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By the way
This month's cover and several
articles within focus on Africa, a
continent facing numerous chal-
Following the death of King
lenges and opportunities. The recent R.I. Presidential Conference in
Kampala, Uganda (pages 36-37),
explored the many ways Rotarians
and Rotary clubs can help the continent and its people address crucial needs.
To illustrate what Rotarians are
already doing in Africa, A Continent of Hope (pages 38-39) highlights a cross-section of current
club projects.
ers hailed the late monarch for
his long quest for peace in his region and his brave personal commitment to conflict resolution.
In testimony to King Hussein's
stature as a man of peace, 50
heads of state and 86 national
government officials attended
his funeral in Amman.
April is our
N'I.agazine Month,
and this issue's extended humor
section (pages 16-25) is our way of
celebrating the occasion with a
big smile. Humor has long been
an important component of the
magazine's editorial mix, and we
plan on continuing that tradition
for many more years.
We're especially pleased to showcase some of our favorite cartoonists in The Pen Is Mightier-and
Funnier (page 20). We published a
similar feature way back in January L975, in honor of what was then
called Magazine Week.
If your club is interested in having a member give a short program
on THE ROTARIAN and the Rotary
regional magazine family, we can
help you out. The staff has put together a Magazine Month kit of
general information, circulation
statistics, and other facts and figures that can be crafted into a presentation or display. To obtain a
copy, call us aL 847/866-3209, 3240,
or 3205. Even better, send us a fax
at 847/866-9732.
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Under-Secretary
General of the United Nations and
Executive Director of the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will be a main speaker at a
conference to be held in New York.
New York, on May 6-8. The conference is sponsored by the R.I. Population and Development Vocational
Fellowship.
"The purpose of the meeting will
be to continue to build upon the
common interests of Rotary and the
United Nations," says Fellowship
Chairman Buck Lindsav.
E-T_
rHE ForaRrAn/APRrr 1r€,
Hussein Bin Talal of Jordan on 7
February, world leaders and oth-
A recent letter from Tawfiq
Kawar of Amman, a past governor of R.I. District24So (Bahrain,
Eg'ypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Jordan,
and Sudan), reminds us that
King Hussein was a dedicated
friend of Rotary.
"Two district conferences held
in Amman." writes Past Governor Kawar, "took place under His
Majesty's auspices and sponsorship. When 1995-96 R.I. President Herbert G. Brown suddenly
fell ill and could not visit Jordan,
R.I. Vice-President Richard F.
Slager took the president's place.
King Hussein made a unique exception and received Vice-President and Mrs. Slager in the royal
palace on a Friday, the weekly
holiday, and in the holy month of
Ramadan, which was unprecedented.
"The following year, Queen
Noor met with R.I. PresidentElect Glen Kinross and showed
great interest in the Community Service and Vocational
Service projects implemented
by Rotary clubs in Jordan."
The late King Flussein of Jordan.
Past Governor Kawar adds
that the Noor Al Hussein Foundation currently supports Rotary
club projects for assisting children with developmental disabilities and improving life for the
women of the village of Sweimeh.
'King Hussein's humanitarian
qualities were the hallmark of his
rule. He loved children and orphans," notes Rotarian Kawar.
'he even converted one of his palaces near Amman into an orphanage that now provides food,
shelter, and education for 250
destitute children.
"During his 47-year reign, King
Hussein put many Rotary ideals
into practice."
President-Elect Carlo Ravizza Rotary history is very much in
will lead the Rotary delegation to the air as we write this. for it is the
the conference, which offers 94th anniversary of Rotary's foundworkshops and high-level briefings
from UNFPA staff on population
and development issues.
The registration fee is U.S. $125.
The New York Helmsley Hotel is
offering special rates for Rotarians
attending the conference. For more
information, contact Chairman
Lindsay at 270 Langley Dr.,
Lawrenceville, GA 30045; tel.: 770/
963-8989; fax: 770/822-9492; email : lpbatlanta@aol. com.
ing on 23 February 1905.
More and more clubs are celebrating their 50th and 75th anniversaries these days and it will not be
Iong before Rotary's Centennial in
the year 2005.
We heard recently about a club
history project from Terri Marcucci,
immediate past president of the
Rotary CIub of Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Terri is putting the
fcontinued on page 4l
APRIL 1999
Yol. 174 No. 4
itAGAZIItE itotfTH
Page 32
PTAIITTIIG
SEETTS OF
GHAilGE
by M. Kathleen Pratt
first
Decades after the
Earth Day, Rotary
clubs around the world
work to Preserve
Planet Earth.
PAGE 16
Page 16
Page 36
OH THE T.AUGHS WE'UE HATT
POUEN Iil
FIGHTTIIG
A Stripped Gears retrospective.
AFNTGA
by Janice Someruille Chambers
Page 18
Nearly 1,000 people attended the
African Presidential Conference in
A WONLD OF
Uganda to discuss Rotary's
service efforts on the continent.
TAUGHTER
Jokes and cartoons
from the Rotary
regional magazines.
Page 38
Page 20
by M. Kathleen
THE PETI IS
A roundup of club and district projects to improve the
Iives and futures of millions of Africans.
AilTI
THTS ROTANY WONTD
A GOilTIIIEIIT OF HOPE
iITGHTIEN-
PAGE 36
40 Rotary newsline
FUIIIIIER
A gallery of our
favorite cartoonists.
Pratt
42 images of Rotary
JAhruABY.,:ff#
.19t7
44 the clubs in action
48 The Rotary Foundation of
R.I.
49
50
51
52
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Page 26
HOilG KOIIG HTGHTIGHTS
TIEPARTiIEilTS
by Aparna Mukherjee
An exciting pre- or post-Singapore Convention
destination, this bustling metropolis offers a wealth of
multicultural experiences.
2 by the way
6 dat@base
8 manager's memo
10 your letters
12 trends
13 earth diary
Page 30
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61
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HOIIE.NUil
HEROTGSOFF THE
opinion
sale by mail
emporium
stripped gears
ALSo THIS
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41 Interact: Building for the future
by Anthony G.
by James
Craine
L. Lacy,
President, R.I.
The Rotary CIub of
Denver, Colorado,
U.S.A., honors
baseball player
Paul Molitor for sportsmanship and service.
THE ROTARIAN m
PolioPlus
at your service
President's travels
these Rotarians
in memoriam
46 LEADING in diversity
by Laura S. Scott
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30
Couer: Sa,mburu herdsmen, Nanyulei, Kenya,
by Art Wolfe/Tony Stone Images
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[By the way . . . from page
2]
finishing touches on the club's 75year history, "Rotary Remembers:
The First Seventy-Five Years."
"We started with nothing," says
Terri-no
archives, no scrapbooks,
and no photographs. As an editor
and writer, I organized a team of
club members to conduct the necessary research. In fact, one member
went through every issue of our lo-
cal newspaper from1923 to the
present, searching for Rotary news.
Other members searched for de-
General ollicers ol
Rotary lnternational lor lg98-99
President: JAMES L. LACY, Cookeville, Tennessee, U.S.A.; President-Elect:
CARLO F-AVIZZA, Milano Sud-Ovest, Italy; Vice-President: ROBERT O.
BRICKMAN, Palatine, Illinois, U.S.A.; Treasurer: HANS J. MULLER-RECH,
Augsburg, Germany.
Directors: WILLIAM B. BOYD, Pakuranga, New Zealand; RON D. BURTON,
Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.;HEE BYUNG CHAE, Seoul West, Korea; JAMES PETER
CHIN, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia; ABRAHAM I. GORDON, Bridgeport, Connecticut,
U.S.A.; FINN O. JOHANNESSEN, Charlottenlund, Norway; RYUICHI KOTANI,
Kyoto, Japan; ROBERT L. MENCONI, Davie, FIorida, U.S.A.; CARLO
MONTICELLI, Milano Sud-Est, Italy; ANTHONY R. MOORE, West Worthing, England; CARL S. ROSENBAUM, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.; PAUL J. SANDAS,
Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A.; JULIO CESAR SCARAFIA, San Francisco, Argentina; JULIO SOzuUS, Barcelona-Condal, Spain; RYOICHI TAKEYAMA, SapporoSouth, Japan.
scendents of our past presidents."
General Secretary: S. AARON HYAT'T, Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Terri personally conducted most
of the interviews and says, "I considered a page finished only when I
felt a sense of loss for not having
personally known the individual."
The book is related to the club's
library project and Newport has
passed a bond issue to build it. The
club has been invited to help plan
a community service boardroom,
right down to the furnishings and
decor. More than $20,000 has been
raised so far. Proceeds of "Rotary
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Remembers"
will
be
totally devoted
to the library project.
Editor-in-chief:
Willmon L. White
For more information about the
project, or to obtain a copy of the
book ($SO;, write: Terri Marcucci,
Rotary Club of Newport, Newport,
RI 02840, U.S.A.
Editor:
Charles W. Pratt
Managing editor:
Cary Silver
Senior editor:
Janice Somerville Chtrmbers
Assistant editor:
M. Kathleen Pratt
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Art director:
Frank J. Szinchez
Editorial secretaries:
Patricia Perrine, C'3'nt hia lldbrooke
Regional magazine coordinator:
Candv Isaac
Circulation manager:
The Object of Rotary is to encourage
and foster the ideal of service as a basis of
worthy enterprise and, in particular,
May
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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 inter-
national understanding, goodwill, and
peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in
the ideal of service.
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For years, personal computer users, consultants, and manufacturers have debated the best maintenance steps to take in protecting
a PC and prolonging its life. I don't
claim final authority, but here's a
list of the most commonly recommended procedures.
o Power on your computer when
you begin computing on any given
day and don't power it off until you
finish for the day, unless you need
to keep your PC on all the time.
Some people turn their PC on and
off throughout the day. Big mistake. This causes a computer's inte-
rior components to frequently
expand and contract, creating
stress that can lead to premature
component failure.
o "Defrag" your hard disk periodically. The operating systems of
typical PCs and Macintosh computers scatter file fragments over the
hard disk. Programs such as
Norton Utilities combine these
fragments, which reduces hard
drive wear and tear and increases
system performance. Some programs signal you to defrag when
your hard disk reaches a specified
Ievel of fragmentation, such as 90
percent. Alternately, you can
defrag weekly, monthly, or semiannually, depending on how often you
use your PC.
Don't use a program that defrags
your hard disk continually-it will
cause more damage than it prevents.
o Periodically scan your hard disk
for file system errors and fading
magnetism with a program such as
Nuts & Bolts. Do this once a week if
it's critical that your hard disk be
reliable, or once every month or two
otherwise.
o Check for computer viruses.
You'll probably nevei experience
one, but why take chances? With a
software program such as McAfee's
VirusScan, scan all programs you
download from Internet file libraries and any floppy disks you borrow
from friends or co-workers.
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attachment that comes from someone you don't know is a wise precaution.
r Unplug your PC and any phone
line leading to it during a thunderstorm, unless you need to keep your
PC on for work purposes. A nearby
lightning strike wiII blow right past
a typical surge protector and can
fry a PC. But use a surge protector
for smaller surges.
o Regularly back-up any crucial
data on your hard disk to a tape,
removable hard disk, or floppy
disks. Back-up daily or weekly, depending on how much new data you
create. Consider storing your backups offsite in case of a fire or flood.
o IJse a floppy-drive cleaning kit
when you experience problems with
Screensavers used to do this, but
newer monitors prevent a stationary image from burning permanently onto your screen.
o On the other hand, take advantage of the energy-saving features
of newer monitors. By directing
your monitor to automatically
power down after a specified period
of inactivity, you'll increase its life
span.
monitor if it becomes
smudged. But stay away from glass
o Clean your
cleaners-they can remove a
monitor's anti-glare finish. Use isopropyl alcohol or distilled water
along with a lint-free cloth. Wet the
cloth first, then the monitor.
o Periodically open up your computer's case to clean out dust. Do this
every year or two or more frequently if your PC is in a dusty area. This
will help prevent heat build-up,
which can shorten the life of system
components.
Use either a portable vacuum
cleaner or a compressed-gas duster
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cleaners and brush attachments,
and prevent the metal of any vacuum cleaner from touching your PC.
After vacuuming the inside of
your PC, vacuum the grille in
front and your keyboard.
o Before working inside a PC,
ground yourself: turn off your com-
puter, leave it plugged in, and
your floppy drive, or at most once a
year as preventive maintenance.
Don't use a kit every week as some
manufacturers suggest-this just
puts extra stress on your floppy
drive's read/wfite head.
o Keep CD-ROM discs inside a
caddy or jewel case when not in use
to avoid scratches. If dirt or fingerprints sully a disc, gently wipe it
with a soft lint-free cloth, or use an
audio-CD cleaning kit.
o IJse a screensaver if you enjoy its
entertainment value or modest security features, but don't expect it
to prolong your monitor's life.
touch an unpainted metal surface
inside the computer. Your PC
should be plugged into a threepronged grounded outlet, preferably on a dedicated circuit. Don't
move a PC or connect or disconnect
its cables while it's on.
o If your mouse starts misbehaving,
take it apart and clean it. Shake
out any dust, or use a cleaning
swab or compressed gas.
o Finally, don't smoke around your
PC. The same tar that goes to your
Iungs will also coat the innards of
your PC, shortening its life.
o Reid Goldsborough is a syndicated columnist and author of the
book, "Strai,ght TaIk About the Information Superhighw ay." C ontact
him at: [email protected] or
[By the way . . . fronx page 4]
In January, millions of television
viewers around the world tuned in
to the annual Tournament of Roses
Parade held in Pasadena, California, U.S.A. The parade is world famous for its many colorful floats
crafted of flowers, blossoms, and
seeds.
Rotarian Marge Smith, who organized the conference, more than
200 people attended the 28 January event, representing more than
100 community organizations.
All planning committee members
and workshop leaders were community volunteers. The conference's keynote speaker was former
Among the many visual
treats viewers enjoyed was
this year's flower-bedeck-
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ed Rotary float, called
'Service Is Timeless." The
float illustrated in a whimsical manner what Rotary
is all about. The design
showed a motherly rabbit
presiding over a soup kitchen and feeding a group
of young rabbits.
Working over a six-day
period, some 2,000 volunteers, including Rotarians, A volunteer at work on Rotar5/s entry in
spouses, Rotaractors, and the 1999 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Interactors helped to cover
the float with colorful
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fees ot o golf fundroiseri|flre hole-in-
fresh flowers.
The work paid off: "Service Is Timeless" won this
year's Volunteer Award
for floats in its size category. Past District Gover-
one prizes. And nobody offers o
better coveroge pockoEe thon
Notionol Hole-ln-One Absociotion.
nor Herb Trumpoldt
reports that this is the
third award for a Rotary
float during 20 years of
eroge ond beoutiful,,
signs for every por 3. You olso
participation in the popuThe prizewinning Rotary float.
lar parade.
Volunteerism is alive and well
in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.,
as evidenced by the enthusiasm
shown at a recent Rotary-spon-
sored "Community Works Conference." According to Princeton
Mission statement
Rotarian Wayne Meisel, executive
director of the Bonner Foundation.
Workshops held throughout the
day covered topics such as, "Strategic Plannirg," "Accessing Foundations, " "Maximi zing Volunteers, "
"Team Building," '\4/6y Do You
Need Money," "Public Relations,"
"Public Speaking," "Planning a
Fundraiser," "Marketing," and
"Working With Boards."
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Princeton sponsored the event,
kinceton University and Summit
Bank donated meeting facilities,
food, and other supplies.
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such work can be valuable, professors long to expose their students to
the challenges facing businesses.
The students, too, are eager to
test their skills in the real world of
business. They appreciate handson experience, along with local references and resume material.
Working with college students, of course, presents
some challenges. Clearly,
students will not have the
experience
Major projects, such as a marketing
plan, will take an entire semester.
If you need the project for the new
year, make contact with the school
in the summer, so you can work
with students during the fall.
2. Contact the head of the business
school. Describe your specific needs
and obtain the name of an appro-
priate professor.
3. Arrange to meet the professor.
Provide a list of specific questions
you would like the students to answer. For example, ask the students to determine if your gross
margin is above or below the indus-
try
average.
4. Meet with the students. Treat
the group just as you would a
professional firm. Clearly define
your expectations and needs, and
ask them to provide a timetable
that includes target dates and
regular meetings.
5. Work closely with the group.
Don't just attend their meetings,
invite them to attend yours. They'll
understand your company more
thoroughly, and you're more likely
to develop friendships with the students-one of the project's fringe
benefits.
6. Keep the professor informed.
Provide updates on how often the
group is meeting and on the gr.oup's
progress. Share any concerns.
7. Attend the final presentation. At
the end of the semester, the students will present the results of
their efforts to you, their professor,
and their peers. Actively partic-
that executives
can offer. A professional
firm also will be more likely
to accommodate your deadIines. But careful planning
and direct involvement
can overcome inexperience
and inflexible student
schedules. With the following nine-step blueprint, you
can build a mutually rewarding partnership with a
local college.
1. Reacquaint yourself
with the academic vear.
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ipate. Ask them to clarify arcane
terms and vague statements. Your
involvement will do more than en-
liven the presentation-positive
responses by the students will
boost their confidence and their
grades.
8. Meet privately with the professor. The students most likely have
been enthusiastic, eager, and energetic-they are not experienced.
Explicitly solicit the professor's expert analysis of their work. Also,
take this opportunity to identify
those individuals who are particularly worthy of praise.
9. Make a donation to the business
school. If you are happy with the
work, this is an appropriate way to
show your gratitude.
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U.S. $500 to write a business plan.
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$10,000 to write a thorough marketing plan. When working with
college students, however, the major cost will be your time. If you
make that investment. and work
closely with the students and the
professor, you will be rewarded
with useful, quality work. You
also will establish a positive working relationship between your company and a local college of business.
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Your letters
Gamblinr:
Readers-fe spond
Thanks for the article, Legalized
Gambling-Iackpot or Jinx? Uanuaryl. It occurs to me that the myth
of prosperity through gambling's
false promises violates each of the
principles in The 4-Way Test.
Is It tlw Truth?
Gambling proposes to save communities through jobs, revenue,
and tourism. After a "quick fix," the
very opposite is true. Jobs are gradually lost in legitimate business as
money is siphoned off to gambling
establishments. Studies show it
costs communities more in bankruptcies, gambling addictions. suicides.
criminal activitv
caused by gam-
bling
losses
compounded benefits for all members of society in the future. In my
view this is gambling's most tragic
cost to society.
B.R. TREFZ, D.D.S., M.S
Club president-elect,
Gastonia,, N orth C arolina,
U. S.
A.
It seems obvious that our communities and nation as a whole must
"accept the responsibility for the
o
[gambling] problems we have created," as stated by an expert interviewed in the article. However, the
author fails to bring out one point.
Obviously, gambling is with us to
stay, but when government promotes gambling, it puts the stamp
of approval on the activity, which
leads young people to the obvious
conclusion that it is acceptable for
them to gamble. This determina-
tion, in turn, Ieads young people to
conclude that it is not necessary for
them to earn a living and that gambling is a legitimate source of income. This, of course, is wrong.
The harm done to our young
people by government-approved
and aggressively promoted gambling is an important reason why
such gambling should cease.
ROBERT G. MOCH. Rotq,rian
Seattle, Washington, U. S.A.
A memory ol ftogs
The article on deformed frogs
lSentinels of the Future, Januaryl
evoked some sad memories. As a
youngster, I explored many local
streams, ponds, and lakes. I
knew them well-or so I thought.
A neighborhood factory was located in an out-of-the-way, fenced-
and familv and
business disruptions than revenues received. Tour-
ism? Patrons are your neighbors
within an 85-mile [137-kilometre]
radius.
Is It Fair to AII Concerned?
Hardly! The character played by
Robert DeNiro in the movie, "Casino," said it all: "The owners are
the only ones who make money.
The people don't stand a chance."
W|II It Build Goodwill and
Better Friend^ships?
This is one benefit gamblersself-absorbed, intense, focused on
the machine or the card-are not
looking for. The qualities of goodwill and friendship are hardly compatible with greed.
WilI It Be Beneficial to All
Concerned?
