Rotary District 7300 ALL STARS — SHINING THE LIGHT as Rotarians Serving Humanity The Newsletter of Rotary District 7300, including Allegheny, Beaver and parts of Westmoreland Counties, Pennsylvania: June 2017 You might already be addressing me as "Past District Governor" Linda Fischer Bruce, and let me tell you--it has been a heartstoppingly memorable year for me. I had the pleasure, on Saturday, 24 June 2017, of passing the District Governor pin--and responsibilities--to our new District Governor Ward Garner, and of spending a few moments with many of you at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, in reminiscence of all the hard work and good results you achieved this Rotary year. With new DG Ward Garner's guidance, we will only continue to grow our Rotary District and all its accomplishments. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being my District All-Stars, and for our mutual efforts and successes in Shining the Light--as Rotarians Serving Humanity. Linda Fischer Bruce District Governor 2016-2017 412-415-3210-H 412-999-6045-C [email protected]www.rotarydistrict7300.org. www.pittsburghrotary.org At Seven Springs Mountain Resort, on 24 June 2017, District Governor Linda Fischer Bruce poses with the President of the Membership Award winning club of the Year, Robin Zoufalik, of Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. The Trophy is inscribed with the name of the legendary District 7300 member, Lou Piconi. Pictured left to right are Robin Zoufalik, "First Gent" Jerry Bruce, and District Governor Linda Fischer Bruce. See Pittsburgh Rotary Membership article, next page, and see inside for more District Conference photographs! PDG BILL SEGAR'S MEMBERSHIP AWARD! 1
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Rotary District 7300
ALL STARS — SHINING THE LIGHT
as Rotarians
Serving Humanity
The Newsletter of Rotary District 7300, including Allegheny, Beaver and parts of Westmoreland Counties, Pennsylvania: June 2017
You might already be addressing me as "Past District Governor" Linda Fischer Bruce, and let me tell you--it has been a heartstoppingly memorable year for me. I had the pleasure, on Saturday, 24 June 2017, of passing the District Governor pin--and responsibilities--to our new District Governor Ward Garner, and of spending a few moments with many of you at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, in reminiscence of all the hard work and good results you achieved this Rotary year. With new DG Ward Garner's guidance, we will only continue to grow our Rotary District and all its accomplishments.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being my District All-Stars, and for our mutual efforts and successes in Shining the Light--as Rotarians Serving Humanity.
Linda Fischer Bruce District Governor 2016-2017 412-415-3210-H 412-999-6045-C [email protected] www.rotarydistrict7300.org. www.pittsburghrotary.org
At Seven Springs Mountain Resort, on 24 June 2017, District Governor Linda Fischer Bruce poses with the President of the Membership Award winning club of the Year, Robin Zoufalik, of Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. The Trophy is inscribed with the name of the legendary District 7300 member, Lou Piconi. Pictured left to right are Robin Zoufalik, "First Gent" Jerry Bruce, and District Governor Linda Fischer Bruce. See Pittsburgh Rotary Membership article, next page, and see inside for more District Conference photographs!
PDG BILL SEGAR'S MEMBERSHIP AWARD!
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Pittsburgh Rotary Recruits
25 New Members
Pittsburgh Rotary, under the leadership of Club president Robin Zoufalik, has recruited 25 new members since July 2016. At the beginning of his presidency, Robin challenged Pittsburgh Rotary to be a vibrant club. He set aggressive goals at the beginning of his presidency and followed up with an organized plan to accomplish his membership goals.
Pittsburgh Rotary members responded to the challenge. Ethan Nicholas and Kelli Robbins led the charge. Excitement seemed to increase weekly. The membership efforts were capped in June when, in one meeting, Past President Karl Ohrman introduced in one meeting three new members he had recruited.
The 25 new members have a variety of backgrounds including a business consultant, financial advisor, high tech sales, etc. Incoming Club President Mike Smith, president of Goodwill of Southwestern PA, pledged to continue Robin’s aggressive membership campaign. Pittsburgh Rotary is on a roll. Look out District 7300!
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Charity Golf Classic Raises $24,000 on 22 May 2017
by Tom Benic
Rotary Club of Fox Chapel Area raised more than $24,000 at our annual Charity Golf Classic and raffle May 22 at River Forest Country Club in Freeport. All of the money raised will be distributed this summer to local and international charities the Fox Chapel Rotary Club supports, according to President Al Hribar.
This year proceeds will primarily benefit needy patients at St. Margaret’s Hospital through the St. Margaret Foundation Bed Fund.
Past beneficiaries have included: All of Us Care, Aspinwall Meals on Wheels, Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, Backpacks for Hunger in Fox Chapel Schools, Boy Scouts Camp Guyasuta, Circles of Sharpsburg, Cooper-Siegel Library, Computers for Students, Family Worship Center Meals Program, Fox Chapel Area High School Student Support Services, Lauri Ann West Community Center, Penn State New Kensington scholarships and St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank.
