “End Polio Now” Advisor for 3 years. It’s exciting that our district has had 4 representatives at the zone level in the past 2 years!!  Those of us serving in these positions know it is a great honor and responsibility.  We work hard to fulfill our responsibilities.  Other zone coordinators and volunteers provide services to help districts fulfill the Object of Rotary*.  A volunteer zone team develops the OneRotarySummits, encourages us to customize them as needed and asks for feedback to plan future summits.

 

As Assistant Coordinators, Debra and Linda are working with 3 districts that cover all of Minnesota, North Dakota, Thunder Bay Canada, and parts of Wisconsin and Iowa.  Kyle Haugen completes our OneRotary team by supporting these districts in the Public Image arena.  The 3 of us are working with the leaders in all 3 districts; we plan to deliver a leadership assembly after the holidays which will bring together the leaders of the 3 districts to share ideas, challenges and successes so we can all benefit from successful practices. 

 

As your Zone Assistant Coordinators Debra, Linda and Kyle are also representatives of our districts back to the zone, sharing issues, concerns and challenges.  If you have success stories, challenges, or questions please share them with your district leaders or zone representatives so we can share the challenges and successes with all the clubs in our District, Zone and Rotary International families. 

Always remember we are part of the family of Rotary, making a difference in our communities and the world!

 

*The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: