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In Case We Missed You, December 2nd...
Posted by J.J. Udewitz
In Case We Missed You, December 2, 2016….
 
Friday December 2, 2016 was a joyous day for PVPers.  The birds were chirping the sun was out at the Palos Verdes Golf Course.  Henry and Jack did an amazing job setting up the invocation, flag salute, patriotic song, guest introduction and welcome song.  Everyone participated full heartedly with John at the piano and our speakers were tremendous. Several members of our club joined the majority of our club as recipients of the prestigious Paul Harris award for their continuing contributions to Rotary International.
  
 
Greg was our speaker of he day as vising District Governor.  He started his performance begging our club to humility of repeating himself, however his delivery was riveting, well written and well performed.  La Rotacian was able to obtain an exclusive copy of Greg’s presentation (note: Russian hackers were not used).  His remarks centered around the following:. 
 
 
 
District theme for the year is “Imagine Rotary.”
  • In 1905 Paul Harris and friends imagined a club and the rest is history.
  • In 1917 RI President Arch Klumph imagined a foundation, and here we are having nearly eliminated Polio from the world.
  • With that theme in mind, I want to talk today about someone whose imagination changed the course of his company, an international organization and influenced the creation of the United Nations.  His name was Herb Taylor.
  • 1932—height of the Great Depression.  Taylor was president of Jewel Tea, a household name in American business.
    • Home delivery of teas, coffees, powdered drinks and a variety of products for the home. 
      • Member of the Rotary Club of Chicago.  Was not looking for another job when the struggling Club Aluminum of Chicago, sinking beneath massive debt, offered Herb a job as president with an 80 percent cut in pay.
        • Herb liked the challenge.
      • Club Aluminum manufactured pots and pans and sold them through a nationwide distribution system of dealers.
        • Pots were heavy, usually lime green or yellow coating.  
        • Herb knew that to survive Club Aluminum desperately needed to beat the competition.  A religious man, he sought inspiration in prayer. 
        •  He imagined a company that profited by
          •  (a) Being true to its word about its products.
          • (b) Playing fair with its dealers and employees.
          • (c) Engendering goodwill by sacrificing to pay its bills on time and
          • (d)  Assuming an exemplary role in industry that benefited both the company and everyone who dealt with it.
        • Herb wrote a 100 word paragraph describing this vision.  He then reduced it to a “Seven Way Test.”  Finally he edited it down to four key ingredients.
        • (For reasons that I will share in a few minutes, I believe that Herb could have reduced his test to one ingredient.)
        • He showed the test to his four department managers:  A Roman Catholic, an orthodox Jew, a Christian Scientist and a Presbyterian.  All agreed that the test was consistent with the tenets of their own faith. 
        • Holding to the high standards Herb laid out for his management team was tough.  At one point they had received a huge $50,000 order (probably worth $1 million today).  A retailer wanted to purchase a large quantity of pots and pans at a price below what Club Aluminum dealers paid.  Herb’s team agreed that to service this customer on those terms would not be fair to the dealers.  So they turned it down. 
        • And so it went.  For a while. 
        • But slowly, slowly, things began to turn around.  Herb and his company stood behind their products, paid their vendors on time and treated their employees like family. 
        • By 1937 Club Aluminum turned the corner and started paying its shareholders dividends at a time the stock market was in shambles.
    • Rotary took notice.
      • Deciding that every company should be run like Club Aluminum, Rotary adopted Herb’s 4-Way Test as a model for Vocational Service.
    • In 1937, the government of Germany decided the ideals of Rotary were incompatible with the new Reich and attempted to force Rotary clubs in that country to expel their Jewish members.  After unsuccessfully pleading its case before the Reich, Rotary District 73 dissolved itself and RI withdrew the charters of all clubs in Germany.
    • In 1943, Rotary called for an international conference to promote cultural and educational exchanges that later resulted in the creation of UNESCO.    
    • In 1943, Rotary International adopted the 4-Way Test, joining the ideal of service as one of the two central pillars of the organization.
      But there was more to this than met the eye.  We know from followed that one of the prongs became a call to action.
      • Think about the test.  It can be reduced to a one-way test:  Building goodwill and better friendships.  If are abiding by the other three prongs, you will build goodwill and better friendships.  If you are not, you won’t.
      • Building goodwill and better friendships became an international goal for Rotary.  It would be accomplished through the vehicle of service by people dedicated to ethics.
    • In 1945, Rotary was invited to participate in the creation of the United Nations.  Forty-nine Rotarians from 29 national delegations served as delegates to the charter conference. 
      • Winston Churchill proclaimed that there were few people who did not know of Rotary’s good work throughout the free world. 
      • In 1947 Rotary International created Ambassadorial Scholars who by serving as “ambassadors of goodwill.”  “The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarships program is to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries.”
      • In 1951, after nearly three decades of modifications, Rotary finalized the Object of Rotary.  Essentially it speaks of service, ethics and building goodwill, understanding and world peace through the service of Rotarians. 
      • In 1954 Herb Taylor became president of Rotary International.”  He exhorted Rotarians, “Build Rotary with the 4-Way Test.”
  •  
  • Rotarians all speak the same language.  We speak “Rotarian.”  When Rotarians gather we talk about the things that unite us and not divide us.  Our club meetings are an oasis from the contentious issues that flood our daily news.
    • In 2001, shortly after taking office, RI President Richard King received a phone call from the Secretary General of the United Nations.  The World Trade Towers had been destroyed by terrorists and tensions were running high throughout the world. 
      • In some places in the world people were celebrating.  Here there was anger, prejudice and even hatred.  America was soon going to war.
      • “What can Rotary do to help?” he asked.
      • Rick King called Rotary leaders in the Middle East.  He knew that Jewish, Muslim and Christian would “speak Rotarian” by displaying a unity of purpose in constructing a humanitarian project.
      • They were united in service and dedicated to peace.
      • And so they did.  These Rotarians of different faiths, beliefs, cultures and political convictions were a gift to the world.

