The Rotary Club of
Lebanon, NH, USA
 
Chartered 1923
 
(Found on Facebook)
May 7, 2020
Editor Marilyn Bedell/Meeting notes taken by Bruce Pacht (thank!)
 
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We are still social distancing
No face to face meetings
 
Harvest Hill is closed to the public
due to COVID-19. 
 
Zoom Meetings
 
A decision was made to hold weekly Zoom meetings.
 
We will be meeting every
Thursdays at 5:30 PM
Please join us if you can!!
 
Need to learn how to join a Zoom Meeting? Click Here
 
 
Our Speaker on May 14, 2020 will be Rotary Foundation Trustee Julia Phelps

Julia Phelps 

Trustee 2017-20 
Rotary Club of Amesbury 
Massachusetts, USA 

Julia Phelps, who began her career in education in 1976, is the associate commissioner for the Center for Curriculum and Instruction for the state of Massachusetts. She served on the board of the Amesbury Educational Foundation Inc. and the John Ashford Link House Inc. 

A Rotarian since 1997, Phelps has served as director, vice chair of RI’s Audit Committee, Rotary Foundation alumni coordinator, and district governor. She is a member of the Operations Review Committee. 

Phelps is a Major Donor, Benefactor, multiple Paul Harris Fellow, and a member of the Bequest Society. She is a recipient of The Rotary Foundation's Citation for Meritorious Service.

Our Speaker on May 21, 2020 will be Susan Mooney, MD, MS, FACOG, President and Chief Executive Officer at APD

Sue Mooney, MD, MS, FACOG has been the President and CEO of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital since April of 2013.  

She completed her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, her Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and her residency at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.  

She joined the Medical Staff at APD in 2000 as a fulltime Obstetrician/Gynecologist and continued in that role until 2005 when she took a leave of absence to pursue fellowship training as a Veterans Administration Quality Scholar. During that two year period of time, she received a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Quality Improvement from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (now The Dartmouth Institute).  Upon her return to APD, she became the Medical Director of Quality and ultimately the Chief Medical Officer before transitioning to her current role.

Dr. Mooney is passionate about improving the quality of care that APD provides to patients

May 28 Rudy Fedrizzi
Classification Talk
 
June 4 Marcos Stafna Exec. Dir. Montshire Museum
 
June 11 Tracy Hutchins, Exec Dir Upper Valley Business Alliance
 
June 18 TBA
 
June 25 TBA - Maybe Changeover

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Moorings
 
The bell rang at 5:31 PM to call the meeting to order; Co-president Marion led us in the 4-Way test of the things we think, say or do
 
Marilyn played a video from the Zone Membership Series, made by Lawrence Furbish, a Rotarian in Maine:  “The ‘Ask’”.  It provided some ideas on how to get others interested in a Rotary membership:
  • Focus on what animates the person’s passions, and see how your club can fit them, rather than how they can fit into your club.
  • Take your time before asking someone to join Rotary, engage them in some of the club's activities.
  • You may have to adapt your ways to fit the rhythms of younger members.
  • Remember those recently retired who may have more time and resources
  • Remember fellowship – the main reason folks stay in Rotary
  • Think of who invited you and why YOU stay
Members at the Zoom meeting:
Dan Addeldt
Bill Babineau
Marilyn Bedell
Ron Bedell
Steve Christy
Hank Clarke
Dave Crandall
Joy Gobin
Tim Gauraldi
Garlan Hoskins
Willy Koppenheffer
JoAnn Lemieux
Don MacMeekin
Jane Mason
Angela Nelson
Ernst Oidtmann
Bruce Pacht
Bill Secord
Marion Steiner
Paul Tierney
Rich Wallace
Steve Whitman
John Yacavone
 
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Our Speaker
Bob Sherman,
Great Eastern Radio
 
Photo provided by Bob Sherman
 
Great Eastern Radio, based in West Lebanon, owns 16 stations spanning Central Vermont, New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, and the Upper Valley. Whether you’re looking for oldies, talk radio, sports, or the best hits of today, Great Eastern has it all. Q 106, KIXX 100.5, Kool 93.9/96.3, GXL 92.3, ESPN Radio 94.5 (1230AM-1400AM), and The River 106.7
 
Bob Sherman provided an overview of what radio looks like today nationally and locally.  He did this by reviewing a report titled, Audio Today 2019
 
He reflected that more people are “absorbing audio” instead our our traditional view of a radio, Audio is competitive.  We think of “audio bites” that people are sampling.
 