A field of 91 golfers played in this year’s event at River Forest Country Club in Freeport. A total of $9,160 was also raised in a companion raffle and an additional $1,600 was raised in a ticket auction.
Cliff Hendry was the golf event chair while Nancy Speed chaired the raffle and auctions.
Posted by Tom Benic on Jun 25, 2017
We raised more than $24,000 at our annual Charity Golf Classic and raffle May 22 at River Forest Country Club in Freeport. All of the money raised will be distributed this summer to local and international charities the Rotary Club supports, according to President Al Hribar.
This year proceeds will primarily benefit needy patients at St. Margaret’s Hospital through the St. Margaret Foundation Bed Fund.
Past beneficiaries have included: All of Us Care, Aspinwall Meals on Wheels, Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, Backpacks for Hunger in Fox Chapel Schools, Boy Scouts Camp Guyasuta, Circles of Sharpsburg, Cooper-Siegel Library, Computers for Students, Family Worship Center Meals Program, Fox Chapel Area High School Student Support Services, Lauri Ann West Community Center, Penn State New Kensington scholarships and St. Vincent dePaul Food Bank.
The 2017 list of grant recipients and exact dollar amounts will be determined in the coming weeks.
A field of 91 golfers played in this year’s event at River Forest Country Club in Freeport. A total of $9,160 was also raised in a companion raffle and an additional $1,600 was raised in a ticket auction.
Cliff Hendry was the golf event chair while Nancy Speed chaired the raffle and auctions.
Posted by Tom Benic on Jun 25, 2017
We raised more than $24,000 at our annual Charity Golf Classic and raffle May 22 at River Forest Country Club in Freeport. All of the money raised will be distributed this summer to local and international charities the Rotary Club supports, according to President Al Hribar.
This year proceeds will primarily benefit needy patients at St. Margaret’s Hospital through the St. Margaret Foundation Bed Fund.
Past beneficiaries have included: All of Us Care, Aspinwall Meals on Wheels, Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, Backpacks for Hunger in Fox Chapel Schools, Boy Scouts Camp Guyasuta, Circles of Sharpsburg, Cooper-Siegel Library, Computers for Students, Family Worship Center Meals Program, Fox Chapel Area High School Student Support Services, Lauri Ann West Community Center, Penn State New Kensington scholarships and St. Vincent dePaul Food Bank.
The 2017 list of grant recipients and exact dollar amounts will be determined in the coming weeks.
A field of 91 golfers played in this year’s event at River Forest Country Club in Freeport. A total of $9,160 was also raised in a companion raffle and an additional $1,600 was raised in a ticket auction.
Cliff Hendry was the golf event chair while Nancy Speed chaired the raffle and auctions.
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DISTRICT CONFERENCE GALLERY
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And one snapshot from the RI International Conference in Atlanta, GA, June 2017
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Membership Minute:
How’s That Working Out For You? Karl Ohrman
You are a good, average Rotarian. You attend most meetings. You volunteer for several projectseach year. You send $100 to the RI Foundation every year. You go to most District Conferences.
You have a mild interest in membership, but if you're like 90% of all Rotarians, you have never asked anyone to join the spectacular organization called Rotary International. You seem to think that other club members will work on the membership thing. You're too busy.
As a result of this membership disinterest, your club's membership is continuing to slide downward. Yon have fewer members paying dues, participating in club projects and adding camaraderie at club events. Something needs to be done ... and fast.
Attitude is everything. Your attitude can change. This year's RI President, like others before him,consider membership recruitment and retention a main priority. You are responsible for your club’s success. Not the club’s membership chair, not the club president, not the rookie member, but you, individually. The future of Rotary is in your hands.
Rotary is good people doing good things. Share the excitement. If you accept this responsibility and recruit a few good new members, when asked, "How's that membership thing working out for you?" you can answer with gusto, "Just Great."
Karl Ohrman is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. He has served as Assistant District Governorunder a number of past District Governors and is a regular contributor to this newsletter, as well as serving on its editorial board. Karl is open to speaking to all Rotary clubs in the District about the excitement of Rotary.
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SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY CONTINUES
Rotarian Friends:
You may recall last December when the Pittsburgh Rotary Club Foundation partnered with the German American Chamber of Commerce in Pittsburgh to award a $2,500.00 scholarship to a student from Washington & Jefferson College. http://www.gaccpit.com/en/media/newsdetail/artikel/healy-selected-to-receive-2500-german-american-chamberrotary-scholarship/?cHash=d2b7fac7abe94dfd116987f34ded6065.
That student-winner, Angela Nied, has been notified that she’s been named a Fulbright Fellowship Scholar with further details below. We’re waiting on a more formal announcement.
