Rotary Bulletin 9/30/04

September 30, 2004
UPCOMING PROGRAMS...
STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club
Oct. 7: Dr. John Dinan, Associate Pofessor of Political Science, WFU
Oct. 14: John Hood, John Locke Foundation
Oct. 21: Noel Grady-Smith, Dance Education in Public Schools with demo
Oct. 28: Our own Reverend John Shields, Vocational Talk

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY: - Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center
Oct. 5: ADAM'S MARK BLLROOM, District Governor Don Allred
Oct. 12: BENTON CONVENTION CENTER, Patricia Norris, Winston-Salem Chief of Police

REYNOLDA: - Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Oct. 1: Pauline Morris, Coordinator of Community and Workplace ESL at Forsyth Technical Community College
Oct. 8: TBA
Oct. 15: Richard Gottlieb of Senior Services, "Aging in Forsyth County".

CLEMMONS: - Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Oct. 6: TBA
Oct. 13: TBA

ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEWS & INFORMATION................

DATES TO REMEMBER:
October 14 - Board Meeting
November 11 - Board Meeting
November 13 - Rotary Football Game WFU vs. North Carolina 1:30
December 9 - Annual Holiday Social and Silent Auction

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS:

Enjoy a special day of fellowship, food, and college football. A delicious tailgate of barbecue and chicken with all the trimmings is included with your admission ticket. This $32 value is only $30 per person. If you already have your game ticket(s), the dinner may be enjoyed for a price of only $10 per person. Contact Margaret Warren (784-8667) or Scott Krewson (713-6526) for registration information. Registration deadline is November 10.

Reynolda Rotary's 2^nd Annual Yard Sale is Saturday, October 16, 2004 from 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. The sale will be at the Old Kroger location on Robinhood Road in Winston-Salem.

Mark your calendars for Thursday evening, December 9, 2004, for our annual Holiday Social and Silent Auction. Please contact Kathy Acton about any donations you may have for the auction. Please say yes if Kathy calls and asks you to help. Remember, great things are done with the money we raise at the auction.

Thanks to everyone for your patience with me. I have been a little out of sorts for the past several weeks. As many of you have probably experienced, I have had issues with elderly parents. I have successfully moved my parents to Heritage Woods and am trying to clean out and dispose of a house. I will be doing the quarterly billing next week, so if your account is not current please try to catch up before I do new statements. Thank you, Margaret

PROGRAM FEATURES............
September 16 - Solomon Ole Mwaipasi (Samuel Moses), a 32 year old Tanzanian Wildlife safari guide and warrior of the Maasai tribe, spoke about his life in Africa. Dressed in his traditional Maasai outfit, he told the story of how he went to find the end of the earth as a boy when he was roughly 4-6 years old. Because his culture groups children in age groups, the actual ages of children are not important. Only making it 8 miles from his village, he happened upon a missionary school where he played with the children there and forgot to tend his cattle, which in his country are one of the most valuable assets a Maasai can have. Punished severely, he ran away to the mission and received a formal education for about 7 years. He now speaks 4 languages, is married, has a daughter, runs a safari guide business, and is a law student at the University of Dar-es-Salam in Tanzania. With the spreading of communicable diseases such as AIDS, he is trying to preserve his Maasai culture through education while at the same time, change a number of practices in their religion which may prove deadly. For instance, the current practice of circumcision is performed on about 20 boys, whose age range is 13-15, using the same knife. Traveling the United States for 2 months, he is visiting people he has guided on his tours in the hopes of learning and teaching others, so that he can return to Tanzania and help his people.

September 23 - Our speaker today was Bill Whiteheart, Chairman, Smith Reynolds Airport Commission. Bill talked about the value of having an airport. He showed a video about the uses and advantages of small airports. He explained the job of the Airport Commission and its mission.

September 30 - The Stratford Rotary Club joined forces with the Mental Health Association of Forsyth County to co-sponsor a nationally known speaker, Kathy Cronkite, on Thursday September 30 as a kick-off to National Mental Illness Week. Kathy is an author, talk show hostess, and the daughter of former CBS news correspondent Walter Cronkite. Kathy is one of millions who suffer with clinical depression. She delivered a message of hope and inspiration through her talk, "Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness."

As an advocate for persons with mental illness, Kathy Cronkite had a clear message: "Depression must be accepted as the medical condition it is in order to combat the stigma attached to it and to make help available for those who suffer from it." Cronkite's book, On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression, has received wide acclaim for its informative and eloquent treatment of mental illness. In writing the book, Cronkite interviewed celebrities and family friends who suffer from depression, including Mike Wallace, Joan Rivers, Dick Clark, Kitty Dukakis, Rod Steiger, Rona Barret and William Styron. Combined with interviews of well-known researchers of mental illness, these celebrity conversations cast a dispelling light on the myths and stigma that surround mental illness.

Kathy Cronkite's talk was timely and most appropriate, because Rotary International is celebrating our Centennial Year during 2004-2005. One of our centennial service projects for our community is to sponsor or participate in a health awareness campaign or a project that addresses a health concern. Thanks to Loy McGill, our Project Chairman and Past President, for planting seeds that started this project last year.

A very special thanks to Ellen Stockton, a member of the Mental Health Board and Program Chairman of Stratford Rotary Club for working on our behalf to coordinate this most meaningful event.

CONGRATULATIONS:

Happy Birthday:
John Babcock 10-01
Loy McGill 10-03
Mosby Vogler 10-05
Bill Avera 10-07
Bill Sexton 10-11
Gordon Spaugh 10-11
Vernon Verrell, III 10-13
Martin Boggess 10-17
Greg Cox 10-19
Lyons Gray 10-28
Veronica Black 10-30
Lee Strange 10-31

Makeups...

Winston-Salem: (9-21) Doug Leckie: (9-28) Roane Cross, Amy Egleston, John Garrou, Doug Leckie, Peggy Low, Ed Robbins, Guy Rudisill:

Reynolda: (9-17) Bob Coil: (9-24) George Fleetwood, Patty Mead:

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Clemmons: NONE