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Today's Events:

President Bill Enright presiding  

Suzannah Richards, New York Life Financial Services (Asaad)

Oliver Von Gundlach and South Miami Vice Mayor Brian Beasley (Caldwell Banker)  (Assad)

Brett B. Trembly, Attorney

* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S  * * *

Monday, November 10, 2008 @  6:00 p.m.
Board Meeting followed by a

Club Foundation Meeting
First National Bank of South Miami

1,820 golf balls were dropped by helicopter on the Biltmore Golf Course driving range on October 31.  The closest to the pin was purchased by Randy Godard, from the Rotary Club of Coral Springs – Parkland .  Randy will enjoy a seven day trip to Argentina as his prize.  2^nd prize, a Cartier watch, valued at $2,500.00, went to Richard DeWitt of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables and 3^rd prize, a week-end at the Hyatt Regency Coral Gables (Sunday Brunch included), was won by Gloria Rossomano, another member  of the Rotary Club of Coral Springs – Parkland.  A total of $45,500.00 was raised by 43 RI District 6990 Rotary Clubs to help meet the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $100 Million Challenge Grant for our polio eradication initiative.

First place in the District Club contest for 40,000 Paul Harris Recognition Points went to the Rotary Club of Ft. Lauderdale – Cypress Creek.  The Rotary Club Ft. Lauderdale – Beach won 2^nd place, the Rotary Club of Miami Sundown won 3^rd, the Rotary Club of Freeport, G.B.I. won 4^th and the Rotary Club of Grand Bahama Sunrise won 5^th.  The first place club received 15,000 recognition points, 2^nd received 10,000 and 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th received 5,000 recognition points each.  R.C. Ft. Lauderdale – Cypress Creek finished first with sales of $201.32 per member.  A complete and final ranking or RI District Clubs is attached.

Congratulations to one and all!

Yours in Rotary Service,

JOHN SORGIE’S MOM:

SORGIE, RUTH, 93, passed away on October 28, 2008. Loving mother of John, Joseph, and Theresa. Cherished grandmother of Wayne, Alicia, Karen, Jacqueline, and Christopher. The family received friends on Monday, November 3rd from 5-7pm, with a prayer service by Reverend Arnold Perry at 7pm at VAN ORSDEL - KENDALL DRIVE. To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries

David Jacobs

Entertainment Books:

$30 per book for discounts all over town. 
COUPONS VALID UNITL 11/09

Coupons include Miami City Ballet – Keys Dive Center – TCBY – Cold Stone Creamery – and hundreds more.  Our club earns half of the proceeds

John Sorgie:

FOOTBALL MANIA

MARTY ROSEN:

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.

With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Airlines stock you would have $49.00 left.

If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.
But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer,then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

This is called the 401-Keg Plan.

SAVE THE DATE

Saturday, December 6, 2008 @ 7pm
Holiday Party

Mark your calendars:

SOUTH MIAMI ROTARY ARTS FESTIVAL

Saturday & Sunday, February 21 – 22, 2009

Thank you to our newest member LAKITSIA GAINES & her company State Farm Insurance who are now Emerald $5,000 sponsors of the Festival.

~~ this money allows our club to offer future scholarships~~

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

 www.myspace.com/southmiamiartfest (unofficial site)

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES

 RECYCLING FUNDRAISER $$$

DID YOU MISS A MEETING‘CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

Our club goal is 100% Attendance!

If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date.

For online make-ups:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally: http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

Mark Your Calendars
November 8 / 15, 2008		Roy Joseph has been selected as GSE Team Leader. GSE Team Member Applications /  Interviews  for the Phillipines
November 16, 2008		Dolphins Family of Rotary
December 6, 2008		District Governor 2010-11 Interviews
January 11, 2009		Foundation Gala An Evening with Jonathan Magiyabe: There will be limited seating because of the venue, and we’re joining with District 6930. Fort Lauderdale Westin – a wonderful venue with fantastic food! Ticket prices are $75, but that’s because it’s mostly spent on food (did I mention fantastic food??)
January 17, 2009		Rotary Leadership Institute  American Intercontinental University 2250 N Commerce Pkwy Weston, FL 33326
January 24, 2009 – February 22, 2009		Inbound GSE Team from the Phillipines
February 19 – 23, 2009		--FLASH NEWS--FLASH NEWS--FLASH NEWS-- District 6990 District Conference February 19-23, 2009 Cruise to Cozomel with North Carolina District 7730 The Filipino GSE team will be joining us and some of the GSE Team from Argentina! It’s a beautiful new ship and cabins are selling fast!
February 21-22, 2009		South Miami Rotary Art Festival
February 24, 2009 –March 24, 2009		Outbound GSE Team to the Phillipines
May 2, 2009		Rotary Leadership Institute  American Intercontinental University 2250 N Commerce Pkwy Weston, FL 33326
June 21 – 24, 2009		RI Convention - Birmingham
Meeting Functionaries
Invocation:	MIKE MILLS
Pledge:	MARTY ROSEN
Guests:	CATHY MILLER
Happy $$:	ANN FISHER
Door Prize:	NONE L
$$$ Prize K of Hearts $7/$172	MIKE MILLS
It’s Your Turn ( in alphabetical order unless a switch is requested)
November 11, 2008	***NO MEETING***
November 18, 2008	Door Prize: Roy Gonas
November 25, 2008	Door Prize: Lakitsia Gaines
December 2, 2008	Door Prize:  Donna Gaines
Future Speakers:
November 11, 2008	NO MEETING
November  18, 2008	Jennifer Shipley -  Business tools at Miami-Dade County Public Library
November 25, 2008	Robert Perry, MA - Stage Lighting and the Theater Program at the University of Miami
December ? 2008	Rev. Gregory Gay -  Identity Theft