CHART:   Nationally, weekly reach of various media                           
Radio reaches 80-92% of various age cohorts.  Still a strong weekly reach across the country.
 
 
Chart:  WHO USES radio
Adults 18+ 244,000,000 listeners throughout a month.
Order of preference:  Country, news talk, adult contemporary.
 
Information on various population demographics shows that radio reaches well over 90 % of the population.  Most of radio listening is morning and evening
 
Teens still listen to top 40, then country, then rhythm.
Adults 18-34 – news talk is 10th; 25-54 news talk is 5th; over 50 is 2nd.
 
After providing a national overview, he drilled down to give us an overview of our Upper Valley listening patterns.
 
Our Listening Metro includes – Upper Valley which is considered:Orange, Windsor  Counties in VT; Western Grafton, western and eastern sections of Sullivan in NH.  Are area is ranked 222 our of 275 radio markets in the country.  This is a population base of about 157,800 people.  Bob shared that
Burlington might be in the 180-190 range. (225-230,000 population base).
Looking at our Metro’s people:
 
Our Radio Market Area
 
Here are a few Household data about our radio market.
  • Total income is around $7 billion 
  • Our region is well-educated – 30% are HS graduates
  • 40% have managerial positions
  • Size – 30% are 1 person households, 38% have 2; seasonal = 21%
  • Transportation to work – 68,000 of us drive to work..a staggering number.  Exit 18 sees 44,000 trips a day.  Avg. one-way travel time is 28 minutes here; that’s a huge chunk of folks listening to radio nearly one hour a day!
  • Our Retail sales $3.4 billion
Most radio listening is done in cars.  We have a large number of people who listen to radio on weekends as we run errands.  This is higher than in other markets. The 62% reach on the weekends is almost as good as weekdays at 69 %. in our region we spend more than 15 hours weekly with Upper Valley Radio. 
 
Upper Valley Summary
 
Bob shared that many of us listen to radio on our smart phones and tablets and we aren't as dependent on the car audio system.  Listening on other devises makes it possible to listen to you favorite radio stations beyond you local broadcast area.  He shared that his son continued to listened to Q106 while he was at school in Boston.
 
Here is a link to Nielson Ratings for our region.  Click Here
 
Bob then fielded questions from our membership.
 
If you would like to review more data, Bob sent me the documents he shared.  Send Marilyn an e-mail and she will send them to you.
 
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The Kilton Library Children's book given in honor of Bob Sherman,  Magic Ramen,
The story of Momofuku Ando
by Andrea Wang and Illustrated by Kana Urbanowicz  
 
 
Inspiration struck when Momofuku Ando spotted the long lines for a simple bowl of ramen following World War II. Magic Ramen tells the true story behind the creation of one of the world's most popular foods.

Every day, Momofuku Ando would retire to his lab--a little shed in his backyard. For years, he'd dreamed about making a new kind of ramen noodle soup that was quick, convenient, and tasty for the hungry people he'd seen in line for a bowl on the black market following World War II. Peace follows from a full stomach, he believed.

Day after day, Ando experimented. Night after night, he failed. But Ando kept experimenting.

