Dear Fellow Rotarians:

One hundred years of Rotary fellowship and service is great cause for celebration, and during our centennial year of 2004-05, we all will Celebreate Rotary.  We will celebrate our enormous success toward achieving a polio-free world -- our gift to the children of the world and all the children to come. And we will celebreat the warm Rotarian fellowship that inpsires our service and fuels our dedication.

Just like Rotary's early beginnings in a Chicago mining engineer's office in 1905, our club's beginnings in 1978 forecasted little of what was to come.  Just like the four men gathered in Chicago on that cold Feburary evening -- our club charter members could not have predicted the great works we have accomplished as Rotarians.  Like the early founders, Rotarians don't always know what postivie impact their actions will have, but 100 years of service have clearly demonstrated our enormous potential for doing good in the world.

With a heighten awareness of Rotary's potential, let us enter our second century of service prepared to take on new challenges and go the distance until they are met.  Let us Celebrate Rotary by rededicating ourselves to service - in our clubs, our vocations, our communities, and our world.

Service Above Self,

Mark Sowell

President, Fredonia Rotary Club, 2004-05