To quote from an experb cited in
the article, "Compulsive gambling
disorders may be for Generation X
what cocaine and crack were for
their parents' generation. "
Rotarians should be in the forefront in resisting and turning back
the proliferation of gambling. It
violates everything we stand for.
JOHN D. WOLF, Rotarian
Valparaiso, Indianq, U.S.A.
r The article completely overlooked
the greatest cost to society caused
by gambling: the redistribution of
capital that could be invested with
THE ROTARTAN/APRTL 1999
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NvIRoNM
E NTAL
covE RAGE :
UnFAIR To soME PRoFESEIoNS?
In my last 10 years as a Rotarian I have become increasingly
unhappy with the magazine.I am
Rotary. In fact, the second part of
the Object of Rotary refers to'the
a forester by profession, and also
of aII useful occupations, and the
dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to
serve society."
raise cattle on a small farm. It
seems that every issue contains
an article that is detrimental to
the professions of forester, ranch-
er, developer, and miner. Most
articles are written under the assumption that anything connected with these professions is bad.
The January issue is good example. Sentinels of the Future is
about deformed frogs. Although
the author states several times
that what causes frog deformities
is not known, he also says: "U.S.
housing developments have taken the place of wetlands. Logging, mining, Iivestock grazing,
and other human activities are
equally destructive."
Such a statement seems an attack on those professions, and is
not in accord with the Object of
recognition of the worthiness
I am sure that throughout
the world there are hundreds of
individuals involved in forestry,
ranching, mining, and housing
development who not only serve
society in their profession, but
also do so in a manner worthy of
recognition as good and faithful Rotarians.
The world needs lumber,
food, minerals, and places to live.
It is unfair to brand the profes-
sions that provide these needs as
destructive. I hope to see in fu-
ture issues a more fair.portrayal
of our contributions.
ROY C. GANDY, Rotq,rian
Madison C ounty, Royston,
Georgia, U.S.A.
in area. One day
a
friend and I took a
walk in the woods
behind the plant.
To our surprise, we
discovered a beautiful land-locked lake
with calm, emerald-
green, translucent
water. I figured we
had discovered something natural
and pure.
But a closer inspection left us
puzzled. The lake had no fish, tadpoles, or frogs-just some water
spiders and a few other surface
creatures, but none in abundance.
So we were excited to explore the
water on the other side of a dam in
the lake and see and hear lots of
frogs jumping into the water as we
invaded their territory.
But the water here was a thicker,
pea-soup version of the waters
above the dam. When we finally
saw some of the frogs that lived
there, we were horrified. The deformed creatures looked like something from another planet.
These days I often drive past the
lake. The factory, which I have
learned used asbestos in its manufacturing process, is long gone, and
there are homes on the shoreline. I
often wonder what the owners
know about their lake.
HOWARD ETCHELL, Rotarian
N ordoniq. H ills (Northfield),
Ohio, U.S.A.
The canary's role
Sentinels of the Future Uanuaryl
said that canaries used to be taken
into mines "to warn of poisonous
gases.' Is the author sure it was
poisonous gases, or could it have
been carbon dioxide or methane,
neither of which is poisonous but
sometimes displace oxygen?
Since canaries are more sensitive
to lower levels of oxygen than are
people, they would faint or even die
before humans were able to detect
a problem. Methane, of course, is
explosive within a certain range of
percentages of the volume of air,
and either of these gases could
cause death simply by displacing
too much oxygen.
ROY CRAWFORD, Rotarian
Licensed mining engineer
Whitesburg, Kentucky, U. S.A.
Thou shalt not
take lor granted...
By and large, The 10 Commandments of a ciuic club talk,lManager's Memo, January] offers sound
speaking advice, but I take serious
issue with two of the author's rules.
In Commandment 2, the author
suggests that speakers can look at
their watches. If the audience
WM@
catches a speaker looking at his or
her watch, guess what they'Il do?
Look at theirs! The result is a small
but important break in the speaker's message. If a speaker is going
to use a watch it should be placed
on the lectern.
Commandment 10's statement,
'Begin right and you will end
right," is open to question. Just because a speaker has captured his
audience with a slam-dunk opener
does not ensure a slam-dunk close.
Speakers who want a really strong
close should write that part of the
speech first, while the adrenaline is
flowing fast. And then the speaker
should work on a strong opening.
BILL GLEESON,
Past District Gouernor
Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S.A
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Having read December's President's Trq,uels page, I congratulate
Rotary and R.I. President James L.
Lacy for recognizing the work of
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil.
However, your report would have
been more helpful if it had mentioned some of the actions for world
peace that Cardoso has taken.
Foremost among them is Brazil's
offering of Resolution L. 48, "Toward a Nuclear-Weapon-FreeWorld: The Need for a New
Agenda," to the United Nations.
(Seven other nations joined Brazil.)
This groundbreaking initiative
calls upon the world's nuclear powers to demonstrate an unequivocal
commitment to the speedy and total elimination of their respective
nuclear weapons and to swiftly conclude negotiations leading to the
elimination of these weapons.
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TIiE BOTAFIAN/APFIL
1999
II
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Trends
taroels
maternaf mortality
WHO
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland,
World Health Organization (WHO)
director-general, blasted as "inexcusable" the deaths each year of
600,000 women during childbirth
and 7.6 million during the perinatal period. Tragically, most of the
deaths and suffering could be prevented through inexpensive and
basic health care.
The world has made little headway in slowing maternal mortality
over the past five years, she said at
a conference on population issues
held at The Hague, The Netherlands, in February. Health ministers from more than 180 nations
gathered to evaluate the progress
made since the 1994 International
Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.
"In parts of Africa, women face a
one-in-16 risk of death because
they do not receive the care they
need when they get pregnant," she
said. "By contrast, in most of Europe and North America, such a
tragedy will hit only one woman in
4,OOO. No other indicator so starkly
reflects the disparities between rich
and poor, between the haves and
have-nots, between the developed
and developing worlds. "
Countries must strengthen comprehensive health systems rather
than taking a piecemeal approach,
Dr. Brundtland said. She also
blamed the lack of progress on declining levels of international aid.
Developed countries currently commit an average 0.2 percent of their
Gross Domestic hoduct to aid. The
rate is spiraling downward, despite
pledges to increase the amount to
0.7 percent.
"I want to be clear about this,"
she said. "Failure to address Deople's reproductive health needs is a
matter of human rights and social
justice. People have a right to make
free and informed decisions about
their reproductive lives. They have
a right to information and care that
will enable them to protect their
health and that of their loved ones.
They have a right to benefit from
scientific progress in health care."
112
TIIE BOTABIAN/APFIL 1999
Between five percent and 15 percent of the global burden of disease
is associated with the failure to address reproductive health needs,
according to WHO. This burden
strikes women in the prime of life,
when their potential, responsibilities, and productivity are highest.
"Just imagine the cost, to the individual and to society," she said.
"WHO will address this challenge," Dr. Brundtland vowed. "We
interpret the high levels of maternal mortality not only in terms of
what they mean for women and
children, not only in terms of their
disease burden, but in terms of
what they tell us about the failure
of health systems, policies, and programs to address the essential
needs of women."
lapanese iob-hoppers
Despite Japan's long history of
company loyalty and a constricted
job market, one out of three work-
ers under age 30 would like to
change jobs.
A Japan Labor Ministry survey
found that among men who want to
leave their companies, 17 percent
want to become self-employed, 15
percent want to make better use of
their abilities, and 14 percent want
higher pay. Among women, 12 percent believe their skills are under-
utilized and 10 percent simply
desire "better work."
fSource: Asahi Evening News, os
reported in The Argus, a publication of Manpower International,
Milw aulzee, Wisconsin, U. S. A.l
TEcH TEAcHERS tN sHoRT guppLrr
While computers are becoming commonplace in U.S. classrooms,
the schools are facing a severe shortage of technology teachers.
The Department of Industry and Technology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, reports that a typical graduate may reject
eight interview requests for every one accepted. The Ball State education program, rated among the top five in the nation, currently has
just 50 students, with a demand for far more.
No longer the traditional 'shop" or'industrial arts" class, the subject now emphasizes the use, impact, and opportunities of technology.
While many middle and high schools are expanding technology education, other schools are eliminating classes because they cannot find
teachers, says Ray Shackelford, coordinator of the Ball State program. "I get at least one call a week from a principal or superintendent looking for a technolory teacher," he says.
Earth diary
JUST ANOTHER
PRETTY FACE
ln 1998, one enelgy answer
,lliii
was blowing in the wind
BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVIN
In a breath of fresh air for conservationists, the world added 2,100
megawatts of new wind-energy
generating capacity in 1998, a new
record, and 35 percent more than
was added in 1997. Wind power is
now the world's fastest growing en-
ergy source, with many nations
contributing to its progress.
The new wind turbines added in
1998 have pushed overall wind
generating capacity worldwide to
9,600 megawatts-double the capacity in place at the end of 1995.
These wind turbines will generate
roughly 21 billion kilowatt-hours of
electricity in 1999-enough for 3.5
million homes.
Wind power has also become one
of the most rapidly expanding energy industries, with sales of
roughly U.S. $2 billion in 1998.
Germany led last year's gusty
boom in wind energ'y by adding 800
megawatts, pushing its wind energy capacity to more than 2,800
megawatts. The country's wind industry, which is only seven years
old, is already producing as much
electricity as two of Germany's
largest coal-fired plants. In the
northern state of Schleswig Holstein, wind now provides 15 percent of the electricity.
Spain also emerged as a major
player in wind power. In 1998, the
country pushed up its overall wind
energy capacity by 86 percent, to
850 megawatts. In the northern industrial state of Navarra,2S per
cent of the electricity is derived
from wind turbines, most of them
manufactured in local assembly facilities around Pamplona.
Denmark also added to its windpower capacity, and its 1,350 mega-
watts now generate more than
eight percent of the country's electricity. Danish companies have also
become leading exporters of wind
turbines, forming joint-venture
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1998
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Wind-power installations grew
rapidly in the United States during
1998, with new generating capacity
added in 10 states. The surge in
investment in the technology, the
largest in more than a decade, was
spurred by efforts to take advantage of a wind-energy tax credit
that is scheduled to expire in June
1999. The largest new projects are
a 107-megawatt wind farm in Minnesota, a 42-megawatt facility in
Wyoming, and a 2l-rnegawatt
plant in Oregon.
Despite this growth spurt, the
potential for wind power is still
enormous, and the nations that
could benefit most from the energy
source are in the developing world,
where power demand is increasing
rapidly and supplies of fossil fuels
are inadequate.
India is a prime candidate for
continued growth in wind-produced
energy. The country already has
900 megawatts of generating capacity in place, but wind development has slowed during the past
two years due to the suspension of
generous tax breaks enacted in the
mid-1990s. Experts anticipate restoration of some of these incentives
during 1999, however.
Unlike India, China has not yet
established any solid legal or governmental basis for a sustained
wind-power industry, although
a few private companies have
installed small wind projects in recent years, financed by foreign
investors. China can easily become
a wind superpower, boasting abundant wind resources in several regions, including a vast stretch of
Inner Mongolia.
!Uo..L"hops help
Dusrnesses go grcen
Through a series of Rotary workshops, Colorado, U.S.A., business
owners are learning how to improve their profitability while reducing negative environmental
impacts and contributing to a
cleaner and healthier world. A
$45,000 "sustainability Challenge
Grant" from the U.S. Environmen-
tal hotection Agency allowed R.I.
District 5450's Preserve Planet
Earth Committee and the Colorado
Sustainability Project to assemble
a team of environmental experbs to
impart their know-how to businesses, school districts, and government agencies.
"This is one of the most important projects that clubs in our district have undertaken, and it is
fully consistent with the principles
and purposes of Rotary in working
for the well-being of present and
future generations," says District
5450 Governor Dan Clark.
"The project was created to simply give business owners a concise,
simplified set of procedures with
checklists and well-defined clear
steps to follow," says Rotarian Bert
Melcher, who conceived the project.
"Now, they won't have to wade
through the masses of documents
and try to synthesize their own
checklists and processes. "
The free workshops, which have
been held since September 1998 at
five different locations within District 5450, tackle topics such as en-
ergy-saving measures, recycling,
and improved materials-processing
approaches, as well as better purchasing methods, new cost-assess-
ment software, and analytical
procedures. Actual case studies of
businesses that have improved
their profits by "going green" are
also explored at the workshops.
Rotarian Melcher adds that the
district's program is intended to
serve as a model for application
throughout the United States. For
more information about the workshops, call him at303/759-0032.
Beijing's bicycles lose
ground to automobiles
For decades, bicycles ruled the
roads in Beijing, Peoples Republic
of China. But now, a steady rise in
automobile traffic is beginning to
limit peddlers' progress.
In late October 1998, city officials
declared East Xisi Street a bicyclefree zone from 7 A.M. to 8 P.M.
Up to 6,000 bicycles an hour traveled the street in peak periods, according to city statistics. The ban
forces bike riders to detour down a
nearby street, giving East Xisi
Street lanes for cars in each direc-
tion, instead of one for cars and one
for bikes.
It's not likely that the automobile
will displace the bicycle in Beijing
anytime soon. The city's nine milIion bikes are still the most popular
form of transportation-and most
citizens cannot afford a car.
[Source: The Associated Press]
AII signs point to continued
growth of wind-energy generation
in 1999, with significant efforts in
Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japon, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. Elsewhere, Argentina, Brazil, Costa
Rica, Egypt, and Morocco appear
poised to develop sizeable wind industries in the coming years.
o Christopher Flauin is senior uicepresident of the Worldwatch Institute, an enuironmental think tank
based in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
For more information, uisit the
organization's Web site: http://
www.worldwatch.org.
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A Stripped Eears retrospectiue
tripped Gears, our popular humor column, started tn THE ROTARIAN back in January I94O as a "department devoted to levity." Jokes, cartoons, and humorous poems had appeared in the
rnagazine as early as 1912 (the magazine's first issue was published in
January 1911), but Rotarian readers startedto depend on the column
for a monthly chuckle after it was launched almost 60 years ago.
Over that time, we have printed more than 4,000 jokes and hundreds
of cartoons.
Readership surveys always show "Gears" to be our most popular
page. In 1983, we tried to "retire" the column, but we heard such an
outcry from our readers that we reinstated Stripped Gears a year later.
A few of our readers have asked about the meaning of the column's
name. When the gears of machinery such as cars, trucks, and tractors
are shifted badly, or if the clutch is defective, the teeth of the gearwheel
can be damaged-or "stripped." Thus our humor column is seen as a
slightly abused (and amused) Rotary wheel.
Here are some sample smiles from other April issues since L940. (The
cartoons were published in a limited edition Magazine Month booklet
in April 1981.)
This retrospective is something of a cultural archaeological expedition, revealing how humor-and our world-has changed over the
years. Maybe it will inspire you to send us your favorite joke.
_W[L WHITE, FOR THE EDITORS
Seed salesman to man mowing his lawn: "AlI you have to do is
cross our sword grass with this
bluegrass seed and when the wind
blows, the lawn will cut itself."
L94O
-April
Little Anne had been exceedingly naughty and during the dinner hour she was forced to eat alone
in the corner at a card table. When
everyone was seated, Father bowed
his head and gave thanks.
Then little Anne gravely bowed
her head and said: "Thank you,
dear Lord, for preparing a table before me in the presence of my enemies."
-April
The only thing we can remember about the speed of light is that
it gets here too soon in the morning.
1952
-April
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THE ROTAF|AIVAPF|L 19gO
1948
A woman went to buy a drinking bowl for her dog and the shopkeeper asked if she would like
one inscribed "For the Dog."
"It doesn't really matter," she replied, "My husband doesn't drink
water and the dog can't read."
1956
-April
All summer, Paul watched
Ed
give demonstrations on how to
putt. Ed, who sometimes wore
glasses, seldom missed a putt, even
from the edge of the golf green.
Paul asked how he holed out so
accurately.
"Well," said Ed, "these glasses
are bifocals. When I line up the
putt, I look through the edges of the
two lenses so I see two balls, one
small and one big, and two holes,
one small and one big. I just knock
the small ball in the big hole."
-April
1960
A woman entered a fruit store
and said to the clerk, "I want to buy
fruit for my sick husband."
"We have some very nice sweet
cherries on sale for 50 cents a box."
some
said the clerk.
The woman looked them over,
said she would take a box, and then
added: "Have they been sprayed
with poison?"
"No, ma'am. You will have to purchase that over at the dtug store."
1962
-April
A middle-aged couple was
sunbathing on a vacation beach.
"Do you realize, Henry,' said the
wife dreamily, "this is the first time
we've been anywhere without the
kids for years?"
"Yes, Marcia, but I miss them.
Throw some sand in mv face."
L964
-April
No wonder today's teenager
is mixed up. HaIf the adults are
telling him to "find himself" and
the other half are telling to him
"get lost."
-April
1966
into a lady
and accidentally knocked several
packages from her arms.
ed street, he bumped
"Why can't you be like other
people," the angry lady shouted,
"and just wear a watch!"
-April
1987
TWo Texans had always wanted to go ice fishing. They bought
their gear and flew to one of Minnesota's big lakes, but it did not go
well. On their return, neighbors
asked about their adventure.
"You couldn't drag me back up
there," said one Texan. "Ice fishing
is for folks with frozen brains.
It
A typical American is one who
has just driven home from an Italian film in his German car, is sitting on Spanish furniture drinking
Brazilian coffee fortified with Irish
whiskey out of an English bone
china cup, and with his Japanese
ballpoint pen is writing his congressman protesting that imports
are ruining his business.
f972
took me and Frank three full hours
to chop a hole in the ice big enough
for the boat."
rowing."
he said.
"The good news is that yes, they
-April
1990
T\vo Rotarians, both avid baseball fans, were wondering if baseball is played in heaven. They
agreed that the first one to die
would contact the other to let
him know.
-April
Soon thereafter. one of them
One secretary to another: "He died. As promised, he got in touch
not only lied to me about the size of with his friend.
"I have good news and bad n.e'ws,"
his yacht, but he made me do the
t976
-April
A jeweler was carrying
a
grandfather clock to his shop for
repairs. On his way down a crowd-
play baseball in heaven. The bad
news is that you are pitching next
Thursday."
-April
1992
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THE ROTARIAN/APRIL
1999
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I
Jokes and smiles from the Rotary
regional magazine family
f,ost in the translation?
For those of you interested in this newfangled electronic communication, you might like to know that a
bunch of Latin scholars spent a week in Finland debating on the correct Latin words for "e-mail." The result
was inscriptionis cursualis electronico, which I'm told,
can be roughly translated as'running along electrical
TU NE TROU/ES
PNS
QUE TU
T'Y ?RENDs UN ?CU TROP 16T ?
inscriptions.o
It put me in mind of C.P. Scott, former editor of the
Manchester Guardian, who once said: 'Television? No
good will come of this device. The word is hatf-Greek
and
half-Latin.'
ROTARY MAGAZINE, Great
Britain and Irelond
Short takes
r A well-adjusted person is one who can play golf as if
it were a game.
A clear conscience is merely the result of a bad
o
memory.
. Sign in a barber shop: "Haircuts while you wait."
=
o
J
Bumbling in the bush
U
E
F
A city slicker heard a fortune could be made by
working as a timber-cutter in the bush. He found such
a job, but the foreman said, "If you can chop down 100
trees tomorrow, you're hired."
So the next day, the urban refugee got a chainsaw
and happily sawed away all day. When the trees were
counted, the tally was only 98.
"Oh well," said the foreman, "you'll get another
chance tomomow."
Next day, same story, but 99 trees.
"I don't believe this," said the foreman. "A big strong
fellow like yourself should be able to cut down 100
trees in a day. You get one more chance, and I'll join
you to show you the trick of it."
Next day, the worker and the foreman went into the
I'ol
O
s
z
o
o
CL
F
o
you think
,t
're starting him a bit
bush. Upon arrival at a nice spot, the foreman put the
chainsaw on the ground and started the engine.
Shouted the worker: "Man! Where's the noise coming from?"
ABOVE TWO ITEMS FROM ROTARY DOWN UNDER.
