Northstar- Nov 11, 2021 (Nov 11, 2021)

Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North

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Meetings are going Zoom, until the end of March.

More details on the new meeting location will be coming soon.

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Day of the Month	Event	Time
First Monday of the Month	Board Meeting	07:00 PM
Second Thursday of the Month	Meeting with Program	12:00 PM
Third Thursday of the Month	No Meeting
Fourth Thursday of the Month	Meeting with Program	12:00 PM
If Month has Five Weeks	The first week will not have a meeting

Web-Site: http://www.rcaan.org

E-mail Address: rotaryclubaan@gmail.com

Phone Number: (734)224-4130

Zoom Lunch Meeting: Scott Nelson Plant-Rich Diet
Where You Are
Jan 13, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Zoom Lunch Meeting: Dr. Andrew Gessert
Where You Are
Jan 27, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
Where You Are
Feb 07, 2022 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
Where You Are
Feb 10, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
Where You Are
Feb 24, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
Where You Are
Mar 07, 2022 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
Where You Are
Mar 10, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
Where You Are
Mar 24, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
Where You Are
Apr 04, 2022 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

RCAAN Lunch Meeting

Apr 14, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

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At Nov. 11th Lunch Meeting, Monique Hammond Talked About Hearing Loss.

Posted on Nov 11, 2021

At November 11, 2021 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting which was only on Zoom our speaker was Monique Hammond. She talked about her hearing loss.

Monique Hammond is a hearing loss expert. Monique is a registered pharmacist. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, with high distinction. She has worked in health care in Europe, the United States, and Australia.

Monique has always been committed to patient education and safety. She has done extensive public speaking on health issues and has published newspaper and magazine articles both at home and overseas.

Monique entered the world of hearing loss in fall 2005 when—in a matter of four hours—she went deaf in her left ear. That’s when she found out that there is a lot more to hearing loss than not hearing well. Eventually, communication challenges contributed to the end of her hospital pharmacy career. However, this life-changing episode also put her on track to research issues regarding ear and hearing disorders. She ended up writing her book “What Did You Say? An Unexpected Journey into the World of Hearing Loss,” now in its second edition.

She warned against loud and problematic spaces like sports bars, large indoor events and music concerts. Though for many, hearing loss comes with aging, awareness of what can happen to inner ear functions should begin much earlier in life, she believes.

Alternating her presentation between specific issues like tinnitus (ringing ear) and how cochlea cells operate, Monique brought her own experiences to her listeners. One result for her was social isolation.

"It's very difficult when you feel you are left out." She also dealt with disbelief, anger and grief. One in five of people age 12 and over have hearing challenges--a number which Monique called a "silent epidemic," one that "affects the quality of life at any age."

Monique Hammond Hearing Loss Website

Thank You Veterans.

Posted on Nov 10, 2021

Thank you, to all Veterans for keeping us safe and free on this Veterans Day.

Veterans Day Events Links:

University of Michigan Events, featuring Stories of Service

Veterans Day Celebration at Concordia University Ann Arbor, featuring Half-size Replica of Vietnam Memorial Wall

Polio In Ann Arbor.

Posted on Nov 04, 2021

Author, Grace Shackman

Article from Ann Arbor District Library at https://aadl.org/features/polio

Salk polio vaccine, May 1955 Stone School students after receiving

People were so desperate to save their children from the dreaded disease of polio, that when the first vaccines were sent to Ann Arbor in 1955, they were stored at the police department in a refrigerator, locked with a chain around it. Just three weeks previously, on April 12, Dr. Thomas Francis of the U-M’s School of Public Health had made the momentous announcement that the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, which used killed polio viruses to give immunity, was “safe, effective and potent.”

“Vaccine will end polio as a major health threat,” was the headline in the April 12, 1955 Ann Arbor News, shortly after Francis gave his report at Rackham Auditorium. The announcement was made in Ann Arbor because of the key role the University of Michigan had played in the vaccine’s development. Francis, who had earlier developed a flu vaccine, joined U-M’s Public Health Department in 1941, followed the next year by Salk, who Francis had mentored at New York University. Salk left in 1947 for a job at the University of Pittsburgh, where he developed the polio vaccine using tools he had learned from Francis.

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Dr. Jonas E. Salk and his family, April 1955

Francis was hired by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (often called the March of Dimes after its major fundraiser) to conduct tests to determine if Salk’s vaccine worked and was safe. Using blind studies so that none of the almost two million children who were tested knew whether they were receiving the vaccine or a placebo, he found that it met both criteria. The children who had received the placebo were at the head of the line to get the real vaccine.

