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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  
 
 
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Upcoming Events
Zoom Lunch Meeting: Scott Nelson Plant-Rich Diet
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Jan 13, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Zoom Lunch Meeting: Dr. Andrew Gessert
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Jan 27, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
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Feb 07, 2022
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
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Feb 10, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
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Feb 24, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
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Mar 07, 2022
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
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Mar 10, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
RCAAN Zoom Lunch Meeting
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Mar 24, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
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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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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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Foundation And Membership Celebration Gala.
Foundation and Membership Celebration Gala is November 9, 2021. 
 
Lets celebrate our Foundation and Membership teams from District 6380 and District 6400. 
 
Your hosts, Governor BrendaK "WooWoo" Tipton (6380) and Governor Aruna Kousik (6400), are planning a fun evening with auctions, 50/50, awards and much much more!  
 
Keynote speakers are Jennifer Jones, Rotary International President 2022-2023 and Michael McGovern, Rotary International Chair of Polio Plus Committee. 
 
 
 
Literati Bookstore and Rotary District 6380 Present James Tobin.
Posted on Oct 16, 2021
Please Join Us Virtually, for a conversation with noted FDR author, James Tobin, on October 20 at 7:00pm.
 
Admission to this virtual event is available by a donation of any amount, and all donations will go directly to Rotary's End Polio Now initiative. Additionally, tickets bundled with a set donation amount and a copy of either The Man He Became or Master of His Fate (a wholly new version of the story of FDR and polio for young readers) are available and the price includes a donation of all proceeds after the price of the book. Please read ticket descriptions carefully for information on order fulfillment.
 
 
James Tobin is an award-winning biographer. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle’s War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. He teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH.
 
 
Club Time At Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting On October 14th.
Posted on Oct 14, 2021
At the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North's Lunch Meeting on October 14, 2021 we have club time. Unfortunately the speakers did not show up to the meeting so we pivoted to club time. 
 
President Tammy did all of the club business like the "Pledge of Allegiance", "Four Way Test", and announcements. 
 
Lastly She asked club members for special things that are going on in their lives. There special things going on from Rick, Scott, Vern, and Bob S.. 
 
The next meeting on Oct 28th we will be having District Governor Brenda Woo! Woo! Tipton. Should be a BLAST!!!
 
 
Dr. Tanyss Murro From Amarok Society Talked At Lunch Meeting On Sept. 23th.
Posted on Sep 23, 2021
At the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting on September 23, 2021, Dr, Tanyss Murro talked about her Society called the Amarok Society. 
 
The Amarok Society was founded with one family: Dr. Tanyss Munro, Gem Munro and their four children. Tanyss uses a distinctive and bold statement for her Society,  "We stand for the freedom of children." "We stand for their freedom from poverty, from violence, from oppression. For the freedom to direct their own lives, exploring and contributing their full potential to the world."
 
When there are too many marginalizing factors between a child and their education, a school can’t reach them anymore. But their mother still can. 
 
The Amarok Society open schools for mothers who live in the slums of Bangladesh and Pakistan. Each mother then goes home and teaches her children and her neighbours’ children everything she’s learned. 
 
The inclusive curriculum, combined with the dedication and courage of the mothers they teach, can overcome the obstacles that poverty, religion, gender, and disability put in the way of global education.
 
Lockdowns due to Covid meant that the schools for the mothers had to close and changes had to be made to who the mothers taught in order to avoid the spread of the virus. But, the mothers have continued to teach and the schools are looking to reopen.
 
In many places, the "Amarok mothers' have become champions and leaders in their communities, supporting others, preventing arranged marriages of underage girls, and encouraging women to become entrepreneurs and help support their families financially.
 
Tanyss explained, "When we educate mothers, they not only directly import education into the families, they establish a culture of education in their children and entrench the practice of learning." "When we educate, say, a slum-dwelling teen-aged boy, he will, understandably, seek to use his educational advantage to escape his circumstance." "How could we ever expect or counsel otherwise? Mothers, however, tend to stay where they are, applying their learning to their existent circumstance, even when the education has led to a woman’s entrepreneurship."
 
"The higher the educational level she achieves, the higher the expectations she has of herself and her children, and the more determinedly she will work to reach them."
 
 
Lisa Hoenig Talked About The New Superior Library.
Posted on Sep 09, 2021
Ypsilanti District Library Director, Lisa Hoenig, presented a program on the new library branch now under construction in Superior Township. The new library is located at The new facility will be located on North Harris Road, between Geddes and MacArthur Boulevard. It will be built on two and a half acres of a 12-acre lot, purchased by Superior Township.
 