South West Pacific Rim
'ili g:s flr>a" r*I
o Use
icrqr iaas s {, Y.e$s
your MasterCard to pay your Visa, and vice-
versa.
o Pop some popcorn without putting the lid on the pan.
o Make a
done.
list of things to do that you have already
o Fill out your tax form using Roman numerals.
o Drive to work in reverse.
o Read the dictionary upside down and look for secret
messages
o Write a short story using alphabet soup.
PHILIPPINE ROTARY, The Philippines
F{tllmiraa *}x"rtl}"$
o The treasurer of a firm called his assistant to his office and said to him: "Explain this to me: Last month I
paid you an extra I0O req,is on purpose and you didn't
say a thing. This month I paid you a tOO reais less and
you're complainittg."
"Boss, it's just that I can tolerate one mistake, but
two, no."
o The new father told his friend enthusiastically, "My
son has my face!"
His friend replied, "Don't wolTy about it, at least he's
llluslrrtron: smo/Pf
healthy."
BRASIL ROTARIO, Brazil
"I think that you'll find this wine to be extremely
light and sprightly."
uschr
rxe
nomnnilFiillE
Tig-l
llery ol some ol out lauorite cartoonists
artoonists have been peppering the rnagazine, a practice that continues to this
day. And why not? There's always room for
levity.
Each year, our beleaguered cartoon editor
In the early years,
(that's me) sifts through 15,000 cartoons to
cartoons were usualfind the 50 or so that seem good enough to
ly part of an article's
publish. True, sometimes the gags fall flat
layout, placed there
and can't muster the strength to tickle many
to help the reader
funny bongs. But jokes generally get a good
visuali ze or:.e of the
reception-anything from a smile to a chuckle
text's highlights. In
to a guffaw is acceptthe 1930s, the ediable.
tors and art director
Over the years
got a little daring
we've welcomed the
and began featuring
wit of a wide-ranging
art and cartoon hucadre of cartoonists
mor on the cover,
to our pages. This isusually unrelated to any editorial content. sue, in humorous
Among those contributors: Arthur Crouch homage to Magazine
(two of his covers are pictured here) and Month, we introduce
Norman Rockwell. Soon the editors began a group of current
placing cartoons here and there among the contributors by way
pages, little oases of humor within a general- of a brief biography,
ly serious environment.
a photo, and a samWhen Stripped Gears starbed up in January ple of previously unpublished work. We
L940, cartoons and other humor had a place of hope that you're pleased to make their
their own in the magazine, but the editors acquaintance. FeeI free to laugh with them.
pages of this magazine with their arb and
humor almost since the first issue came
off the press in 1911.
continued to sprinkle funny drawings
throughout the front and back pages of the
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,I9'I
-CHARLES
W. PRATT, FOR TTIE EDITORS
Glenn Bernhardt, who cheerfully describes
himself as "a tarnished relic of 'the Golden Age of
Cartoonirg,"'won a $5 prize for a cartoon he drew
when he was in grade school in Minnesota, U.S.A.,
and has been drawing ever since. He attended the
Minneapolis Art Institute, and kept up his carbooning even while serving
with the U.S. Merchant
Marines in World War II.
Finding his postwar career in commercial art
dull and uncreative. he
bundled up eight cartoons and sent them to
The Sq,turday Euening
Post, which bought two of
them. After subsequent
sales to Colliers, TrLLe,
and Good Housekeeping,
a professional cartoonist was born. Glenn lives in
Carmel, California, U.S.A., where he helped start
the Northern California Cartoon & Humor Association in 1954 and served as president for 35
LEIX\ilINI/A]DL1
years.
Frans de Boer, who uses the pen name
Efbe, was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1930. "In 1944," says Frans, "the
American Army liberated Maastricht. The
American soldiers brought not only freedom
and chewing gum, but also cartoons to Holland through the army newspaper Stors
and Stripes. This was the first time I recognized that a cartoon could be an
art form." In 1947 ,
Frans won
a
scholarship to the
Academy of Art in
Maastricht. In
1952. he moved to
Amsterdam,
where he took
a
variety of jobs and
started to create
and publish cartoons, going full-time in
1965. Efbe carboons have
appeared inPunch, Reader's Digest, The Saturday Euening Post, American
Medical News, Berliner Morgenpost, Die Welt, Belgium Het Volh, and many other newspapers and
In 1989, Frans held a one-man exhibit
in The House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo,
magazines.
Bulgaria, which purchased more than 50 Efbe cartoons for its collection. He proudly informs us that
several years ago he became an honorary member of
the Rotary Club of Gabrovo.
THE ROTARIAN/APRIL
1999
I21
I
Harvey A. Bosch was born in 1938 in Bozeman,
Montana, U.S.A., and spent the first 25 years of his
life there. While majoring in art at Montana State
University in the 1950s, he decided he wanted to be
art is published in Barcons, The WalI
Street Journal, l/E
the Nqtional En- I | ,quirer, andother l/lo
I arge circul ation -(.lrrl
-
newspapers
and
magazines. He is
-...
a p4.
two-term pa-st
president of Car-,Atr
toonists Northwest, \
based in Seattle. In
his spare time, Harvey
is a screenwriter, polishing off one screenplay
a year.
r
"Clean up my room? Is it a good idea
to tamper with the ecology like that?"
More than 25,000 Randy Glasbergen car-
toons have been published in magazines, newslet-
ters, and newspapers around the world. His
work can also be found in books, greeting
cards, advertising, T-shirts, mouse pads,
mugs, screensavers, and even on dog
raincoats. His clients include Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computers, HewlettPackard, Hallmark Cards, the U.S. Postal
Service, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Johnson & Johnson,
Sprint, and many other corporations and
publishers. Randy's newspaper panel,
"The Better Half,'is syndicated seven
days a week by King Features Syndicate. He has
written three
successful car-
tooning instruction books
"It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new
and published
six paperback software into their brains.'
collections of his cartoons. Randy lives in Sherburne, New York, U.S.A., with
his wife, Karen, and their four children. When not at the drawing board, he can
usually be found at one of his computers, surfing the net, updating his Web site,
or answering e-mail.
You can find more of his cartoons online at http://www.glasbergen.com.
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WoNS
"A cartoon has the mortality of a firefly," says David W. Harbaugh of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. "If it succeeds in that brief moment to
light up a smile or, even better, a hearty laugh, then the cartoonist is
justified." David got interested in drawing at an early age. "I slalomed
through the educational system," he says, "leaving a trail of cartoons in
the margins of textbooks." After high school, he spent two years in the
U.S. Navy and then enrolled in college, earning a degree in history. He
then embarked on a 42-year career as an industrial exhibit designer, and during those years continued with his avocation-free-lance
cartooning. It's been a successful hobby, and David's carboons have
appeared in scores of publications.
"Im sorry, there's no rebate
for jet lag."
Lo Linkert started cartooning in 1950 in his
hometown of Frankfurt, Germany, for the U.S.
newspaper, The Occupation Chronicle, as a sports
cartoonist. He also did free-lance movie poster illustrations for 20th-Century Fox. In 1956, he emigrated to Canada with his wife, Inge, and their sons
Frank and Ulf. He worked in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 10 years as an illustrator.
Since 1966, he's worked as a full-time cartoonist
for hundreds of rnagazines in the United States,
Canada, and Europe. THE ROTARIAN was one
of his first clients.
So far, he's produced 40.000 cartoons and pubIished 28 books.
In the process,
Lo has received 15
international
awards. Lo and
Inge (right) both
celebrated their
7 lt]r' birthdavs
last vear.
"If you really want to know what I want to
be when I grow up, check out my Web site."
rre
nouaniFiilgeg
Tzr l
Henry Martin was born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., in 1925. He
graduated from Princeton University (New Jersey) in 1948, then attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., from
1948 to 1950.
In addition to being a contract artist for The New Yorleer since 1967, he
has appeared in many national magazines such as Haruard Business Reuiew, The Saturday Euening Post, Looh,, Saturday Reuiew, Ladies' Home
Journal, Gourmet, Audubon Magazine, Good Houseleeeping,
Natural Hi.story Magazine, antd England's The Spectator and
Punch. For 15 years he drew a daily newspaper panel,
"Good News/Bad News ," for Tribune Media Services, which evolved from a collection of business
cartoons published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Henry's work is also featured in many books
publishe dby The New Yorh,er.
He is now retired as a full-time carboonist. but
over the years Henry
has contributed nearly
100 cartoons to THE
ROTARIAN-including
two covers. Henry's
original cartoon drawings are in many private collections as well
as the Swann Collection, the IBM Collection, and the graphic
arts collection of
Princeton Universitv.
"I want to get as many books as possiblebefore they're all replaced by CD-ROMs."
"After trying my hand at several vocations, including diamond cutting,
bartending, ballroom-dance teaching, and construction work, I felt that there
was something missing in
Masear of Eugene,
Oregon, U.S.A. "There just
I was doing."
Scott had been submittin
zines during his last
few jobs and was fortunat
markets. "It wasn't
enough to live on at first, but it was adequate to give me the confidence to make
the leap and focus entirely on magazine work. It didn't take long for me to realize that I had finally found my little niche in life." Scott's work has appeared
in more than 300 publications, in- N
N
cluding the National Enquirer,
Medical Economics, Air & Space,
Punch, and the National Reuiew.
W
"Will everyone please quit pointing at the accountant!
I haven't even started the mieeting iet."
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FOTABIAN/APBIL 1gg9
Molly Sadler (pictured below, center, with daughters Lynne and Claire) was born fairly deep in the
heart of Texas, U.S.A., on the south plains in the tiny town of Amherst. She's lived in Texas all her life
except for one year in the Caribbean right after graduating from college. "I love Texas and I love Amarillo,
wheie I now live," she says. "We boast ballet, symphony, opera, theater, an art museum, and, of course,
barbecue. It's hard to be humble when you're from Texas." She's competed in a rodeo, cooks a mean pot of
chili, and once caught a roadrunner barehanded. (Take that, Wile E. Coyote.)
"I draw cartoons the way I ride horses: one at a time. Ii
do gag cartoons in charcoal. Sometimes even Texans
have to erase. I've never settled on one character or --:..1
place. I draw some inspiration from our old cat,
Smokie." Molly's work has been published in
Forbes, The Siturdny Euening Poit,the No- ,,;;11..
tional Reuiew, and other publications.
),,rut,f-*i.trt,
"I just thought, for once' why not take
a
boat?"
"When The Saturday Euening Post bought my
first cartoon more than 40 years ago, I thought,
'what a neat way to make a living,'" says Vahan
Shirvanian of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey,
U.S.A. Cartooning
for m agazines did
indeed become his
life's work, with sales
everywhere, ranging
from The New Yorher
to the National Enquirer in the United
States, Punch in England, and Woman's
Weehly in Australia.
He was voted Best
Cartoonist of the
Ye
ar twice
(
1991
,
1996) by Hishlishts
for Children, antdonce
by the National Car-
{"1
ffi
=,5
77-*i7
toonists Society.
When he's not
cartoonitg, Vahan
hikes. That's daughter, Nancy, with him in the
snapshot taken atop Pyramid Mountain, one of
New Jersey's rugged little peaks. He can't wait to go
hiking with his new grandson.
7'"?
)LL
,/'
THE ROT RIAI{,APAIL
1900
25
Left: Central Plaza tower illuminates the Hong Kong skyline at night. Above: A traditional junk
(boat) chqs by an elaborate floating restaurant in Aberdeen Harbour.
After the Singapore convention,
explore the grand vistas of the Vertical City.
by Aparna Mukherjee
n the early 19bh centur;r, the British established
a istrative Region
small community on a "barren rock" in a mountainous corner of southeast China that they
hoped would one day become the "Gibraltar of the
East." The colonial trade outpost exceeded all expectations by becoming a major international banking and
trading hub, spawning a dynamic melange of cultures
and nationalities.
A treaty that bound China and Britain for a period
of 99 years ended in an elaborate changeover ceremony (complete with fireworks) marking the historic
handover of the territory to mainland China in July
1997. Hong Kong retained its colonial character, street
names, and currency, the Hong Kong dollar-but without the queen's picture. While many writers use the
cliche of "East meets West" when describing Hong
Kong, this cosmopolitan city has managed to retain its
centuries-old Chinese traditions in a very visible way.
Hong Kong has become a major tourist destination,
attracting approximately 10 million visitors each year.
A journey to this Eastern jewel provides a wealth of
cultural experiences, many of which simply happen
while wandering the nooks and crannies of this compact metropolis. Hong Kong is divided into four
parts-Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories, and its 235 outlying islands. This Special Admin-
(SAR), as it is officially known to the
Chinese, covers about 1,100 square kilometres (420
square miles).
Despite the noisy crowds of downtown Hong Kong,
many visitors are surprised to learn that much of the
country is uninhabited. Almost three-quarters of the
territory is technically classified as rural, and a remarkable 40 percent of that has been left untouched as
country parkland. Most out-of-towners spend the majority of their time on either side of Victoria Harbour in
Central, Admiralty, Wanchai, and Causeway Bay on
Hong Kong Island, or around tourist-friendly
Tsimshatsui in Kowloon.
About 6.6 million people call Hong Kong their home.
Until recently, the district of Mongkok enjoyed the
record-book honor of being the world's most densely
populated urban area. Hong Kong also lays claim to a
laundry list of other superlatives, including: the
world's largest neon sign; the tallest outdoor bronze
Buddha (in the sitting position); the city with the most
Rolls Royces per capita (about 1,600 vehicles, or one
percent of the car-maker's all-time production); the
largest floating restaurant, aptly named the Jumbo;
the heaviest suspension bridge, the Tsing Ma; the
highest average consumption of cogrrac; and five of the
world's 10 busiest McDonald's restaurants. As dubious
THE FOTAFTAN/APFTL
1999
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as some of these distinctions may be, it all goes to show
that Hong Kongers relish living on a grand scale at a
fast pace, while the rest of the world takes notice.
?Ae ?e*ira/ €ctq
As you walk around Hong Kong for the first time,
you'll soon find a crick in the back of your neck from
having to stare skyward at the gravity-defying monuments of glass and metal that comprise the city's urban landscape. Hong Kong features some of the
world's tallest buildings built on an intimidating terrain carved from rock and marble. Visitors are greeted
by the ever-present, rhythmic thud of pile drivers and
jackhammers that continue to forge more mammoth
office towers every day. The skyline is composed of
buildings that appear to be vertically stacked, creeping
ever higher up the sheer slopes of the mountains that
loom hundreds of metres above Victoria Harbour.
Your tour of the city typically begins with the rush of
a crowd, whose energ'y and bustle will almost sweep
you off your feet. Many visitors start their journey in
the Central district, the axis of economic and political
life. Among the gleaming
skyscrapers and sprawling department stores,
you'll find cobblestone
lanes, Taoist temples, and
the remnants of colonial
architecture hidden behind or even under their
more contemporary
tures the Centre Building in the Central district,
where the tower's massive facade changes color by the
minute, much to the consternation of aviation authorities who worry that it might confuse airplane pilots
flying overhead. (Fortunately, there have been no accidents to date.)
On a clear d"y, if you look up above Central, you
may notice a large bowl-shaped object hovering in the
distance. Described by some
wok," the seven-story Peak
modern in contrast to its col
Victoria Peak, 400 metres (about 1,300 feet) above sea
level. Historically, the Peak's legendary vistas and
cooler climate made it a welcome escape for British
colonials from the swelter of the city below. Coolies
bearing sedan chairs used to carry the well-heeled
residents up the mountain to posh homes-the trip
took about three hours each way. Today, visitors can
take motorized tram cars up the almost vertical ascent
from Central daily from sunrise until midnight. In
addition to the spectacular panoramic view, you can
also find souvenir shops, a Ripley's Believe It or Not
Museum, virtual reality
simulators, and an array
of restaurants.
Eahz
Electric tram lines still
exist from the turn-ofthe-century, trundling
along their tracks from
one end of Hong Kong Isneighbors. The greatest
land to the other. For a
draw for visitors, howevflat HK $2 fare (less than
er, may be the architecU.S. 30 cents), you can
tural landmarks constructed in the last few
climb aboard these anadecades. When it was
chronisms and enjoy a
completed in 1985 by Enwonderful slow-motion
glish architect Sir Nortour of the city. For
man Foster, the head- Hong Kong boasts the world's largest
speedier travel, hop on
floating the
quarters of the Hongkong restaurant, called the Jumbo.
MTR (Mass Transit
and Shanghai Banking
Rail)-it's fast, clean, and
Corporation (HSBL) was one of the most-talked safe. The underground system has six lines, including
about buildings in the world. The bank's staggering the AEL (Airport Express Line), which is the most efU.S. $1 billion price tag broke all records for cost per ficient way to travel to the recently completed airport
square metre, making it the most expensive office at Chek Lap Kok on Lantau Island.
block of its time. The building still looks as if it is unEven though the MTR is one of the finest subways
der construction, with its complicated battleship-grey in the world, the most popular ride in town for both
exterior and visible gears that operate some 60 esca- daily commuters and tourists is a cruise aboard the
lators (the largest number of any office building in Star Ferry. For more than a century, boats with
the world). Down the street, rival Bank of China's names like Morning Star and Twinkle Star have
headquarters consists of four triangular shafbs of glass made the seven-minute voyage hundreds of times a
and gleaming metal, slicing into a two-story cube of day across Victoria Harbour. The boats are very afpolished granite-an imposing commercial monument fordable and provide an unbeatable view of the Hong
that is impossible to miss while gazing at the skyline. Kong skyline for tourists who often take photos from
If you head farbher east to Wanchai, you'll run into the upper deck. Ferries also sail out to many of the
Central Plaza, the one-time haunt of the fictional outlying islands, including Lantau Island, home of
hooker-with - a-he art- of- gold, Suzie Wong. A testament the Big Buddha statue and the Po Lin Monastery.
to the glitz and excess of Hong Kong, thre pl,aza's office Other ferries travel to Lamma Island, where seafood
tower glitters with gold and silver tiles, and by night, fanciers can satiate their cravings for fresh fish and
you can actually count the bands of neon lights on its crab. In many seafood restaurants, the main coursspire to tell the time; they change color in l5-minute es are often kept in huge fish tanks so diners can
increments. The city's other impressive light show fea- choose their own catch of the dav.
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most talented chefs have settled in Hong Kong, offer-
ing everything from fiery Thai curries and Korean
barbecue to Japanese sushi and Singapore noodles.
There's even an area known as "Soho" (short for "South
of Hollywood Road"), a virtual mini-United Nations of
trendy restaurants and bars that has grown along the
Midlevels Escalator, the world's largest outdoor escalator system.
Down the street is Lan Kwai Fong, a chic hotspot for
Iate-night revelers who often spill out of the bars and
pubs to fill the streets with a festive street-party atmo-
sphere. A popular nightlife option is karaoke, the
Japanese sing-a-Iong craze that's also a recreational
staple in Hong Kong.
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shopping. While Hong Kong is no longer the fabled
shopper's paradise of 15 or 2O years ago, it still offers
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While Hong Kong is renowned for being a shopper's
paradise, arguably its greatest pastime is eating. With
one eatery for every 650 people, the city may well boast
the world's highest ratio of restaurants to residents.
They range from hole-in-the-wall noodle shops to
world-class, five-star gourmet restaurants. Consequently, the traditional Cantonese greeting is not
"How are you?" but "Neh selz joh fan, meiyq.?" or translated: "Have you eaten rice yet?"
The most authentic Cantonese food is dim sutnwhich is actually more a way of life than a meal. Dim
sun't. is a Chinese smorgasbord of tasty dumplings,
buns, rolls, tarts, and other delectables that arrive at
your table in bamboo steamer baskets. In the most traditional restaurants, trolleys carrying an assortment
of food items roll by your table, pushed by elderly
women shouting what they have to offer in guttural
Cantonese. The other diners are no less raucous, gulping countless cups of Chinesetea and gossiping loudly.
Typically a weekenddim surn rrreal is a big, noisy family affair, so you have to be assertive to flag down the
carts. At smaller restaurants, dishes usually come
straight from the kitchen to your table-which may be
less fun, but you also have less chance of accidentally
pointing to a dish of pickled chicken's feet, a popular
local delicacy.
