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August 7, 2018

This Week's Meeting
Today August 7, 2018: Matthew Berrafato author of the books "Elephant Hunting" and "Purpose or Passion, Which Comes First?" will share his unique and exciting concept, empowering people to identify their life's passion while charting a course to begin moving closer to a healthy life balance and the realization of their dreams.
Last Regular Meeting
Last Regular Meeting:  41 members attended the fireside meeting that took place on Monday, July 30th at Marcello's.  We enjoyed some fellowship and discussed some club business.
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Mark Your Calendar
 
August 11th: Rotary Club of Chicagoland Korean will be hosting their 10th anniversary celebration at Chrisitian Heritage Academy in Northfield.  The event will include a reception and performance.  For more information or to purchase tickets visit chicagolandkoreanrotary.org/
 
August 30th: Northbrook Chamber's Meal Packing Event.  
 
September 13th: 2018 Rotary Road Trip to Miller Park.  The deadline is fast approaching, place your order today.  For ticket and sponsor information visit rotaryroadtrip.com.
 
October 26th: Rotary 800
 
Lucky Bucks Winner: Carlos Frum
A Quaratine on Killing (from the Rotarian Magazine)

An epidemiologist who helped stem the spread of cholera and AIDS in Africa, Gary Slutkin has a new - and successful - strategy to stop the contagion of violence: Treat it like a disease

 

Twenty-three years ago, Gary Slutkin moved to Chicago to take a break. A doctor trained in infectious diseases, he had spent his career battling tuberculosis in San Francisco and cholera in refugee camps across Africa. Working with the World Health Organization, he played a key role in reversing the AIDS epidemic in Uganda. But he had also spent more than a decade surrounded by suffering and death. “I was exhausted,” he says.

 

In 1995, when he was 44, Slutkin left Africa and his job with WHO and moved back to the United States to recharge. Yet the headlines kept him from winding down: Violence dominated the news. “All across the country, I saw that violence was an issue in the same way that cholera or diarrheal disease had been an issue in Bangladesh or AIDS was in Uganda,” he says. So he began to research violence the same way he had investigated the causes and patterns of disease as an epidemiologist.

Last September, Slutkin discussed his findings while speaking about “Peace in the Age of Uncertainty,” the first installment in a three-part Pathways to Peace Series sponsored by Rotary International and the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.

 “Looking at violence,” he explained, “we can see through maps and charts and graphs that it behaves exactly like all other epidemic issues.” And like other contagions, violence tended to cluster, with one event leading to another. “How does that happen?” he asked. “It’s because of exposure. That was the insight I came to years ago. What was the greatest predictor of violence? The answer: a preceding act of violence.” What’s more, he insisted, if violence is predictable, it can be “interrupted.”

With that in mind, Slutkin began investigating new ways to treat violence. He started an initiative originally called the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention; in 2000, it implemented its first program – CeaseFire – in a violence-plagued Chicago neighborhood. Known since 2012 as Cure Violence, it’s based at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where Slutkin is a professor at the School of Public Health. 

The Cure Violence model employs three components used to reverse any epidemic: interrupt transmission; reduce risk; change community norms. Cure Violence outreach workers prevent violence by counseling people exposed to violence in their home or community. These “violence interrupters” work with high-risk individuals to discourage them from acting out violently.

Where implemented, the Cure Violence model typically reduces violence by 41 to 73 percent in the first year. In 2011, a film called The Interrupters documented the success of the program, and today its impact is felt worldwide. “We have a global effort to reduce violence through partnerships in multiple regions, in particular Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East,” as well as in 25 U.S. cities, Slutkin says.

 “Public health has been responsible for some of the greatest accomplishments in human history,” he says. “It’s gotten rid of multiple diseases like plague and leprosy and smallpox. Polio is on its way out. Violence is next.”

Slutkin spoke with contributing editor Vanessa Glavinskas about his pioneering methodology, behavior change, ineffective punitive remedies, and ways Rotarians can lend a hand in the fight to cure violence.

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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Michael Ellison
August 11
 
Bill Byrne
August 21
 
Kate Hall
August 23
 
Ronald Bernardi
August 29
 
Larry Kanar
September 1
 
Ned Schechter
September 6
 
Gary Moriello
September 21
 
Ernst Janzen
September 22
 
Rob Bassler
September 25
 
Anniversaries
Larry Hewitt
Colleen
August 8
 
Michael Ellison
Fern Ellison
August 13
 
Ed Nadler
Sue Nadler
August 14
 
John Cavanaugh
Lisa
August 17
 
Norm Levine
Shelly Levine
August 20
 
Carlos Früm
Sandy Frum
August 23
 
JP Deheeger
Jil Deheeger
August 23
 
Sandy Früm
Carlos
August 23
 
Brian Rieger
Sharon
August 24
 
Daniel Craig
Linda
August 30
 
David Schwalb
Shawna Schwalb
September 4
 
Howard Schultz
Jan
September 4
 
Dick Hochschild
Elizabeth
September 5
 
Scott Rose
Gwen Rose
September 15
 
Andy Vass
Judy
September 16
 
James Mazzetti
Cynthia
September 20
 
Jeff Tideman
Madonna
September 21
 
Join Date
Ned Schechter
August 1, 2017
1 year
 
Rick Rivkin
August 1, 1999
19 years
 
Daniel Sideman
August 14, 1984
34 years
 
Kyint Chwa
August 24, 1999
19 years
 
Andy Vass
August 28, 2012
6 years
 
Nathan Levin
August 29, 2017
1 year
 
Ernst Janzen
September 1, 1966
52 years
 
Stanley Sherman
September 1, 1970
48 years
 
Ev Schwartz
September 3, 2013
5 years
 
Alan Karzen
September 15, 2009
9 years
 
Joel Meisel
September 24, 2002
16 years
 
Gayle Curcio
September 27, 2006
12 years
 
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