Bellevue Rotary Weekly Bulletin

The next Book Group meeting will be hybrid (in-person and by Zoom) on May 14, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Back again in our rotation is a non-fiction pick; this time it’s Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.
Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.

“Rigorously researched—but always with a witty flair—its’ a must-read for longtime Gladwell fans or readers simply curious about the quiet, surprising origin stories of the crises and questions that define contemporary life.” Francesca Billington, Oprah Daily

“Gladwell is a great storyteller and writes with a contagious sense of curiosity, with each revelation seeming as exciting to him as it is to readers…Revenge of the Tipping Point provides an opportunity to assess his success and his critics’ arguments.” Economist

If you are interested in attending, RSVP to John Campbell to receive the location address and Zoom link, which will be published about a week ahead of the meeting.

Here are the items on the BRC Calendar for March:

• Mar 1 — Ramadan begins
• Mar 1 — Zero Discrimination Day
• Mar 1 — Women’s History Month
• Mar 1 — Rotary Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Month
• Mar 4 — Mardi Gras
• Mar 4 — 10 AM World Community Service Committee Meeting
• Mar 4 — 12:30 PM PT BRC Lunch, Hybrid
• Mar 5 — Ash Wednesday
• Mar 8 — International Women’s Day
• Mar 9 — Daylight Savings Time begins
• Mar 10 — First Day of World Rotaract Week
• Mar 11 — 12:30 PM BRC Lunch, In-person
• Mar 12 — 6:30 PM BRC Book Group
• Mar 13 — Purim begins
• Mar 13 — 12:15 PM DEI Committee Meeting
• Mar 14 — 5:30 PM Hearts & Wine
• Mar 17 — St. Patrick’s Day
• Mar 18 — 12:30 PM BRC Lunch, In-person
• Mar 19 — 8 AM BRC Board Meeting
• Mar 20 — Spring Equinox
• Mar 20 — International Day of Happiness
• Mar 20 — Persian New Year begins
• Mar 20 — 6 PM Thirsty Thursday
• Mar 21 — World Down Syndrome Day
• Mar 21 — International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Mar 25 — 12:30 PM BRC Lunch, In-person
• Mar 27 — 10 AM PRW Mock Interviews
• Mar 30 — Eid al-Fitr
• Mar 31 — International Transgender Day of Visibility

The Calendar includes some committee meetings, service events, and other BRC happenings. If you are a Committee Chair or Event Organizer, you can add your item to the calendar by filling out this form.

Bellevue Rotary’s World Community Service committee is honored to collaborate with Nepali Rotarians in serving the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital.

Rotarian Robert Rose had the privilege of meeting Rotarian Ashok Shrestha in the scenic town of Dhulikhel, Nepal. They visited several impactful Rotary projects, including one at HRDC Children’s Orthopedic Hospital. HRDC delivers exceptional orthopedic medical services for children up to age 16 on a sliding scale, based on what their families can afford.

Through the generosity of Bellevue Rotary’s World Community Service committee, HRDC has received vital equipment like an x-ray machine and an ambulance. Now, with an already approved Global Grant from The Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Dhulikhel as our local partner, HRDC will conduct a screening camp for 300 children with disabilities. Each child will receive a comprehensive treatment plan, and the grant will also cover surgical interventions and prosthetics when needed.

Bellevue Rotary Club has contributed $3,500 toward this $36,000 global grant, continuing our legacy of successful collaborations with the Rotary Club of Dhulikhel. Recently, we completed a school rebuilding project at Shree Devitar Primary School.

The Rotary Foundation makes these impactful programs possible thanks to the generous contributions from Rotarians worldwide. 🌏🤝💙

In the past few months, several committees have asked to publish club internal content to our website.

As our website is currently targeted to public facing content only, the ability to add club internal content was lacking until now.

We’re pleased to announce that we have a new section of our website dedicated to this.
You can find this section by clicking on “Club Internal” on the member page (see screenshot) of our site or by directly opening: https://bellevuerotary.org/internal/

This section of the website is password protected, we will change the password from time to time and send an update to brc-mbrs@ (and include it in the emailed bulletin as a reminder as well)

The Rotary Club of Bellevue and the Bellevue Rotary Foundation now accept payments via Zelle.  We recently switched our banking relationship in order to reduce operating costs for both the Club and the Foundation, but we need your help!  Another way to reduce our operating costs if for our members to start using Zelle to make Happy Bucks, Fines, Club, and Foundation payments as there are no fees associated with these transactions versus the fees we incur when payments are made via credit card.

See instructions on how to use Zelle to make payments to the Bellevue Rotary here.