The Chamber is continuing the scholarship for 2017 and the updated application form is available for download at this link: https://www.gaccpit.com/fileadmin/ahk_pittsburgh/PDF/GABC-Rotary-Scholarship-Overview-2017.pdf.
You may wish to announce this to your membership. Thank you.
--Mark Miner, On behalf of BKD LLP and the German American Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh
Ode to District Governor Linda
by Karl Ohrman
(Lightly Abridged)
Linda, as District Governor you’ve done a lot of good things. Including a wonderful District Conference at Seven Springs.You passed the test, you are the best.You should celebrate. Your praises we sing.
The whole weekend was a fantastic treat.Excellent sessions and events and plenty to eat.It was fun, for everyone.A Rotary event that will be hard to beat.
The Pittsburgh Club got plenty of deserved recognition.We solidified our district leadership position.A lot was due to you, and of course, Robin too.Under Mike Smith, we’ll continue our service mission.
So now it’s all over. Your year’s come to an end.Who knows what lies ahead for you around the bend?It was a great run, We had lots of fun.Linda, you make us all proud. You’re our best friend.
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Polio is almost extinguished
But the war in Syria has caused a resurgence
AN EDITORIAL FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, 12:00 AM, 27 JUNE 2017
Wonderful as it is to recall the glories of the manned space program — the exhilaration and sense of infinite possibilities for humanity — there were also setbacks, disasters and disappointments. Something similar is happening now with polio and the world’s longest and most ambitious quest to eradicate the poliovirus, which is highly contagious, largely strikes children under 5 and can cause permanent paralysis.
Thanks to vaccination, the eradication effort is closer to success today than at any time in 30 years. Yet all of a sudden, a new outbreak has appeared in Syria. Is the goal about to be lost?
Not exactly, but the mixture of optimism and worry is warranted. As recently as the mid-1980s, polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children a year in 125countries where it was endemic. As Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates pointed out recently, that’s 40 cases an hour.
By contrast, so far this year, the last three endemic countries have reported a total of only six cases of wild poliovirus, fewer than at any moment ever: four in Afghanistan and two in Pakistan, and none so far this year in Nigeria. This is an extraordinary accomplishment by people, biomedicine and philanthropy. Just a few years ago, Pakistan, for example, appeared to be spinning out of control, with vaccination workers murdered on the job and whole sectors beyond reach of immunization. Globally, some 16 million people are walking today who might otherwise have been afflicted with paralysis from polio, Mr. Gates noted.
The numbers of polio victims are so low today that eradication may indeed be within reach, if there is not another setback in the remaining endemic countries. For this, immunization and surveillance must be sustained.
On June12, philanthropists and governments once again backed the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a public-private partnership aimed at the second-ever eradication of a disease, after smallpox. At the Rotary International convention in Atlanta, $1.2 billion was pledged. Up to $150 million raised in the next three years by Rotary International, which has been at the forefront of the battle since 1985, will be matched 2-to-1 by the Gates Foundation, which pledged a total of $450million, including the match. The remaining will come from other donors, all to make sure there is no relapse and a final fight to the finish.
The one dark spot is Syria, where a fresh outbreak has paralyzed 17 children, most from Mayadin, in eastern Syria, and including one child from Raqqa, where the Islamic State is headquartered. This is the second polio outbreak of the war. It was caused by a weakened form of the virus from the polio vaccine itself, which in rare cases mutates and becomes virulent against the unvaccinated, spreading through contaminated sewage or water.
The real culprit is the upheaval of war. Fortunately, there is an effective vaccine and a fair amount of experience in extinguishing such a polio outbreak, and with enough effort and immunization, it can be contained.
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ROTARY BOOTS ON THE GROUND--in SYRIA--Collateral Repair Project (Global Grant)
Several Rotary clubs in Rotary District 7300 participated in a successful Global Grant that made it possible for many Syrian refugee school-age children, in Jordan, to continue their educations. The Global Grant amount totalled, ultimately, just under $200,000 and provides all sorts of student support, school fees, supplies, and, shown above, some materials you might not immediately associate with schooling. (Carpets!) Al Wells, of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh, headed up the project, with help from several other clubs, including his own home club, the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. One of the partners in the project is the Non-Governmental Organization COLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT.
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Rotary Changes YOUR LifeThe Bob Dove Story, by Karl Ohrman
When we talk about how “Rotary Changes Lives,” our focus typically is on how it changes the lives of others, often in faraway places. Truth is, Rotary also changes the lives of the Rotarians serving others.
Bob Dove, a member of the Forest Hills Rotary Club, personifies how Rotary service can change the one doing the serving. He is about to leave the comforts of Pittsburgh to go to Rwanda for a year to work with the kids at Urukundo Village beginning this fall. He was following the example of fellow Rotarian, Tom Nunnally, when Bob wentto Rwanda to work with Arlene Brown at Urukundo Village for the first time in May of 2016. That trip changed his life and the life of his wife, Amy so much that they decided to return for a year.
