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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
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August is Rotary Membership month!
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Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Rotary Float in Rose Parade
The Rotary International float in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade is undoubtedly the largest public relations project of the Rotary clubs of the United States and Canada. since 1924, a Rotary float has been entered 18 times. The famous Pasadena, California, parade is seen by an estimated 125 million people via worldwide television.'
Funds for the construction of the Rotary parade entry are voluntarily given by Rotarians and clubs in the U.S. and Canada. the cost of designing, constructing, and flower covering a Rose Parade float begins at about $120,000.
A multi-district Rotary committee in Southern California coordinates planning of the Rotary float and provides hundreds of volunteer hours of service. The Rotary float must portray the annual parade theme, usually depicting one of the worldwide service programs of Rotary International.
Each New Year's Day, Rotarians take pride in seeing their attractive float and realize they have shared in its construction by contributing a dollar or two to this beautiful public relations project.
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WHATEVER ROTARY MEANS -
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AN INSPIRING STORY - totally at random?
On a cool Monday morning in 2011, Scott Dudley got in his car and started driving north.
He was not supposed to be on his way to Canada. He was supposed to be in Haiti helping with the earthquake recovery effort. That trip had been cancelled at the last minute due to political turmoil, so Dudley, a member of the Rotary Club of North Whidbey Island Sunrise in Oak Harbor, Wash., USA, had some unexpected time off. He felt he should do something useful.
Photos - Top: Keesha and Phil Rosario (left) lunched with Scott and Christine Dudley just days before the surgery. The couples keep in touch and celebrated last Thanksgiving together at the Dudleys’ home. “They are part of the family now, ” Scott says.
Bottom: Flag glasses added a bit of national pride and humour to surgery day.“I just told my wife: I need to go do this,” he recalls. “I feel compelled to do this.”
The meetings went well enough. On Monday, he visited three clubs. On Tuesday, he went to three more. On Wednesday, he went to two, then headed to the Meadow Gardens Golf Club, where the Rotary Club of Haney, B.C., was holding its usual weekly meeting that evening.
The scheduled speaker didn’t show up, so Dudley agreed to give a talk about membership.
Keesha Rosario, a young member of the Haney club, was sitting in the back of the room. At one point during the meeting, someone at her table asked, “How are Phil’s kidneys doing?” Another person told her she should share what was going on during happy dollars.
She got up, donated $5, and explained how her 37-year-old husband, Phil, had noticed a gurgling in his lungs during a business trip. Keesha took him to the doctor at home, who immediately admitted him to the hospital. Phil’s heart rate was through the roof, and he spent several days in intensive care while doctors figured out what was wrong with him. After an ultrasound, they told him that his kidneys were covered in cysts and were functioning at only 20 per cent capacity. Was he aware, they asked, that he had a genetic condition called polycystic kidney disease? He wasn’t. “It was a total blindside,” Phil says.
Keesha finished telling the story and sat down. Dudley leaned back in his chair. He knew the illness well. His grandmother had died from it. His aunt had succumbed to it too, even after she’d received a kidney from her sister. His uncle had to have a transplant from a deceased donor. Dudley knew the toll it would take on the young couple.
He also knew he could do something about it. Dudley had been tested and didn’t have the gene for the disease. Because of his family’s experience, he had considered becoming a live donor for years. After the meeting, he told Keesha, “I think I’ve got your husband’s kidney. How can we make this happen?”
Keesha was taken aback. “Make what happen?”
“How can I get tested,” he went on, “to be a donor for your husband?”
Cautiously, Keesha reached into her purse and handed him a card she’d received at the hospital. There was an 8- to 10-year waiting list for donated kidneys, and the Rosarios had been preparing themselves for the long wait.
“She came home and said, ‘I think I got you a match,’” Phil recalls. “I didn’t want to believe it. It was too random. I mean, you go to the Rotary club and someone offers you a kidney?”
Life in waiting
Keesha and Phil went back to their harsh reality: rest, diet change, and working with a team of doctors to strengthen Phil’s heart. “I took it like a bad hand at poker,” he says. “The cards had been dealt, and I figured it was my path in life, and I was just going to have to face it.”
