family’s plight caught the attention of their florist, David Fuller, a member of the Edmon-ton Rotary club.

"They were invited to one of our meetings, when it was decided to help them as much as possible," recalls Dennis Perkins, club secre-tary.

The Edmonton club initially raised £1,300 (US$2,500) at a garden party at Fullers' home. The club then gave Harvey a 15-pound Easter egg, which captured local media attention, and the club's Christmas float stopped at the Parry home for Father Christmas to deliver toys the club had bought Harvey, again making the evening news.

Virgin Airlines flew the family over for free, and the Marriott Residence Inn-Plainview offered reduced rates. The Edmonton club put in a call to Hicksville-Jericho and Bethpage-Plainview, and Rotarians in those two clubs contributed more than $800 and various gift certificates.

"We just had to do something, they are right in our backyard," said George Hannau, past president of the Bethpage-Plainview club. The family plans on staying in New York through the middle of August. Already, they face a $12,000 bill for rental car and lodging. When they get back home, Parry says she will have to immediately begin fundrais-ing for a return trip to continue Harvey's ther-apy.

"Right now, we're broke. We've used up all our funds," Parry said. "I'm a little scared. But I know what we have to do. My son is walk-ing, and he is happy. And that's what is impor-tant to me."

Parry is full of praise for Rotary.

"Before this, I did not know that much about the organization," she said. "I can honestly say they have saved our lives. They have been so supportive."

Rotary Helps Toddler Take First Steps

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P.J. Thurkauf

August 20, 2008 CCLUBLUB O OFFICERSFFICERS

President Glenn Garth

President-Elect Scott Marum

Vice President John Loughman

Vice President - Breakfast Chris Flanagan

Secretary Joan Berkeley

Chief Financial Officer Mike Franchino

Treasurer Bob Miller

Assistant Treasurers, Meals Liz Colquhoun

Assistant Treasurers, 50/50 L - Roy Bumiller & Charlie Eggert

B - Gary Reppen Sergeant-At-Arms L - Carl Badenhausen

B - Mike Moore Past President Dolores Bagish

RI Liaison Robert Coultas

Parliamentarian/Historian John Kuschke

District Governor Janice Teetsell

Assistant Governor Terry Berger

BBOARDOARD OFOF D DIRECTORSIRECTORS

Dave Bagish, Jim Deak, Mike Elms, Chris Flanagan,

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We welcome you to Morristown Where freedom's wars were fought.

We welcome you to Morristown Where liberty was wrought.

Come join our age old comradeship, Break bread with us today. In real Rotarian fellowship Our greetings we convey.

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BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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By Arnold R. Grahl Rotary International News

Two-and-a-half-year-old Harvey Parry of Ed-monton, England, is learning to walk on pros-thetic legs he received during a visit to New York. The trip was made possible partially by the generosity of Rotary clubs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Rotary Club of Edmonton, England, along with the Rotary clubs of Bethpage-Plainview and Hicksville-Jericho in New York, USA, have helped offset some of the family's travel expenses while Harvey undergoes therapy at “A Step Ahead Prosthetics and Orthotics” in Hicksville, where he is learning to take his first steps.

At 15 months, Harvey contracted meningococ-cal, the deadlier bacteria form of meningitis. Resulting septicemia, or blood poisoning, forced doctors to amputate both of his legs above the knees and three fingers on his right hand. In England, public health care does not pay to fit children under the age of five with a full-length prosthesis. Instead they are equipped with hard plastic discs which fit over the remains of the limb. Children learn to scoot around on their stubs until they grow old enough for full legs. Worried their son would lose valuable development time waiting for full-length legs, Carol and Jonathan Parry de-cided to seek out the help of A Step Ahead, known worldwide as a leader and innovator in prosthetic design.

"Bilateral movement takes a lot of strength, balance, and coordination," said Phil Kreuter, a physical therapist who works with A Step Ahead. "The sooner we can get them, the sooner they learn a more normal gait."

Still, the move was not without risk. Turning to private care meant Harvey’s therapy would not be covered by public aid when he returned to England. Carol Parry began a year-long fundraising campaign to raise money. The

The Official Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Morristown, NJ

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From The

STAR Committee Submitted by Denny Morrison

The STAR Program (Special Training for Action in Rotary) is designed to pro-mote a more involved and knowledge-able Club membership. The program highlights the many different facets of Rotary in both our local and international service projects. Rotary serves our local community, our region, our nation, and the world; and this is a fantastic forum to learn how that happens.

All new members of our club are re-quired to attend four STAR programs to become an “Active Member” and get a promotion from their red meeting badges.

