District Governor’s Message: Happy New...
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District Governor’s Message: Happy New Year!
Hoping everyone had a relaxing December - Make your reservations now for the Rotary District 7770 Conference which will be held March 23-25 at the Marriot Hilton Head Resort.
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December 2011
Paula Matthews, District Governor
Ed Duryea, District Governor Elect
Lou Mello, District Governor Nominee
Rick Moore, Immediate Past District Governor
Paula Matthews, District Governor
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Historic Rotary Club of Charleston Recognizes Menniti as October Teacher of
the Month; Stroud as October Student of the Month
November 29 2011: The Historic Rotary Club of Charleston recognizes Cecilia Menniti as the October Teacher of the Month and Shanay Stroud as the Student of the Month.
Cecilia Menniti is a 2nd grade teacher
at James Simons Elementary School. Ms. Menniti is noted for her extraordinary patience -- going above and beyond to teach with differentiation to her students. Ms. Menniti has spunk and energy that the children adore, yet they know she is all business when it comes to learning. There’s not a task that Ms. Menniti hasn’t approached with anything other than a positive attitude. She is truly a team player and totally knowledgeable about educating children.
Shanay Stroud was chosen to be SOTM because while
Shanay may initially seem a bit shy, she has a delightful and witty sense of humor, and is a magnet for other students. She’s in Ms. Rugg's 5th grade class at James Simons Elementary School and has been on the Principal's Honor Roll, the A/B Honor Roll, and received the Perfect Attendance Award. Shanay loves to read books that make her laugh and she adores playing kick ball. Shanay also has a special talent — she has her very own sewing machine and designs and makes clothes for her 12 dolls.
Daniel Island Rotary Supports East Cooper Community Outreach
Daniel Island Rotarians Billie Bacon and Judy Burnstein drop off gifts for one of East Cooper Community Outreach’s families in need. In addition to support for the ECCO project, the Rotary Club of Daniel Island filled gift boxes through the Christmas at Sea program for merchant seamen visiting the Wando Port, and provided blankets to East Cooper Meals on Wheels recipients.
CART Salutes Small Clubs!
One hesitates to give special praise for there is always a chance
someone will be offended, but this is one of those times when we should
all be proud of two of our small clubs. Hilton Head Sunset Rotary Club with
a membership of 30 members has contributed $62,970.00 to The CART
Fund since 1997. Low Country Beaufort, with a membership of 45
members, has contributed $45,530.00 in the same period. 55% of Low
Country's contributions have been made in the past 3 years.
GREAT Support! THANK YOU!
The below information has been forwarded to us by Dr. John
Trojanowski of Penn Medical, Chairman of our Scientific Grant Review
Committee. The facts cited should challenge all of our clubs to increase
their support of CART. Our goal is to make 2012 our best year ever.
In the United States alone AD is estimated that ~5.3 million Americans have AD, and as
populations age in the United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and elsewhere, the number of
people with AD will explode unless ways to prevent or treat the disease are found very soon. Indeed,
someone develops AD in the United States every 70 seconds, and AD has displaced diabetes as the
6th leading cause of death in the United States and by 2030, as many as 7.7 million Americans could
have AD, and by 2050 this number could rise to 11-16 million people. The annual cost of AD in the
United States is >$150 billion, and AD will affect the economies of other countries to a similar extent,
including developing nations. For example, the London-based Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI)
has determined that in the next 30 years the number of AD patients will more than quadruple in India,
China and other countries in Asia, Australasia and Oceania, from ~16 million in 2010 to ~61 million by
2050. Further, in Africa there are expected to be >8 million AD patients by 2050 when the worldwide
burden of AD will be >115 million people. Although the global explosion of AD may seem too
overwhelming a challenge to overcome by 2050, a “cure” for AD is not essential since delaying the
onset of AD by just 5 years could have a profound impact on this disorder by reducing the incidence
and cost of AD by 50% between now and 2050.
