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MIDLAND NOON ROTARY

CLUB NEWSLETTER

PRESIDENT’S NOTES 

Weekly Update, July 9, 2015

  President’s Notes  

Pictures from Meeting 

Upcoming Meetings/Farewell Parties/ RiverDaysFun-Raising

 

Chuck Cusick on PolioPlus 

Peace Report from Jeanne Schaller  Meet Mike Kelly, 2015-16 District Governor,

Rotary District 6310 

Rotary Encourages Pakistan to Continue ItsProgress Toward Ending Polio

  Say Hello to Newest Members 

Rotary in the News 

Can you find the Rotary banner to be used at RiverDays?

In this issue… 

Last week’s meeting was special from beginning to end. We started off by meeting an intern from J.Dee Brook’s office whohappened to be from Sri Lanka. She was thrilled to learn that our current RI President, K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran was also fromSri Lanka! We then honored two of our own members who have done so much in the name of Rotary. Keith Mead and KristinStehouwer were honored with Paul Harris + recognition awards for the outstanding work they continue to do in support ofRotary causes.

 We then received an update on the upcoming Fun-Raiser event at River Days which we’re holding in conjunction with ourfriends from the Morning Club. Jen Chappel, Chair of our Fundraising Committee and Pat Schefsky, Chair of our FellowshipCommittee, bedazzled us with the shirts volunteers will sport for the event and provided us with an update on progress.Sponsorship of Burgers, Beers, and Ballads from LaLonde’s, Whine and McKay Press has been nothing less than incredible. As I’ve said before, this combined committee effort made up of over 40 Rotarians, has simply done an outstanding jobmarshaling responses to make this event a reality.

Next, we heard Chuck Cusick speak about the scourge of polio and how Rotary’s  PolioPlus fund is working to bring thisdreaded disease to an end, once and forever. Chuck shared some compelling information with us and ended his remarks bytelling us he would cause any donation received at the meeting to be matched at a 2-1 ratio. We were successful in raisingmore than $1,000 from our members which speaks volumes about how passionate this cause is to us. This really gave ourClub goal of raising $1,500 for PolioPlus a big headstart. There’s more on this story inside this week’s newsletter.

I am also happy to announce that you all are really stepping up as it relates to volunteering. During the recent Presidential

transition, my ask of you was to consider doing even more than you already are. And many of you responded affirmatively. Aa result, we now have identified approximately ten new mentors for more junior Rotarians! We also had people who volunteered for the first time to be on a committee or who took on an additional committee role. I simply cannot begin tothank you all so very much for the spirit of Rotary that lives in each of you! Our club and Rotary are choosing to make adifference in the lives of others…one Rotarian at a time. 

TAKE ACTION: www.midlandrotaryclub.org  

We Meet Every Thursdayat 12 pm at the

 Midland Country Club 

Nancy and Chuck Cusick, District Chair forPolio Plus, with statue of Paul Harris

 Harry’s quote: The most important things in life – aren’t things. 

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Pictures from Meeting UPCOMING MEETINGS

7/16 – Eileen Jennings, RotaryFoundation

8/6 – At Midland Community Center

(lunch $13 – cash only)

F REWELL P RTIES

Caro Chenivesse

Wednesday, July 15 th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm1318 Woodview Court, Midland MIRSVP to 989-839-5976 or fayfutter@charter.net

na Zambonetti

Thursday, July 16 th, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm3308 Greenway Drive, Midland, MIRSVP to Ana at 989-948-5081

Paul Harris Fellows Keith Mead and Kristin Stehouwer

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Chuck Cusick presented at our club last week and shared with us that the goal of Rotary is to eradicate polio by the endof 2018. It will be a challenge, based on all the conflict we’reseeing in the world today, and it will not come without asteep cost: roughly $5.5 billion. The good news is that of thethree types of polio we have seen historically, only one strainremains; and in India, long thought to be incurable, polio hasnot been seen in more than three years.