President:  Bill Enright
bill@handsonmiami.org

President Elect:  Pansy Graham
pansygraham@bellsouth.net

Vice President: Mike Mills
millsmike@aol.com

Secretary:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Azam Malik
azam@sdsol.com

To send an E-mail to the Rotary Club of South Miami’s Board of Directors, board@southmiamirotary.org

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org

Rotary District 6990:

www.rotary6990.org

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

Mission Statement

The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:   

Benefits of Being A Rotarian (Membership)
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:

¨       Become connected to your community.

¨       Work with others in addressing community needs.

¨       Interact with other professionals in your community;
assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.

¨       Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.

¨       Develop leadership skills.  Involve family in promoting service efforts.

Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($275) or to become a New Member ($325) contact

Asaad Massoud, at www.racharters.com

Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser? Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lk@lindakaplane.com

Noelle A Galperin

2008-09 District 6990 PolioPlus Chair

ngalperin@hotmial.com / (305) 801-2002

The India Medical Mission Trip in February 2009

ROTARY ZONE 34 – LED BY DISTRICT 6990

Noelle Galpern is a member of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables.  She is a Strategy and Management Consultant who is deeply involved in Rotary International’s Polio Eradication efforts, including the $100M Gates Challenge Grant, the District 6990 Helicopter Golf Ball Drop polio fundraiser.   Her next great challenge is the National Immunization Day trip to Northern India scheduled for February 2009.  This will be her third medical mission to India.

Participate in a national immunization day and personally vaccinate dozens of underprivileged children with the oral vaccine needed to protect them against the polio virus.

Polio is a contagious, historically devastating disease that was virtually eliminated from the Western hemisphere in the second half of the 20^th century.  Although polio has plagued humans since ancient times, its most extensive outbreak occurred in the first half of the 1900’s before the vaccination, created by Jonas Salk, and became widely available in 1955.  At the height of the polio epidemic in 1952, nearly 60,000 cases with more than 3,000 deaths were reported in the US alone.  

Nowadays, children under 3 are 50% of the victims.  There is still NO cure for polio – only vaccinations against acquiring it.

Rotary’s project is the largest worldwide unprecedented partnership which includes WHO,  Unicef, CDC, and the Gates Foundation.

In 1988, there were 1,000 new cases per day in 200 endemic countries.  In 2007, there was a 99% decrease – just over 1,000 cases a year. India represents 66% of new cases.

This trip is sponsored by Rotary Zone 34 and District 6990 to occur sometime in February 2009 as Immunization Day in India. They are expecting 40-80 Rotarians to volunteer.   There will be home stays in Chandigarh for fellowship.

Visit a polio rehabilitation hospital and an integrated abilities school in Delhi to see firsthand the devastating effects of polio and how afflicted individuals overcome their illness with Rotary’s help.

NID – Immunization Day is a supplementary mass immunization program to complement the routine immunizations.

Each child under five years of age receives two drops of oral vaccine no matter what their status.  They immunize children 5 years multiple times.   Mark the little finger of the children vaccinated which remains for 2-3 days.  The sanitary conditions in India make it particularly difficult to maintain the polio free status.  The vaccine has to be absorbed into the system through digestion.  If the child has poor digestive health, then the vaccine passes through without protective effects.

The volunteers use no gloves when vaccinating the children as it sends the wrong message to the population.  They use antibacterial gels to wash their hands. 

4-5 days - day 1 is booth day, on Sunday health care workers and volunteers sets up booths in high trafficked areas such as schools, religious centers, and transportation center hubs. 

Banners are posted to announce the day.  Happening for twenty years and the population knows to go to the booths.

Northern India is targeted this year.  183 million children is the goal.  Detailed tracking and cold chain maintenance - # of children is known by locals

The virus in chambers must be in coolers (funded by Unicef) to save them from a lifetime of paralysis. 

Trip Specifics
~$3,500 includes air fare
~Approximately 12 days in February 2009

What you can do:
Contribute to the $100M Gates Foundation
Subscribe for more info: polionid-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

The opportunities are ours.
Who if not us? When if not now?

   (l-r) President Bill Enright, Noelle A Galperin, and Programming Chair Dr. Darryl Downs