Ypsilanti Library:
 
At the beginning of Lisa's presentation she talked a little about the Ypsilanti Library on Michigan Ave. Built in 1915 as a Carnegie Post Office, the building was designed in the classical revival style typical of early 20th century government buildings.
 
The post office moved to its current location in 1962. The building was sold to the City of Ypsilanti for $1, and the City renovated the building and opened the library there the following year.
 
New Library:
 
With the November 2018 passage of a new operating millage, the new library will benefit all of the YDL district, it will most notably impact the socio-economic and health inequities in the struggling MacArthur Boulevard neighborhood in Ypsilanti, which is within easy walking distance to the new library.  This neighborhood is the highest density, lowest income housing block in Washtenaw County.  The new branch will also serve the Willow Run area.
 
Though closed now, the current tiny 1,000 sq.-ft. branch was a lifeline for the families and children in this particular community. Because so many residents near the library live in subsidized housing, where many of the households are led by a single female parent, there are many latchkey children.  Parents rely on the library as a safe place for their children to gather when there are no adults at home.  The kids build strong relationships with library staff.  It is a haven for them.
 
There is great understanding within Washtenaw County of the need for a space that can serve as a community center and resource in Superior Township - an area with both great wealth and great poverty.  The new library is poised to serve as this hub which is sure to transform the community well into the future. 
 
The 7,500 square foot building will be a full-service library, with hours and staffing similar to the Michigan Avenue location. The facility will offer:
 
  • A youth area with flexible space that can be adapted to a range of learning activities and programs for different ages
  • A dedicated teen/tween area
  • Two group study rooms
  • Comfortable seating for reading and studying
  • A community meeting room for Library programs and meetings of community groups
  • 20 computer workstations (compared to seven at the current library)
  • Triple the current number of books, magazines, and DVDs
  • More parking spaces
  • An outdoor reading area and programming space, if the budget allows
  • A drive-up book return available 24 hours seven days a week, if the budget allows
The library has taken on a larger purpose since closing due to COVID.  It is clear it will play a huge role in helping the MacArthur Boulevard area of Ypsilanti recover from the effects of the pandemic both economically and in terms of health equity.  It will be a center for community activity not only for educational and growth opportunities, but for local organizations and social service agencies to reach residents with vital services.
 
With construction now underway, we look forward to our grand opening in late summer of 2022.  The neighborhood is over the moon with excitement.  Lisa invites you to learn more about the project and the April 7th groundbreaking ceremony at https://www.ypsilibrary.org/engage/our-new-library.
 
Club Members and Lisa Hoenig in Earhart Manor Ballroom at Concordia University.
 
Ypsilanti District Library Director, Lisa Hoenig.
Amazon Smile
 
 
The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation participates in the AmazonSmile Program.
 
What is AmazonSmile?
AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop at AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping
experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. You can choose from over one million organizations to support.
How do I shop at AmazonSmile?
To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile.amazon.com on your web browser or activate AmazonSmile on your Amazon Shopping app on your iOS or Android phone (found under settings on your app). On your browser, you may also want to add a bookmark to smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile. When you’re using the app, always check for the “AmazonSmile” logo to ensure you’re activated for AmazonSmile.
 
How do I select a charitable organization to support when shopping on AmazonSmile?
On your first visit to smile.amazon.com, you need to select a charitable organization to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. We will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make through AmazonSmile will result in a donation. AmazonSmile will occasionally contact you about donation amounts disbursed to your chosen charity or about the program.
 
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Kroger Community Rewards
 
Kroger Community Rewards 
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Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation earned for $44.23 for time period May 01, 2021-October 31, 2021. 11 households are registered for Ann Arbor North Foundation's Kroger Community Rewards.
 
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation is registered in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Sign up and start making money for The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation.
 
***  Please be aware, Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation has a new Non-Profit Organization Account Number, it is BD440.  ***
 
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  • Most participants are new online customers', so they must click on SIGN UP TODAY in the ‘New Customer?’ box.
  • Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering zip code, clicking on favorite store, entering your e-mail address and creating a password, agreeing to the terms and conditions
  • You will then get a message to check your e-mail in-box and click on the link within the body of the e-mail.
  • Click on My Account and use your e-mail address and password to proceed to the next step.
  • Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information and input your Kroger Plus card number.
  • Update or confirm your information.
  • Enter Non-Profit Organization Account number (#BD440) or name of organization (Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation), select organization from list and click on confirm.
  • To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization’s name on the right side of your information page.
 
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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)
 
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