Basil O'Connor, Raymond Barrows, and Dr. David Lloyd in Ann Arbor for Salk Vaccine Announcement, April 1955

On April 11, the day before Francis presented his report, officials from the polio foundation and the scientific world began arriving by train. They were welcomed with much fanfare at the New York Central Station (now the Gandy Dancer). The most important arrival was Salk, who came with his wife and three boys. The two oldest had been born in the old maternity wing of University Hospital, which by an interesting coincidence had been turned into Francis’s evaluation office where he and his assistants did the monumental job of collating the data, which in the days before computers was very labor intensive. Pictures show rows of file cabinets, a card catalog, and piles and piles of papers.

Francis had refused to give any prior information on his findings, not even a hint if they were positive or negative, saying he wanted to make absolutely sure that everything was accounted for. He presented his report at a closed meeting by invitation only. As well as scientists, the audience included 400 reporters. When Francis finished, copies of his report were wheeled in on a cart. The reporters started grabbing them and running to telephones to phone their respective newspapers, magazines, radio and TV networks. A room had been set aside for the reporters with four teletype machines and ten tables with seating for six people sharing three phones. The Ann Arbor News let the AP use their darkroom to send pictures to their wire services.

of Salk polio vaccine at Stone School, May 1955 Students line up to get first Washtenaw County shots

Three weeks after Francis announced his findings, local children began getting the vaccine. On April 29, 1955, one hundred volunteer doctors began vaccinating first and second graders at thirty area schools. The newspaper was filled with pictures of brave children getting their shots. The 7000 doses were provided by the polio foundation. They arrived at the county health department a few days earlier and were stored at the police department.

Theresa Holzapfel Donates To March of Dimes Fund at Eagles Club, February 1955

The county health department found the money to buy enough vaccine to inoculate the more than a thousand children receiving welfare support, again using volunteer doctors. The rest of population went through their private doctors. The physicians were so overwhelmed with calls that a post card system was set up for parents to send in and even these got so out of hand that the doctors asked that parents only request shots for children at least one year old and not yet in first grade. The decision to start with the younger children was no doubt made because that was the age group most likely to die of the disease. Parental permission forms were needed but hardly any parents refused. In the first batch, out of 804, only ten said no.

Ann Arbor, like the rest of the nation, had been grappling with polio for years before the vaccine. The first mention in the Ann Arbor News was in 1934 when a National Committee of Birthday Balls was organized across the nation on FDR’s birthday, with money earmarked for polio research. The local ball committee included Ann Arbor’s mayor Robert Campbell and the editor of the Ann Arbor News Arthur Stace. In the following years the Ann Arbor News was filled with human interest articles about victims coping with the dreaded disease- a women spending half the day in therapy and the other half learning accounting, a girl playing the piano, a boy able to ride a bike while wearing braces. The public library loaned out a device so sufferers in the hospital who couldn’t raise their head could read on the ceiling.

There was also much fundraising - kids having backyard carnivals or circuses, a bake sale at the hospital, newspaper drives, service clubs like the Eagles taking on projects. The metal workers and the electrical unions made replicas of iron lungs that could be used as canisters to put money in. The March of Dimes was a yearly event when mothers went door to door collecting money, often in dimes. (FDR’s picture is on the dime for this reason.) These articles continued after the announcement of the vaccine, but began to taper off as more people were protected.

Francis died in 1969. Salk, who died in 1995, returned to Ann Arbor twice. In 1977 he was the featured speaker at that year’s U-M Medical School graduation. In 1995, he made another visit, this one on April 12, exactly 40 years after the announcement that his vaccination was effective and safe and at the same place, Rackham Auditorium, to be honored by the March of Dimes. At that time he said his work was focused on finding a vaccine against HIV.

Boys collect papers for polio drive on S. Seventh St., August 1954

Polio Drive: American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps parade, August 1954

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Ann Arbor Area Rotary Clubs

Due to the COVID-19 virus, clubs locations and times may have changed. For the most current information go to clubs home page.

Ann Arbor:

Wednesday, 12:00 p.m., Michigan Union, (Zoom during COVID-19)

Ann Arbor North:

Second & Fourth Thursday's, 12:00 p.m., Concordia University 4090 Geddes Road Ann Arbor, MI, (Zoom during COVID-19, In-person starts July 8, 2021)

Ann Arbor West:

First & Third Monday's, 5:30 p.m., Absolute Title

Chelsea:

Tuesday, 12:15 p.m., The Common Grill Restaurant

Dexter:

Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Fillmore

Milan:

First & Third Tuesdays, 12:00 p.m., Milan School District Board Room, Second & Fourth Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., Milan American Legion Post

Saline:

Thursday, 12:00 p.m., Brecon Village, 200 Brecon Dr, Saline

Ypsilanti:

Monday, 11:45 p.m., Meets on Zoom

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Meeting Day & Time: 2nd and 4th Thursday's of the month at 12:00 pm | Meeting Address: Concordia University Ann Arbor, 4090 Geddes Road Ann Arbor, MI 40105 (Venue Map) |

Web Site: http://www.rcaan.org | E-Mail: rotaryclubaan@gmail.com | Phone: (734)224-4130 |