With persistence, creativity, and a little inspiration, Ando succeeded. This is the true story behind one of the world's most popular foods
 
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SHARING HAPPY THOUGHTS OR CONCERNS:
Let us each and all, realizing the importance of our influences on others - stand shoulder to shoulder & not alone in the good cause.
Florence Nighingae
  • Marilyn is wishing a happy National Nurses Month to Lis Mooney, Karen Clements, Jean Wulpren, Michele Buck and Melissa Golightly. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820...200 years ago.  
  • Steve Christy shared that his father’s was born this week 100 years ago.  He picked up his 7th full bag of garbage from Sunset Rock Road and exclaiming "I am done".
  • Ernst Oidtmann let us know that 18 years ago that the Germans invaded Holland. In the future, I’ll come up with historical tidbits from that period in time.  He then pondered, "Does Tim collect money for these happy dollars when we meet next?" Steve Christy then shared that he adds his happy dollars to his my monthly dues check.
  • Garlan Hoskins announced that the Mollica Fund just received two birthday checks:  Haopy Birthday to Steve Whitman and Paul Boucher.
  • Paul Tierny was out walking his dog, he met Ernst and Linda Oidtmann; Paul had a nice conversation. Paul then reflected, "It was pleasant seeing Linda." Ernst shared it was nice seeing the dog.
  • Willie Koppenfeffer offered $5 in happy dollars.  His daughter called and told him that she’d been 1 of 10 nominees for HS school counselor of the year in Illinois.  Though Minty wasn’t #1, she got a phone call from her principal and others telling her what a wonderful job she was doing. Got a 16.5% pay raise retroactive active to beginning of this year!
  • Marion Steiner – Introduces Sophia, a little black cat, that we couldn’t see very well, who joined the family last week. She’s 7 weeks old.  Marion is working hard on Round 2 of COVID small business loans – about $150 billion left in that pool. 
  • JoAnn Lemieux shared that a friend had hernia surgery on Monday.  JoAnn ordered Lui Lui takeout. She then met her friend's wife to eat at Riverside park, social distancing.  JoAnn was very proud of the work done by Lebanon-Riverside Rotarians to establish that beautiful area.
  • Ron Bedell announced that Foundation giving from our club so far at $10k. He will email those who haven’t yet given asking them to give by June 30.
  • Tim Gauraldi announced that there were a pair of Canada geese on his pond who may nest there, so, yikes, his Christmas dinner may be assured!
  • Steve Whitman then shared that 10 deer showed up a week ago; last night, 8 deer and a yearling bear showed up at his home.  He and Carolyn have seen the bear for the past 3 days, chewing up the grass.  A turkey left about 8 eggs in a nest. Steve is on his way to holding a wild game supper.
  • Marilyn:  Rotary International Telethon for Disaster relief raised over $500k by Thursday. Read the article about Polio under Rotary International News to learn how Rotary's work in Polio is helping in the COVID-19 Response.
 
 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS/UPDATES
 
From a Retired DHMC Nurse Colleague, Peggy Plunkett
Consider participating in a Massachusetts General Hospital COVID-19 research project.
 
The Lyme Emergency resource person (Margaret Caudill-Slosberg, MD) asked everyone to consider being a volunteer member of this research project. It is super easy, you just have to sign in each day and report your health ( One very simple question). Bill and I do this and as you can see they need.  The hope is to get at lease 217 volunteers in Grafton county to be able to report statistically significant data regarding COVID-19 for our County. Click here to learn more about the study, you will need to download an app to be part of the study.
 
 From Andrew Chan, MD,
Lead Researcher
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, CTEU Massachusetts General Hospita

If enough Americans share daily how they feel, even if they're well, this app can provide the healthcare system with critically valuable information.

Take 1-minute to report daily, even if you are well.