         
         
  • Ladies and gentlemen, at a time when the societies included ours are divided into camps, the world desperately needs more Rotarian.  And Rotarians desperately need each other.
  • Building goodwill and better friendships within our families, neighborhoods, communities and the world is accomplished through the vehicle of service.  Past RI president Sakuji Tanaka described this succinctly as “Peace Through Service.”   Investigate and you will find that five of Rotary’s Six Areas of Focus are there to support the first Area of Focus, Peace and Conflict Resolution.
  • Last March, the Rotary Club of Jerusalem invited the four Palestinian Rotary Clubs of Ramallah, Elbireh, East Jerusalem and Bethlehem to a joint meeting.  It was the first time that the five clubs had met together.  The subject was disease prevention and treatment, but the purpose was building goodwill and better friendships in the Middle East.
    • Last month, the Rotary Club of Jerusalem invited its Palestinian Rotary neighbors to join them in an international service project in peace and conflict resolution in Africa.  Stay tuned for more on this venture. 
  • The world needs more Rotarians.  And Rotarians desperately need each other.
  • The 4-Way Test inspires us.  It exhorts us.  It defines us.  It is our mission. 
  • Imagine, as Rick King did, as Herb Taylor did, as Arch Klumph did, as Paul Harris did, doing something that lifts inspires and motivates your club, your families, your neighborhoods, our communities and our world.   Imagine Rotary!  “Build it and they will come.”
     
    We sat through it and waited for Greg to make it rain.  At 1:25 pm, the clouds cleared up and our meeting was adjourned. 
Educator of the Year Fundraising Sets Records
Posted by Harry Kitter
Educator of the Year Fundraising is Record Setting!
 
Exactly $40,000 was donated by our sponsors this year, and our total of 45 sponsors was also a record. Hats off to the fundraising committee:
Bruce Attig
Keith Deisenroth
Les Fishman
Lynne Neuman
Suzy Zimmerman
 
One more thank you to out sponsors:
 
DK Kim
  
Sustaining
Southern Cal Edison
  
STEM Scholars
The Moon  Family Trust
  
Golden Apple Plus
Jackie & Roger Ignon
  
Golden Apple
Brigante, Cameron, Watters & Strong, LLP
  
Golden Apple
Premier Bank
  
Golden Apple
Matson Foundation
  
Golden Apple
H Henry Lee
  
Vocational Scholar
anoynomous
 
Green Apple
Bruce & Lynn Attig
  
Vocational Scholar
Harry Kitter
  
Vocational Scholar
Coldwell Banker
  
Green Apple
Suzy Zimmerman- State Farm Insurance
  
Green Apple
Linda Elliott
  
Red Apple
Westco Electrical Contractors- Jack Goldberg
  
Red Apple
Providence LCM
  
Red Apple
Keith Deisenroth & Assoc.
  