Other types of Chinese cuisine are also available in
abundance, including Shanghainese, Sichuan, Peking,
Chiu Chow, and Hunan. Many of Southeast Asia's
fans alike. Many tourists are humbled by the
smothering crush of crowds in Causeway Bay during
Japanese department store sales or the packed side-
walks of window shoppers in Tsimshatsui. Society
matrons known as "tai-tais" make going to lunch and
visiting designer shops a way of life, and there are
more Gucci outlets here than in New York City. Meanwhile, in the alleys and streets of Yaumatei and Mongkok, street stall vendors sell everything you never
knew you needed-all manner of undergarments,
clothing, and watches, as well as luggage, imitation
Prada bags, novelty T-shirts, exotic fruits, cultural artifacts, and more.
One stre etbazaar, the Temple Street Night Market,
doesn't set up shop until well after dark. At night, the
traffic is blocked off so that street vendors and fortune
tellers can make-or break-your fortunes. You can
also enjoy Cantonese street opera singers who perform
without elaborate costumes or make-up, but add to the
stimulating mix of color and chaos. During the rainy
days, visitors can view museums that feature extensive exhibits on traditional and contemporary art; the
history of tea, and even horse racing, which is the only
legalized form of gambling in the territory. Or take
a tour of the country's hundreds of temples; there are
40 alone dedicated to Tin Hau, goddess of the sea.
Hong Kong is a dynamic multicultural city that
keeps churning at an incredible pace. For those who
decide to visit this bustling metropolis once again,
chances are that it will have radically changed-even
if it's only one year later.
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underprivileged and terminally ill children.
by Anthony G. Craine
aseball players in the United States and
Canada face a formidable challenge when the
1999 season opens this month: to re-create the
excitement generated by last season's amazing success
stories. The 1998 season saw the New York Yankees
establish themselves as one of the greatest teams in
history; Cal Ripken, the sport's "Iron Man" and one of
its most respected players, ended his record streak of
consecutive games played at 2,632. But leading the
way through baseball's Renaissance year were slug-
gers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, who thrilled
fans by chasing after the game's most awe-inspiring
individual record: Roger Maris' 1961 mark of 61 home
runs in one season.
Both players passed Maris'total, with McGwire hitting 70 home runs and Sosa hitting 66. While their
home-run tallies earned both players legions of new
fans, another important ingredie.rt in the popularity of
McGwire and Sosa and by extension, baseball itself,
was the devotion to community service that both players displayed. McGwire pledged $1 million a year from
his current three-year contract to efforts to help victims of child abuse; Sosa contributed generously to efforts to help the people of his native country, the
Dominican Republic. Fans recognized that these two
players were heroes not only because of the way
they wielded a baseball bat on the field, but also because of the way they wielded their influence off the
field.
The Rotary Club of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., is a
leader when it comes to furthering the ideals of players
like McGwire and Sosa with its annual Branch Rickey
Award. The club created the award in 1991 to recognize baseball players who have established themselves
as role models and contributors to their communities-
individuals who best exemplify the Rotary ideal of
"Service Above Self." Fittingly, the award was named
for Branch Rickey, the legendary baseball executive
who etched his name into the history books in 1945
when he signed the great Jackie Robinson to a contract
to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Each of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball
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nominates a player or other team employee for the
Branch Rickey Award. The nominees are then placed
on a ballot, and representatives from the media, district governors in cities that are home to Major League
Baseball teams, and former winners of the award cast
their votes. While McGwire and Sosa were nominated
by their respective teams, it was Paul Molitor of the
Minnesota Tlvins , a 2l-year veteran of the game, who
was chosen as the winner in 1998. Molitor, who has
since announced his retirement, received the award
during ceremonies rn
Denver last November. Previous winners
Branch Rickey Award, Denver Kids can improve more
lives.
"The Branch Rickey Award has great impact," says
Donna Hultin, associate director of Denver Kids and a
member of the Branch Rickey Award advisory committee. "With additional funding, we're able to serve more
kids." This year, the event brought in more than
$140,000, according to Rotarian Jim Pallasch, chair-
man of the 1998 Branch Rickey Award Executive Committee. Matching funds provided by Denver television
station KWGN's "Yes 2
Youth," a fund of the
Robert R. McCormick
are Dave Winfield,
Kirby Puckett , Ozzie
Tribune Foundation,
make the event even
Brett Butler
Molitor. a former
World Series Most
Smith, Tony Gwynn,
Craig Biggio, who
more lucrative.
and
was
Valuable Player and
on hand to present the
1998 award to Molitor.
the 21st baseball player
"To receive an award
in history to reach the
named in Branch
3,000-hit mark, won the
award based on his ca-
Rickey's honor certainly
carries great signifi-
reer-long commitment
to service. From his
cance," Molitor said.
Rickey will be
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membered as the man
who signed Robinson
and as a knowledgeable
student of baseball with
a keen eye for young
talent. Less publicized,
however, were his efforts to help those in Paul Molitor greets young people who benefit from
need. Rickey was one of Denver Kids, Inc., an outreach program sponsored by
the founding members the Rotary Club of Denver, Colorado.
of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes, and he created the Knot HoIe
Gang, which provided tickets to baseball games for un-
derprivileged children. Robinson said, upon Rickey's
death in 1965: "The thing about him was that he was
always doing something for someone else. I know, because he did so much for me."
Denver Rotarians set out to recognize those who
have followed in Rickey's footsteps and, in the process,
lend a hand to many of the same kinds of kids who
Rickey took under his wing when he created the Knot
Hole Gang. All of the proceeds from the Branch Rickey
Award festivities, which in 1998 included a $t00-aplate banquet and a silent auction of a vast array of
memorabilia, benefit Denver Kids, Inc. Founded in
L946 by the Rotary Club of Denver and the Denver
Public Schools, Denver Kids identifies at-risk boys and
girls aged five to 18 and provides long-term, one-onone preventive counseling. In addition, each child is
matched with a volunteer "friend," an adult from the
community who serves as a positive role model. Volunteer friends donate more than 30,000 hours of time
annually.
The staff of Denver Kids works with as many as 800
youngsters each year, striving to guide the children
through high school and to a productive life beyond
graduation. Thanks to a high-profile endeavor Iike the
earliest days as a player, Molitor, like Rickey,
provided tickets to the
underprivileged
through his "Ignitor
Team" program. His
most recent efforts have
focused on Camp
Heartland, a facility in
Willow River, Minnesota, U.S.A., for HIV-positive children.
Helping young people has always been a priority for
Molitor. When he played for the Milwaukee Brewers,
his work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation Ied him to
befriend a young girl who was stricken with cancer.
Later, Molitor signed a contract to play for the Toronto
Blue Jays. Shortly after his move to Toronto, Molitor
received word that the little girl's condition had deteriorated and she was not expected to survive much
longer. Molitor flew to Milwaukee to visit his young
friend in the hospital.
"I went into her room and saw her for the first time
without hair, bloated from all the medicine, attached
to wires and tubes," Molitor said. "I gave her a big hug,
and she said, 'How's the transition to Toronto going?
How's your family adjusting to the move? How does
your daughter like school in Toronto?"'
The memory of that conversation arises in Molitor's
mind when he thinks about why he devotes himself to
helping others. "I was really humbled at that moment,
to see a young person in that situation still be concerned about putting others above herself," he said. "I
think that's how we learn to do that in our own walks
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Anthony G. Craine is a writer on the Publications
staff of Rotary Internq,tional.
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ess than two decades ago, Rotarians inclined to
create a project with an environmental bent
found themselves breaking relatively new
ground. But ecological concerns began to gain leverage
during the late 1980s, giving rise to an international
wave of environmental fervor. On the crest of that
movement, Rotary International launched its Preserve
Planet Earth Program.
Since its inception in 1990, Preserve Planet Earth
has spawned a wide range of Rotary club projects with
an emphasis on global environmentalism and sustainable development. The program took root and ex-
panded rapidly within Rotary International's
extensive network of resources. From reforestation to
irrigation, and from soil conservation to recycling,
Rotarians now use the framework of the Preserve
Planet Earth Program to mobilize volunteers and promote ecological practices
worldwide-but envi ron -
mentalism hasn't
always
been so easy.
When former U.S. Senator
Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin,
U.S.A.) began a push to
place environmental issues
on the nation's political
agenda in 1963, he was seen
as somewhat of a maverick.
Before Nelson, few had campaigned successfully for en-
when Chief Seattle, leader of the Suquamish tribe in
the Puget Sound region of the northwestern United
States, expressed his concerns about the environment
to the U.S. government in a now-famous message. His
timeless words, "The earth does not belong to man,
man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like
the blood that unites us all," have proven prophetic.
Generations since have struggled to find a way for expanding industries to flourish alongside an increasingly fragile ecosystem. For their part, Rotarians are
striving to strike this delicate balance. From educating
U.S. executives about conservation to composting domestic waste in India, Rotary clubs are leading their
communities into the next century with an environmental conscience.
In Colorado, U.S.A., Rotarians have discovered a
way to connect an environmentally astute community
with like-minded businesses. For five years, the
Rotary Club of Boulder has
produced'The Environmental Green Pages," a resource
guide for community recycling. The manual includes
listings of recycling sites
and hazardous waste dropoff centers in the Boulder
area, as well as conservation
tips and listings of
vironmental causes, let
alone gained national atten-
tion for their efforts. But
Nelson had vision-he could
important conservation would become to international welfare,
health, and the economy.
In 1970, Nelson succeeded in capturing the public's
attention with a nationwide environmental "teach-in."
His event, now known as Earth Day and observed annually on22 April, planted seeds of concern at a grassroots level. While the novelty of his early efforts may
cast him in the role of crusader, Nelson was not so far
ahead of his time. A heightened environmental consciousness is no longer an anomaly-nor is it a choice.
Recycling, protecting the environment, and conserving
natural resources have become an integral parb of life
in the United States and elsewhere.
Since Earbh Day's inception, the U.S. Congress has
enacted nearly 40 major federal environmental laws.
More striking, perhaps, is the fact that more than 80
percent of Americans now consider themselves "environmentalists." Citizens have become today's crusaders for change, and they provide the enerry behind a
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In 1999, the Rotary club
teamed up with the Boulder
Daily Camera,the city's newspaper, and the Boulder Energy Conservation Center to
create an even more comprehensive guide. The 32page handbook will be distributed to the Daily Cq,mere,'s 53,000 subscribers on Earth Duy, and it will also
be available at libraries and other public buildings.
Rotarians believe the guide helps Boulder consumers to make environmentally conscious choices-and
their efforts seem to be working. Officials at the
Household Waste Department of the City of Boulder
report that they have seen an annual 30 percent increase in drop-offs since first placing advertisements
in the guide. Local businesses advertise in the guide
too, and a number them are reaping the rewards. 'I've
used it recently because I discovered that my own dry
cleaner wouldn't accept my hangers," said Norris
Hermsmeyer, chairman of the heserve Planet Earth
Committee for R.I. District 5450. "Based on the recycling guide, I switched to another cleaner which recycles my hangers."
While the experience of the Boulder club indicates
that an interest in the environment can be good for
defores-
ting cli-
around
the world in the'decades ahead," says Lester Brown,
president of Worldwatch Institute, an environmental
research organization based in Washington, D.C.,
U.S.A. The idea of global interdependence is hardly
new. Similar notions have existed since at least 1854.
business, there remains a misconception that an environmental conscience cannot exist within a profitable
corporate mind. "We so frequently hear political and
business leaders, economists, and others who should
know better vacuously assert that they 'are for the
environment if it doesn't cost jobs,"' said Nelson in a
1995 Earth Day speech. "This misses the obvious point
that a healthy environment and a prosperous economy
are inextricably tied one to the other."
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Rotarian business owners in northern Colorado
share Nelson's views. With the help of a $45,000
"Sustainability Challenge Grant" from the U.S. Environmental hotection Agency (EPA), they are learning
how to increase profits while reducing environmental
impacts. The project brings Rotarian business leaders
together with outside experts for a series of workshops.
Sessions focus on how simple adjustments in energy
consumption, waste management, and purchasing
policies can benefit industry as well as the planet.
Ithough Rotarians can make ecologically sound
decisions regarding their lives and the way they
conduct business, they cannot control the effects of years of human disregard for the earth. For
every acre of wetland lost, and for every lake or river
polluted beyond use, the economy has suffered a tremendous blow. From commercial fishermen and farmers to those who work in the tourism and recreation
industries, the livelihoods of millions of people depend
upon an abundance of uncontaminated water.
According to the EPA, U.S. lakes, rivers, and coastal
waters are cleaner today than they were 25 years ago.
Still, nearly 40 percent are too polluted for swimming
or for fishing. "'We've come a long wdy," said Todd Robins, an environmental attorney with the U.S. Public
Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), on the 25th anniversary of the Clean Water Act in October 1997. "Although our rivers no longer catch fire, we still have a
long way to go. More than a third of American water-
ways remain unsafe for swimming, fishing, and other
uses. The Clean Water Act has been a band-aid, not a
cure, for pollution." U.S. PIRG has called upon Con-
gress to strengthen the act, but in the meantime,
Rotarians who aren't afraid to get their feet wet have
stepped in to help clean up local waterways.
In coastal southern California (R.I. District 5330),
three clubs teamed up to help clear the Santa
Margarita River Watershed of more than 100 tons
(about 90 metric tons) of trash. Before the massive
cleanup, sponsored by the Rotary clubs of Murrieta,
Temecula, and Temecula Sunrise, the Santa
Margarita and its tributaries were littered with everything from tires to washing machines. Rotarians in
District 5330 helped to coordinate the efforts of more
than 1,000 volunteers who rid the watershed of refuse
that had been illegally dumped in the area. "It was an
arduous task," said Dennis Chiniaeff, director of community service for the Rotary Club of Temecula. "They
hauled out old cars and were down in the bushes pulling out debris."
In Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A., Interactors from
Washington High School were among tlne 265 volunteers who scourcd27 miles (43 kilometres) of coastline
at Big Lagoon State Park for debris. The group collected 5,550 pounds (about 2,520 kilograms) of trash.
n 1972, former hime Minister Indira Gandhi of India gained international attention when she said
she believed that poverty was the planet's most
Volunteer Pat Eves collects aluminum cans on behalf of Cash From Trash,
a Rotary club-sponsored recycling initiative in England.
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significant pollutant. Today, India is one of the most
densely populated countries in the industrialized
world. In addition, government records and satellite
reports estimate India's forest cover at about 15 percent-less than half of what it should be to sustain the
country's population. As a result, more regions are
prone to drought, and India's resources have come under tremendous pressure.
More than a quarter century after Gandhi pointed
out the correlation between poverty and pollution, dis-
advantaged communities around the world are still in
need of help. Fortunately, Rotary clubs have found
that they can prevent health threats related to the pollution by enacting relatively simple measures.
The Rotary Club of Madurai Metro, India, led the
way in several such instances. Test results showed
that the Gundaru River, which flows through the city
of Thirumangalam, was becoming exceedingly polluted. Needy families populate the river's banks, and
many used its waters to bathe or to wash their clothes.
Stray cattle often wandered into the river, and along
some stretches, locals used it as a sewage dump.
After exploring cost-effective solutions, the Rotarians settled upon a relatively simple way to recycle
the polluted water by filtering it through a series of
tanks containing of layers of stones, sand, and activated charcoal. The water was then chemically treated
and distilled. Rotarians called upon the Interact Club
of Thirumangalam to carry out the work. Interactors
also organrzed a campaign to encourage residents to
pursue more hygienic alternatives.
Thirumangalam Interactors also established a program to teach farmers and residents how to convert
biodegradable domestic waste-such as vegetables,
papers, and sawdust-into fertilizer. Villagers learned
that by simply depositing refuse in a pit and maintaining its humidity for about a month, they could
extract about 28 kilograms (60 pounds) of bio-fertilizers from 30 kilograms (70 pounds) of waste.
Ithough Rotarians must face environmental
problems that have been accumulating for
many years, they have the opportunity to alter
the course of environmental history. Their legacy depends not only on the projects they carry out, but also
upon their ability to teach others about environmental
issues. Rotary clubs around the world are calling attention to their cause and educating future generations
with a variety of projects.
Composting and recycling are the major tenets of an
awareness campaign launched by the Rotary CIub of
Famagusta, Cyprus. As part of a program to modify
potentially harmful practices among the island's residents, Rotarians produced radio and television spots,
posters, children's coloring books, and pamphlets. Club
members also designed and built recycling bins to distribute to each of the country's municipalities.
The Rotary Club of Mbabane, Swaziland, has intro-
duced conservation into the curricula of local high
schools. The club sponsors a year-long class, called "We
Care," to educate students about environmental issues
relevant to their lives. Course topics include poaching,
water pollution, and sustainable development.
In England, Rotarians are drawing attention to
their cause and raising money for charity at the same
time through an initiative known as "Cash From
Trash." The project was founded in 1988 when Steve
Gilks, a member of the Rotary Club of Normanton, began collecting aluminum cans that had been discarded
along the roadside. Today, Cash From Trash is a nonprofit company that represents the efforts of 11 Rotary
clubs. The company encourages Rotarians to find creative, visible ways to promote recycling. Profits from
Cash From Trash Ltd. are used to fund Rotary club
projects such as tree plantings and environmental education programs.
Since the first Earth Day nearly three decades ago,
global awareness regarding environmental problems
has increased immensely. In some parts of the world,
the state of the environment has improved. But, particularly in disadvantaged communities and newly industrialized countries. there is still much to be done.
The welfare of the planet depends upon a healthy
balance of education and action. Concerned leaders
can forge a path, but experience has shown that the
greatest changes come when individuals in every corner of the Earth accept responsibility for the environment.
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ROTARIAN.
Thlnk globally, act locally
When it comes to sponsoring projects related to
the environment, Rotarians shouldn't have to look
much farther than their own back yards for ideas.
Community-based projects can plant the seeds of
an ongoing commitment to environmental causes.
Here are some project ideas that can have an impact on any club's local environment:
r Groom nature trails or clean up a local park.
o Establish an environmental educational program
at a local school or community center.
o Plant trees or saplings in deforested areas.
o Sponsor an awareness campaign to encourage recycling, carpooling, or composting.
o Invite a member of a local or national conservation organization to speak at a club meeting.
o Help build or finance a center for environmental
education.
o Promote organic farming and low-impact agricultural practices.
o Take part in a roadside clean up.
o Hold a fundraiser to benefit local organizations
that work on behalf of the environment.
For more information on ideas for club projects,
order thePreserve Planet Earth Handbook (publication no. 378, auailable in English, French, Japanese, and Portuguese) by conta,cting the R.L
Publications Ord,er Seruices Section, tel: 847/8664200; or fax: 847/866-3276. Cost: U.S. $2.
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o many Westerners, Llganda is a war-torn
country too dangerous to visit, still reeling
from the atrocities committed by military
dictator Idi Amin. Certainly, signs of the
dismal years of his reign, which ended nearly
20 years ago, and the chaos that followed are highly
evident: Rusted tanks still Iie in the tall grass along
the country's main highway; frequent black-outseven at Entebbe Airport-are common; and barefoot
children, unable to afford school, trudge alongside the
road, carrying huge yellow containers of water and
bundles of firewood. Uganda has the lowest life expectancy in the world, estimated at 37 years of age, and the
highest incidence of AIDS.
And yet, Uganda also has one of the fastest growing
economies in Africa. The wildlife is returning, and until tragedy struck in March at the Bwindi gorilla reserve, so were the tourists. Construction is booming,
and manufacturing centers are expanding throughout
the country. CaIIed the Pearl of Africa by Winston
Churchill, the nation is blessed with many regions of
Iush, fertile countryside,
where even the poorest
families now g1'ow basic
crops like plantains and
"No one knows better than your community what
needs to be done, and no one knows better than your
community how to do it," Rotary International kesident
James L. Lacy told delegates in his opening address.
The conference, held 2I-23 January, was attended
by nearly 1,000 Rotarians, Rotaractors, and Interactors from 26 countries. A key goal was to encourage
attendees to share ideas and learn effective ways to
attract World Community Service parbners and funding from The Rotary Foundation of R.I. "There is money out there, and people who want to help, but we need
to bring them together," hesident Lacy said.
