Naugatuck Rotary - Naugatuck Rotary Newsletter

Our two students for the month of October said their farewells today and also expressed their gratitude to us. They enjoyed visiting with us as we did with them. Daniel even gave a Happy Dollar!!!

Sergeant at Arms Duncan Stephens fined John Aresta, John Roman, Anne Butler and Don Zehnder,

Happy Dollars: Barbara Csanka, Bruce Steinway, Dave Mulhall and Daniel Santos (Student of the Month)

General Fine: Anyone who didn’t give a dollar.

Announcements & Information

The regular luncheon meeting on November 19 will be held at the Elk’s Club on Rubber Avenue. We will be meeting downstairs. Please Mark Your Calendars!!!!

DATE CHANGE!! Saint Michael’s Church has asked that we trim the Christmas tree November 25^th at 10:00AM. If you can volunteer to be an elf, please call Jane.

The Rose Sale is quickly approaching. All 300 dozen roses are red in color this year. Please make every effort to speak to customers, friends and family. The roses will be available for delivery on Wednesday, November 12^th after our regular luncheon meeting.

There is still room for participants for the November 8^th Bus trip to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes and the Christmas Spectacular. Only 18 seats left, so get your tickets soon!

The Paul Harris Dinner will be held at The Continental Room on November 14, 2008, 6:30 - 7:00 Cash Bar, Dinner at 7:15, followed by the Guest Speaker and the presentation of the award at 8:00. This year’s recipient is Nichol Yanarella. The entertainment for the evening will be “Aged to Perfection”. For tickets or more information please contact John McCormack at 720-0100. Tickets are $35 a person.

Please make your reservations now for the District Conference, May 1 – 3, 2009 being held in Newport, Rhode Island.

Rupi Rupwani asked for Sergeant at Arms volunteers for the Foundation Dinner occurring on November 6^th at the Farmington Marriott, 15 Farm Spring Road. Volunteers are needed for registration during the hours of 4:00 – 6:00.

Guests

Students:

Jessica Trochsler

Daniel Santos

Upcoming Speakers

11/5 – Marcelo Martins

11/12 - Ray Dowling will be hosting a speaker from the Garden Club

12/3 - Ed Gerber will be hosting Penny O’Donnell on the Electoral College

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Jane Lobdell - 10/30 - Happy Birthday

Dave Mulhall - 10/30 - Happy Birthday

Membership Anniversaries

None this week

Our Speaker Today

Rupi Rupwani and Marcelo Martins conducted an informational presentation on Rotary's US $100 Million Challenge. The information below was taken directly from the website www.rotary.org/endpolio

The US$200 million funding agreement between Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation marks another milestone in Rotary’s 20-year legacy of polio eradication work.

Rotary, a volunteer service organization of 1.2 million men and women, made a commitment to immunize the world’s children against polio in 1985 and became a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative three years later. The other partners are the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF.

Rotary’s primary responsibilities include fundraising, advocacy, and volunteer recruitment. To date, Rotary has contributed nearly $700 million to the eradication effort, an amount that will grow to more than $850 million by the time the world is certified polio-free.

With nearly 33,000 clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas, Rotary reaches out to national governments worldwide to generate crucial financial and technical support for polio eradication. Since 1995, the advocacy efforts of Rotary and its partners have helped raise more than $3 billion in vital funding from donor governments.

Rotary clubs also provide “sweat equity” on the ground in polio-affected communities, which helps ensure that leaders at all levels remain focused on the eradication goal. Over the years, Rotary club members have volunteered their time and personal resources to reach more than two billion children in 122 countries with the oral polio vaccine.

Thanks to Rotary and its partners, the number of polio cases has been slashed by more than 99 percent, preventing five million instances of childhood paralysis and 250,000 deaths. When Rotary began its eradication work, polio infected more than 350,000 children annually. In 2007, fewer than 2,000 cases were reported worldwide.

But the polio cases represented by that final 1 percent will be the most difficult and expensive to prevent for a variety of reasons, including geographical isolation, worker fatigue, armed conflict, and cultural barriers.

That’s why it’s so important to generate the funding needed to finish the job. To ease up now would be to invite a polio resurgence that would condemn millions of children to lifelong paralysis in the years ahead.

The bottom line is this: As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, all children – wherever they live – remain at risk.

Absent Members Today

Peggy Dufresne, Jonathan Farmer, John Ford, Tracey Kelly, Cathie Mauritz, Tony Purcaro, Michael Steir, Rebecca Zandvliet

Upcoming Club Events

Radio City Music Hall

for the Rockettes

Saturday, November 8th

$120 per person

Naugatuck Rotary Rose Sale

November 12th

$12.00 per dozen

Naugatuck Rotary Paul Harris Award Dinner

Honoring Nichol Yanarella

Friday, November 14th

Continental Room

6:30 cash bar

Tickets are $35.00 per person

Happening Around the District and RI

November 6, 2008 District Foundation Dinner w/ District 7890

November 8, 2008 United Nations Day

November 15, 2008 Rotaract Zone Assembly, Yale 10-4

225 Prospect Street, New Haven

January 10, 2009 Interact Assembly, Choate Rosemary Hall School

January 31, 2009 Pre-PETS including 4 way speech contest finals

New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven

February 6-8, 2009 RYLA, Stratford, CT

February 14, 2009 Valentine's Day Dinner Dance

Country House Restaurant, East Haven

March 12 - 14 2009 PETS - Nashua NH

March 7, 2009 New Generations, Choate Rosemary Hall

March 27, 28, 2009 RI President's Membership Conference, Baltimore, MD

April 1, 2009 Deadline for Submission of Award Applications

April 19, 2009 GSE Inbound Teams Welcome Brunch

April 23,2009 District Assembly, Sheraton Four Points, Meriden

May 1-3 2009 District Conference, Newport, Rhode Island

May 15, 2009 GSE Farewell Brunch/Memo of Club visit due to DG

June 21 - 24 2009 International Convention, Birmingham, England

July 7, 2009 District Governor Installation, Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club

Branford, CT

AREA CLUBS FOR MAKEUP AND INFORMATION LINKS

Silvermine Tavern - Norwalk - Monday 12:15 pm

The Inn at Newtown - Newtown - Monday 6:15pm

John J Sullivan's Restaurant - Ansonia - Tuesday 12:15 pm

The Waterbury Club - Waterbury - Every other Tuesday 12:15 pm

Sandwich Man - Seymour - 1st and 3rd Thursday 7:15 am

Brownson Country Club - Derby - Thursday 12:15 pm

Crowne Plaza - Southbury - Thursday 7:15 am

www.rotaryeclubone.org online makeup

Rotary District 7980

Rotary International

Rotary Cruise Deals

Naugatuck Rotary

P.O. Box 484

Naugatuck, CT 06770