Leadership Experience: Please give a brief history of your leadership
experience, i.e. positions, organizations, etc.
Career Aspirations: Briefly describe your career interests:
Rotary Involvement: The Rotary Club of Utica will only accept four to six
College students into our Leadership Mentor Program for Spring Semester
2007. Why do you want to become involved?
The Rotary Club of Utica
SERVICE Above Self
Leadership Mentoring Program
In partnership with SUNY IT and Utica College
Q: WHAT’S AN IMPORTANT STEP
IN YOUR CAREER PLANNING?
Other: Please include any other information about yourself that will help our
committee get to know you and select you for this mentoring experience.
A: LEADERSHIP MENTORING.
Please note: Accepted students will be partnered with an outstanding Rotary
Business Leader for mentoring. When possible they will be partnered with a mentor
in their chosen career path.
Please remember to keep a copy of this application for your reference.
Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib
tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a
person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations.
Peter F. Drucker
Dear Juniors, Seniors and Graduate Students:
The Rotary Club of Utica invites you to become part of an exciting
College Student Leadership Mentoring Program. The Rotary Club of
Utica, our district’s largest club, is recruiting up to six junior, senior or
graduate students and will match them up with a Rotary Leadership
Mentor for networking and leadership skill development - both
essential to career development. The program will expose students to
the philosophy of ‘Service Above Self’ community leadership which
has made Rotary an outstanding worldwide organization. The Rotary
Club of Utica recognizes the need for leadership skill development
and has established the following program objectives. Students will…
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Learn more about ‘Service Above Self’
Establish a community leadership mentoring relationship
Cultivate community leadership skills
Build career networking opportunities
College Student Leadership Mentoring
Program Application
Please complete this application and return to Norma MontagninoGemza, Rotary College Student Project, 11 Tanglewood Road, New
Hartford, NY 13413. To receive this brochure electronically please email
Norma at normamg@yahoo.com. Applications must be returned no later
than November 1, 2006.
Student’s Name:
Local Address:
Local Phone (please list only one phone number):
Email Address (please list only one email address):
How the program works:
1. Students must be available on Fridays 12:10 pm– 1:30 pm.
2. Interested students should complete the attached application and
either mail or email it to Norma Montagnino-Gemza (directions on
the application) by November 1, 2006.
3. Students will be informed of their acceptance into the program and
assigned a mentor no later than November 17, 2006 and be
required to attend a welcoming meeting on Friday, December 1st at
11:30 am – 1:30 pm at Twin Ponds.
4. Students and mentors will be required to participate in an orientation
meeting on Friday, January 26, 2007.
5. Students will spend a minimum of 10 hours with their Rotary Mentor
at the Mentor’s workplace or other designated place, between
February 1, 2007 and April 1, 2007 as well as participate in one
Rotary service project.
6. Students will be required to attend two designated Utica Rotary Club
meetings as a group. Club meetings are Friday’s at Twin Ponds at
12:10 p.m. A schedule will be provided at the orientation meeting in
January.
7. Students and mentors will participate in a final group evaluation
meeting and attend The Rotary Club of Utica meeting on Friday,
April 20, 2007 where students will give a 3-5 minute presentation on
their mentoring experience.
The Rotary Club of Utica is pleased to partner with SUNY IT and Utica
College’s Career Services Departments on this project! Questions
regarding this program should be directed to your Career Services
Office or to Norma Montagnino-Gemza, normamg@yahoo.com.
Please Check One:
Junior  Senior  Graduate Student
Anticipated Date of Graduation:
(month and year)
College Attending:
College Major:
College Minor:
Work Experience: Please give a brief history of your work experience, i.e.
jobs held, industries served, etc.
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