In a week when Rotary International and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation an-nounced millions more in funding toward polio eradication, a short documentary film, The Final Inch , received an Academy Award nomination on 22 January for its intimate look at the massive mission to rid the world of the crippling disease.

Nominated in the documentary short sub-ject category, The Final Inch , a 38-minute film commissioned by the philanthropic division of Google, chronicles the chal-lenges health organizations and govern-ments face during the final stages of polio eradication.

Director and producer Irene Taylor Brodsky captured workers immunizing children in the poorest slums of India and Pakistan in 2007. In several scenes Rotari-ans were filmed working during a National Immunization Day on 22 April. Led by M.S. Jain, past governor of District 3100, NID volunteers administer polio vaccina-tion drops to children in Meerut Samrat, Uttar Pradesh, India.

The Final Inch will air on HBO in early April.

Welcome Raymond James Moore!

TTTHEHEHE R R RAMBLERAMBLERAMBLER Editor:

P.J. Thurkauf

February 4, 2009 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

OOURUR W WELCOMEELCOME S SONGONG

We welcome you to Morristown Where freedom's wars were fought.

We welcome you to Morristown Where liberty was wrought.

Come join our age old comradeship, Break bread with us today. In real Rotarian fellowship Our greetings we convey.

TTHEHE 4 4--WWAYAY T TESTEST

Of the things we think, say or do: 1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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http://www.morristownrotary.com

Contributed by One Proud Papa

The Official Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Morristown, NJ

W e welcome our newest Ro-tarian-in-training, Raymond James Moore! Raymond James was born on Satur-

day, January 24th at 7:55pm in Morristown Memorial Hospital. He weighed in at a svelte 9lbs 2oz and measured in at 20 3/4 inched long. His Mommy, Kristin Moore and Daddy Mike are both well and we’re sure big brother Mikey Jr. is being a big helper. Editor’s Note: Raymond James’s name was the final choice in a long list of financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo; but Mom and Dad are pleased with the final decision.

Documentary On

Polio Eradication

Receives Oscar Nod

By Ryan Hyland Rotary International News

REMINDER!

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Our Luncheons have moved to The Dublin Pub through February 11th 2009 (Spring Brook Country Club will be closed for the winter). We will re-turn to SBCC the following week, Feb-ruary 18th.

Please mark your calendar for March 13, 2009. On that magical evening, Gift of Life, Inc. of NJ will celebrate another year of success saving the lives of children with congenital heart defects. We will celebrate at the beautiful Villa of Moun-tain Lakes. Tickets will be $75 dollars each, and the evening will feature an open bar, live music, silent and live auctions, and of course… dancing! For more infor-m a t i o n , c o n t a c t : Brian_Romanowsky@yahoo.com or call him at 973-600-4967. More details will

follow.

Save the Date

Gift of Life Gala

What would you like to hear about at an upcoming Rotary meeting? Do you have associates working in fascinating fields that Rotarians should know about? Or maybe simply a friend with an interesting hobby, who’s words may enrich our lives? If you can answer any of these questions please contact Programs Chairman Dave Bagish! Dave is always on the lookout for Speakers for our Breakfast’s and Luncheons, and he can’t do it without our help! So please, give it some thought and pass on your ideas to him as soon as pos-sible!

We Need To Speak

About Speakers

The Morristown Rotary Dinner Group will hold their next social dinners on Sat-urday evening, February 28. The sched-ules are presently being made up. If you are not a participant in the dinner group and wish to join for these fun filled so-cial evenings with your fellow club members please contact Dick Betz at your earliest convenience at er-betz@attglobal.net.

Morristown Rotary

Dinner Group Submitted by Dick Betz

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

Every Year effort one of our goals of this 2008-2009 Rotary year. We en-courage every Club member to make a $100 donation to the Rotary Founda-tion for this Rotary year. Tom Lanahan has accepted the responsibil-ity of leading this effort. He will be collecting your checks, or please let him know if you have already made a contribution for the 2008-2009 Rotary Year. Checks should be made payable to “The Rotary Foundation.”

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 circum-stances that might prevent you from participating in this effort, please con-tact Tom.

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

Every Rotarian

Every Year

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 impor-tant litter reduction program 30 years ago. Its roll is to promote a clean and beautiful Morris-town. 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 Rotarians out there! We encourage all Morristown Ro-tarians 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 supplied with all work materi-als, a commemorative t-shirt, and refreshments, and are only asked for 1-2 hours of your time. Please note this event is generally rain or shine, how-ever there is a tentative rain date of Sunday the 19th in case of heavy rain.

Send Meeting Make-Ups to:

Joan Berkeley 36 Nottingham Ct.

Morristown, NJ

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

05/12/2008 is $160,500 Page 3 February 4, 2009

UPCOMING

LUNCH

PROGRAMS At The Dublin Pub, Pine Street, Morristown. (through February 11th)

This Week: To Be Announced

UPCOMING

BREAKFAST

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

This Week: To Be Announced

Help Fill These Pages!!

Mar 13 Gift of Life Gala—See page 2 Apr 18 Morristown Town Wide - Details to come!

Mar 14 Morristown St. Patrick’s Day Parade - Details to come!

Apr 18 The Rotary Leadership Institute - Seton Hall Prep

Quote of the Week

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be

childish sometimes.

Doctor Who

If you have not yet paid your first quarter meals bill, you are now past due! Please re-mit ASAP. Also, if you don’t see Liz at a meeting to hand her your check, please drop it in the mail to her home address which is on your invoice. Handing it to another club member to deliver to Liz delays the process of having your payment registered, in some cases substantially!

Regarding Your

Meals Invoices

Glenn Coutts 3

Ric Salamanca 4

Jonathan Taylor 5

John Loughman 10

Harvey Gilbert 11

Roy Bumiller 15

Scott Rosenbush 15

Austin Neary 18

Peter Jarmulowicz 21

James Mongey 22

Suzanne Samson 25

Happy Birthdays to all!

Interesting triviality: February is the short-

est month of the year, but contains to most

Morristown Rotarian Birthdays! Go figure...

February

Birthdays

Congratulations

Scott! (We Think)

Congratulations to Scott Rosenbush on his swearing in as Mayor of Morris Township. As he serves in a Township form of govern-ment he retains his Committee seat; so there is no fear that Scott will try to sell his seat in Blagojevich fashion! Although it is safe to assume the 4-way test would have steered our good Rotarian friend in the right direc-tion regardless. Good luck Scott!