Often, the couple’s thoughts drifted across the border, to this stranger who had raised their hopes. The doctors warned them that things might not go according to plan. Dudley might not be a match. He might have second thoughts. He might not pass any number of tests Ц or he might just bow out. “In general, it was hard to believe,” Phil says.
Phil wasn’t the only one who was wary.
“When I was being interviewed at Vancouver General Hospital, they asked how well I knew the recipient,” Dudley says. “I said, ‘I don’t know him at all. I have a name.’ Bells and whistles go off, and they think you’re getting paid under the table,” he adds. More questions arose, and it became clear that Dudley’s commitment to service was a driving force behind the donation.
Years earlier, Dudley had been in the U.S. Marines, and then in the Navy, training to be a Seal. But when his boat flipped during an exercise, he broke his back, spent time in the hospital, and was sent on his way. His penchant for service, however, was not broken, but channelled into his civilian life as an enthusiastic Rotarian. Today his license plate reads “4 Rotary.” His office walls are covered in Rotary items, and he has huge tattoo of the Rotary emblem over his heart.
For Dudley, Service Above Self is more than a motto.
A match
The months went on, and were busy for everyone. Dudley, a financial planner, ran for mayor of Oak Harbor and won. Phil waited for the results of Dudley’s tests. Nearly a year had passed when Dudley got word that he and Phil were a perfect match of both blood and tissue. The surgeon told him that only an identical twin would have been a better match.
“From day one, I knew I had this guy’s kidney,” Dudley says.
The transplant was tentatively scheduled for the summer of 2012, but in April, Phil contracted a flu that sent his kidney function into the danger zone, and his doctors told him he’d have to start dialysis. Phil asked if the transplant could take place sooner.
The Rosarios didn’t know what was happening on Dudley’s end. They had no idea he would cancel a Rotary service trip to Honduras to make an earlier surgery date work.
That April, Keesha was sitting in a seminar at the district assembly when Dudley walked in. It was the first time they’d seen each other in person since their first meeting. As they chatted, Keesha started to cry.
Later, in the hallway, she asked him the foremost question on her mind: “So is this really a go?”
“It’s really a go – May 14,” he said.
The surgery
The month went by quickly. The surgery went smoothly. A couple of days afterward, Dudley was in Phil’s room, ribbing him about having a U.S. Marine kidney working away in him.
Eventually the local journalists who had been following the story went home. So did Dudley and the Rosarios. Both men recovered. To date, Phil has had minor complications, and Dudley hasn’t had any. The news reports made much of the fact that an American would give a kidney to a Canadian. Inevitably, some people, including Phil, took to calling Dudley a hero. He received a deluge of email from people telling him how inspired they were, or that he had restored their faith in humanity.
Dudley bristles at the idea that he did something heroic. For him, donating was a simple matter, “instead of waiting until I pass away and having them look at my driver’s license to realize that I can help somebody when I’m gone. It’s nice to be able to see the people we help while we’re still here.”
by Frank Bures
Rotary Canada -- April 2013
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ROTARACT IN DISTRICT 7020
Watch a short video made in Jamaica of the District Rotaract Chair, Julie Ramchandani, speaking on a television program.
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POLIO
In 1994, Marion Bunch lost her son, Jerry, to AIDS.
“It was an epiphany … that completely altered the course of my life,” she says.
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| Bongi Ngema-Zuma, first lady of South Africa, helps coax a child to open his mouth for the oral polio vaccine at the Levai Mbatha Community Health Center 11 May. Photo by Anna J Nel |
Health Days
This spring, the group held its third annual Rotary Family Health Days in Africa. Rotarians from 365 Rotary clubs fanned out across Uganda, Nigeria, and South Africa to help medical professionals and government workers provide free health services to 250,000 disadvantaged people.
The event included polio and measles immunizations, dental and eye clinics, and family counseling and screening for HIV, diabetes and hypertension, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. Volunteers also handed out insecticide-treated bed nets, deworming tablets, and sanitary pads.
“The reach of this project is so phenomenal because of the presence of Rotarians all across these countries who felt emotionally connected by working together as one force on one project,” Bunch says.
In South Africa, 225 Rotary clubs participated at 160 sites; in Uganda, 65 clubs supported 120 sites; and across Lagos and Ogun states in southern Nigeria, 62 clubs supported 70 sites. Two Rotary Foundation global grants provided funding to send vocational training teams to Uganda and to pay for malaria-preventive bed nets in Nigeria.