"We'll never be at peace if half of the world is starvitg," he said. 'We'll never be at peace if half of the
world is sick. We'Il never be at peace if half of the
world is ignorant. I ask you to use your influence to
make sure that poverty becomes a thing of the past."
The conference marked the first visit by a Rotarian
president to Ugandain2T years. Along with the economy, Rotary is on the upswing in Uganda. Although
Rotary started in Uganda in L957, there were just a
handful of clubs until
1983. Today, with 15 percent of the population in
Africa and eight percent
of the area, Uganda has
more than half of the continent's clubs. Even more
impressive, Uganda has
more than three-fourths
of the Rotaractors and Interactors in Africa. They
were a highly visible pres-
cassava year-round.
It seems appropriate,
then, that Uganda, sym-
bolizing the broader mis-
perceptions the industrialized world often has
about Africa-and the
related problems with
extending one-sided,
one-time assistancewas selected as the site
ence, neatly attired in
school uniforms, everready with a business
of the 1999 African
Presidential Confer-
card and a handshake.
R.I. President James L.
Lacy presents the
young king of Toro,
Uganda, with Paul
Harris Fellow Recognition (left). Rotaractors
open with a song
written especially for
the conference (right).
"Alleviating Poverty Through Rotary.'
ence,
The event sought to empower Africans to engineer self - sustaining
projects that lay the
groundwork for a future
free from poverty.
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The conference also was attended by high-ranking
Ugandan officials, including Kampala Deputy Mayor
Sarah Nkonge Muwonge, who announced that, in recognition of Rotary's efforts, the city was renaming a
major street "Rotary Avenue." She added, "As I thank
Rotarians, I beg them to continue. As elsewhere in Africa, Kampala has experienced a population explosion.
Our low revenue base makes it impossible to help. We
send out an S.O.S. to Rotarians."
Uganda Prime Minister Kintu Musoke underscored
President Lacy's message that the help must be selfsustaining. "As we sink deeper and deeper into donor
dependency, what we need is liberating aid that gives
us the tools we need to move forward, out of poverty."
One key example of the power of Rotary partnerships in Africa is a microcredit program for women in
an AlDS-devastated region of Uganda. The Sustainable Economic Empowerment and Development
Project (SEED) project, Iaunched at the conference by
members of the Rotary clubs of Winnetka and
Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.A., and Entebbe and Masaka,
Uganda, is being funded by a U.S. $322,000 Health,
Hunger, and Humanity Grant (3-H) from The Rotary
Foundation of R.I. "This project isn't about writing a
check and handing it over," Winnetka delegate
Suzanne Barkley said. "It's about empowering women."
As residents repay the low-interest loans, the funds
are recycled to sustain the SEED project beyond the
life of the grant. The Rakai District, site of the project,
currently has a 40 percent unemployment rate. "We
can't continue with hand-outs. That's not sustainable."
said Masaka Rotarian John Okumu, president-elect of
the SEED board of directors.
A key difficulty, of course, in achieving more successful partnerships like the SEED project is communication. How do Rotarians in remote African villages link
up with clubs in distant cities? How do the clubs work
closely together, given the miles between them? And
most importantly, how do they successfully apply for
Foundation funding? Of 61 3-H grants approved since
just
14 are for African projects.
To improve this record, the Rotary Foundation of
R.I. announced it was sending a pilot team of staff and
Rotarian experts to conduct training seminars in
Uganda and Tanzantia, following the conference. The
project is a key part of the Foundation's new Sub-Saharan Africa Initiative, aimed at directing more
Foundation resources to the region and improving
coordination of Rotary's work in Africa.
With an average gross national product of just $200,
Africa faces overwhelming odds in the fight to eradicate poverty. But with projects such as SEED and the
foundation's initiative, Rotary can help lead the way to
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a self-sustaining future for Africa.
1995,
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Janice Someruille Chambers is senior editor of THE
ROTARIAN.
A state of hope
Among the strongest symbols of hope in Uganda
is Past District Governor Henry Kyemba, chairman of the African Presidential Conference Host
Organising Committee and a member of the Rotary CIub of the Source of the Nile. Just two decades ago, his brother and scores of close friends
were brutally murdered during the regime of Idi
Amin. As a government minister, Henry's life was
seriously at risk. But,he was determined to remain
in Uganda, hopihg,to enact change from within. He
also feared, and nighfiy so, that:his escape would
endanger his family. and friends.
most of the other ministers had heen murdered.
With t*totendous despair, he fled his homeland for
England, where he sought re'fuge at Oxford Universit5l. There, he wrote a powerdul,and persuasive
book, "A State of .$t6'p4," ,detailing the twisted
mind of Adi Amin and the terrjfyins years of his
reign, when the the country's ecOnomy was devastated and more than 300,0m people were killed.
timism. But, like sdrmuch of Africa, the country
was created across dweral tribel,lines, which ultimately played a significant role in destabiliz:;l:'g
the fledgling democracy.
Writing the book required immense courage,
since Amin was still in power. Twenty years later,
the book was reprinted. Its words still resonate
and are especially disturbing, considering that
Henry was striving to convince a still-skeptical
world that Idi Amin was, in fact, a ruthless dictator who should be expelled with outside help.
Today, Rotarian Kyemba, who is a member of
the Uganda Parliament, is writing a follow-up
book. Its title: "A State of Hope."
-J.S.C.
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A Continent
Africa's uibrancy and promise
inspire Rotarians worldwide.
by M. Kathleen Pratt
rom the banks of the Nile to the majestic
heights of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa is a
land with a storied past and a promising
future. For some, mention of the vast continent might conjure images of unspoiled wil-
for disadvantaged youth to educating farmers about
sustainable agriculture, Rotarians have dedicated
themselves to building a promising future for Africa.
Millions of Africans cannot hold a job because they
are not able to read or write. With citizens clamoring to
derness and exotic locales. But while Africa has Iearn the skills that will enable them to compete in a
no shortage of untamed spaces, it is also home to grow- developing economy, education and literacy have being cities and developing communities, each one come the focus of many Rotary club projects.
unique in its history and traditions.
One of the factors contributing to Africa's wideRotarians worldwide have found many opportunities spread illiteracy problem is a simple lack of reading
for service on this geographically diverse and cultur- material. In January 1999, the Rotary Club of Fall
aIIy rich continent. There are more than 730 Rotary River, Massachusetts, U.S.A., shipped about 15,000
clubs scattered across 49 African countries. and each books to Uganda, where just 62 percent of the populayear their members take part in hundreds of projects tion is literate. The donation, valued at U.S. $225,000,
that impact the lives of the continent's approximately ' represents the combined efforts of the 67 Rotary clubs
730 million residents. From constructing playgrounds that comprise R.I. District 7950.
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Of the thousands of books donated to African countries each year, many are distributed to schools. The
Rotary Club of Marseille Saint-Jean, France, for example, takes part in an ongoing effort to distribute
educational texts throughout the north African country of Morocco. Other donated books fill the shelves at
literacy centers, where adults can acquire basic language skills. Rotary clubs from Districts 6860
(Alabama, U. S.A.)
and 5020 (Washington, U.S.A.) sponsor
literacy centers in
South Africa, and
adult literacy is the
focus of a project co-
District
9250 in South Afsponsored by
rica and District
1040 in the United
Kingdom. The effort
trains volunteers to
facilitate adult learning-
Computer literacy
is a growing concern
among Rotarians in
Africa. In response to
a need for instruction
and equipment, the
Rotaract Club of
learned skills. Local Rotary clubs assist in the efforb.
In East Africa, which has been ravaged by drought,
projects are underway to provide hope for the victims.
Rotary clubs from districts 7470 (New Jersey, U.S.A.)
and767O (North Carolina, U.S.A.) have teamed with
Save the Children, a U.S.-based relief agency, to aid
famine-stricken residents of Ethiopia. The project provides food, seeds, and tools to Ethiopian farmers so
that they can endure
the drought.
Some countries are
just beginning to confront urban problems
that have
plagued
other nations for decades. In Senegal,
the Rot aract Club
of Dakar Espoir
sponsored a Drugs
and Prison Awareness Day to draw attention to the probIem of drug-related
crime. A criminal rehabilitation program
sponsored by local
Rotarians is underway in Cape Town,
South Africa, with assistance from Rotarians in The Nether-
Umungasi, Nigeria,
organized a worklands. The program is
shop to teach basic computer skills to secondary designed to assist former offenders andto prevent
school students. In South Africa, the Rotary Club of juvenile crime through education and athletics.
Kromboom established The Rotary PC Bank. The
Through a Matching Grant from the Rotary FoundaorganLzation recovers older computers, equips the tion of R.I., the Rotary clubs of Neuburg and Donau,
machines with updated software donated by Microsoft Germany, help the Rotary Club of West Accra, Ghana,
Corp., and provides them to organizations with a need provide medical assistance to needy street children.
for new technology. Other clubs in District 9350 spon- The Rotary Club of Westlands, Kenya, the Rotary Club
sor training classes so that recipients can learn to use of Courter&y, British Columbia, Canada, and District
the computers.
5340 (California, U.S.A.) sponsor a similar project that
Elsewhere in South Africa, the Rotary CIub of Port offers homeless Kenyan youths educational opportuniElizabeth South (District 9320) donated computers to ties and medical care.
the Merryvale School, which serves disabled children.
One of the most extensive efforts to improve public
Rotarians also built a playground for the students, health on the continent is "Kick Polio Out of Africa," a
complete with a jungle gym made of seasoned timber, campaign to eradicate polio by the year 2000. In order
swings, and elaborate landscaping.
to carry out the massive project, Rotary International
has partnered with the World Health Organization,
can countries UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
T) ecause
farming and Prevention, and USAID. On a local level, Rotary clubs
]a rely up
tJ nutriti
Rotary club have been instrumental in organizing vaccination
projects. An aquaculture project sponsored by District drives and promoting National Immunization Days.
9250 (South Africa) and District 7640 (New Jersey,
Rich in tradition, spirit, and resources, Africa is a
U.S.A.) helps residents construct fish and fowl ponds land teeming with opporbunities-not just for growth,
and plant vegetable gardens. The project serves a dual but also for service. Many Africans have benefited
purpose-improving residents' diets and health, and from Rotary club projects, and millions more stand to
creating a source of income for villagers. In the West reap the rewards of Rotary's continued dedication. As
African country of Ghana, about 100 farmers have re- Rotarians in Africa work diligently on behalf of their
ceived training in agriculture, food preservation, and vibrant and diverse nations, Rotarians worldwide
nutrition through a project sponsored by the Rotary might look beyond their own borders for inspiration.
clubs of Accra, Ghana, and Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.A.
Participants receive six months of training, then re- o M. Kq,thleen Pratt is o,n assistant editor of THE
turn to their communities to pass on their newly ROTARIAN.
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ilew Rotary country
With the chartering of the Rotary
Club of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstant, on 13
January, the number of Rotary
countries has now climbed to 160.
The Bishkek club, sponsored by
the Rotary Club of QanKaya, Turkey, is a part of the Special Extension Area under the governor of
R.I. District2430 in Turkey.
With Kyrgyzstan, the number of
countries in the former Soviet
Union (U.S.S.R.) that have Rotary
clubs now totals 11.
President's schedule
Rotary International President
James L. Lacy starts the month by
attending the RIBI Conference in
Dublin, Ireland (8-11 April). During that time, he will also visit with
Rotarians in Belfast. Northern Ireland.
From 13 to 16 April, President
Jim will visit Rotarians and clubs
in Venice and Rome, Italy, including a possible audience with Pope
John Paul II in Vatican City.
Returning to his home state of
Tennessee, U.S.A., President Lacy
will attend the 22-24 April joint
conference of R.I. districts 6710,
6740,6760, and 6780 in Nashville.
A new loolr
lor Rotary on the Web
Those who haven't visited the
R.I. Web site recently will find
something new waiting for them at
httplwww.rotary.org. The site has
been completely redesigned to
make it more user-friendly.
The new design offers easier
navigation, with a main menu that
follows you throughout the site. It
also boasts an improved architecture, allowing for a more logical
placement of material and room for
growth.
In addition, the redesign includes
more graphics and animation. A
site guide helps visitors locate the
information they need until they
get familiar with the layout. The
new Download Center offers access
to anything available for download-logos, theme materials, and
publications-on the site.
TnE qoUNTDowN
TO SINGAPORE
Only two months remain before Rotary's largest gathering of
the year-the international convention, to be held this year in
Singapore, from 13 to 16 June. To
enjoy a more intimate look at the
Southeast Asian lifestyle, convention participants are encouraged to sign up for Home Hos-
pitality on Monday,
14 June.
Home Hospitality is always a
popular convention feature, and
it has spawned innumerable
friendships over the years. On
this afternoon and evening, visiting Rotarians will have an opporbunity to enjoy international
fellowship at the residences of hosting Rotarians in Sin-
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The final presidential conference
for 1998-99 is scheduled for Kyoto,
Japan, from 6 to 8 May. Interested
Rotarians can obtain registration
forms for the conference from the
R.I. Meetings promotional coordinator at Rotary World Headquarters (fax:847/328-9239), the R.I.
Web site, or the R.I. Fax Back servtce (503/72I-3094).
tew publicalion
Look ahead to 1999-2000 and
keep up-to-date with Rotary events
by using the new Rotary Calendar
(No. 052-EN). This colorful publication highlights important Rotary
dates from July 1999 to June 2000
and illustrates service projects
around the world. Designed for
quick reference and desktop use,
the calendar fits easily into your
briefcase, binder, or file folder.
The calendar is available in English, French, Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese, and Spanish languages. Cost: U.S. $4.
Rotary at a glance
Rotarians:
1,
188,816; Clubs : 29,367
;
Districts : 527 ; Countries: 160. *
Rotaract: Clubs: 6,304; Members:
145,000; Countrie s: L42.
Interact: Clubs: 6,270; Members:
144.210: Countries: 96.
Rotary Community Corps: 2,396;
Countries: 50.
. REPRESENTS OFFICIAL CLUB MEMBERSHIP FIGURES FROM
SEMIANNUAL REPORTS FOF THE PEBIOD 1 JANUARY-3o JUNE
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Bahru, Malaysia. Rotarians who would
l9-2I April-R.I. Finance Commit-
should check the appropriate box on the
convention registration form. They will
also have an opportunity to sign up on
site, but availability
may be limited at
that time.
Future Gonuenfions ol R.l.
like to participate
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Presidential Gonlerence
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Singapore, Singapore, 13-16 June
1999.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4-7 June
2000.
TentaEue conuenHon $ltes
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. (specific dates to be announced).
A MESSAGE FRoM
PnESIDENT JIm
lnteract: building lor the luture
uring the turbulent sixties, many Rotarians expressed a desire to
reach out to the younger generation by establishing an international
Rotary youth program. They felt it was important to offer an outlet for
young people who wished to help their community but did not know how.
Past R.I. President William R. Robbins, one of the founding fathers of the
Interact program, eloquently expressed the need to have "an organization
o/youth and not just /or youth."
On 5 Novemb er 1962, the first Interact club was chartered in
Melbourne, Florida. U.S.A. The name "Interacf,"-sslsgted from more
than 200 suggestions-was a combination of the English words "international" and "action." It was a proud day for Rotary International. The new program, for
young people ages 1.4to 18, would channel the energy and idealism of youth into a positive direction, while fostering strong citizenship and leadership skills.
This Rotary year, we are focusing on many of the hardships that faced this age group
four decades ago. But while many of the issues are still the same-drug abuse, child
abuse, and lack of vocational skills-others have escalated and become grave threats
to the next generation. No child in today's world, regardless of economic background or
nationality, is immune to the problems of drug abuse, broken homes, and political
strife. In some communities, these issues have become crises of epidemic proportions.
As Rotarians learned at the Norbh American Presidential Conference in Washington,
D.C., children are increasingly the victims of random crimes, gang violence, school
shootings, and sexual abuse from strangers, family members-and even each other.
Violent juvenile crime in the United States has increased 60 percent from a decade ago,
with children committing murders and other heinous acts at younger ages.
Children are also exposed to graphic depictions of violence at a younger age, both at
home and at school. According to the Violence Policy Center, the average child in the
United States witnesses 8,000 television murders before the age of 12. Young children
can now log onto the Internet and be exposed to disturbing images of violence and pornography, just with the click of a mouse.
We need to counteract these negative influences with positive, constructive programs
that focus on the limitless potential of today's youth. Through Interact, we can help develop leadership talents, vocational skills, a sense of self-esteem, self-confidence, and
a desire for excellence. Most important, we can give our youth an opportunity to invest
in their own future.
I hope every Rotary club will take this responsibility to heart. Interact can empower youth who otherwise might feel powerless over their future. I remember
the words of one Interactor from Nigeria who said, "Interact allows students
to realize that they can make a difference. Through community service, I
feel like I'm contributing to the future."
Through Interact, we can provide the desperately needed support, direction, and guidance on the journey to a better future. As U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: "We cannot always build the future for
our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
ROTAR(
James L. Lacy
President, R.I.
DREAl.I\
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El{GLAND-Students
release balloons into the air during the Heswell Festival, organized by the Rotary clubs of
West Wirral, Heswall, and Mid Wirral. The youngsters
launched about 2,000 balloons as part of a competition
to see which one traveled the greatest distance. The
event raised more than S1-,25O for charity.
tlRA Zll .-d, member of the Rotary Club of Sflo
Manuel and a beneficiary of the club's food bank
program examine a box of donated items. Thirty-
four needy families have registered with the
growing operation.
f ll\I'l''ltl) S'I'ATIIS- Members of the Rotary
Club of Midland Morning, Michigan, plant petunias on one of the city's main arteries as part of
the city's annLlal "Midland Bloom" project. The
75-member club helped to plant more than
50.OO0 flowers.
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FRANCE-Guy
Blancheton, a member
of the Rotary Club of
Angoul6me-Les EauxClaires, takes a break
with a young transplant patient during a
900-kilometre (560-mile)
ride to promote awareness of organ donation.
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Forty-five cyclists, in-
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France, Belgium, and
The Netherlands, participated in the rally.
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INDIA-A specialist examines a patient at an ear, nose, and throat camp
sponsored by the Rotary Club of
Ichalkaranj i. Volunteers screened 285
people and distributed free hearing
aids to those who were unable to afford them.
CAI{ADA-wtembers of the Rotary
Club of Sydney Sunrise, Nova Scotia,
participate in their own "Stoke for
Stroke" whale-boat races in Sydney
Harbor. The event generated more
than C $13,000 for the Nova Scotia
Heart and Stroke Foundation.
The clubs in action
The grealest gtlt ol all
Milena peeks shyly around her
mother as the doctors pore over her
medical history and test results.
She is only three years old, but
Milena is living on borrowed time.
The tiny girl was born with two
holes in her heart; each day, her
heart and circulatory system have
to work a little harder to overcome
the deficiency. She needs a gift few
can give her-the gift of life.
Milena was born in Barranquilla,
Colombia. Although Barranquilla
is the fourth largest city in the
country, with more than six million
residents, it does not have a pediatric coronary care center. A number
of children are taken to other parts
of Colombia or to other countries to
receive the care they need, but
many never get medical attention.
Milena is one of the lucky few.
Rotarians in southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A., (R.I. District 7450),
in cooperation with Rotarians in
northern Colombia (District 4260),
facilitated the arrival of a medical
team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that performed the surgery
she desperately needed. The effort,
called "Flight for Life" and led by
Dr. Pierantonio Russo, was part of
the Gift of Life program of District
7450. Rotary clubs, as well as individual Rotarians, financed the trip.
On 14 February 1998, the medical team of 11 set out from Philadelphia. They were accompanied by
three District 7450 Rotarians: District Governor Bill Graham, District Governor-nominee Dan Bronson, and Past District Governor
Bradley N. Stanton, chair of the
district's Gift of Life program. Two
days later, Milena and several other patients arrived at the Clinica
General del Norte for a final evaluation and preparation for surgery.
For two weeks, the volunteers
worked almost around the clock to
complete as many surgeries as possible. The team examined countless
children, and scheduled three operations a day. Some of the children, such as Milena, walked out of
the hospital just days after their
surgeries. But the team also had to
turn away many of the parents who
came to the clinic hoping the doc14
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girl recovers from open-heart surgery performed by
a medical team from R.I. District 7450 in Pennsylvania, [J.S.A.