During that first trip, Bob set up a computer lab with the 10 laptops donated by the Forest Hills Rotary Club. He also got the computer lab certified to offer an international computer skills certification programknown as the ICDL. The ICDL Foundation has theirAfrica Headquarters nearby, in Kigali, and they wantBob to work with them while in country. He will bein Rwanda because of the work that Forest Hills RotaryClub did there. Now his main client will be payinghim to help them while he serves the kids. Soundslike a cushy job. Anyone want to join him?
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Bob grew up in Plum and graduated Plum High School in 1964. He obtained a BA in English and History from Pitt in 1968 and got an MA in Journalism from Penn State after completing a tour of duty as an MP in Korea during the Vietnam War. His Army service was from 1969-1971. He returned to Pitt part-time while working as an academic dean and he received his PhD in Education in 1982.
Bob is married to Amy. They have two children: a son who is married, lives in Millvale and works at CMU; and a daughter who lives and teaches in New Zealand.
Bob is the owner of WD&E Consulting LLC. They do workforce development and education consulting. His most current work is with the International Computer Driving License (ICDL) Foundation out of Ireland.
Yes, Bob has hobbies but they tend to be service oriented. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Three Rivers Walk to Emmaus. He’s a member of Session for the Waverly Presbyterian Church in Regent Square and is a member of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole.
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Bob is a longtime Rotarian having joined the Pittsburgh Club in the 1980’s when he worked downtown; his second club was the Forest Hills Club where he joined ten years ago. Bob served as Forest Hills president twice (2008-2009 and 2013-2014) and was Assistant District Governor in 2016-2017. Bob also is generous with his Paul Harris contributions to the RI Foundation.
Bob’s favorite Rotary project is the water project with Urukundo Village and additional support for the kids at Urukundo in Rwanda. Bob worked closely with recently deceased Rotarian, Tom Nunnally, who was well known for his international efforts in clean water projects. He is spearheading an effort to purchase two school buses for the school at Urukundo Village where 550 children currently have a commute over dangerous roads. If your club would like to participate in this global grant with the Forest Hills Club, please contact Bob at 412-657-7984.
Secret fact about Bob? He lived in a commune while attending Penn State.
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54th Annual
Moon Rotary Club
CORN ROAST Tuesday August 15th, 2017
At the Moon Park Rotary Shelter
5 :00 P.M.—8:00 P.M.
All Are Welcome! Donation: $20.00
Chi ldren—12 and Under—1/2 Price
Lots of Great Food!! !
Lots of Ice Cold Drinks! ! !
Jim Huntsman 412-264-6050
Bob Saveikis 412-787-1533
Joanne Lindner 412-264-2613
Bernie Baker 412-264-3945
Proceeds Benefi t Local Chari t ies
Jim Kerr 412-7640
Andy Keppel 412-264-8072
Rex Woodward 412-848-5007
For Advance Tickets or Information Contact:
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Return Completed Form & Check to:Dan Kravetz • 134 Elm Drive. • Trafford, PA 15085 • (412) 605-2337
Make Checks Payable to: ROTARY DISTRICT 7300Payment due no later than JULY 3, 2017
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Rotary District 7300 Newsletter 2016-2017 is published monthly on ClubRunner and is available toall members of Rotary Clubs within Rotary District 7300.
Editor-in-Chief, Barbara E. Johnson (ADG--Pittsburgh) Intellectual Property Attorney, Barbara E. Johnson, Esq., [email protected]
Calendar and Social Events Editor, Bonnie Pierce (President, Bethel Park) Safety Manager, South Hills Movers, Inc., [email protected]
District Photographer, Brian Schill (Upper St. Clair—Bethel Park) Executive Director, Peters Township Chamberof Commerce, [email protected]
Features Editor, Tom Benic (Publicity Chair, Fox Chapel), Photographer, [email protected]
Foundation Editor, Sue Kelly (PDG--Carnegie-Collier) Rotary District 7300 Foundation Chair, District Trainer, [email protected]
RI Editor, Walt Sickles (PDG—Ambridge) Rotary District 7300 Treasurer, [email protected].
Training Editor, Sandy Grimes (Green Tree) Rotary District 7300 Trainer, Assistant Governor Support, and Owner– Good Advertising Co., [email protected]
Don't see your name listed here? Editorial Staff positions are still available—we did not know you wished to be asked! Please contact [email protected].
Don't see your news item, photo or desired advertisement? Or did you spot any fact errors? It's not too late—the next issue of the Rotary District 7300 Newsletter will be published in a few weeks, contact Editor@rotarydistrict7300 for submissions or corrections (editorial deadline the fifteenth of every month).
