Bill Secord, thanks for taking minutes at the meeting so I could send out this belated edition of Currents.
First and Third Thursday at Noon @ Harvest Hill's Dwinell Room
Second and Forth Thursdays at Noon on Zoom
GET YOUR SPEAKER IDEAS TO STEVE WHITMAN.
Upcoming Programs
September 8, (Zoom) — Plan to be verified and will be sent with the agenda as soon as I can get an update on the plan.
September 15, (in-person) — RYLA students from Lebanon High will join us for the meeting. Plus Ryan Sinclair. A great intergenerational program. Consider inviting the young, middle aged and old to join us.
Ryan Sinclair, Director of Rotary Yr of Global Leadership and Service Learning, Director of Off Campus Programs
Picture from Cardigan Mountain School Web Page
Cardigan Mountain School
A.B., Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, 2002
M.B.A., Grenoblffe Graduate School of Business, 2008
Ryan experienced the programs of Rotary Foundation as both a Youth Exchange participant and as an Ambassadorial Scholarship student when studying for his master’s degree. The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
We will have our four RYLA participants from this past spring joining us to receive their Leadership certificates and to give us a brief update on their experiences. We also hope to have our INTERACT members from Lebanon and Mascoma join us for lunch and to hear Ryan’ inspirational tale of the opportunities Rotary made possible for him to undertake.
Ryan first joined Cardigan in 2002. Ryan left Cardigan for two years to earn his MBA at Grenoble Graduate School of Business in Grenoble, France in 2008.
In his Personal Leadership class, he acts as a facilitator to promote self-discovery and develop problem-solving skills amongst his students.
In college he was a member of the Dartmouth Men's Ice Hockey Team and is passionate about teaching his players to think the game at the next level. As a British/Canadian/American citizen, Ryan has traveled to over 70 countries worldwide and has started his own student leadership and travel programs, called Ivy Leader, which he runs in the summers.
September 22, (Zoom) — TBD
SATURDAY, September 24, 2022 — President's Picnic at Tim and Anna Guaraldi's home in Newport
September 29, 5th — Thursday, No Meeting On Zoom, instead we will meet at Tim and Anna Guaraldi's home for the President Picnic on September 24, 2022 at 3 PM
October, 6, 2022, In Person at Harvest Hill — Dr. Jennifer L. Scott, PsyD, ABPP Executive Director, Southern Vermont AHEC
October — World Polio Day is October 24th We will have a program about PolioPlus
November, November is Rotary Foundation Month. We will have a program about the Foundation
Rudy Fedrizzi, accompanied by his colleague, Epidemiologist Lyrica Stelle, operating the laptop, gave a classification talk that focused on the importance of Public Health and his own reason for moving from private practice as an obstetrician to his present administrative role in the Vermont Department of Health. Rudy served as a physician in the Air Force for four years and then as an obstetrician for seventeen years. He became tired of practicing medicine as a “lifeguard,” always coming to the rescue rather than actually improving the health of people in his care. He felt constantly reactive—responding to his beeper. Public health, in contrast, focuses on the prevention of diseases. Rather than a focus on end-stage disease, public health intends to move upstream to explore more root causes that can be modified.
Rudy finds the best definition of public health to have been crafted by Charles-Edward Winslow in 1920 at the inauguration of the Yale School of Public Health in 1920:
“… the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical (and mental) health through organized efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.”
Meeting called to order by President Ed Friedman at 12:00.
President Elect Dave Crandall led the club in the Four-Way Test.
Maestro Ernst Oidtmann accompanied our singing of the “Welcome song’ and a rendition of “The Good Ol’ Summertime.”
The following guests were welcomed to the meeting: Curtis Payne, Kirk Baird, and Lyrica Stelle.
Rudy Fedrizzi did his classification talk. See story above.
President Ed Freidman than inducted our newest member, Curtis Payne
Curtis Payne and Ed Friedman
Ed Friedman read the official welcoming statement.
John Yacavone and Curtis Payne
Since Curtis’s sponsor, Ron Bedell was off on a Rotary Cruise to Bermuda, thus John Yacavone officially pinned Curtis.
Brags and Happy Dollars below
Announcments
BREWFEST:
Hank reported that everything is 98% in place for the Brewfest on Friday/Saturday. Members are reporting for duty at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) for tent and fence setup and again on Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. for table station and entrance setup. So far, 248 tickets have been sold online. Bruce will be sending out the final pouring station assignment by email before the end of the day today.
We could use a couple more pop-up tents and some additional corn hole games.
CLUB PICNIC:
Our annual club picnic will again take place on the palatial Guaraldi grounds in Newport on Saturday, September 24 from 10:00 a.am. to 4:00 p.m.