A Colombian
tors would be able to grant their
children a second chance at life.
In January 1999, the Gift of Life
team returned to Barranquilla on a
second Flight for Life mission. During the two visits, they completed a
total of 35 open-heart surgeries. If
the patients had paid for these operations, volunteers estimate that
they would have cost more than $5
million-a small sum when compared to the value of a young life.
through a joint effort with the Rotary Club of Goldsboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
The San Juanico-Tacloban club
oversaw the installation of an electric water pump, a stainless steel
water storage tank, pipeline, and
faucets. With the new equipment,
Jqch and Jill went up the hill to
fetch a pail of water. For years, the
words of the popular nursery
rhyme struck much too close to
home for children of Barangay Old
Kawayan, a village in Leyte, Philippines. Every duy, the community's youngest members had to
trudge up a hill on the outskirts of
town, dragging behind them plastic
water jugs strung together with
frayed rope. Once they reached the
spring on the other side, they would
fill each container and begin an arduous trek back to their homes.
In August 1998, the Rotary Club
of San Juanico-Tacloban devised a
plan to make transporting water
much easier for the youngsters.
Members traveled to the village of
Barangay Old Kawayan, where
they initiated "Potable WaterWay to a Healthy Life," a Matching
Grant project made possible
Children in Barangay Old
Kawayan fill containers at a
water station made possible by
the Rotary Club of San Juanico-Tacloban, Philippines.
water from the spring is pumped
over the hill to stations along the
village's only road-which means
that youngsters in Barangay Old
Kawayan have more time for other
childhood pursuits.
Glub cleales
a place lo play
Shortly after inspectors paid a
visit to a preschool for disadvantaged children in Marion, Ohio,
U.S.A., they reported back with
some bad news: school administrators would have to renovate their
recreational equipment or the facility would be closed. The state had
determined that the playground
was unsafe and outdated.
Shary Williamson, a teacher at
the school and the wife of a member
of the Rotary Club of Marion, immediately began plans for the construction of a small playground.
"These kids really needed our
help," she said. "This school is the
hub for these kids and their parents, and if we lost the preschool, it
would just devastate the community." Williamson realized, however, that she was not going to be
able to complete the project alone.
As it turned out, she did not have
to. When Rotarian Dr. Scott Drew
heard of her dilemma, the Rotary
Club of Marion offered to help.
Club members took S25.000 from
their own coffers to finance the
playground, then embarked upon
an ambitious campaign that generated another $105,000. When the
four-month fundraising drive was
over, they set about constructing a
$130,000 play facility. Dr. Drew
spearheaded the effort, collaborating with Williamson whenever pos-
sible. Together, they mobilized
more than 3,000 volunteers, organized into 25 committees.
Over five-and-a-half days, the
group transformed an asphalt
parking lot, several piles of wood,
and heaps of gravel and mulch into
a magnificent park. Among the
playground's most impressive fea-
tures are a pint-sized rocket, castlelike turrets, a tiny truck, and even
a
replica of the Taj Mahal. Most
important, the park is a safe,
handicap - accessible, smoke-free
place for Marion's youth to play.
Although she had a major role in
Members of the Rotary Club of M.arion, Ohio, U.S.A., join
Glenwood Elementary School students and project leaders on the
recently completed Rotary Playground.
the project's development, William- complete the task. "We're just ordison credits the Rotary club and the nary people with extraordinary
community with providing the commitment, who turned sawdust
drive and dedication required to into glitter," she said.
Forty-two clubs were admitted
to Rotary International in April
1924. A special salute to these
clubs for their 75 years of service.
Canada, AB-Carnrose.
England-Worcester.
France-Nice.
New Ze aland-I nvercargill.
U. S.A.. California-Oceanside :
Oroville.
Illinois-Monticello; Urbana.
Iowa-Adel; Hampton.
Kansas-Colby; Oberlin; Rus-
Virginia-Franklin.
West Virginia-Mullens;
Princeton.
Wisconsin-Kewaunee;
Tomah.
Twenty-five clubs were admit-
ted to Rotary International in
April 1949. A special salute to
these clubs for their 50 years of
service.
Australia. N.S.W.-Mullumbimby.
Brazil-Palmares.
sell.
England-Harringay; Herne
Kentucky-Murray.
Maryland-Elkton.
Buy; Leominster.
France-Aj accio; Cahors;
Mas s achusetts-Arlington;
Weymouth; Woburn.
Michigan-Allegan; Birmingham; Royal Oak.
Missis
Texas-McGregor.
Italy-Forli.
sippi-Starkville.
Nevada-Tonopah.
New Jersey-South AmboySayreville.
New York-Cobleskill: Granville; Kenmore; Mechanicville.
Oklahoma-Cherokee; Sayre;
Waurika.
Pennsylvani a-Bristol
Coatesville; Quakertown;
Shippensburg.
Tennessee-Mt. Pleasant.
Castelnaudary; Golfe-JuanVallauris.
India-Nagercoil; Thanaj avur.
;
Norway-Grimstad; Risor.
Scotland-Kelvin.
Sweden-Angelholm; Bengtsfors.
U.S.A., Alabama-Bay Minette.
Maryl and-S everna Park.
New Jersey-Maywood.
New York-Chestertown.
Oklahoma-So. Oklahoma Cfty.
Pennsylvania-Ple
as
ant Gap.
Texas-Fort Worth-North.
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Camp delegates celebrate their differences.
by Laura S. Scott
"If you judge people you haue no time to loue them."
,T1he quote is from Mother Teresa, but for a teen
I discussion group at Camp LEAD '98, an annual
I leadership and human relations workshop
held near Fincastle, Virginia, fJ.S.A., it was a sum-
mary of what they learned during their week of Rotary-club sponsored camp.
Camp LEAD (Leadership Education And Diversity)
'delegates" are a diverse group of student leaders, ages
16 to 18. They are nominated by their schools, service
organizations, churches, temples, and synagogues because of their interest in learning to work with peers
from different cultures, races, ethnic heritages, reli-
gions, and economic backgrounds. Camp LEAD participants also share the concern that 30 years after
court-ordered desegregation, studants in their schools
remain self-segregated. Stacey Dudley, a camp
alumna and peer counselor, readily acknowledged
that "before Camp LEAD, I never really had the opportunity to relate to people who didn't look, think, or
believe like I did."
The participants come together for one week each
July to share ideas, feelings, experiences, and their vision of leadership for the 21st century. "To be a good
leader, you have to look past peoples' differences and
see what really counts, what's on the inside, because
that is what you need to respect and understand," said
Heather Shepherd, a
Camp LEAD delegate
and member of the Inter-
act Club of Roanoke
Valley. "Camp LEAD is
an excellent chance for
teenagers to further
their understanding
and knowledge of the dif-
ferent people in today's
world. It is also an opportunity for young people
to discover who they
are, inside and out."
Members of the Rotary
CIub of Roanoke Valley
in
S
alem, Virginia,
shared that vision of
These Camp LEAD
graduates continue to
work together as
members of the Interact Club of Roanoke
Valley, Virginia, U.SA.
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Members of a discussion group present their final project. Camp LEAD delegates find
common ground when they reflect on topics and issues important to their lives.
leadership for the next century and made Camp LEAD
'98 a special project. They became one of the primary
sponsors of Camp LEAD Inc., a nonprofit charity. Dr.
Marty Woodward, the Camp LEAD director, along
with her husband, Henry Woodward, are Roanoke Valley Rotarians who had previously helped launch the
Interact CIub of Roanoke Vallev.
of the
y hus-
could
encourage graduates of our Camp LEAD program
to continue practicing during the school year what
they had learned at camp," said Dr. Woodward.
'The Roanoke Valley Interact Club was formed
with 30 Camp LEAD graduates-high school leaders
from six different schools in the greater Roanoke
Valley. This began an exciting tradition of Interact and
Camp LEAD cooperation."
Rotary clubs in the district support the project by
nominating and sponsoring their own delegates for
Camp LEAD. Forty-eight delegates representing 18
schools in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee
joined the volunteer Camp LEAD staff, which includes
leaders from the professional, business, and religious
communities, at a retreat center in the Blue Ridge
mountains of Virginia for a week in July. Working in
diverse discussion groups and workshops, the delegates shared their experiences and their hopes, challenged assumptions, and learned skills in preparation
for future leadership roles. When they weren't tackling
questions of diversity and equality, camp LEAD participants could be found taking part in traditional
camp activites: hiking, swimming, talent nights, and
campfires.
Through their many discussion sessions, group
members became empowered to make a difference.
One expressed a desire to "not just watch the world
turn, but to turn it myself." Statements like that forced
adult staff members to rethink any negative attitudes
they may have had about the next generation. So did
the funny, playful times when serious talk morphed
into impromptu dance lessons: a multicultural mix of
Caribbean dance hall, country line dancing, and 1970s
funk and disco. While sitting around the campfire, one
male delegate confessed that for the first time in his
life he had cried tears of joy. Another participant remarked, "These are the best 70 people I've ever been
around."
Clearly, the delegates had expanded their circle of
friends. Many, like Interactor Angie Payne, also
felt they had grown as leaders. "Camp LEAD is a life
changing experience," she explained. "There is no way
to describe how valuable the experience was to me.
Camp LEAD opens eyes and hearts, and sends better
educated and better prepared youth out into today's
world to lead others in a positive and accepting environment."
Gardner Smith, past president of the Rotary CIub of
Roanoke Valley, agreed: "I believe that the young
people who return from Camp LEAD will have a lasting impression on our community. Those who participate bring with them a new vision of acceptance,
understanding, and tolerance towards others." #
o Laura S. Scott is a Camp LEAD aolunteer and free-lance
writer.
The Rotary Foundation
The rules, at least in theory, were
simple: Design a chair, using nothing but corrugated cardboard. Apply no glue or any other adhesive.
Staples and nails also are out. And
one other thing-be sure that the
chair can be folded flat for packing.
That would be enough to discourage most people, but Ambassadorial Scholar Noriko Senda of Japan,
studying package design in En-
gland, not only completed the task,
but created a chair that was both
comfortable and stylish. The finished product was selected for a design exhibition in London.
Noriko's coursework at Swindon
College, School of Art and Design,
focuses on hands-on, practical research and application, some of it
commissioned or sponsored bV different businesses. She is pursuing
a Higher National Diploma in
Packaging Design, a two-year program.
she says. "The suggestions to parents should be realistic, easy to unPast Rotary Foundation Scholar
Dr. Rei Okada of Moriyama, Japan,
will receive the Scholar Alumni
Service Award, and Susan Sygall of
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A., will receive the Scholar Alumni Achieve-
ment Award at the 1999 R.I.
Convention in Singapore.
Okada is a speech therapist and
director of rehabilitation at the
Daiichi Biwako Gakuen Hospital in
Moriyama. She also is a university
instructor and advisor to three institutions serving the disabled.
As a 1979-80 Foundation Scholar, Okada studied speech therapy
for the disabled at the University of
California. Santa Barbara. U.S.A.
Today, much of her work is concerned not only with speech, language, and hearing, but also
derstand, and, most importantly,
must give them the courage to raise
their children with love and hope."
In making a career of helping the
disabled, Okada has overcome disabilities of her own. At age one, she
was stricken with polio, which
paralyzed her right leg. She also
contracted measles and suffered
from otitis media. an infection that
left her deaf in the left ear'.
Susan Sygall, who will receive
the achievement award, is executive director of Mobility International U.S.A. (MIUSA), a nonprofit
or g artrzation th
at empowers people
with disabilities by offering international exchanges, consultation,
1981; its programs have since attracted participants from more
than 40 countries. In 1995. the U.S.
President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
honored her with the President's
Award at a White House cerernorry.
She has developed programs in
Bosnia. China. the former Soviet
Union and 10 other countries.
Disabled in a 1971 car accident.
Sygall credits her parents, who
survived the Holocaust, for the perseverance and driving energy that
have helped fuel her career. "After
the accident, I just continued doing
what I always wanted to do. The
Holocaust was a horrendous experience. But when it was over, my
parents put their lives back together and started anew. So I
thought, 'That's what you do, you
just keep going."'
dysphagia-e ating difficulties
resources, and technical training. A
writer, video producer, and consultant on disability issues, she also is
cofounder of the Disabled Women's
caused by various dysfunctions of
the nervous system.
reach Recreation Program.
Foundation Facts
Sygall studied adaptive physical education for the disabled as a
1978-79 Foundation Scholar at the
University of Queensland in Australia. She cofounded MIUSA in
Paul Harris Fellows: 664,835
Benefactors: 41,208
Major Donors: 2,293
Her most challenging work includes helping survivors of neonatal intensive care units. Parents
must be provided with intensive
support in raising these children,
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Coalition and the Berkeley Out-
DATA AS OF 31 JANUAFY
.1999
PolioPlus
U.S. Rotarians travel on-
site to help uaccinate
children in Ghana
Jim Walker of District 5170
(California, U.S.A.) was concerned
by the fact that many Rotarians in
his district weren't familiar with
Rotary's PolioPlus Program. So he
decided on a novel, hands-on approach to igniting interest: The dis-
trict would support an entire
National Immunization Day (NID)
in the west African country of
Ghana.
"Many new members of Rotary
clubs didn't feel a part of PolioPIus, " explained Jim, 1997-98
chairman of District 5170's Rotary
Foundation Committee. "PolioPlus
Partners enabled District 5170 Rotarians to parbner in the polio eradication efforts with Rotarians in
Ghana, a polio-endemic country."
Through individual donations
and various fundraising efforts, the
district raised more than U.S.
$t75,000 during May and June
1998. The Rotary Foundation of
R.I. matched these funds, which
enabled the district to provide
Ghana with items such as insuIated vaccine carriers and clothing
to identify health workers. Some
excess funds helped to purchase
supplies in support of Liberia's
NIDs, held in January and February 1999.
In November 1998, the Rotarians
of District 5l7O decided to go one
step further-a group of 70 traveled to Ghana at their own expense
to witness the NID in action. In addition. an Interact club member
also made the trip on behalf of the
district's 69 Interact clubs, which
raised more than $13,000 for the
A team of health workers in Ghana proudly displays the
PolioPlus shirts and vaccine carriers made possible by contributions from District 5170 (California, U.S.A.). A group of 70
Rotarians from District 5170 traveled to Ghana with their own
funds to witness a National Immunization Dav in action.
who owns a travel company , dtranged aII aspects of the on-site
travel.
The visiting Rbtarians were assigned separately and in pairs to
immunization posts outside of the
capital of Accra. In one case, Rotarian volunteers agreed to drive nearly one hour to Accra to obtain
vaccine when supplies ran out at
one post.
The NID was extremely success-
ful; nearly 95 percent of the
country's children under age five
were immunized against polio.
About 75,000 health workers and
volunteers turned out for the event.
After the NID was completed, the
group traveled to Kumasi, site of
the Ashante Kingdom. Past District
project.
Prior to departure, the district
held several orientation sessions to
familiarize the participants with
Ghana's culture and customs. Upon
their arrival in Africa, the group
was met by Robert Atta, chairman
of Ghana's National PolioPlus
Committee, and Sam Okudzeto,
past governor of District 9100 and a
member of the Sub-Saharan Africa
Regional PolioPlus Committee.
Ghana Rotarian Sydney Baeta,
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A health worker at a district
health center in the coastal
city of Winnebah, Ghana.
Governor Mike "Nana" Asafo
Boakye, past National PolioPlus
Committee chairman, arranged for
a reception and a joint meeting by
the two Rotary clubs in Kumasi.
Said Gayle Tully, past president
of the Rotary Club of Castro Valley,
California,"The whole experience
was extremely fulfilling. It made
me feel proud to be a Rotarian and
part of a group of people that cares
so much about others."
Sam Okudzeto commented: "The
effort by Ghanaian Rotarians to
'Kick Polio Out of Ghana' and out of
Africa could not be realized without
PolioPlus Partners."
He added with a smile,"It is good
to realize that Ghana has District
5I7O as a friend."
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President Bill Clinton
greets R.I. President James L.
Lacy at the White House on 11 December 1998. The Rotary leader
spent nearly a half-hour with
President Clinton to discuss children's issues, including the U.S.
government's support of the polio
eradication initiative. The United
States has committed $92.2 mil-
lion toward international polio
eradication efforts in 1999, making it the world's leading donor
nation. R.I. President Jim was in
Washington, D.C., to preside over
the R.I. North American Presidential Conference on children.
UNITED STATES- President Jim greets
Sandra Wright, a program director for Creative
Grandparenting, Inc., at a District 7630 event in Dover, Delaware, that recognized community service
projects that benefit children. Creative Grandparenting is a nonprofit organization started by
Delaware Rotarian Robert Kasey to provide in-
ter generational programs to assist disadvantaged young people. At the meeting, district
Rotarians enjoyed an inspirational performance by
Sandra's "Summer of Respect" youth drama team,
which teaches respect as a core value.
INDIA-President Jim participates in a
ceremony in New Delhi to inaugurate a Rotary blood bank sponsored by District 3010.
President Jim was the special guest of an
intercity meeting attended by about 2,000
Rotarians, Rotaractors, and Interactors to
discuss projects relating to children.
THE ROTARIAN/APRIL 1999
These Rotarians
Ilr. Glen Gamelon: a man on top ol the world
High on a bluff over the brilliant
blue waters of Lake Taneycomo,
Dr. Glen Cameron surveys his domain as proudly as any Scottish
laird who ever overlooked a loch.
Trees, rocks, and vines cling and
crawl down the steep hillside to the
water's edge. Across the lake lie
verdant fields and pristine barns.
The sound of bells can be heard
echoing down the valley from a
steeple on a nearby point.
This idyllic setting, tucked into
the Ozark hills of Missouri, U.S.A.,
is the home of Dr. Cameron and his
wife, Kay. The fields and steeple
belong to the College of the Ozarks,
where he is the dean of Campus
Ozark children, it has grown into a
respected four-year college whose
students work through campus pro-
grams to pay for their tuition,
graduate with little or no debt, and
are aggressively recruited for their
demonstrated work ethic.
The school attracts highly motivated and able students, 90 percent
of whom lack the financial resources to attend college. While
pursuing a traditional academic
Ioad, students have the opportunity
to explore a wide variety of vocational choices. They can be found
working in every aspect of campus
infrastructure-from construction
of the buildings, landscaping, and
Services.
airport operation to the mainteKnown as "Hard Work U," the nance of the school's new U.S. 53
small kesbyterian- affiliated school million power plant. Besides conis a frequent contender on lists of ventional on-campus jobs Iike food
top colleges. Founded in 1906 as a service and clerical work, students
boarding school for disadvantaged may choose employment in unusual occupations like fruitcake and
jam production, meat processing,
orchid breeding, and stained glass
crafting. Like a skilled juggler who
must keep a dozen plates spinning
simultaneously, Dean Cameron
makes sure all these campus services operate smoothly. Having
been at the school almost 30 years,
Dr. Cameron had held several positions. About his present assignment, he says, "The neat thing
about this job is that in the past I've
looked at the tip of the iceberg.
Now, in this position, I get to go behind the scenes. I see what's below
the water, how it all works and how
individuals pull together to make
things happen." Although his administrative activities keep him
busy, Dr. Cameron still finds time
to teach a class in military history.
The school's philosophy of academic excellence, hard work, and
community service mesh so closely
with the goals of Rotary that it's
not surprising to learn that Dr.
Cameron is an active Rotarian, a
Paul Harris Fellow, and Rotary
Foundation Benefactor. He is also
the 1999-2000 governor-elect for
Williams Memorial Chapel tow- R.I. District 6070, and the sixth disers over the campus of College trict governor to be associated with
of the Ozarks.
the College of th..e Ozarks. Glen was
THE ROTARIAN/APRIL 1999
PHOTOS WAFNEF PHOTOGFAPHY
Dr. Glen Cameron and his wife,
K"y, are at home in the Ozarks
at their Point Lookout, Missouri, U.S.A., residence.
a charter member of the Rotary
Ciub of Branson Daybreakers and
served as its president during
1995 - 1996. He established a
Rotaract club at the College of the
Ozarks and assisted in the chartering of clubs in Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas,
U.S.A.