“The heartbeat of the health care system must be prevention of disease and the promotion of health rather than [trying] to cure disease, rather than trying to fix it after,” says Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa’s national minister of health.
Volunteer Chris Pretorius, a member of the Rotary Club of Pretoria Sunrise, South Africa, was amazed by the turnout for the Health Days event.
“One of the members of the health department actually said they had never been able to get so many children here on a day like this,” he says. “That in itself is success.”
Working with partners
The campaign also illustrates how Rotary partners with other organizations to expand its impact. Since 2011, RFHA has partnered with the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, which contributed US$450,000 for this year’s three-country event. Other partners were South Africa’s Department of Health, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID, Delta Airlines, and Nampak (a producer of sanitary pads).
“We are proud to have partnered with RFHA and the Department of Health in promoting access to health screening services,” says Therese Gearhart, president of Coca-Cola South Africa. “At Coca-Cola, we invest in these initiatives because, together with our partners, we have a common vision of a South Africa that comprises healthy, strong, and thriving communities.”
Leaders of the Rotarian Action Group hope to expand the event to more African countries each year.
“Rotary is the catalyst organization in this event because of the power and (political) neutrality of our brand and the respect we receive worldwide for our ability to mobilize communities into action,” Bunch says. “This event represents the power of public/private partnerships. No one organization can do a massive event like this alone. Each partner has a defined role and set of responsibilities, and that’s why it works."
...from rotary.org
By Arnold R. Grahl
************A MUSICAL INTERLUDE -
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A LITTLE HUMOUR
GOGH ON!
After much careful research, it has been discovered that artist Vincent Van Gogh had many relatives. Among them were:
- His dizzy aunt, Verti Gogh
- His brother who ate prunes, Gotta Gogh
- The brother who worked at a convenience store, Stopn Gogh
- The grandfather from Yugoslavia, U Gogh
- The brother who bleached his clothes white, Hue Gogh
- The cousin from Illinois, Chica Gogh
- His magician uncle, Wherediddy Gogh
- His Mexican cousin, Amee Gogh
- The Mexican cousin's American half brother, Grin Gogh
- The nephew who drove a stage coach, Wellsfar Gogh
- The constipated uncle, Cant Gogh
- The ballroom dancing aunt, Tan Gogh
- The bird lover uncle, Flamin Gogh
- His nephew psychoanalyst, E Gogh
- The fruit loving cousin, Man Gogh
- An aunt who taught positive thinking, Wayto Gogh
- The little bouncy nephew, Poe Gogh
- A sister who loved to disco, Go Gogh
- His Italian uncle, Day Gogh
- And his niece who travels the country in a van, Winnie Bay Gogh
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION -
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SPEAKER - HOW GLOBAL ARE WE? - Pankaj Ghemawat
You might be surprised by this discussion!
“[It's] useful to ask ourselves, ‘Just how global are we?’ before we think about where we go from here.”
-- Pankaj Ghemawat
Pankaj Ghemawat is a professor of strategic management at IESE Business School in Spain. In his latest work, he explores another kind of networked economy--the cross-border "geography" of Facebook and Twitter followers.
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A LITERARY INTERLUDE
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OUR ROTARY DISTRICT 7020 NEWSLETTER
Click this link to read the District 7020 newsletter for August, 2013.
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TO END OUR MEETING
To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do.
Felix Stubbs, who will be our District Governor in 2015-16, leads us.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
...and official close of meeting
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Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! We wish you well in the next week in all that you do for Rotary!
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Rotary cheers!
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday, August 3 at 9:00 a.m.
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
- 9:00 a.m. AtlanticTime
- 9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
- Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/398370294
- Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 398 370 294
Join from dial-in phone line:
- Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
- For Global dial-in numbers: https://zoom.us/teleconference
- Meeting ID: 398 370 294
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday, August 7 at 8:00 p.m. (Note: One hour later than usual.)
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
Join from dial-in phone line:
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
- 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
- 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
- Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/977541237
- Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 977 541 237
Join from dial-in phone line:
- Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
- For Global dial-in numbers: https://zoom.us/teleconference
- Meeting ID: 977 541 237
- Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
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