Help our scientists identify:

  • High-risk areas
  • Who is most at risk, by better understanding symptoms linked to underlying health conditions
  • How fast the virus is spreading in your area
 
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CLUB BUSINESS
 
Voting for items under consideration from our Rotary District 7850
 
Marilyn Bedell  explained that since we did not have a District Conference where our representative could vote on District business, as a club we need to vote on the following item: Confirm the nomination of out District Governor-nominee; vote for our District's representative for Rotary International's Council on Legislation (the rule making body for RI);  vote for our representative to serve on the nominating committee for Rotary International Zone 32 nominating committee that will select our Rotary Director for 2023/2024 and 2024/2025; and to vote to approve the District's Financial Review Report:
  1. We voted to endorse Carolyn Earle, from the Rotary Club of Montpelier, VT, USA to be our 2022/2023 Governor. 
  2. We then voted for our representative to the nominating Committee.  The candidates were PDG Eric Denu, from the Rotary Club of Middlebury, VT, USA current District Governore Richard Fox.  We nominate Eric to be the member, and Richard to be the alternate:  APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.
  3. Next was our vote for the Council on Legislation and Resolutions – Again, the Council “writes the rule-book”.  Marilyn spoke on behalf of PDG Jay Polimeno.  His club (Lincoln-Woodstock NH) has pushed for EarlyAct.  Jay's club is proposing legislation to make EaryAct an official Rotary Program.  Marilyn believed it would be helpful to have Jay's voice at the table to support this piece of legislation  For first runner-up, Marilyn suggests PDG Eric for his dedication to Rotary since his DG term. Third runner-up was PDG Sonny Holt, Rotary Club of Randolph-Sunrise, VT, USA  Marilyn’s suggestions were moved, seconded and APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.  Steve Whitman thanked Ron Bedell for his great work as our District’s COL rep for the past three years. 
  4. Finally, the District Financial Review needed a vote to approve the report from the Finance Committee– Steve Whitman has served on this committee.  No glaring discrepancies or major recommendations.  Paul, our PE, endorses the budget of the district and the review committees report.  VOTE:  Ayes with one abstention – Paul because he’s the PE. 
Marilyn will prepare our ballots based on the Club's vote and submit the ballots to Marion for her signature. They will be sent to DG Richard Fox before the May 15, 2020 deadline.
 
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Update - Ledyard Charter School
Steve Christy reported:  Don MacMeekin and and Steve Christy met with John Higgins and Lisa re: Ledyard Charter School graduation.  They had an excellent  brainstorming session.  Graduation likely will be take place around the pavilion behind the Carter-Witherell Center.  Don and Steve feel that Rotary should withdraw from this effort now.  Ledyard is working a number of different venues and ideas.  John will keep us posted re: plans.
 
 
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Programs
 
John updated us on future programs:  Next week, May 14, Julia Phelps, Rotary Foundation Trustee; then May 21, Sue Mooney APD CEO on May 21; May 28 will be Rudy Fedrizzi"s classification talk; June 4 Marco Stafna Exec. Dir. Montshire Museum; June 11 Tracy Hutchins, Exec Dir Upper Valley Business Alliance; June 25 TBA - Maybe Changeover
 
 
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Listen Dinners 2020
 
NEXT DINNER (very tentative) June 9, 2020
 
Cook team to arrive at Listen at 3:30 PM
 
 
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Gathering on Thursday, May 14, 2020 - Cancelled
 
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27th Bedell Classic
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Cancelled
Goal is to reschedule later in the year.  Stay tuned for the Golf Committee's new plan
 
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2020 Holiday Party and Yankee Swap
 
It's never to early to plan...Mark you calendars now, our 2020 Holiday Party and Famous Yankee Swap! It will be on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at the Quechee Inn at Marshland Farms.  Cost will be the same as 2019...$40/person.
 
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Rotary International 
 
From Rotary's Partner, The World Health Organization's Web Site:

World Immunization Week 2020

24 – 30 April 2020
 
 

World Immunization Week – celebrated in the last week of April (24 to 30 April) – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions. Yet, there are still nearly 20 million children in the world today who are not getting the vaccines they need.

The theme this year is #VaccinesWork for All and the campaign will focus on how vaccines – and the people who develop, deliver and receive them – are heroes by working to protect the health of everyone, everywhere.

2020 campaign objectives

The main goal of the campaign is to urge greater engagement around immunization globally and the importance of vaccination in improving health and wellbeing of everyone, everywhere throughout life.

