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July 15, 2013
The Westerly Rotary Club - Founded 1958
Juneus
3, in
210Month
Join
RotaryDay
Park for
Year
our M illion Dollar M eal to
Benefit Polio Plus!
Back in 2010 we got to introduce
Past District Governor Charlie Murphy
to the Park. On July 29th we will do it
again as we host our Annual Million
Dollar Meal at Rotary Park for current
District Governor Dietrich Bilger’s visit
to our club. We will get a chance to
show him what Rotary means to
Westerly.
We hope everyone can be there for
this special day. We’d love to have
100% attendance for the Governor’s
Visit. Bring a picnic food to share and
meet us at the Park at 5:30 p.m.
Spouses, partners, friends and guests
are welcome. Just let us know how
many to expect. Call Rose to find out
what is needed or sign up to bring
some-thing at our meeting next week.
Next Week’s Program
On July 22 Frank Thacker will be our
speaker. He will address the topic of
“Non-Violence for Daily Living.”
NOTICE CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE:
Special Board meeting on July 29th
at 4:00 p.m. at Central Baptist Church,
16 Elm Street. Come in the Office door
in the front.
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The Weekly M eeting – July 1 5 th
In an informative, fun filled meeting we were blessed to hear
what is happening with one of our Simplified District Grants from
last year. Members of the Reforest the Tropics Team were on hand
to update us as to where they have been and what has transpired
since last Fall. Dr. Herster Barres introduced Westerly Middle
School teacher and program co-ordinator Desiree Derix. Desiree
told us about her trip to Costa Rica that
gave her a firsthand look at the forests.
She presented a slide presentation depicting the forests that have already planted,
time
spent with some of the farmers and
businessmen they work with and some
of
the interactions she had with nature itself.
Desiree also explained how she helped the
middle school students understand the
concepts of carbon footprinting and the
ways that we can make a difference with
v
what we do.
Ms. Paula Fusco, Principal of the Westerly Middle school, also
spoke about why she thought it was a great program for the middle
schools. Our own Dan Alvino, who identified the project and made
the proposal to the Middle School and to District 7950 with our
grant proposal also talked about the fact that Rotarian Edgar
Morales also helped us secure a $4,ooo grant from the Walmart
Foundation.
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Paul Harris “Service Above
Service” Award Recipients
in the Westerly Rotary Club
Daniel Alvino
2011
Ted Avedisian
2002
Franklin Celico
2002
Mario Celico
2002
Stephen Cofone
2002
Robert Elmer
1987
Vincent Gacionne
1996
Walter Kimball
1986
Clayton Lord
2001
Joseph Nigrelli
1986
Douglas Rayner
1982
Clark Rumfelt
2010
Rose Marie Russo
2012
Honorary member - Robert Boughner
Every Rotarian, Every Year
On July 1st we began a new year in
Rotary. Last year we made history by
having 100% participation in the Every
Rotarian Every Year program. We
have made it a club goal to do it again.
You can become a sustaining member
of the Foundation with a $100 gift but
any gift of $10, $20, $50 or more
counts as part of the EREY program.
Why wait? Do it now.
MakeUp Locations:
Chariho: Tues, 6:30pm,
Richmond Country Club,
74 Sandy Pond Rd, Richmond,
E Greenwich: Wed, 12:15,
Chianti’s Restaurant,
195 Old Forge Rd, East Greenwich
North Kingstown: Tues 12:15pm,
Gregg’s Restaurant
4120 Quaker Lane, N Kingstown
Wakefield: Thur, 12:15,
Lilianna’s Restaurant at Holiday Inn, 3009
Tower Hill Rd, S Kingstown
Stonington, CT: Fri, 7:00am,
Stonington Human Services
166 South Broad Street
Pawcatuck, CT
Online club for Make-ups:
Rotary Club of New England
http://rotarynewengland.org/
www.rotaryeclubone.org
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British Ophthalmologist Receives
Top Rotary Foundation Award
Dr. Harminder Singh Dua, an Indian-born ophthalm
mologist in Nottingham, England, received the 2012-13
Rotary Foundation Global Alumni Service to Humanity
Award at the recent Rotary International Convention. He
was nominated for the award by District 3030
(Maharashtra, India).
In 1981, Dua traveled from India to Pennsylvania, USA,
as a member of a Group Study Exchange team,
sponsored by the Rotary Club of Nagpur South,
Maharashtra. Recalling the flight that began his trip,
from Bombay (now Mumbai) to New York, he said,
“Traveling with the sun, we had 24 hours of daylight. Isn’t that a
wonderful thought: Let there be no darkness. I had unwittingly captured, at
least in part, the spirit of Rotary and the spirit for which I would work for
the rest of my life.”
Dua, who is chair and professor of ophthalmology at the University of
Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, has treated patients in the United
Kingdom, India, and the United States and has shared his skills with
students and colleagues around the world. Renowned as an authority on
corneal disorders, he performs advanced surgeries.
While living in India, Dua performed thousands of free operations on
poor patients with cataracts and glaucoma at free eye clinics sponsored by
Rotarians and nongovernmental organizations.
