FROM YOUR PRESIDENT



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Meetings: Mondays at Noon

DJ’S Dugout

10308 South 23rd St.

Bellevue, NE 68123

OFFICERS FOR 2014-2015

President…………..…..........Fred Simon

President-Elect…..….Sarah Conaway

Secretary……………….Herb Barelman

Treasurer…………………Jerry Monson

Sergeant-at-Arms…………..Paul Reed

Program Chair………………..Jeff Smith

Board Members….......Charles Adams

Herb Barelman

Jerry Monson

Paul Reed

Fred Simon

Jeff Smith

Sarah Conaway

Matt Willis

MAY SPEAKERS

May 4: Kate Eytalis

May 11: Scholarship Luncheon

May 18: Revela

May 25: No Meeting

GREETER AND INVOCATION

May

Greeter………......................Paul Nichols

Invocation…………......Charles Adams

FROM THE PRESIDENT

Our 40th anniversary celebration turned out to be a big success. Briefly our history was retold which showed us all how Rotary has evolved over the years.  Several wives of former members were in attendance. Our current District Governor Brian Moon was in attendance.

The Bellevue Rotary Board will take up suggestions for pursuing another grant this year. Providing a project connected with the Bellevue Public Library has been suggested. Also the Caboose that we helped move to the Sarpy County Museum will need lots of work in the year to come.

In April we recognized the Rotary Outstanding teachers from Bellevue. It is nice to see that our teachers, who at times feel that they efforts and accomplishments go unnoticed, so appreciate this time of recognition for their work. Thanks goes out to Herb Barelman who makes sure this happens every year.

In May we will recognize our students from Bellevue who will be receiving scholarships for the fall school year. Thank goes out to Denise Dolezal for making this event happen successfully again this year.

Rich James has suggested we try and attend another Indoor Football which is always a good time.  He is also working on having our own changing of the leadership  as Sarah Conaway becomes President July 1st.  July 12th will be the day we gather to mark this event. Please mark your calendars and look for details over the next few months.

President Fred Simon

FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

Sunday, 12 April, marks 60 years since the Salk polio vaccine was declared safe, effective, and potent. In that time, the number of polio cases has dropped by 99 percent worldwide. With just three countries remaining polio-endemic, we are closer than ever to eradicating this crippling disease.

Jonas Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been crucial in helping us reach our goal of a polio-free world. Before the vaccine was widely available, in the United States alone, polio crippled more than 35,000 people each year. By 1957 -- two years after the introduction of Salk’s vaccine -- cases in the U.S. had fallen by almost 90 percent, and by 1979, polio had been eradicated there.

The impact on the rest of the world has taken longer. In 1988, when Rotary International launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) with its partners at the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, polio continued to cripple children in 125 countries. Today, polio remains endemic in only three: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. And it has been more than eight months since Nigeria’s last case, making a polio-free Africa a real possibility.

Salk’s vaccine will play an important role in the end-game strategy against polio when 120 countries introduce IPV into their routine polio immunization systems this year. Leading that effort are the GPEI partners and Gavi, a global vaccine alliance, along with Sanofi Pasteur, the largest manufacturer of polio vaccine.

“As more than 120 countries in the world are introducing IPV, we are beginning the last chapter on polio eradication,” said Olivier Charmeil, Sanofi Pasteur’s chief executive officer. “At Sanofi Pasteur, we have had a long-term vision of IPV as the ultimate public health tool able to finish the job started with Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV).”

THE FOUR WAY TEST—of the things we think, say, or do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

“Rotary is one of the best sources of establishing friendship because it offers an occasion to know people, and once we know people, generally we learn to like them.”

-Paul Harris

ROTARY TRIVIA

(Answer in next month’s newsletter)

1. How much were annual dues at the first Rotary Club?

ROTARY TRIVIA ANSWERS FROM LAST MONTH

1. Who can you blame for introducing signing to Rotary Club meetings and what was his profession?

Harry Ruggles, printer

AREA MEETINGS

Monday:

Omaha Millard, Noon @ German American Society

Omaha North, Noon @ Eppley Airfield Conference Center

Tuesday:

Omaha Morning, 7:00 am @ Happy Hollow Country Club

Northwest, Noon @ Champions Run

Southwest Omaha Rotary Night Club, 5:15pm @Millard Plaza Ballroom

Wednesday:

Council Bluffs Centennial, 7:00am at HyVee

Downtown, Noon @ Field Club

Plattsmouth, Noon @ Plattsmouth State Bank

Thursday:

Suburban, Noon @ Anthonys

Friday:

Omaha West, Noon @ Champions Run

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