In addition to his Rotary activities, Glen has been a registered Boy
Scout for 39 years. A two-term past
president of the Ozarks Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America, he
currently serves on the Central Region Board. The organization has
conferred a number of honors upon
him, including Woodbadge Scoutmaster, Founders Award in the Order of the Arrow, Silver Beaver
Award, Commissioner Award, Silver Wreath Award, and West Fellowship.
Through his work at the college,
in Rotary, and in scouting, Glen
Cameron has influenced others to
follow paths of service. These activities have helped bring him the balance and meaning so difficult to
achieve in modern life. Dr. Cameron is a happy man. The view from
atop his hill is spectacular, and the
future looks even better.
-
ELAINE WARNER
Rotarian inuests
himself in lutures
One might say that Lawerence
"Larry" W. Hager Jt., a member of
the Rotary club of Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.A., believes that a com-
munity is only as strong as its
youngest member. He has launched
a personal crusade to empower his
town's youth, and to give them all
of the advantages that he has
known during his lifetime.
In late 1990, Larry established a
non-profit educational foundation,
named for his parents, Lawerence
and Augusta Hager, with an endowment of $1 million. Since its inception, the charitable foundation
has grown to about $3 million. Under Larry's direction, the organization functions solely on a local level,
making financial grants to benefit
underprivileged children.
Through the Lawerence and Augusta Hager Educational Foundation, Larry returns to his community some of the insights he
gained during a long and successful
career as a newspaper editor. "Our
strategy is to start pilot programs
that will benefit our community's
underprivileged children in the
long term," Larry explains. "If our
demonstration projects succeed,
they will grow and draw more financial support from other organizations."
One example of Larry's vision is
a collaborative effort that monitors
the health of underprivileged children. The Daviess Countv Health
Department operates several inschool clinics through the program,
and the foundation provides financial support. The clinics provide
children with sorely needed immunizations, health examinations,
and screenings for lice, abuse, and
chronic illness. Because of the success of the foundation-sponsored
clinics, the county health department set up similar operations in
the city's outlying areas.
Larry's foundation also has funded two successive "Readifests"free clinics open to all public school
children. At the beginning of each
school year, the youngsters receive
free haircuts, dental screenings,
and immunizations. They also obtain a variety of school supplies to
start them off in the classroom.
Larry's most recent initiative involves the Rotary Club of Owensboro. Using foundation funds, he
makes an annual contribution to
the club. The club then matches the
donation, and the money is used to
provide emergency services to
tional force in his community. Simply by helping children to develop
into responsible adults, he hopes to
influence the development of his
community for generations.
KELLEY
needy schoolchildren.
Recently, a new preschool building in the commumty was named in
Larry's honor. "Because of Larry
elty to animals. The award is presented annually to business and
community leaders in India to
honor the memory of former Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Rotarian Sethi is a past president of the Rotary CIub of Vijayawada, India, and currently serves
as director of club service for R.I.
District 3020. Upon receiving the
honor, he donated Rs. 5001 to the
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals and announced plans to
establish an annual scholarship for
an underprivileged student.
Hager's leadership and influence
we wanted to name our preschool
for him," said Principal Pat Jones.
The school helps disadvantaged
three-year-olds to learn basic skills
that will bolster their chances for
success later in life. The facility
also offers adult classes. Courses in
basic life skills, and guidance regarding nutrition and sanitation
are among the educa-
tional opportunities
available to parents. AII adult class-
while the
children are busy at
es take place
school.
-MARC
Rotarian honors
Ira D. Kaye, past governor of
District 3450 (Hong Kong) was
named "Humanitarian of the Year"
by CineAsia, a conference of film
exhibitors and movie producers
from Eastern Asia and the United
States. Ira was recognized for his
unwavering commitment to children and the poor. Born in the
United States, the successful businessman has lived in Hong Kong
for 35 years. He has been a member
of the Rotary Club of Kowloon,
Hong Kong, for more than three
decades.
Ashok K. Sethi received the
Indira Gandhi Priyadashini Award
for his commitment to community
o
service and his work to prevent cru-
Illllestone$
Charles O. Austin Jr., past
governor of District 6420, recently
celebrated 50 years ofperfect attendance.
Charles, a member of the Rota-
Given the success of
the initial programs,
Larry expects his foun- ry CIub of Rock Island, Illinois,
dation to grow into an U.S.A., has honored 15 of his famieven greater inspira- ly members with Paul Harris Fellow Recognition. He and his Iate
wife are also benefactors of The
Rotarian Lawerence Rotary Foundation of R.I. Charles
W. Hager Jr. (right) served as chairman of his district's
accepts thanks from Foundation committee for many
Principal Pat Jones years and has received both the
during the dedication ceremony for a Foundation's Citation for Meritous
preschool named in Service and Distinguished Service
awards.
his honor.
THE ROTABIAN/APBIL
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Alan M. Cannon, a past president of the Rotary Club of Blackfoot, Idaho, U.S.A., recently celebrated his 10fth birthday. The centenarian is a Paul Harris Fellow
who has honored all four of his children with Paul Harris Fellow Recognition. A Rotarian since 1933,
Alan still attends weekly club
o
ebrated both his 90th birbhday and
50 years of perfect attendance. The
retired pharmacist joined the club
just two years after it was chartered in 1946.
A few years
later, Moravian
settlers lived on
the island while
building their
homesteads on
the mainland.
Rotarian
Sholem writes
that when Frank
Folda, an immigrant from Bohemia, first saw the
meetings, where he serves as assis-
tant song leader.
o Abbas T. Karu, past president of
the Rotary Club of Bombay East,
India, recently celebrated a decade
of perfect attendance. He has attended every meeting of the club
since he became a member on 10
lovely island, he determined to buy
it for his personal retreat. But
years would pass before Folda
could act on that dream. He left
Wisconsin, moved to Nebraska.
November 1988.
o
raised a family, and made a forbune
as a banker. Finally, in 1885, Folda
Rotarian for 66 years.
Andy Pelczar, a member of the
Rotary Club of Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.A., recently cel-
properby, and three years later, on
4 January 1988, Horseshoe Island
was his.
Almost immediately, Folda and
his wife, AIma, began planning for
construction of their summer home.
Meyer Lurie, past president of
the Rotary Club of Benoni, South
Africa, recently celebrated his
100th birthday. Meyer has been a
had the money to purchase the
o
Englemar. But Frank died of appendicitis before work could begin,
and his son, E.F. (Englebert), was
forced to take over the work.
Eventually, E.F. built a dock, a
Andy Pelczar, 90, has been
greeting patrons at the annual
Pancake Festival sponsored by
the Rotary Club of Wellesley,
Massachusetts, U.S.A., for 35
years. ffe's still smiling.
Rotarian authors
Horseshoe Island: The Folda
Years-A Family's Unique
Place in Door County History,
by Stanford H. Sholem of Urbana,
Illinois, U. S.A. (The Ephraim
Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 165,
Ephraim, WI 54211, illustrated
with photos, $12.95, plus $3 for
postage and handling). Horseshoe
Island (once called Eagle Island),
on Wisconsin's Green Bay and near
the town of Ephraim, has long been
a refuge for people wishing to dis-
Meyer Lurie receives congratulations on his l0oth birthday
from Stephen Rehbock, president of the Rotary Club of
Benoni, South Africa.
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tance themselves from the hurlyburly of conventional society.
Rotarian Sholem's detailed history
of the island-still popular with
visitors-reveals that for many
years Ole Larson and his wife were
the only inhabitants of the place,
eking out a rustic existence in their
small cabin in the 1850s.
main lodge, and other buildings for
family, servants, and visitors. By
1925, Englemar was a relaxing,
idyllic summer escape for the Folda
family and their visitors from
across the United States.
E.F. fought off numerous attempts by the State of Wisconsin to
incorporate the island into a state
park-only to lose the island after
the stock market crash of 1929 destroyed his fortune.
As author Sholem recounts, all
the buildings-like the Folda years
themselves-are gone now, al-
though Englemar remains as part
of the Peninsula State Park. Nevertheless, the island's history still
tugs on the imagination, and the
place continues as a lazy summer
refuge.
o They Came from Everywhere:
The Settling of Indian Territory, and the Story of the
Konawa and Avoca Townships
in Seminole and Pottawatomie
Counties, Oklahoma, Volumes I,
II, III, and IV, by Arthur
W.
Kennedy, Ph.D., of Waltham, Mas-
sachusetts, U.S.A. (Kennedy Li-
brary of Konawa, Rt. 1, Box
3,
fcontinued on page 561
[These Rotarians
...
from page
541
Konawa OK 74849; tel.: 580/9253244; Internet: http ://www. kon
awa.KI2.ok.us; Vol. I, $80; Vols. II
and III, $90 for both; Vol. IV, $65,
plus $5 shipping and handling per
volume). This series traces the general history of the westward movement in the settling of America,
including the four major migrations
into Indian territory from the mid19th century through the first decades of the 2C/.,h century. The main
focus of the series, however, is the
settlement of two large municipal
townships, one in "Old Oklahoma,"
the other across a contentious dividing line in the Seminole Nation.
Rotarian Kennedy, a professor of
history, devotes considerable space
to the forced move of Native Americans, particularly the Seminoles.
His books document the various
waves of immigration to Oklahoma
and the process of settlement, from
building towns to shaping a viable
economy.
The series includes a number of
census reports for the region, including the 1907 census required
for Oklahoma statehood consider-
ation. All volumes are well illustrated with photographs, charts,
and maps.
Volumes V and VI, which continue the history of the townships
through World War II, are now in
production for publication later in
1999.
o 2O Years
of Butterfly Revelations, by Henry F. Swanson of
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. (Presbyterian Women, First Presbyterian
Church, 106 E. Church St., Orlando, FL 32801; illustrated with photos, 99 pages, $10. This book
documents the author's 22 years of
observing and recording visitsmore than 4,500 to date-by red
admiral butterflies to his home in
Winter Park, Florida.
S
ince the
lives of butterflies are very
short, Rotarian
Swanson
be -
lieves that the
instinct to come
to his backyard
may be passed
on genetically
from parents to
seT
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offspring. His evidence for the
theory is that the same species of
butterfly has been visiting his yard
at about the same time each afternoon for more than two decades.
Only hurricanes, freezes, or other
bad weather have prevented the
daily visits by the red admirals.
o Astrology and Your Cat, by
Marvin A. Cohen of White Plains.
New York,
U.S.A.; illus-
trated by Lauren
Cohen-Bufi (MC
Productions.416
main St., Vestal,
NY 13850, 66
details for casting a specific horoscope for your cat.
Restoring Christian Living
and Worship, by Donald P.
o
Decker of San Gabriel, California,
U.S.A. (Parker Press, P.O. Box 954,
San Gabriel, CA 9L778,215 pages,
$tZ;. Arguing that belief is a 100
percent commitment, Rotarian
Decker proposes that many contemporary Christians reevaluate
their faith and transform it from a
"Sunday-only" activity. He also
challenges religious leaders to con-
sider "marketing" Christianity in
an objective manner rather than
taking the traditional soft-sell ap-
pages, $9.95).
"While there is
no definite date
for the origin of
proach.
r No Longer I: Being Transformed into the Image of
Christ, by Larry E. Hall of
astrolo gy,"
writes the author, "there can be
no doubt that cats roamed the
earth long before astrologers did."
Rotarian Cohen adds that cats and
astrology share a common bond:
"Magical qualities have long been
ascribed to both."
In this light-hearted book-subtitled "The Art of Casting a Horoscope for Your Favorite Feline"
Cohen traces a brief
-Rotarian
history of astrology, then describes
the particular characteristics of
cats born under each of the Signs of
the Zodiac. Cats born under Libra
(23 Septernber-22 October), for example, are easy-going and gentle,
although they do enjoy the excitement of climbing.
The book's final section provides
Belton, Texas, U.S.A. (ACU Press,
ACU Station, Box 29138, Abilene,
TX 79699; tel.: 800/444-4228,205
pages, $12.95). Rotarian Hall's
book takes its title from a New Testament scripture, Galatians 2:20: "I
am crucified with Christ and it is
no longer I who
Iive, but Christ
who lives in me."
The author draws
upon his extensive background
in both ministry
and professional
counseling to develop the theme
of what he calls
"s
elf- deni aVChris
t
re
alization. "
The book includes a study guide
suitable for individuals or groups.
EXGERPT
Somewhat Later: Poems in
Sarajevo), elegies for his late
Consequence, by the Rev. Rob- wife and neighbors or parishioert H. Klenck of Swarthmore, ners who have died, and lyric
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (Rotary poems.
CIub of Swarthmore, P.O. Box 4,
Afterwards
Swarthmore, PA 19081, 144
pages, $tS). Rotarian Klenck is After you,'ue poured tt down the
a retired Methodist minister
drain
and former college lecturer in you ca,nnot draw it back again.
Whether tt's dregs or broth or
religion.
wine,
This collection of poems adquite
gone. By error or design
dresses a wide range of subject
matter, including religious mus- things wash awoy. Sometimes
lost
ings (a 39-poem cycle about the is what's
ea,se of company. When most
biblical book of Genesis), com- regretful, offer o new start,
mentary on world events (the approach again the distanced
killing of children in war-torn
heart.
o
The 5-Minute Police Officer,
by Terry Barker of Sechelt, British
Columbia, Canada (Terry Barker
Enterprises, P.O. Box 609, Sechelt,
B.C., Canada VON 3A0; 120 pages,
illustrated, C$19.95; U.S. $t2.95,
plus $3 for postage and handling).
Rotarian Barker, a consultant specializing in communications skills,
has spent
15
years working
with police officers to develop
methods. Underneath the humor,
however, ran a deep sense of pride
and accomplishment.
o The Lincoln County Trilogy: A
Novel of New Mexico, by Fred N.
Kimmel of Spencerport, New York,
U.S.A. (Zantanon Press, P.O. Box
97, Stony Creek, NY 12878, 20L
pages, $67.70). The enigmatic Billy
the Kid is the protagonist of this
historical novel about the New
Mexico Territory. Supporting characters include mountain man Kit
Carson and the writer-politician
Lew WaIIace.
Rotarian Kimmel portrays Bilty
not as an outlaw, but as a decent
man who was the victim of unfortu-
better methods
of dealing with
both with difficult people and
people in difficult situations.
nate clrcumDrawing on
stances. In the
lEm
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his body of resprawli.tg
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search and countless interviews novel, which is
with experienced officers, he has divided into
developed a simple checklist ("The three sections,
System") of appropriate methods to the author dedeal with troublesome individuals scribes the poand tough situations. He also illus- litical conflicts
trates the techniques with numer- and infighting
ous successful case studies based within New
on real-life situations.
Mexico in the
o The Iconoclast Goes to Sea: latter part of the 19th century.
Dilemma in Blues, by Jack DeBar Billy's chief crime, according to the
Smith of Mid-San Fernando Valley, novel, was his courbroom testimony
California, U.S.A. (Dorrance Pub- in two trials against the Santa Fe
lishing Co., 643 Smithfield St., Ring, a consortium of businessmen
Pittsburgh, PA L5222; tel.: 800/ and military officers that ran New
788-7654, 140 pages, $14, plus Mexico at that time.
$3.50 for postage and handling). In o An Infantryman Remembers
these memoirs of his military ser- World War II, by John H. Light of
vice in World War II, Rotarian Carlisle, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (orSmith chronicles his peripatetic ex- der from the author at 619 Belvedperiences as an aviation electronic ere St., Carlisle, PA 17013, illustechnician in the U.S. Navy. Dur- trated with photos, 158 pages, $12).
ing his training, the young sailor Rotarian Light notes that there is
was frequently transferred from no adequate training to be a combat
state to state and school to school, infantryman. His own 13-week
and the author recounts in detail stint of basic training in1944 often
the pranks he
seemed part of an unreal world, he
and his fellow
says, and was no match for the restudents played
ality of ground combat in Europe
on their induring the final months of the war.
structors as
Infantryman John Light was not
yet 19 when he arrived in Cherwell as the
home-front adbourg, France in September 1944,
ventures that
in the wake of the D-Day invasion.
added some
Soon he and his fellow soldiers
brightness to a
were advancing through France,
dark time.
Belgium, and Holland, en route to
Once on acGermany. In May 1945, Rotarian
tive duty in the
Light was wounded during a shellpacific aboard the t/.S.S. Antietam, ing by German forces. "My war was
Rotarian Smith continued to poke over then,'he writes. After receivfun at regulations and training ing emergency medical atten-
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o The
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With deep regret we report the
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Cesdreo Zalles Cisneros. La
Paz, Bolivia, I97O-7I.
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Iloilo, Philippin es, I97 2-7 3.
Dante P. Sarraga, Cagayan de
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Milo E. Van Hall, Zephyrhills,
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Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.A.,
L976-77.
Mokichi Aihara, Kawagoe, Japor, 1977 -78.
John Bustad, Mount Vernon.
Washington, U.S.A ., 1977 -78.
Fraser Morrison, Dunedin,
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New Zealand,1980-81.
Cleo W. Mabr€y, Cape Gi-
rardeau, Missouri, U.S.A., 1982-83.
Kevin O'Connor. Murrumburrah-Harden, N.S,W., Australia,
1985-86.
William L. Kaschube, Bradford, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 199091.
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Rotarians share their thoughts
about the enuironment and the noture of friendship.
$aue the planel
Because of its deep concern for
the environment, Rotary International has encouraged districts to
establish committees to promote ef-
forts to Preserve Planet Earth.
Rotarians in R.I. District 2450
(Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan,
Lebanon, the Sultanate of Oman,
Qatar, Sudan, Syria, and United
Arab Emirates) are quite active in
projects that benefit the environment, and we wish to share some
ideas with Rotary clubs and districts around the world.
Here are our suggestions for activities that wiII help us all to Preserve Planet Earth.
o Organize and implement an environmental awareness campaign
through the mass media: television,
radio, magazines, and newspapers.
Aruange with the appropriate agencies to send out an environmental
informational pamphlet with either
the telephone, water, or electricity
bill to every consumer in the area.
During the campaign, organize a
major tree-planting event. Make
sure that aII the activities receive
coverage in the media.
o Organize anenvironmental seminar for all the Rotary clubs of your
district. Invite experts and govern-
ment officials to participate
as
speakers.
o Speak on environmental topics at
Iocal schools.
Create your own club's nursery of
forest trees and let
o
schoolchildren
asslst rn running it. Let every child create
a plaque with
his or her
name to put on
every tree they
plant. Encourage
the youngsters to
watch the trees grow.
. Plant trees in
memory of loved ones, or at any
gift-giving occasion. Plant a tree
for someone-guest speakers, visiting dignitaries-rather than
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giving a certificate or plaque.
Help buy fire-fighting equipment
for local park and forest rangers.
o Start or sponsor a recycling program for domestic solid waste (paper, glass, plastic, aluminum) for
your community.
o Initiate a program to recycle car
tires and motor oil.
o Organize a cornmunity clean-up
o
day.
o Sponsor the professional chemical
analysis of river and stream water.
If harmful materials are detected,
report this to the authorities for
action.
the idea of making and
using solar ovens for cooking and
for disinfecting drinkable water.
o Create or distribute a simple
manual for farmers on how to use
alternative organic fertilizers instead of chemical ones. Also explain
the use of non-harmful methods of
insect removal, eliminating use of
harmful insecticides.
DBMETRIS P. LORDOS, Chairman
Preserue Planet Earth Committee
District 2450
Limassol, Cyprus
o Promote
A.E".tpe!u3l sup plv
ol lriendship
trucks to be used throughout the rsIand country as asphalt paving
material for roads and mastic
compound for roofing. Although
they extract quantities of the substance each day, there never seems
to be any pitch missing.
Verne and I, along with other
Rotarians and friends sharing
brunch at his home, talked that day
of many things: business and econohy, society and culture, and
the goodwill and understanding of
Rotary. Friendship, we noted, is not
unlike the pitch in Pitch Lake-an
endless commodity. Enlarging
one's circle of friendship does not
diminish the potential supply.
Verne and Margaret Britto demonstrated that reality as they entertained. Among their guests were
Rotarians and non-Rotarians, local
people and international guests, retired seniors and ambitious students, people of various ethnicities
and religions. During the day, we
shared many thoughts and ideas,
learned much from and about each
other, and gave and received the
blessing of friendship.
