September 25, 2002

This week's Bulletin was written by Tom Sayer.

 

THIS WEEK'S MEETING

President Gary Green called the meeting to order with his usual warm introduction.  Susan Davis led the pledge followed by “God Bless America” led by Jim Mulvaney.  Rick Logan used a passage from the Book of Matthew as an invocation, reminding us that good deeds to the less fortunate are favored by God.  Peter Doody introduced guests and Visiting Rotarians, including exchanging flags with Wolfgang Draft from the ancient town of Fulda in Germany.

Announcements

Ø      Gary still has 4-tickets for front and center seats at $29.75 for front and center seats to the October 3rd showing of Beehive at the Old Town Theatre. 

Ø      President Gary Green reminded everyone that our club will host the District Council Meeting on October 8th from 5:30 until 8:00 at the La Jolla Marriott.  This is the first time in our Club’s history that we have been asked to do this.  We will have the opportunity to celebrate our 13th Anniversary and showcase the upcoming “Tee Us Off” Golf Tournament.  We will be selling tee-times and raffle tickets.  Someone from our Club will deliver the invocation and Linda Jalving will be singing.  It is our responsibility to man the check-in table and to provide greeters and other volunteers.  We should expect to have at least 50-members present at this meeting.  The Club will pick up the tab for dinner.

Ø      Evan from the Rotaract Club joined us to announce their fundraiser for Juvenile Diabetes on October 24th at 6:30 at Lilo’s in the Gaslamp.  Please buy a ticket or some raffle tickets to support this event.  Click Here For Flyer.

Ø      Gary promoted the upcoming “Tee Us Off” Golf Tournament Fundraiser to be held at the Coronado Municipal Golf Course starting at 11:30 a.m. on November 15, 2002.  A wide range of sponsorship opportunities are still available.  Gary promises that Super Bowl tickets will be secured for the grand prize of the raffle drawing.  Click Here For Flyer.

Ø      “Tee Us Off” Committee Meeting to be held immediately following next week’s breakfast meeting, October 2nd at 8:30-8:45 am.

Ø      Gary made another plea for help with the Kids at Heart tutoring program.  They are opening a new tutoring site at First Lutheran (3rd and Ash) on Wed. nights from 6:30 to 7:30 and need to recruit more tutors. They will be serving the homeless children from the Cortez Hill Shelter on 11th and Broadway. Other days and times are also available.  If you are interested in helping out please contact Susanne Choy or Jose Herrera at UPLIFT 619-234-4504 or upliftsc@earthlink.net.

This Weeks Fines

Many birthdays and anniversaries were announced.  Jim Mulvaney was hit for a picture of his son, Dylan, at a recent charity fashion show.  Rick Logan was asked to explain the feeding frenzy in the banking industry.  Somehow his bank, Community First, is not to be confused with First Community aka First National.  Dennis Dater has been elected to the board of the California Association of Business Printers.  Thanks, also, to Dennis for printing all of the raffle tickets for the “Tee Us Off” Tournament.

NEW MEMBERS

L-R: Hon Patricia Cowett, Mike Jones, Joe Marshall, Kay Zurn, Tony Eppert, Tim Montague and Gary Green

 

Mike Jones stepped up with an encore performance from last week to induct four more new Rotarians to the San Diego Breakfast Rotary Club (eight in 2-weeks!).  Mike quipped to first lady Karen Green that at this rate, it will be no time before we surpass Club 33 in total members.  The members inducted were as follows:

Kay Zurn moved here from Minneapolis about a year ago.  She is a business and life skills coach, a middle child of five, “single and looking” and joined Rotary because serving and contributing are important to her.

Judge Patricia Cowett grew up in the city of Vallejo in Northern California.  Both her father and her paternal grandfather were Rotarians, the latter with perfect attendance.  She and her husband moved south in 1972 after law school and she practiced as a Deputy City Attorney and then with CalTrans before being appointed to the bench.  She now presides over 500+ civil cases in the Hall of Justice, downtown.  Her particular interest is in furthering the International outreach programs of Rotary.

Tony Eppert relocated here from Denver 3-months ago.  He is a lawyer with Branton & Wilson and will have the classification, Law, Employee Benefits Taxation.  He previously was involved on the Board of the Boys & Girls Club and chaired a golf tournament for that organization that netted $78,000 (that got Gary’s immediate attention).  Tony joined Rotary for its larger outreach (referring to International focus as well as community).

Joe Marshall is an attorney from Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel.  He will join the Club under the classification of Law, Tax.  [Sorry I missed the rest of his introduction getting set for a photo opportunity].

This Week's Speaker

Today's speaker was Scott Metzger from the Coronado Rotary Club speaking on the Rotary International Polio Plus program.  Rotary International first took on the eradication of polio in 1985 and has almost fulfilled its mission.  The initial program was 99% effective, completely eliminating polio as a health threat in all but 10 of the world’s countries.  But the almost is what Rotary has decided to tackle with a final push to once and for all eradicate polio from the entire face of the earth.

What is needed is contributions.  UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention are underfunded by a total of $400 million in terms of what it will take to vaccinate those children needed to complete the eradication effort.  The Bill Gates Foundation has agreed to match the first $25 million in donations raised by RI and the World Bank will match all dollars raised on a 3-2 basis.  With District and RI matching of our Club’s donations, each dollar we give turns into about $40 by my calculations (after all the matching programs are utilized).  In any event, RI needs only to raise $80 million for this to close the $400 million gap.

Some things to ponder:

Ø      $100 donation means 10,000 vaccinations.  That is 10,000 children who would not otherwise even know about the threat of polio, let alone be capable of protecting themselves from it.

Ø      There are zero administrative costs paid from donations to RI.  All administrative costs are covered by the interest earned on the donations.

Ø      Polio can be completely eradicated because, 1) it does not survive outside of the human body for any length of time, and 2) we have a vaccine that will destroy the virus inside of the human body.  All that is necessary is to vaccinate all carriers of the virus.

Ø      The last child who will ever contract polio ever again is alive today so long as RI is successful in raising the funds necessary to close the finding gap.

Ø      Polio is alive and well in the 10-countries worldwide in which it has not yet been eradicated.  There were 1,000 cases in India, alone, last year.

Ø      Polio causes paralysis, deformity and death in its victims by attacking the central nervous system.

Ø      There is no cure for polio.  Only prevention through vaccination.

Ø      The vaccination is simple and painless.  Two drops of sweet liquid in the mouth of a child from an eyedropper is all that is required.  The only tricky thing is that the vaccine must be kept cold.  Styrofoam is still the high-tech solution to temperature control.

Ø      Countries at war have gone to such lengths as to declare “Peace Days” to allow children to be vaccinated in the middle of a civil war.

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