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Contributed by: DR. SEAN REIF D.C. on 2/28/2007

The 39th Anniversary of the Northglenn / Thornton Rotary Club requires us to reflect on transition. The people who led the Rotary movement during the days of the 1960's and 1970's, the charter members, are retiring and turning over leadership to others. So while we honor this institution, and its farsighted founders, we all know that the movement needs a new generation of leaders.

The problems of the world, just around the corner, will require a NEW, bold, CREATIVE leadership. We cannot afford to be without first-rate leadership. How do we find it?

I would like to reflect for a few minutes on how we construct a COMMISSIONER. What traits, tenacity, or talents does it take to meet the challenges?

I feel it is an indispensable part of being a COMMISSIONER is to LOVE our city. I meet people who understand the brilliance and complexity of a city and have profound knowledge of the inter-relatedness of CITY LIFE. One lady who could not get out of her home. She could never take advantage of the advantages the Northglenn provides; she is content just knowing it is out there, giving humanity to modern civilization.

I believe a common trait among COMMISSIONERS is their ability to take a LONG VIEW. We live in an amazingly "near-sighted society" with startling short time horizons. We spend very little time thinking about the long term issues. I believe the COMMISSIONER must have an APPRECIATION for the long term issues. We have to care beyond our lifetime. I requires foresight not historically present in NORTHGLENN.

It is said that 'we don't inherit the earth from our fathers; we borrow it from our children.' Our society has forgotten. We have become reckless with our children's financial future and their environmental future. We must impose upon ourselves a sense of TRUSTEESHIP. We must do more than intellectually care, we must get involved.

The "ROCK" can be rolled, if NOT to the TOP of the mountain, then at least to successive plateaus. Simply pushing the rock in the RIGHT DIRECTION can be a reason for CELEBRATION. Many seemingly impossible advances are really the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

In every age there is a turning point of seeing the coherence of the CITY. We must make sense of our basic civilization and the human role in the CITY.

"Praise for the "go ahead zeal of whoever invented the wheel", but never a word for the man who thought ahead, and invented the brake."

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“I think I inherited something of grandfather’s broad spirit of tolerance. Grandfather was an ambassador of good-will in the eyes of the youngster who sat at his table during his impressionable years; he never spoke evil of any man nor or his religion or politics.” When he took his son’s 3- year old child into his home, he helped form the United Nations and end Polio. Paul Harris was a gifted human being, but his grandparents were the early stewards of that influenced his grandson to make “The promotion of international understanding and goodwill,” his life’s work. “Rotary was born of the spirit of tolerance, goodwill and service, all qualities which characterized the Prairie folks of by boyhood and I have tried to interpret, so far as lies within me, that faith to other men.”

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