None became the poorer for the
giving. AII became the richer for the
receiving.
Like Pitch Lake, I thought,
In the rural south of the Carib- friendship is a constantly replenbean island of Trinidad, near the ished commodity. Through Rotary
little town of La Brea. is a lake of we have boundless opportunities to
sorts that is proudly described by both give and receive friendship.
locals as one of the wonders of the And the inventory of friendship will
world. Pitch Lake is
a black mass of
imperceptibly churning natural asphalt, slowly bubbling upward from
a sandstone fault-Iine far below the
never be diminished.
surface.
People can walk on the air-hard-
Rotarian Deauer is a retired professor of journq,lism at the Uniuersity
of Alabama. This is one in a series
of essays called "Friends Around
the World" that he contributed to
the monthly newsletter for R.L District 6860. THE ROTARIAN published q, shortened uersion of the
essay in February 1998.-EDS.
ened black surface, but heavy objects will slowly sink from sight.
Sometimes they reappear months,
even years, later as the black semisolid substance slowly swirls.
Rotarian Verne Britto described
the phenomenon. "No matter how
much you take out,' he said, 'come
back next day and you don't miss it.
There's apparently a perpetual
supply."
Testimony to his words can be
FRANK DEAVER, Rotarian
Tl,r,scaloosa, Alabamq' U. S.A.
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U.S. $2oOlday. Call: (808) 955-3727.
HONOLULU, HAWAII . BEACH IRONT
HOMES-Sand, sun, and family fun.
NEW ORIEANS, I-OUISIANA.UPTOWN
SOUTH tAKE fAHOE-Scenic vacation
night. www. pixi.com/sanclsea. Call:
Charles
sleeps lO. Furnishecl. Near Nevada casinos. 'KENNETH" Wertz, 344 1 NW 50,
Oklahoma City, OK 73112, USA. Cail:
(405) 943-s082.
front conclo on | 2th hole. Kona Countrv
Club. Pools. rennis. restaurant. l-Becll
room, 2-bath. U.S. $75O/week. Call:
KAIIUA-KONA, HAWAII-Kanaloa ocean-
POCONOS, PENNSYTVANIA-Secl
(8OO) GO-2-PALM.
Internet
aclclress:
www.therentalconnection.com
NORTH TAKE TAHOE. INCTINE
VIt-
(619) 755-O2Ol.
conclominium. 3 Beclrooms, 2 baths,
CAPE MAY, NEW IERSEY-Victorian Lace
Inn. Ocean views, fireplaces. l- & 2-beclroom suites, private cottage, 4-beclroom
house. Closecl januaryr. C.rll: (6O9)
Visit: www.victorian
g-1772.
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BHEATTHY ADVENTURES-'You clon't
have to be sick!" Exciting cruise vaca-
tions with Christian Health Team.
Fun,
friencls, and restored health. Telephone:
(877) 777-At20.
ATASKA/CANADIAN ROCKIES & CANADA, NEW ENGTAND & ST. TAWRENCE
CRUlSlNfPay in
Canaclian clollars and save $$$$$$.
Big sale on Mediterranean / North
RIVER, GREAT TAKES
Cape / Scandinavia / Russia / Greek
lsles / Caribbean / Panama / Hawaii /
Costa Rica / Mexico / Africa / Orient.
Call Muriel or Rosanne: (8OO) 387-2055, or
write: 84 High Street East, Mississauga,
Ontario. L5G I K4 CANADA.
Beautiful lot. Deep water, two sicles.
Sea access. Dockage available. Call:
(423) 436-4057. FAX: (4231 436-0469.
m pgpaulqworlcl net.att. net
CANADA/NEWIOUNDIAND & TABRADOR-McCarthy's Parly l2-day lancl tour
offers whale watching, puffin ancl iceberg
sightings. Viking Village, Gros Morne National Park, St. Anthony, UNESCO site of
L'Anse Aux Meadows, Gander, Come By
Chance, Heart's Delight, Amelia Earhart's
Departure from Harbour Grace and much
more! Tours depart June / luly / August /
September. CAN $2348 per person. Call
CANADIAN
EXPERTS
.
MURIEL OR
ROSANNE AT: (8OO) 387-2055 tOR
BROCHURE.
AUSTR,AI-IA, TASMANIA, NEW ZEAI-AND
AND THE PACIFIC-We plan trips
downuncler that reflect your incliviclual
needs. You pick where and when you're
going, we'll present full suggestecl itinerary. Your own air miles OK. Have your
travel agent call, or call clirect. "Michael,"
SONOMA COUNIY, CAI.ITORNIA_
Oceanfront home in wine country. Dramatic, unobstructed views. Soacious
2-beclroom, 3-bath home, large cleck.
Non-smoking. Owner: (7O7) 575-AZOO
Oceanfront cleluxe, 2-beclroom, Z-bath,
fully equippecl condo with pool and view
you clream about. U.5. $8OO per week,
plus tax. Paul Davis, Box 198, Rancho
Santa Fe, CA 92067, USA. Telephone:
xZO4 or [email protected]
ERECKENRIDGI,, COtORADLRent/tracle
new 4-bedroom, 4-bath townhouse.
Fireplaces, clecks, hot tub, in town but private, one block to skier shuttle pickup.
()OZI 239-5338. E-Mail (preferrecl):
[email protected]
COLORADO, SUI\lMlT COUNTY-Conclos, homes, ancl townhomes in Breckenriclge, Keystone, Copper Mountain
ancl trisco, Silverthorne, Dillon. As low
as U.S. $29 per person/per night. Call:
7
66- | 47 7. www.themanagers.com
SNOWMASS, COLORADO-Spacious,
private 5-beclroom, 4-bath home, sleeps
lO-14. Hot tub, fireplace. Call Nancv:
(5r3) 398-6975.
VAIL, COIORADO-Pr|vate cluplex
house, 3-bedroom, 3-bath. Non-smoking
rentals. Weekly only. Telephone Gudrun:
(973) 584-OO2 l. FAX: (973) 584-38r9.
DISNEY AREA, ORtANDO, TI-ORIDA2-Beclroom, Z-bath condo, fully furnishecl
with extras. Sleeps six. Minutes trom
Disney, Epcot, Universal Stuclios. Pool,
tennis, golf, shopping. Guaranteed best
for the money! U.S. $495 per week.
Call: (4O7) A77-68a5.
DISNEY/CENTR.AI
ftORlDA-Two
clean,
2-bedroom, 2-bath, fully furnished condos. Sleeps six. Minutes from attractions,
Pool. U.S. $450/week. Telephone: (407)
u7-ozz9.
SANIBEI lStAND, ILORIDA-Private
house. 3 bedrooms. 2 baths with heated
swimming pool. Locatecl on Dunes Golf
and Tennis Club grounds. Seasonal pricing. Call owner: (724) 225-441 0/clays,
or (4 | 21 36 | -57 5 I /nights.
SARASOTA, fl.ORtDA, GUtt-VtEW
CONDOS-Fully furnishecl l- & 2-beclroom units. Prices from U.S. $410-$72O.
Overlooking Siesta Keys. Famous white
lnternet: www.tasmania.com &
courts. (941) 349-6454. FAX: (941) 3497694. E-Mail : [email protected]
SARASOTA, tl-OR IDA-Self-accom moclating | - & 2-beclroom resort guest cottages. Fully equipped kitchens. Cround
transportation. Maid service. Whirlpool
spa and gardens. Siesta Key beaches,
www.australian.com
TEARN TRENCH lN BEI-clUM-lntensive instruction, wonderful accommoclations. DfALOGUE. (8OO) 474-7416.
http ://www. bui lcli ngroursel f.com/clialogue
E-Mai
l: [email protected]
LONDON FLATfShort/long term rentals. Vacation or business. Telephone:
(619) 4la-6441; FAX: (619) Z7A-94Oa.
E-Mail: london I [email protected]
SCOTTSDAIE, ARIZONA-San Diego,
California: Vail, Coloraclo: Grindelwald.
Switzerlancl: Deluxe condos, weekly,
monthly. MAX HAECHLER, Scottsclale:
(602) 945-OOOO. FAX: (602) 94s-0351.
SEDONA, ARIZONA-Beautiful views.
Deluxe 2-beclroom, 2-bath townhouse.
Sleeps
6. Best value. Owner: (708)
388-6306.
CAIIIORNIA COTTAGI, IOR TWO{uiet
in garclens with views. Near Monterey Bay.
U.S. $425 weekly. (A3l) $eZZ43. Photos.
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(800) 442-690r.
(4O8) 354-3253. http://members.aol.com/
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Tasmania & Australia Reservations:
(8OO) 282-7626. FAX: (602) 953-7279.
E-Mail: tasmania@tasmani a. com.
2To6 bedrooms, U.S. $175-$550/
SAN DlEGrO, CAtIfORNIA-Deluxe conclo
on Sail Bay, Pacific Beach. 4 Bedrooms,
3rlz baths. Call: (608) 788-lOO3.
(W)
SUGARTOAT, KEY, ILORIDA-SAtE_
location of the movie "South Pacific."
sand beach, pool, clubhouse, tennis
shopping, clining-within walking
distance. Daily, weekly, monthly. Telephone: (8oo) 431 -o77 4, (941) 924-3363.
www. hathaway-arms.com
SOUTHWEST TLORIDA, CAPTIVA ISLAND-South Seas Plantation Resort.
2-Beclroom, 2-bath oceanfront condominium. Discount for Rotarians. Call tollfree: (800) 897-0288.
ST. PETER,SBURG BEACH, FLORIDA_
Waterfront 4-beclroom home. Spectacular
views, near beaches. Pool, lacuzzi, dock.
Call: (541\ 593-4037.
VENICE, II-ORIDA-Friendly and clean.
Owners on site/AAA. l- & 2-Beclroom
cottages in quiet, park-like setting. Five
minutes to beaches, shopping, fishing,
golfing & clining. Call: (8OO) 441-8647.
www.myplanet. net/adclysinn
KAILUA, KONA COAST, HAWAII_
(6t9) 756-2t62.
KAItUA-KONA, HAWAI|-Oceanview
home, one block from ocean. Large 4beclroom house. Nicely furnished.
Lanai with spa. U.S. $250/clay. Call for free
brochure: (.8OO\ 447 -5662.
universities. Call: (5O4) 891-2274
APARTMENI-2-Bedroom condo near
Audubon Park, Tulane, Loyola. St.
at Napoleon Avenue.
Call:
(800) 8s6-09 | o.
udecl
home, 3 beclrooms, 2 baths. Fully furnishecl. Telephone Art: (415]' 362-0ll7.
HILTON HEAD, SOUTH CAROTINA_
Golf, family vacation, or reunion. Lagoon front, Palmetto Dunes, sleeps 6/
7. Backyarcl pool, free tennis. Owner
brochure: /6lO\ 325-357 3.
MYRTTE BEACH, SOUTH CAROI-INA_
3-Beclroom condo. Ocean/pool view.
(336) 8s4-0r09. (336) 54r-5501. FAX:
(336\ 274-93Os.
MYRTI-E BEACH, SOUTH CAROTINAKINGSTON PTANTATION-Superb oceanfront condo, corner location. Outstanding
views, amenities. Fully equippecl.
(2s6) s39-4585.
Call:
KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII-5 Beclroom,
3-bath cleluxe home. Large lanai with
ocean view. Also: 3-beclroom, Z-bath,
and z-bedroom, l-bath. U.S. $395 to
$850/week. Call: (8OO) 785-1476.
KAUAI, HAWAII-POIPU BEACH-Truly
spectacular oceanview, Z-becl room, Z-bath,
low-dse condo. 350 Yards/sandy beach at
bay (by Hyatt & Poipu Bay golf). Great
snorkeling, hiking, tennis & golf (4 of top
lO). Owner/photos: (8OO) 726-7412/est.
<[email protected]> Also | -bedroom, I r/zbath. http://www.cris.com/-equities
TREASURE CAY, BAHAMA9-Beachfront
villa. 2-Beclroom, 2-bath, pool. Golf
course and marina nearby. U.S. $l lOO/
week. Call: (316) 33l-2794.
CAYMAN ISLAND CONDO-Oceanfront, Seven Mile Beach. l/2/3-Beclroom,
z-bath, 2 pools. Brochure, telephone owner: (972\ 47O-O485.
KAUAI, HAWAll. PRINCEVILI-E-5-5tar
LONDON FLATS
luxury oceanfront condo. Spacious
2-beclroom, 2-bath, fully equippecl
clecorator unit. Safe beaches, pool, tennis, 45 holes of world-class golf, hiking,
and whale watching. U.S. $168/clay.
Telephone/FAX; (808) 528-2980.
Shon Tem - Privately owned
COTSWOLD COTTAGES
THE LONDON CONNECTION
MR THOMAS MOORE III
Luxury, -bedroom, oceanview conclo.
Tennis, pools. Contact Gerry Goggin:
TOLL FREE PHONE: 888-393-9120
FAX: 801-393-3024
E.Mall: [email protected]
KONA, HAWAII-Two luxury 4-bedroom
homes. Beach/surf, views, pools. U.S.
$l 6OO/week. Telephone Rad/Diane:
(800) 949-3300.
ENGLAND, OXfORDSHIRE-Charmi ng
l6rh Century thatchecl cottage, all amenities. Close to Oxforcl, Stratforcl-on-Avon,
Lonclon. Telephone/FAX: Ol 1 -44- l707 -
KONA, HAWAII-Keauhou Carclens.
'l
(847) 885-0025.
MAUI, HAWAII-Awesome oceanfront
condo in quiet, centrally locatecl
Maalaea. Panoramic ocean/mountain
views from every window. 2-Bedroom,
2-bath, sleeps six. Call for color brochure:
(831\ 335-7929.
MAU|, HAWAII-Gorgeous l+2 or 2+2,
oceanview, clecorator-furnishecl condos. Beautiful beach. Call for ohotos
ancl brochure: (805) 255-8353, or
(80s) 25 r -o036.
MAUI, HAWAII - KIHEI AREA-Gorgeous
2-beclroom, 2-bath, ground-floor, oceanfront conclo. Pool, tennis, golf. Telephone:
(800) 342-OO5O.
MAUI, HAWAI|-Oceanfront conclos.
The Whaler, Kaanaoali Beach. Owner's
tef ephone/FAx: (5 | 5) 292-4561. http:/ /
www.a I vacations.com/rudolph/l /
E-Mail: [email protected]
u
MAUI-MAALAEA BAY-Magnifi cent 2beclroom, z-bath oceanfront condominium.
Breathtaking scenery! Stroll Maui's longest
beach. Watch whales! From U.S. $loo/clay.
For brochure call:(888) 431-4044.
MOIOKA|, HAWAil, PARADTSE IOUND,
NEW REDUCED RATES-Gorgeous
Hawaii condo. sleeps six. Ocean view
on golf course, tennis, pool. U.S.
$95 claily, $630 weekly. Telephone:
(925\ 447-O747.
WAlKlKl, HAWAII-Deluxe l- & Z-bedroom condos near beach. From U.S.
$56 claily. Brochure: (808) 946-l145.
E-Mail : [email protected]
642-889.
I.ONDON APAR MENTS
&
COUNTRY
COITAGES-Qua|i! checkecl ancl value
pricecl. London hotels ancl car rentals.
European Holidays: (8OO) 752-9578.
LONDON, ENGI-AND, OXBRIDGE
APARTMENTS-U.S. $59lnight.
(8OO)
775-4445. Kensington besicle museums,
shopping, stations. FAX: (8OO) 7768494. Call: (Oll\ 44 | 71-835 161 l.
E-Mail: [email protected]. Web-
site: http://www.oxrg.clemon.co.uk
EGENT PARK, LONDON-Moclern
2-beclroom aDartment. Convenient for
everything. From U.S. $995/week. Call:
(3141 569-ZOU) or (3 | 4) 29l -3491 .
R
BERGERAC, fRANCE-Lovingly restorecl
large stone house. Pool, pond, pastures &
privacy. $ Reasonable. Nearby golf, wine
chateaux. Brochure: (U7l 7U-AZZ6. FAX:
(8/.7\ 7U-aZZ7.
PROVENCE, FRANCE-Newly restorecl
3-bedroom, 3-bath village home. Thirty
minutes from Avignon. U.S. $l3OO/
week for multi-week rentals. Call: (614)
864-3134. FAX: r'ol4\ 864-81 17.
SOUTHERN TRANCE-Your hosts for vacation in meclieval village; epicurean,
sightseeing adventures. $Zg 24A-2465.
www.
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IAMAICA-Luxurious
private villa on 4-acre estate. Pool,
MONTEGO BAY,
spectacular view, gourmet chef, full
staff, chauffeur. Call: (414) 567-7555.
www.anchor-listi ng.com
COZUMEI, MEXICO-Car|bbean lsland.
New conclos located 3 blocks from beach.
AI-t TYPET
2-Bedroom/2-bath ancl l -bedroom/
MANUSCRIPTS WANTED,
|-bath. Pool, central air, full kitchens, dive
rinse tank. l-Bedroom from U.S. $425 oer
week; 2-beclroom from $600 per week.
Call toll-free, USA: (877) 627-8455. Out-
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Telephone: (8OO) 695-9599.
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ENSENADA, BAIA CAUFORNTA, MEXICO-Breathtaking Pacific views. Ocean-
front golf. Cated resort. Spectacular
3/3t/z bi-level villa. U.S. $125olweel<.
2/2 New concio, terrace, $975lweek.
Call: (214) 939-5859.
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had no Rotary clubs, and he was
unfamiliar with the service club
concept. So, I invited him to be my
guest at one of our meetings.
While perusing the club's weekly
bulletin and its listing of club officers, my visitor noted with some surprise the proportion of women
Ieaders. I used my friend's comment the following week while reIating to the members his enjoyment of the meeting. I addedtongue-in-cheek-that our visitor
also asked, "When did your club
first admit male members?'
DR. KEITH E. SAXTON, Rotarian
Pullman, Washington, U. S.A.
Slip of the tongue
I am a younger member of a Rotary club which includes many
members in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
Last year, as a make-up, I attended
a newly chartered club in town that
has a younger demographic profrle.
Little Harold was diligently
practicing the violin in the
Iiving room while his father
was trying to read in the den.
The family dog was lying in
the den, and as the screeching sounds of little Harold's
violin reached his ears, the
f
animal began to howl loudly.
The father listened to the
dog and the violin as long as he
could. Then he jumped up,
slammed his newspaper to
]= the floor, and yelled
During the luncheon conversation,
one of the members asked me why I
joined that "old man's club' and not
their more youthful club.
Thinking about several younger
Rotarians recently inducted into
my club, hy brain raced a little
ahead of my tongue. I answered,
"Actually, w€ have been trying to
'youth-enize' our club.'
Needless, to say, my flub about
rejuvenation was met with resounding laughter. I reported the
story at my own club the next week,
where it received another round of
laughter. But I still had to put
hefty fine in our "Happy Box.'
LINDA WEISS, Rotarian
Idnln Falls, Idaho, U.S.A.
a
above
the noise, "Please, Harold,
can't you play something the dog
doesn't know?"
DOUGLAS GRIERSON, Rotarian
Meopham and Grauesend,
United Kingdnm
lllner's club
Two goats were enjoying an al
fresco lunch behind a movie studio,
munching on discarded film stock.
"This is the best film I've ever
tasted," said one.
'Yes," replied his gourmet companion, "but it's not as good as the
book.'
WALTER JOHNSON, Rotarian
Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.
A dog's lot
A kindergarten teacher was driving a van filled with children on a
field trip when a fire engine passed
her vehicle.
A handsome Dalmatian was sitting on the fire engine with the fire-
men, and the children started
wondering about the dog's role in
firefighting.
One boy suggested that the dog
was for crowd control. A second stu-
"Being a traveling salesman isn't so bad-the tough part is carrying around my business cards.'
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THE ROTAR|AIqAPR|L 1999
dent argued that the dog was a
mascot and went along for good
luck. Another said that the dog
helped in rescue' efforts.
A girl brought the argument to a
close by firmly stating, "They take
the dog along so they can find the
fire hydrant."
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