Chuck explained that the use of the inactivated polio vaccineor IPV, will be critical in helping us to achieve our goal oftotal elimination. One dose of the IPV will enable the oral vaccine to work more effectively.

Chuck shared with us the number of cases from 2012 when223 instances, primarily in Afghanistan, Pakistan andNigeria, were present. That number has dropped to about 23now with none reported in Nigeria in the past year. Chuckreminded us that Bill and Melinda Gates are providing adouble match to our contributions. His challenge resulted inour club collecting more than $1,000 from 19 Rotarians on behalf of the Rotary Foundation’s Polio Plus campaign.Donations will be logged and thank you letters sent as soonas possible for tax purposes. Next week, forms will beavailable to include credit card information. Thank you to all who donated to the Rotary Foundation this week!

Thank you Chuck and thank you Midland Noon Rotary!

Chuck Cusick on PolioPlus Peace Report from JeanneSchaller

E-mail from Jeanne: “The Chiang Khong ConservationGroup is working hard to see that the Mekong River that

flows between Laos and Thailand continues to remain asan environment where fishing can remain as the localpeople’s livelihood. It’s very much a local-villages effortand together the people’s movement was significant instopping efforts of China to continue to blast within theriver so that huge cargo ships can travel southward. Thelocals know that if fish habitat continues to be destroyed,their lives will be drastically affected in many ways. It was interesting to hear 4 of the locals speak about thiseffort that is slowly growing as the villagers areeducating themselves more about this issue and thenspeaking out nonviolently. They are now able to connectdirectly with the government and because they had doneso much work and presented it so well, the governmentstopped its support for China’s blasting.” 

“These quilts were received gladly by this public schooland by one of the teachers. They will be given to thekindergarten students to ones that are low income. Thequilt with the clown is the one Chloe and I tied. Willsend along some more later.” 

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 RI News Release, 29-Jun-2015

Islamabad (27 June, 2015) — Rotary's internationalleaders in the global fight to eradicate polio are inPakistan this week to recognize the country'scontinued commitment and progress toward endingthe paralyzing but vaccine-preventable disease.Rotary Foundation Trustee Vice-Chair MikeMcGovern who also serves as chair of Rotary'sInternational PolioPlus Committee and PolioPlusDirector Dr. Carol Pandak are meeting Rotarymembers and high-level government officials duringtheir visit.

Pakistan – one of only three countries where poliohas never been stopped – accounted for nearly 90%

of the world's polio cases last year. As a result ofcontinued measures to reach all children with thepolio vaccine, and with the support of Rotary'sNational PolioPlus Committee in Pakistan – spearheaded by chair Aziz Memon – polio cases aredown nearly 70% this year compared to the sameperiod in 2014.

"We are honored to visit this beautiful country andrally support in ending polio," said McGovern. "WhilePakistan continues to face obstacles in its journey topolio eradication, we are excited about the currentprogress being made. Leadership at all levels ofgovernment and society is critical to achieving a

polio-free Pakistan."

Rotary launched its polio immunizationprogram PolioPlus in 1985, and in 1988 became aspearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication

Initiative with the World Health Organization,UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Controland Prevention. Since the initiative launched in 1988,polio cases have decreased by 99.9 percent, fromabout 350,000 cases a year to less than 400confirmed in 2014.

Rotary's roles within the initiative are fundraising,advocacy, and social mobilization. To date, Rotary

has contributed more than PKR142 billion (US$1.4 billion) to ending polio, including more than PKR10.7 billion (US$107 million) in grants to support polioeradication activities in Pakistan and countless volunteer hours by members of Pakistan's 173 Rotaryclubs.

 Along with on-the-ground support, the governmentof Pakistan has invested PKR$5.9 billion (US$57.9million) in its own polio eradication activities since2003. 