As part of the 2020 campaign, WHO and partners aim to:

  • Demonstrate the value of vaccines for the health of children, communities and the world.
  • Show how routine immunization is the foundation for strong, resilient health systems and universal health coverage.
  • Highlight the need to build on immunization progress while addressing gaps, including through increased investment in vaccines and immunization.

Given that WHO has designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, WHO will highlight nurses and midwives for their crucial role as early vaccine champions for new parents and parents-to-be.

 

PolioPlus Responding to the Covid-19 Challenge 

By Mike McGovern, Chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee and John Germ, Past Rotary International President and Chair of the Polio Countdown to History Committee

A program begun by Rotary is employing thousands of health workers to address the Covid-19 pandemic.  The program is the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) which includes Rotary’s PolioPlus program.   From the earliest days of polio eradication in the Philippines, the generosity and advocacy of Rotarians and our partners has nearly stopped polio, stopped Ebola from becoming an epidemic in Nigeria and now responds to Covid-19.  
 
Over the next four to six months the polio program is offering its tools, workforce and extensive surveillance network to support countries as they respond.  Globally, the polio surveillance network is being trained on Covid case detection, contact tracing, laboratory testing and data management.  GPEI is deploying its coordination mechanisms such as emergency operations centers and sharing physical assets like vehicles, computers and mobile phones to combat the pandemic.  In Nigeria, an extensive network of polio communication assets including 20,000 volunteer community mobilizers are working across the country to promote handwashing to reduce transmission. In Pakistan, polio staff have sensitized more than 6,000 health workers on Covid-19 and repurposed a helpline originally used for polio related calls to also address Covid questions.   The polio surveillance team in Angola is training health care staff on case management of Covid-19. Polio staff in Benin are developing a pandemic preparedness plan for that country.  Each day we hear of more deployments of polio staff to address Covid issues in additional countries.

So what about polio itself?  The Polio Oversight Board made the hard decision to pause house to house vaccinations knowing that this may lead to an increase in polio cases. Polio surveillance will continue while also supporting Covid surveillance. The GPEI is working to ensure that once it is safe to do so, countries can be supported to rapidly resume polio immunization campaigns.   We will have a message in every country that vaccines, including the polio vaccine, stop viruses from attacking children and adults.  We must seize the moment to let every village understand that the polio vaccine saves lives.

For over 40 years, Rotarians have never wavered in fulfilling our commitment to the children of the world to end polio.  Today, in contributing to PolioPlus we are also addressing this evil Covid-19 pandemic.  The goals this year for contributions to PolioPlus have not changed.  The opportunity to do good in the world has only increased. If you or your club have not given to PolioPlus lately, today is the day to do so.  All funds donated are matched 2 to 1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  If your District has underutilized District Designated Funds, any allocation is matched 6 to 1 by the Rotary Foundation World Fund and the Gates Foundation.   And if you want to know more about how Rotary and the GPEI are addressing Covid-19 while not losing focus on eradicating polio, see
 
 
Upcoming Programs
 
All in person meeting are Cancelled!
Harvest Hill is Closed to the public due to Covid-19.
 
Stay tuned for news of our first web based meeting in the near future
Executives & Directors
President
Ron Bedell
 
President Elect
Hank Clarke
 
Vice President
Ed Friedman
 
Past President
Marion Steiner
 
Secretary
Marilyn Bedell
 
Treasurer
Angela Nelson
 
Charities Board Treasurer
Angela Nelson
 
Finance Committee
Steve Whitman
 
International Service
JoAnn Lemieux
 
Membership
Rich Wallace
 
Web Master
Rich Wallace
 
Youth Service
V. Bruce Pacht
 
Sergeant at Arms
Dave Crandall
 
Service Projects
Bruce Bergeron
 
Rotary Foundation Chair
Ron Bedell
 
At Large Member
V. Bruce Pacht
 
Russell Hampton
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