April 8, 2009

Iditarod Carries End Polio Now Message

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P.J. Thurkauf

CCLUBLUB O OFFICERSFFICERS

President Glenn Garth

President-Elect Scott Marum

Vice President John Loughman

Vice President - Breakfast Chris Flanagan

Secretary Joan Berkeley

Chief Financial Officer Mike Franchino

Treasurer Bob Miller

Assistant Treasurers, Meals Liz Colquhoun

Assistant Treasurers, 50/50 L - Roy Bumiller & Charlie Eggert

B - Gary Reppen Sergeant-At-Arms L - Carl Badenhausen

B - Mike Moore Past President Dolores Bagish

RI Liaison Robert Coultas

Parliamentarian/Historian John Kuschke

District Governor Janice Teetsell

Assistant Governor Terry Berger

BBOARDOARD OFOF D DIRECTORSIRECTORS

Dave Bagish, Jim Deak, Mike Elms, Chris Flanagan,

P.J. Thurkauf

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The Iditarod, which ran 7-24 March, com-memorates a race against time to deliver diph-theria serum to Nome during an outbreak of the disease in 1925. Through an agreement be-tween the Iditarod Trail Committee and District 5010 , which covers parts of Canada, Russia, and the United States, this year's race built awareness of a similar race to the finish: Ro-tary's efforts to eradicate polio. All mushers wore bibs with the End Polio Now logo emblazoned across the bottom. In addi-tion, District 5010 secured a $27,500 PR grant to sponsor four-time Iditarod champion Martin Buser, a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow and an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Wa-silla Sunrise, who worked with Rotary to pro-duce two public service announcements appear-ing on television and online. Buser, who came in 18th in this year's race, displayed the End Polio Now logo prominently on his team's apparel and equipment, and sym-bolically carried three empty polio vaccine vi-als on his sled. He will continue to serve as a spokesman for polio eradication throughout the year at other events and appearances. "The End Polio Now labels all over my sled and race gear were like Teflon -- they stood out above and beyond everything else," he says. "Through miles and miles of blowing snow, the red and white really cut through, and amplified the message. "It's such a natural fit," Buser says, of using the race to promote polio eradication. "The Iditarod began as a lifesaving race, and End Polio Now is a lifesaving race." Clubs also used the excitement surrounding the

event to raise funds for Rotary's US$200 Mil-lion Challenge . The Rotary Club of Anchor-age East raised $15,000 during a live prerace auction at Chilkoot Charlie's, a bar in Anchor-age. The Rotary Club of Anchorage Interna-tional held a dinner party near Willow, where the race was restarted after its ceremonial launch in Anchorage, with donations going toward the challenge. "What was exciting for us, as Alaskan Rotari-ans, is that the Iditarod is our preeminent event," says Trygve Erickson, past president of the Anchorage International club, who hosted the party with his fiancée Kimberly O'Meara, another past club president. "It was exciting to have the End Polio Now message attached to such an international sporting event." Rotary Youth Exchange students and Rotarac-tors collected coins for the challenge before and after the race and handed out End Polio Now materials. The Rotary Club of Nome held a postrace fundraiser. Past District Governor Alana Bergh, the Dis-trict 5010 Rotary Foundation Committee chair, says the main idea behind the collaboration with the Iditarod Trail Committee was to "raise awareness that polio is still out there, and that you still have to immunize your children. "We wanted to make sure people talk about it," she explains, noting that the Iditarod commit-tee's Web site, www.iditarod.com , receives millions of hits during the race. The site fea-tured a link to information about Rotary's ef-forts to end polio. Chas St. George, a spokesman for the Iditarod and a member of the Rotary Club of Wasilla, says more than 500 media representatives from around the world converge on Alaska to cover the two-week event.

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Bickford Theatre

Trip Wrap-Up

Fun was had by all (18 of us) both at the Bickford Theater and Joan Berkley's house. Hold the date for Saturday, May 23rd for the next one. It's being planned for a matinee and an evening perform-ance. Pick which one you prefer and then all will or can meet for a nice discounted dinner at the Spring Brook Country Club at 5:00 p.m.

Submitted by Dolores Bagish

Hey Rotarians…

We Missed You

At Last Week’s

Meetings!

Betz, Richard

Braunschweiger, Herb

Bruen Sr, Bill

Bumiller, Roy

Close, Geoff

Colquhoun, Liz

Goodman, Ted

Harrigan, Tom

Konya, Lori

Kuschke, John

Moore, Mike

Neary, Austin

Nelson, Paul

Randolph, Scott

Rosenbush, Scott

Sally, Marion

Savage, Jill

Schaub, Peter

Schommer, Rusty

Valentine, Veronica

Valerio, Lucio

VanDalinda, Midge

Ward, Barbara

Wronski, Helen

...Hope to see you

Wednesday!