“The poverty and simple lives of the villagers and the huge difference
[the] operations made to them, and to the lives of children who had to
spend time away from school to guide the people around, was plain to
see,” he said. “There was no escaping the enormity of their need and our
[medical team’s] ability to fulfill some part of it.”
More recently, Dua is credited with discovering a previously undetected
layer of the human eye that is located at the back of the cornea -- a
discovery that was reported in the journal Ophthalmology in May. Called
Dua's layer, it is much thinner than a human hair. Its discovery is expected
to make corneal transplant surgery safer and simpler, and to contribute to
knowledge about some diseases affecting that part of the eye.
In accepting the Foundation award in Lisbon, Dua said, “If I were to
pick one defining period from amongst all the years, it will have to be,
without any doubt, my trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a Rotary Group
Study Exchange team member. . . . [It] had a profound positive influence
on my thinking and actions, and I would like to believe, through me, to so
many others -- students, patients and colleagues -- whose lives I have
touched.”
A Rotarian saw a handicapped child, and cried out, “Why doesn’t
someone do something about this?”
And a voice from above said -- “I did; I created you. Now go.”
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Rotary Night at McCoy Stadium
If you have information
you would like to share
with the club, please get
it to me at
[email protected].
Thanks, Cal
Recent guests at our Meeting:
We were delighted
to have Charlie and
Linda Gruetzner with
Us. He’s a past
District Governor from
Peakskill, NY Rotary.
We also welcomed Cole and Dominic
Russo for a second week and the RTT
team.
First Tuesday Lunches
Join us at our First Tuesday lunch on
August 6 at noon at the Mermaid Café on
Margin Street. It’s a great make-up meeting.
THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
is to encourage and foster the ideal
of service as a basis of worthy
enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and
foster:
FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an
opportunity for service;
SECOND: High ethical standards in business and
professions, the recognition of the worthiness of
all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each
Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve
society;
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in
each Rotarian’s personal, business, and
community life;
FOURTH: The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill, and peace through a
world fellowship of business and professional
persons united in the ideal of service.
The Pawtucket Red Sox
will be honoring Rotarians
at the Ball Park
on Tuesday, August 20th
at 7:05 p.m.
$12 per person
For more information contact Rose Russo.
Rotary Night at Fenway
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
$28 or $49 per ticket
We are trying to hook up with other local
clubs to get a group to go.
Call call for more information.
Hot Air Balloon Festival
Sponsored by Wakefield Rotary
July 19 - 21, 2013
They are looking for
volunteers. Contact
[email protected].
www.southcountyballoonfest.com
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THE ROTARY CLUB OF WESTERLY
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Rotary Club of Westerly Membership Quick Reference Guide
Established June, 1958
District 7950 Club 6706
PO Box 407
Westerly, RI 02891
www.westerlyrotary.org
Clayton A Lord, Jr (Cal)
Cell:860.917.8320
Dan Alvino
[email protected]
(401) 284-6656
Ted Avedesian
[email protected]
(401) 742-2515
Bob Boughner
[email protected]
Check us out on Facebook too! Look up
the Rotary Club of Westerly
Mario Celico
[email protected]
(401) 212-7000
Steve Cofone
[email protected]
(401) 322-1280
Chris DiPaola
[email protected] (401)559-4619
Bob Elmer
[email protected]
(860) 884-5244
Jeff Frenette
[email protected]
(401)932-0846
Meetings held Monday night, 5:30 - 7:00
at the Venice Restaurant
165 Shore Road, Westerly, RI
Change of Address?
If anyone has moved, has a new
telephone number, a new cell phone
number, a new email address, please
contact Secretary Rose Russo at
401.315.5868 or [email protected].
Frank Celico
(401) 741-7531
[email protected]
Vinnie Gaccione
John Huhtula
(401) 524-1591
[email protected]
Walter Kimball
OFFICERS 2013-14
(401) 322-4034
(401) 315-5530
Rotary International:
President: Ron Burton - Rotary
Club of Norman, Oklahoma
Cal Lord
[email protected]
Edgar Morales
[email protected] (518)232-7078
District 7950
Governor: Dietrich Bilger
Governor Elect: Valerie Perry
Asst District Governor: Rona Mann
Bruce Morrow
[email protected]
Joe Nigrelli
[email protected]
(401) 596-5039
Joe Potter
[email protected]
(401) 451-0979
Doug Rayner
[email protected]
(401) 596-0605
Ron Roberts
[email protected]
(401) 218-8752
Clark Rumfelt
[email protected]
(401) 315-2317
Rosemarie Russo
[email protected]
(202) 215-8147
Steve Salerno
[email protected]
(413) 221-6608
Westerly Rotary Club Officers
President: Clayton A “Cal” Lord, Jr
President-Elect : TBD
Vice President : Daniel Alvino (Jul/Dec)
Douglas A Rayner (Jan/Jun)
Sec/ Treas
Rosemarie A Russo
Past President: Robert E P Elmer III
Director-at-Large: Franklin Celico
Ronald Roberts
The Four Way Test
Is it the Truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill and better
friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all
concerned?
Roy Seitsinger
Kathyn Taylor
Frank Toscano
(860) 917-8320
(860) 908-7592
(401) 218-7724
[email protected]
(401) 952-2254
[email protected]
[email protected]