We were led in prayer and pledge by Gail Stalder
We had 22 members present and welcomed 1 guest Rotarian
Treasurers report: $1,994.33 current balance
Announcements: Next Lunch Bunch meeting will be March 14th at Noon at Shevy’s
Tod reported that the Rotary scholarship selection committee is finishing up their first phase of candidate selection and that interviews of the top raking candidates will commence in a couple of weeks.
The Buy the Big Wheel Tradeshow is a great networking opportunity for current and potential Rotarians. Best of all, it’s a FREE event! See the attached flyer for all the information!
Last week, Gail drew the winning orange ball, as the odds were grossly in his favor to do so. He walked away with a cool $66.50, and he apparently went right back to gambling. He won the drawing again this week, but alas, lady luck denied him a winning ball…this time!
Next week’s speaker: Our scheduled speaker for March 8th will be Dr. Jeffrey Gold, Chancellor of UNMC and UNO. He became the eighth chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, vice president of the University of Nebraska system and chair of the board of UNMC’s principal clinical care academic health system partner, Nebraska Medicine, in early 2014. As UNMC’s chief executive officer, Dr. Gold is responsible for all aspects of campus leadership, program quality and operations, including seven colleges, numerous institutes, a staff and faculty of about 5,000 and its 3,800 students. Additionally, Nebraska Medicine has over 6,500 employees and an operating budget of well more than $1.5 billion. The combined economic impact of the “500-mile campus” academic health center exceeds $4 billion.
In April 2017, Dr. Gold also was named chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the state’s public metropolitan university. The University of Nebraska at Omaha has an enrollment of over 12,000 undergraduate students, 3,000 graduate students, a broad public service mission and an NCAA Division I athletic program.
Todays’ speaker was introduced by Tod Ringenberg:
Dr. Michael Feilmeier helped to establish the Gift of Sight Foundation with the singular goal of restoring sight to patients living needlessly in darkness. Presently, there are over 39 million people in the world who are blind, and over 50% of them can be cured with a procedure that has a consumable cost of $25 and takes 5 minutes to perform. With vision restored, these individuals can once again look into the eyes of a loved one, walk unassisted across a street, return to work and find their way back to being a part of a family and community that no longer sees them as a burden.
Dr. Feilmeier shared his story of how he became inspired to take his talents to the far reaches of the world and to help thousands of people of third world countries regain the gift of sight., Through the efforts of Dr. Feilmeier and his associates, there have been tremendous results and truly lives have been changed.