MOTROCYLISTS FROM ITALY:
Joann Lemieux reminded everyone that Bill Sahlman, a former member of the Riverside Rotary Club, will be escorting a group of Rotarian motorcyclists from Italy for a meet-and-greet at Riverside Park in West Lebanon on Wednesday, September 28 at 5:00 p.m. JoAnn will be providing sandwiches, salad, and chips. Bring you own beverage, and bring an additional side dish, snack or dessert.
The meeting was adjourned with the recitation of the Rotary motto
One profits most who serves best.
Brags and Happy Dollars
(Bill Secord wrote: This hard-of-hearing recorder might have gotten much of the details in the following list entirely wrong—including the person who made the brag!)
Ahmad’s daughter is receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Bruce Pacht has returned safely from a long motorcycle tour. (But he paid a fine for forgetting yet again to bring his Rotary badge to the meeting.)
Ron Michaud’s grandson has started his second 1800-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail—this time from north to south.
Paul Tierney paid $100.00 for the fortieth celebration of his thirty-ninth birthday and then paid $1.00 for a fine to prove he’s still cheap.
Dave Crandall’s daughter has become engaged, and his son’s wedding is coming up.
Ernst reported on his three weeks away in California both hiking and celebrating a major family reunion—where everyone remained friendly!
Hank reported on two weeks of missed Rotary meetings. He and Carole visited old friends in Westport, Massachusetts, and the Cape. A meeting with another old friend visiting from New Zealand got very bolloxed up when Carole tested positive for COVID the day before the friend’s arrival!
Draw for Queen Of Hearts
Hank Clarke was did not pull the Queen of Hearts
Draw for Car Wash
The Car Wash was won Paul Tierney
Upcoming Service Projects, Activities and Fund Raisers
Club Picnic - September 24, 2022 at Tim and Anna Guaraldi's home in Newport, NH (see above)
Gathering of Motorcycling Rotarians from Italy at Riverside Park on September 28, 2022 at 5 PM see above)
Sustainable Lebanon Styrofoam™ Collection in October
Sustainable Lebanon and the Rotary Club of Lebanon, NH will once again partner with Sustainable Lebaonon to bring Styrofoam Recycling to our area in October. Sustainable Lebanon is a 501c3 nonprofit organization which helps volunteers organize environmental actions. We work to keep local residents informed on local issues related to the environment, energy, and climate. Sustainable Lebanon supports actions that are meaningful to community members
HOLIDAY PARTY and FAMOUS YANKEE SWAP
SAVE THE DATE — FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2022 at the QUECHEE INN, QUECHEE VERMONT
Anticipate a charge of up to $56/person
Lebanon Casino Fundraiser - Spring 2023
Bedell Classic Golf Tournament - See you at the golf course in May 2023!!
Dr. Hamid Jafari is the Director of Polio Eradication at the World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Region. He leads polio eradication efforts, in close collaboration with other partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), in 22 Regional Member States that include Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two remaining polio endemic countries globally.
Until August 2019, Dr. Jafari served as the Principal Deputy Director, Center for Global Health, at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). He worked closely with CDC leadership to ensure CDC’s assets are aligned to its global health priorities and the agency’s impact is optimized. He liaised and partnered with senior officials in US government agencies, partner organizations and other governments. He played a key leadership role in establishing and accelerating Joint External Evaluations (JEEs) to objectively assess country capacities to meet International Health Regulations.
From 2012 to 2016, Dr. Jafari was the Director of Global Polio Eradication Operations and Research at World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva and the overall leader of the GPEI. Strong global progress under his leadership led to cessation of poliovirus outbreaks in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea and interruption of wild poliovirus transmission in all of Africa except northeastern Nigeria. He led the international planning and coordination of the global withdrawal of trivalent OPV and introduction of bivalent OPV and IPV in EPI.
Dr. Jafari served as the Project Manager of World Health Organization’s National Polio Surveillance Project in India (2007-2012). As Project Manager of NPSP, he was the main technical advisor to the Government of India in the implementation of the nation’s large-scale polio eradication effort, measles control and routine immunization activities and directed WHO’s extensive network of more than 2000 field staff.
Dr. Jafari served as the Director of Global Immunization Division at CDC from 2004-06 and provided strong leadership to the global immunization and polio eradication efforts.
He served as the Medical Officer for Polio Eradication in the Regional Office of WHO for Eastern Mediterranean in Egypt on assignment from CDC from 1996-2002. Dr. Jafari mobilized resources and guided countries and partner agencies in establishing and effectively implementing polio eradication programs in countries of the Middle East, North Africa, Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.
Dr. Jafari is a graduate of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program, Class of 1992. He obtained his MBBS degree from Sind Medical College, Karachi University. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and his Pediatric Infectious Disease fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. Dr. Jafari completed a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jafari has published more than 100 scientific papers and book chapters on pathogenesis of infectious diseases, polio eradication and other vaccine-preventable diseases and global health security.
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