 Rotary Encourages Pakistanto Continue Its Progress

Toward Ending Polio

 Meet Mike Kelly, 2015-16 District Governor,

 Rotary District 6310

Mike joined the Alpena Rotary Clubin January, 1991. He will serve as the

2015-2016 District Governor (DG)for Rotary District 6310. He hasserved two terms over the last 8 years as Assistant Governor forDistrict 6310. He was President ofthe Alpena Club in 2000-2001 andhas attained 18 years of perfectattendance. He has also hosted

several members of Group Study Exchange (GSE)teams and served on the 2009-2010 GSE Outboundinterview and selection committee. He served as aFoundation Representative in 2010-2011 and amember of three District Conference Committees.

Mike is a Paul Harris Fellow and a continuingsupporter of the Alpena Rotary Club Foundation as well.

Mike graduated from University of Michigan – Dearborn in 1971 receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with Honors. Hismanufacturing and executive career covered 30 years with Besser Company and he was a member of the American Management Association. During thattime he also served as a Junior Achievement (JA) volunteer and led the JA Board of Directors forseveral years. His past service also includes the Alpena Boys Club Board of Directors. Mike coached

 youth hockey and enjoyed several years as a youthhockey enthusiast and still skates occasionally. Mikeenjoyed many years of travel hockey with his threesons. He has served for 11 years as Treasurer for“Shelter, Inc.”, a five county publicly funded agencydedicated to assisting victims/survivors and familiesin ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Hehas assisted with numerous United Way campaignsand volunteers for many community projects. Mikehas also been a volunteer driver for the Red Cross intransporting patients to and from cancer treatment.

He has five adult children and nine grandchildren,seven of which live in the Alpena area. Mike’s

interests include enjoying kids and grandkids, travel,motorcycling, classic cars, boating, sports andexercise. He is a “Route 66” fan and has traveled the“Mother Road” in all 8 states. He also enjoys “Rock‘n Roll” music and enjoys attending concerts.

Taken from Rotary District 6310 website:http://portal.clubrunner.ca/60077/SitePage/district-directory/related-page-1 

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Say Hello to Our

Newest MembersRotary in the News

 Alan (Robin) StottlemyerReaction Engineer, Dow ChemicalSponsored by Mark Bone

(member since July 2015)

Dexter (Laura) BrighamManaging Director, Center Stage Theatre and Choirs,Midland Center for the Arts

Sponsored by Kevin Kendrick(member since June 2015)

Craig (Lori) LangGeneral Manager, Garber Chevrolet

Sponsored by Paul White(member since May 2015)

Jarrod (Emily) LynchTax Consultant, Deloitte Tax LLP

Sponsored by Jim Klaffer(member since May 2015)

Local News: Our club received a very nice thank you notefrom Project 111 committee members who were very gratefulfor receiving $2,000 in Community Needs funding insupport of their project. This program serves to instill gooddriving habits within our younger drivers throughrecognition of those habits.

 As you can see from the picture below, our RYE studentshad an opportunity to enjoy some time tubing on SanfordLake last week! It was obvious too, that some had more funthan others!

 We had a wonderful turnout for Tig’s going away party last week. We hope you can make it to Caro and Ana’s parties, to be held respectively on 7/15 and 7/16 of this week.

 We have asked our Outbounds to keep us posted on their wonderful experiences abroad via blogs. The first one, byMaddie Futter, is up and running. Please check it often athttp://maddyvavoyager.tumblr.com/ 

District News: All of our District RYE students, inbounds

and outbounds, traveled to Calvin College this weekend forthe Central States YE Conference. Many goodbyes were saidas lots of these outbounds head home in the next few days. We wish them all safe travels and thank them so much for being wonderful representatives of their countries and oftheir Rotary Clubs! 

International News: The Rotary Rewards Program isnow live! Rotary’s new member benefits program givesRotary members access to discounts on a variety of productsand services selected with their interests in mind. If you stillhave questions, check out this link to FAQs!https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/rotary-global-rewards-frequently-asked-questions