The Rambler

Morristown

Town-Wide

Cleanup

Saturday, April 18, 2008 is the 19th annual Town-wide Clean-up. The Morristown Rotary Club helped initiate this important litter reduction program 30 years ago. Its roll is to promote a clean and beautiful Morristown. Our Club’s support of this effort has been better these last two years, we fielded a decent size clean-up crew each year; but we’d still like to see more Rotari-ans out there! We encourage all Mor-ristown Rotarians and their families to come out and help make our town even more beautiful! We will be meeting at the Town Hall parking lot (200 South Street) at 9:00am. You will be sup-plied with all work materials, a com-memorative t-shirt, and refreshments, and are only asked for 1-2 hours of your time. Please note this event is generally rain or shine, however there is a tentative rain date of Sunday the 19th in case of heavy rain. Contact Glenn Coutts for more information!

Send Meeting Make-Ups to:

Joan Berkeley 36 Nottingham Ct.

Morristown, NJ

Quote of the Week

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When to-morrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be some-thing good."

Author Unknown

Please join your Morristown Rotarians on Thursday, April 16th to donate blood to help our community.

Our blood drive will be held at Morristown Memorial Hospital again between the hours of 8:30am and 3:30pm. Please re-serve your time today by signing up at ei-ther a breakfast or lunch meeting, or by contacting Eileen Heltzer at 973-593-2412 or Eileen.heltzer@atlantichealth.org. You must eat a meal 1-2 hours before you do-nate. Please use either valet or self-parking at the Goryeb Children’s Hospital, located off Franklin Street. Parking will be vali-dated. Please contact Eileen with any questions.

Blood Drive

Peggy Lanahan (wife of Rotarian Tom Lanahan) is exhibiting Selected Pastels at the Chester Library during the month of April. Peggy began her formal educa-tion at the Newark School of Fine Arts, and since studies with noted artists through out the east. Among her associa-tions are the Somerset Art Association, and a juried member of the Pastel Soci-ety of America, and the NJ Pastel Soci-ety. The exhibit is open during regular Library hours.

An Artist

In Our Midst

Condolences to Charlotte Luckey on the loss of her brother. Greetings and a Speedy Healing to Billie Schloerb. She just had a knee procedure and is back home now. Word has it that Scott Marum was one of the stars at the President-Elect Training Seminar (PETS). Looks like a good year ahead of us! Speedy recovery wishes to Krys Miller in her recent hip replacement. Guess having a fa-mous football player giving her pre-surgery exercises certainly must have helped. Good to see David Shapiro back after his bout with the flu. Also, how about that Prez of ours? He went to the emergency room af-ter last week's meeting with chest pains. Thank goodness it was only pneumonia - it certainly was great to see him heal so quickly. Also get well wishes to Cheryl Eggert, hope-fully by the time this is printed she will be over her asthmatic bronchitis.

Please send stories, news, jokes, photographs, and gossip for The Rambler to:

P.J. Thurkauf at turk11042@hotmail.com or 973.538.2040 (fax)

Calendar of Events

Contributions to the Endow-ment Fund should be ad-dressed to:

Morristown Rotary Endowment Fund

c/o Mike Franchino 19 Cattano Avenue

Morristown, NJ 07960

Thanks to the club officers for their continued management of this fund. Balance as of

02/1/2009 is $72,167 Page 3 April 1, 2009

UPCOMING

LUNCH

PROGRAMS At the Spring Brook Country Club, Morris Township

This Week: Julia Sommers - NJ Highlands Council

UPCOMING

BREAKFAST

PROGRAMS At the Morris Center YMCA’s Richard F. Blake Children’s Center, Cedar Knolls.

This Week: Julia Sommers - NJ Highlands Council

Help Fill These Pages!!

Apr 16 Morristown Rotary Blood Drive at MMH. Contact Eileen Heltzer to signup.

May 13 Spring Barrel Planting - Details to Come

Apr 18 Morristown Town Wide - Details on Page 2!

Apr 18 The Rotary Leadership Institute - Seton Hall Prep

The Every Rotarian, Every Year effort en-courages Rotarians worldwide to participate fully in their Rotary Foundation. Our Club President, Glenn Garth, has made the Every

Rotarian, Every Year effort one of our goals of this 2008-2009 Rotary year. We encour-age every Club member to make a $100 do-nation to the Rotary Foundation for this Ro-tary year. Tom Lanahan has accepted the responsibility of leading this effort. He will be collecting your checks, or please let him know if you have already made a contribu-tion for the 2008-2009 Rotary Year. Checks should be made payable to “Morristown Ro-tary Endowment Fund.”

Remember Tom has the hard part... he has to ask you for your check... you have the easy part, just write out the check! If you have any special circumstances that might prevent you from participating in this effort, please contact Tom.

Contributions to the Annual Programs Fund ensure a brighter future for all. Imagine how much more good we could do with the par-ticipation of Every Rotarian, Every Year.

Every Rotarian

Every Year

From The

Sunshine Committee Submitted by Dolores Bagish