Our first STAR Program meeting for this Rotary year will be held at 5:30 PM on Sept 8, 2008. The location will be the A.G.Edwards conference room on the 10th floor of the "1776 On The Green" building (67 East Park Place-10th floor, Morristown). Light refreshments will be served. Our first guest speaker will be the one and only Harvey Gilbert. The topic of his presentation is still in the works, but you can rest assured it will be both engaging and informative for new Rotarians!

Please RSVP to Denny Morrison if you are planning to attend: dennis.morrison@wachoviasec.com

Hey Rotarians…

We Missed You

Last Week

Badenhausen, Carl

Bangiola, Paul

Betz, Richard

Boyer, James

Bruen Sr, William

Colquhoun, Liz

Deak, Jim

Eggert, Charlie

Franchino, Michael

Fromberg, Doug

Goodman, Ted

Greenberger, Doug

Konya, Lori

Melaku, Amsale

Mongey, Jim

Moore, Michael

Pierson, Roger

Randolph, Scott

Ruefenacht, Max

Salamanca, Ric

Samson, Suzanne

Schaub, Peter

Schommer, Rusty

Struck, Matthew

Valentine, Veronica

Valerio, Lucio

Vernon, Chris

Weiss, Bill

Wirths, Matt

Wronski, Helen

Wyse, Jon

...Hope to see you

Wednesday!

Send Meeting Make-Ups to:

Joan Berkeley 36 Nottingham Ct.

Morristown, NJ

Elmer’s Corner

Introduced just 25 years ago, our society’s consump-tion rate of plastic shopping bags is now estimated at almost 1 million per minute.

The average family accumulates 60 plas-tic bags in only four trips to the grocery store. Each high quality reusable bag you use has the potential to eliminate an aver-age of 1,000 plastic bags over its lifetime.

Maybe we can learn from Africa where a cottage industry has sprung up that har-vests these bags and uses them to weave hats and stronger bags. One group har-vests 30,000 bags per month.

If you wondered why we haven't seen too much of Charlie Eggert recently, it's because he has been working feverishly to finish his "Dream Car restoration."

The car is a 1931 V16 Cadillac Cabrio-let, which he acquired in 1988 from a man who had bought it from a junk yard in Rhode Island in 1970. Charlie has worked on the car off and on since then, and just recently completed the project.

As most of you know, Charlie's passion is old cars, a hobby he has pursued most of his life. This car is his crowning achievement, and is currently in transit to California to compete in the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance next week. Charlie and Cheryl left for Pebble Beach on August 12, and we wish them the best of luck in one of the world's most prestigious Classic Car Events!

Good Luck, Chaz!

Remember Me?

We recently received an updated photo of Daniel Humberto Morales. Daniel, you’ll remember, was a recipient of heart surgery last year as part of the Gift of Life program. He is doing very well!

Please send stories, news, jokes, photographs, and gossip for The Rambler to:

P.J. Thurkauf at turk11042@hotmail.com or 973.538.2040 (fax)

Calendar of Events

Contributions to the Endow-ment Fund should be ad-dressed to:

Morristown Rotary Endowment Fund

c/o Mike Franchino 19 Cattano Avenue

Morristown, NJ 07960

Thanks to the club officers for their continued management of this fund. Balance as of

05/12/2008 is $160,500 Page 3 August 20, 2008

UPCOMING

LUNCH

PROGRAMS At the Spring Brook Country Club, Morris Township

This Week: Japanese Short Term Exchange Students - Joint Meeting with Madi-son Rotary

Next Week: Austin Neary - Classification Talk

UPCOMING

BREAKFAST

PROGRAMS At the Morris Center YMCA’s Richard F. Blake Children’s Center, Cedar Knolls.

This Week: Jon Wyse - Classification Talk Next Week: Eileen Heltzer - Classification Talk

Help Fill These Pages!!

Aug 19 Camp Merry Heart Golf Outing - See Above. Sept 9 Morristown Rotary Board Meeting

Aug 20 Japanese Short Term Exchange Students at Lunch Meeting

Sept 20 Rotary Family Picnic—Details to come!

Aug 27 District 7470 Golf Outing - Mine Brook Golf Club, Hackettstown

Sept 24 District Governors Meeting - Both mtgs.

Quote of the Week

“Our creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be im-mortal.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne American Author

Camp Merry Heart 15th Annual Golf Tournament

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Fox Hollow Golf Club

Branchburg, NJ

Come support Rotary’s efforts at Camp Merry Heart. $150.00 per person includes lunch, shotgun start round of golf, a rousing liars-fest at the cash bar, dinner and awards. Hey, you’re going to play golf anyway. Why not for a good cause? And, what could be a better cause than helping disabled kids?

Camp Merry Heart

Golf Outing

Photos From Our

Baseball Night

Submitted by David Shapiro