The Uptown Weekly
Welcome to the Rotary Club of Dallas-Uptown, TX USA
the exclusively inclusive Rotary club
Rotary Year: July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012
May 3, 2012
Texas Land & Cattle
3130 Lemmon Ave.
Dallas, TX, 75204
Uptown - Lemmon & Cole, near the West Village
Ph: 214 / 526-4664, Fax: 214 / 526-5553
Thursdays from 11:45am -1:00pm
RI President Bannerjee 2011-2012
1.3 million men and women donate their expertise, time, and funds to support local and international projects that help people in need and promotes understanding among cultures. Rotary's flagship program is its effort to protect children against polio, with the goal of ending the disease throughout the world.
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Meeting Day and Time: Wednesdays at 7:15am Dallas, Texas 75201
Meeting Day and Time: Wednesdays at noon
Special thanks to the following…
Julie Bartlett for presenting the program today.
Ron Manthey for presenting the previous program.
Today’s Program, Thursday, May 3, 2012:
Program: / Colour IQSpeaker: / Julie Bartlett
214-223-2200
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FUTURE / PROGAMS
Date: / 10-May
Program: / Make This the Best Year of Your Life
Speaker: / PDG Dave McSpadden
Author of Gonna Jump?...Take a Parachute!
972-938-0985
Date: / 10-May
Event: / Board Meeting
Time: / Immediately following the Club Meeting
Date: / 11-May
Event: / Board Retreat
Time: / 5:30pm-???
RSVP: / PE Krista Hartman
Rotary Cares
This section is for health and personal concerns that you would like to share with the club. Please also feel free to email Rev. Gregg Smith with any personal and confidential concerns.
· Rev Gregg Smith-prayers for healing and strength.
· Please keep Durane in your thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery from his back surgery.
From: Bill Peterson District 5810
2011-2012 Rotary Emergency Disaster Initiative (REDI) Coordinator
Subject: Disaster Assistance to Lancaster Storm Victims
District Governor Bud McBrayer has received a request from Lancaster Mayor, and Lancaster Rotary Club President, Marcus Knight for assistance to help in the cleanup process for Lancaster residents who received damage from the Tornado on April 3rd . I am in need of volunteers to participate in a District 5810 sweat equity effort on Saturday, May 5thfrom 9 AM until early afternoon, or until our assigned tasks are completed. The more volunteers we can organize, the quicker we will be able to complete the request for assistance.
If you are interested and available to participate in this project, please send me an e-mail to that effect, o later than Tuesday, May 1st. For those with a Yahoo e-mail account, please respond to me , as my AOL account will not accept any Yahoo e-mails. My apologies for any inconvenience if you have a Yahoo account..
Once we have an idea of the number of Rotarians that we can muster for this request, I will respond back to you individually, by Wednesday May 2nd, with further information and details on where to meet and the nature of the requested assistance, etc. We need to know the number of volunteers that we will have before we can get an assignment.
Thank you for your attention to this request, and I hope that you are available to assist in this most needed and worthwhile project. Should you have any questions or need any additional information, feel free to call me at 469 450 4442.Thank you
Bill Peterson
Ten Rotarians honored as Champions of Change at White House
By Ryan Hyland, Rotary International News – 23 April 2012
Top: RI President Kalyan Banerjee, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew, and RI General Secretary John Hewko at the ceremony in the White House 20 April. Bottom: Ten Rotarians were honored as Champions of Change. Photos by Monika Lozinska/Rotary Images Rotary International on Facebook
Ten U.S. Rotarians were honored by the White House on 20 April as Champions of Change for their exemplary humanitarian work locally and internationally.
At the daylong event, more than 160 Rotarians attended a morning round of briefings by U.S. government officials on topics including maternal and child health, disease prevention, economic development, youth and education, water and sanitation, and peace building.
RI President Kalyan Banerjee, addressing the session, said the 10 honorees clearly demonstrate a problem-solving spirit.
“Each of them identified a problem—whether it was water-borne disease or poverty or hunger or polio -- and they did something about it. But they did it in a way that works,” said Banerjee. “They worked closely with the community to ensure that the solutions they proposed were better than what was there before in all ways -- solutions that were workable, preferable, and -- and this is a key point -- sustainable.”
Champions of Change
The ten Rotarians honored as Champions of Change included:
· Terrence Allen, a member of the Rotary Club of Lakeshore (Baroda-Stevensville-Bridgman), Michigan. Allen volunteers at the Children’s Safe Water Project, which provides clean water to thousands of families in the Dominican Republic.
· Jim Fulgham, a member of the Rotary Club of Arlington, Texas. Fulgham partnered with local colleges and universities to raise US$1 million to provide scholarships to sixth grade students from disadvantage families who finish high school and enroll into college.
· Noelle Galperin, a member of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables, Florida. Galperin initiated her club’s Haiti recovery efforts in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. She also helped raise more than $325,000 for polio eradication.
· Anil Garg, a member of the Rotary Club of Simi Valley, California. Garg has led multiple National Immunization Days in India and is a strong advocate for adult literacy.
· Richard J. Kemme, a member of the Rotary Club of Greeley, Colorado. Kemme uses his background in orthopedic surgery to train surgeons in Malawi.
· David Kester, a member of the Rotary Club of Anchorage, Alaska. Kester and his club have been instrumental in the success of the Mobile Food Pantry of Anchorage, which has provided more than three million pounds of produce, dairy products and other perishable foods to thousands of Alaskan families.
· Henry Lowentritt, a member of the Rotary Club of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lowentritt led efforts to renovate and reopen historic Warren Easton High School after it was nearly destroyed by the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.
· Carolyn Crowley Meub, a member of the Rotary Club of Rutland, Vermont. Meub heads Pure Water for the World, an international charity that has brought clean water and sanitation to thousands of families in Honduras and Haiti.
· Fary Moini, a member of the Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle, California. Moini has led her club in a series of successful projects to increase educational opportunities for girls and young women and enhance the training of health care professionals in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
· Fred Thompson, a member of the Rotary Club Innsbrook (Richmond), Virginia. Thompson led his club in the expansion of the Coal Pit Learning Center, which provides enriched pre-schooling opportunities to children from low-income families.
“Every one of our champions of change can offer the kind of fundamental knowledge and understanding of their communities that informs innovative solutions designed to work on every level,” said Banerjee. “They will serve as inspiration to all of us.”
Following Rotary's model
During the event Rajive Shah, administrator of USAID, the government’s primary foreign assistance agency, said a new campaign to improve maternal and child health will follow the Rotary model of eradicating polio.
“What I am proud to announce to you is that we are going to model ourselves on your example,” said Shah.
Shah said USAID plans to “reach every kid on the planet” and their mothers with a five–pronged preventive health package of bed nets to prevent malaria, routine vaccinations, nutrient-enhanced food, anti-retroviral drugs for HIV-positive mothers, and a simple breathing device to prevent birth asphyxia (death due to decreased oxygen). The initiative will launch June 14.