Red Apple
Malaga Bank
  
Red Apple
Palos Verdes Engineering
  
Red Apple
Allen Bond- Wells Fargo Mortgage
  
Red Apple
David Rowe/Jet Forwarding
  
Red Apple
Paul Rubincam
  
Red Apple
Jim Hartman
  
Red Apple
Joan Behrens
  
Red Apple
Greg & Carolyn O'Brien
  
Red Apple
Les Fishman/Virginia Butler
  
Red Apple
Marc Mazorow
  
Red Apple
Norton Donner, DDS
  
Red Apple
Cal. Water Service
  
Red Apple
Lynne Neuman- Wells Fargo Mortgage
  
Red Apple
Bob and Suzy Gulcher
  
Red Apple
Peter McCormack
  
Red Apple
Nancy Crawford
  
Red Apple
Farmers & Merchants Bank
  
Red Apple
Don Knabe
  
Red Apple
Christine Chui
  
Red Apple
Family Connect Care- Lauren Spiglanin
  
Red Apple
RPV Flowers
  
Event Donor
Donna Duperon
  
Event Donor
Christine Barnicki
  
Event Donor
Jonathan Udewitz
  
Event Donor
Nikki Nikakhtar
  
Event Donor
Terranea
  
Event Donor
Greg Sparkman/Creative Partners
  
Event Donor
Medawar Fine Jewelers
  
Event Donor
 
Polio This Week, Dec. 7th
Posted by Rick Mendoza, PDG
Polio this week as of 7 December 2016
 
 
As we approach the end of this calendar year we are blessed with the news of only one new case of polio in this week’s report. And as you will see in the “Headlines” of this current report the method of immunizing against Polio is being re-engineered to be sure all potential outbreaks are  “crushed” before they have a chance to affect anyone. All of this process is highly scientific methodology and requires time and financial resource. Let us not let up now that we are so close to accomplishing this major feat.
 
Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases
Headlines
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization (SAGE) has published its most recent recommendations:
in light of the global supply constraints of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), SAGE strongly recommended that countries
start preparing for two doses of fractional IPV (fIPV) in lieu of a single full dose. Various studies have now
demonstrated that two doses of fIPV is better than one full dose of IPV at boosting not just humoral immunity, but in
OPV-primed populations also mucosal immunity (critical to interrupting virus transmission in a community). This
approach could significantly improve the global IPV supply situation, by reducing the volume of IPV needed to cover a
population. Some countries are already increasing their use of fIPV, both in routine and supplementary immunization
activities. FIPV, alongside OPV, has also been shown to be an effective tool in outbreak settings and can be
operationally implemented even in supplementary immunization activities.
Health workers in conflict-affected areas continue to work towards containment of poliovirus and surveillance in the
face of tremendous security challenges. Accounts of their work formed a highlight of the meeting of the WHO Regional
Office for the Eastern Mediterranean last week on next steps to implement the WHO Global Action Plan for Poliovirus
Containment (GAP III) and its newly released Containment Certification Scheme (CCS) and to update National Action
Plans for containment. Polio National Certification Chairs, National Coordinators for containment and major
laboratories and facilities were in attendance.
Afghanistan: No new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in the past week. The total number of
WPV1 cases for 2016 remains 12. The most recent case had onset of paralysis on 12 October, from Bermal district,
Paktika province. Six of the country’s 12 cases are from Bermal district.
Pakistan: One new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported in the past week, from Badin district in
south-eastern Sindh, with onset of paralysis on 21 October, bringing the total number of WPV1 cases for 2016 to 18.
Nigeria: No new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) were reported in the past week. The total number of
WPV1 cases for 2016 remains four. The most recent case had onset of paralysis on 21 August, from Monguno Local
Government Area (LGA), Borno.