Today was a Zoom meeting with 27 people on line. After some conversations President Ralph Witcher opened the meeting at 7:30 A.M.
GUESTS ON LINE:
DGE Bob Hobaugh, Kutztown RC.
Pres. Ralph gave a very nice invocation. Then he led us in the Pledge of allegiance to the Flag of the U.S.
THE FOUR-WAY TEST EXAMPLE:
Pres. Ralph played the musical rendition video of the 4 Way Test.
NEW MEMBER MEETING:
Membership Chair, Tom Friday said on December 7th at Noon there will be a virtual meeting for all newer members in our district. PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND.
CELEBRATION DATES:
Pres. Ralph displayed the list of November members and their celebration dates.
Marlene Heller asked for volunteers to tell about a recent application of the 4 Way test. No response today.
WHAT ROTARY MEANS TO ME:
Pres. Ralph showed us an RI video of “What is Rotary?”
ALLEY YOUTH HOUSE HELP:
Pres. Ralph thanks Gail Micca for collecting and distributing the donated luggage.
PARKLAND C.A.R.E.S.:
Ron Coleman reports that over 200 families were given food packs last weekend. They just about ran out of food to give.
SNACK PACKS:
Gail Micca said she dropped off 255 snack packs at the High School.
KINGDOM LIFE FOOD CENTER:
Jean Masiko reports that Kingdom Life Food Bank's monthly food giveaway will be Saturday, November 21 beginning at 8 A.M. This is the week before Thanksgiving Day and there will be a great need for volunteers.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Thanks go to Amir Famili for picking up the load of cauliflowers and delivering them to LFP.
YOUR SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Please take a look at this new section on the left side of this bulletin.
STATUS OF MORNING MEETINGS;
The AWRC B.O.D. has suspended all AWRC face-to-face meetings until further notice. Zoom meetings are now scheduled for each Wednesday at 7:30 A.M.
NEXT MORNING MEETING:
Wednesday December 2nd starting at 7:30 a.m. We will use Zoom to meet. Our program will be…………………TBD
STATUS OF THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
No Thursday evening meetings are planned for November and December.
HAPPY DOLLARS and MEMBER NEWS:
Ernie Boll called in from Arizona; it was 5:15 A.M.
The Webers are planning to go to their Hilton Head home early in January for a few months.
Marlene is not happy that their son – on the west coast -- will not be coming to visit for Thanksgiving, nor for Christmas.
Ernie and Sandi Boll took 3 flights and went thru 4 airports when they went to Arizona.
We discussed covid19 issues in the LV. Specific covid19 hospital sections are filled up.
Ron Coleman is happy to learn about the covid19 vaccines’ progress. We all agreed.
Amir Famili said that once again the United States has shown great innovation skills.
Bill Palmer is happy that last week his granddaughter, a Johns Hopkins 2019 grad in Bio-Materials Engineering, just got a promotion and a salary increase.
Bob Hobaugh is happy that the covid19 problem is being resolved.
Marlene Heller reminds us that we can pay our Happy Dollar debts using our website “Donate” button. When asked, she said no payments have been received yet. Pres. Ralph suggests that we consider each paying $50 in advance to cover the next year. Hmmmmmm.
Tom Friday is happy that their daughter has a new job. She will work from home and Tom et al will help look after the children.
Pat Witcher is happy that yesterday she and Ralph celebrated the day that they met.
Pat also said that their son Seth will be doing a 30 minute performance for CH 69, AND he will be doing a Holiday Jingle for them to use for the season.
Marlene Heller said that their daughter is doing a better job of raising her children than Marlene did.
Pat Witcher said that they have their one year old granddaughter with them and she will not go into Day Care. Her Mom is in the Military, so the whole family helps.
PROGRAM:
Pres. Ralph Witcher introduced Dr. David Ehrenkrantz, Pres Rotary NE Sunrisers PHL AND Jean Romulus, Executive Director of the Health Education Action League for Haiti (H.E.A.L. Haiti) AND PDG Bob Lankin, District 7450 Governor (2005-06), to discuss the Vocational Training Team (VTT) Mission Trip to Pignon, Haiti. Jean Romulus is the founder and board member of “HEAL Haiti.”
The Rotary Club of Pignon, Haiti will be hosting a group of nursing professionals from Queens, NY, whose leadership includes two graduate level nurse educators from NYU and Pace University, along with a program administrator who will be arriving at Pignon, Haiti on a mission to augment nursing services on that northern part of the island. They'll be working with local nursing teams at Pignon Hospital to help them improve patient care by training them on the new innovations and best practices of nursing.
Dr. David Ehrenkrantz has spent his entire professional career serving the interests of the population with developmental/intellectual disabilities, and their normalization. He acquired his Doctorate in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh, where he did his dissertation on Down syndrome. His Masters in Public Health was taken at New York Medical College, with a concentration in developmental disabilities. Postdoctorally, he served as the Disabilities Epidemiologist for the State of Kansas and the Senior Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist for the state of Maine. Both positions focused on physical as well as developmental/intellectual disabilities for individuals of all ages, and their integration/reintegration into society.
Currently, David serves as the Global Group Leader for RESULTS Philadelphia, as well as the Chair of the Advocacy Committee for Partners in Health Engage Philadelphia (both local chapters of international health and poverty organizations). He has successfully been advocating Congress for sustained funding to ensure continued delivery of health and educational services to developing nations. He has also been training highly motivated medical students from Penn and Jefferson to develop effective advocacy skills. David sits on the Board of Directors for the World Conference of Mayors, as well as the Rotary Club of Northeast Sunrisers Philadelphia, where he serves as the Rotary Foundation Chair.
This VTT project is being funded by a Rotary Global Grant of $30,000. Ri approved this just last week. This grant requires the lead RC to put up $10,000 and right now they are $4,000 short. These men are going around Districts 7430 and 7450 telling the story and seeing financial support.
Donations can go to the N.E. Sunrisers RC and stay in escrow. Then funds will go to TRF with credit given to the donor and their RC.
The original plan was to make the two week training trip in January. But now it looks as if it will happen in March.
Bob Lankin reminded us of the 2010 earthquake of 7 power that was centered in the capital of Haiti. It killed 100,000, injured 300,000 and left One Million homeless. They are still trying to recover. And more VTTs to Haiti will follow as funds are generated.
CLOSING:
Pres Ralph led us in the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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