The total worldwide costs of dementia in 2010 were estimated to be US$604 billion (~70% of
which occur in Europe and North America), and these expenditures are ~1% of the global gross
domestic product. Accordingly, if dementia care was a country, it would be the world’s 18th largest
economy; and if it were a company, it would be the world’s largest, exceeding Wal-Mart (US$414
billion) and Exxon Mobil (US$311 billion) in expenditures. Given these economic realities, ADI has
called for governments and other research funders to act now to increase dementia research funding
(including research into prevention) to a level more proportionate to the economic burden of AD and
related disorders. To that end, ADI points to data suggesting that a 15-fold increase in funding for
dementia is required to reach parity with heart disease, and a 30-fold increase is needed to achieve
parity with cancer research.
Wimo, A. and M. Prince, Alzheimer’s Disease International World Alzheimer Report 2010 - The Global Economic Impact of
Dementia. Alzheimer’s Disease. .(http://www.alz.org/documents/national/World_Alzheimer_Report_2010.pdf) 2010.
Daniel Island Rotary Donates Equipped Rescue Vehicle
The Rotary Club of Daniel Island used its District Simplified Grant to support the Charleston Fire
Department with a much needed rescue vehicle. This golf cart ambulance will assist the first
responders on Daniel Island when someone is in need of emergency services on the over 12 miles of
trails on the Island. Requested by the Fire Department, the vehicle is fully equipped for emergencies
and will also be used by the Department for certain large crowd events such as the Cooper River
Bridge Run where the sheer numbers of people in attendance make moving a full-size vehicle
impractical.
This grant is a great illustration of the power of matching funds. Beginning with funds from the Rotary Club of Daniel Island's 2011 Duck Race, district simplified grant funds and matching funds from the Daniel Island Community Fund all were added to make the purchase. The vehicle sports decals from both Rotary and the DI Community Fund and will also bear a Charleston Fire Department logo as well. The keys to the vehicle were officially transferred to the Fire Department in a presentation ceremony attended by firefighters and Rotarians. Katie McCravy, Legare
Clement, Paul Stoney
A December meeting of the Florence Breakfast Rotary Club was filled with
holiday joy and happiness as the Violin students from FSD1 entertained us with a
violin and vocal concert. Many thanks go to this amazing group of students and
their teacher for the wonderful concert. The meeting was made even more
enjoyable thanks to the visit from Paula Matthews, District 7770 Governor, Vonda
Turner, Area 16 Assistant Governor and Santa Claus.
The guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Lake
Murray-Irmo meeting for the November 30, 2011 will
be Lt. Joshua Morse, Corps Officer at The Salvation
Army. Josh talked about the Salvation Army and its
mission in Irmo. The Salvation Army was founded in
England in 1865 by William and Katherine Booth to
minister to the less fortunate. The organization is
currently in 126 countries around the world. In the
midlands, the organization feeds 185 people daily as
well as provides vouchers for food, medicine and
clothing. The Salvation Army in Irmo provides
weekly church services on Irmo Drive and provides
the Kids to Camp program which sends 50 children
to camp for a week in the summer. Palmetto Point Project is a weekly program serving hundreds of
children and families. Disaster services, drug and rehab programs, literacy programs, and men's and
women’s programs are also a part of the overall services provided by Salvation Army. Funding is
provided primarily from the kettles during the Christmas season, from private donations and from
grants. Josh Morse is a fifth generation member of the Salvation Army. He is married with two
children. Josh is a member of the Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo and the pastor of the Salvation
Army church in Irmo.
The program at the Rotary Club of Lake
Murray-Irmo meeting for the December 14,
2011 was a Christmas Program by the
Nursery Road Elementary School 4th grade
chorus. The members were thoroughly
entertained by the students who sang, read
an inspiring story, played instruments and
provided animation to their renditions of
various Christmas songs. This was a
wonderful and entertaining event. Our
special thanks to Mrs. Brooks, Music
Director, and Dr. Christina Melton,
Principal, for this program.
Club President Jeanette Coulter & Lt. Joshua Morse
Historic Rotary Club of Charleston Supports Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign
December 16, 2011: The Historic Rotary Club of Charleston provided their annual support to the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign by having Rotarians stationed on King and Meeting Streets, asking passersby to make a contribution. Rotarians offered either to sing Christmas carols or to refrain from singing Christmas carols as an inducement to give. Since Rotarians are notoriously persuasive, there were many contributors and warm thanks extended. The Red Kettle Christmas Campaign enables the Army to provide food, toys and clothing to over 6 million people during the Christmas season and helps more than 34 million Americans recovering from all kinds of personal disasters nationwide. The Red Kettle campaign, first started in San Francisco in 1891, has traditionally been The Salvation Army’s most prominent fund-raiser. In 2004, the campaign raised over $100 million in communities nationwide, with the nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars all remaining in the towns where the money was deposited into the kettles. The funds raised help support many of the 37 million people in poverty who turn to the Army for food and toys at Christmas, utility and homeless assistance, senior and child care, drug abuse treatment and many other social service needs.
Paul Welborn and Jim Atkins Fred Sales and Jeremy Cook
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St. Andrews Rotary Club in Columbia
has visiting Rotarian from Nigeria
On 13 December 2011, Bassey Essien, a hotel owner in Nigeria,
visited the St. Andrews Rotary Club while in Columbia over the
holidays spending holiday time with his family. Mr. Essien lives in
Nigeria and comes to us from the southern part of that West
African country. Bassey is a member of Rotary District 910 and is a Paul Harris Fellow.
ROTARY CLUB PRESIDENT KEN CORBETT (left), BASSEY ESSIEN (center), and ROTARY HOST JOSH BAYNARD (right)
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The Historic Rotary Club of
Charleston extended the season’s
cheer and good tidings to
the Charleston Senior Center by
purchasing, wrapping and distributing
holiday gifts to residents of the
Ansonborough House. Rotarians
shopped for gifts for 80 seniors at
Wal-Mart at Tanger Outlet on the
morning of December 10, wrapped
them and distributed the gifts at a
holiday party on December 20 at the
Ansonborough House.
Top - Carroll Schweers, Tom
Brown, Donna Cook (Chas.
Senior Center), Harrison
Schweers, Bill Nettles, Kyra
Morris, Mark Smith, Avery
Smith, Parker Smith pictured
with representatives from the
Wal-Mart at Tanger Outlet.
Middle - Bill Nettles, Mark
Smith, Kyra Morris, Donna
Cook (Chas. Senior Center),
Carroll Schweers, Harrison
Schweers, Tom Brown
Rotarians gathered at
the Charleston Senior Center to
wrap the gifts purchased at
Wal-Mart for seniors at the
Ansonborough House.
Bottow - Nan Greene, Bill
Prewitt, Carroll Schweers,
Dyson Scott, Mark Smith, Rene
Kramer, Ned Jervey, Tom
Sweeny, Kathy Jones, Bill
Nettles.
District 7770 Rotarians in Tanzania
In November 2011, District 7770 Rotarians Nick Sherfesee of the Myrtle Beach
Club and Bob Gross of the Sea Island Club of Beaufort went on a two-week
medical mission trip to Tanzania, Africa. Tanzania is an extremely poor country
with vast natural resources, including Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti
National Park, together with mineral resources.
One of the most pressing needs in Tanzania is water – both enough quantity and
quality. While there, Nick and Bob looked for possible international water
projects and identified several possibilities.
While in Tanzania, Nick and Bob visited the Rotary Club of Bukoba and
developed a relationship to implement a water project.
Nick Sherfesee Introduces Himself To The Bukoba Club
After the meeting, Nick and Bob were invited to
the home of Iqbal Ishmail for dinner.
Nick Enjoying Tandoori Chicken and True Rotarian
Fellowship
(Note the Bowl of Fried Crickets
behind the bottle of juice)/
Bob Gross Swaps A Sea Island Club Banner With Johanssen Lutabingwa, President Of The Bukoba Club