The Dearborn Rotary

X-Ray

March 27th, 2014

is a member of student coun-

cil, Key Club and is highly

decorated as a student. She

was very appreciative to the

Dearborn Rotary and has

plans to study Business and

Medicine at Wayne State

University.

Jason Lin- He gradu-

ated from Edsel Ford with a 4.167. He is active in the Math

Club and Dearborn Sympho-

ny. He enjoys tutoring young-

er students and volunteering

at Oakwood Hospital. he has

plans to be a Doctor and

physician. He plans to study

Medicine at Wayne State

University.

This meeting was called to

close in our normal fashion

with the signing of "God

Bless America".

Regan Ford, Editor

Members Present 41

Guests 7

Thursday’s Meeting Summary

Order was called by President

Jim Thorpe at noon. We played

the national anthem and the

Rick Enright said the invocation.

Bob Gleichauf was called to

introduce our guests, which

included:

Salma Saad

Jason Lin

Dongari Chen

Samuel Mousigian

Susan Mousigian

Mike Mousigian

Scott Cuieket

Chuck Buckingham

Hana Bagomaan

The guests were serenaded in

the usual fashion. The Salvation Army sandwich

making date is postponed until

further notice.

On April 10th, Moose Marti-

ni's will host our second guest

bartending event at 7pm. We

will be teaming up with the

Dearborn Firefighters and their

burn drive. Please sign up to

help at this event. Last time it

was a lot of fun and we raised

few hundred dollars.

May 8th-11th is our District

Conference on Mackinaw Is-

land. It is a great deal and you

get to stay at the Grand Hotel

on the island. All that is needed

is $500.00 in deposit. Please

Click here if interested.

Don't forget to buy a raffle

ticket from the Wayne Rotary

Club. They are offering a

$10.00 ticket for a chance to

win a 20 person suite for a July

Detroit Tigers game. $4.00 of

every ticket sold goes towards

our Dearborn Club.

John McDonald was recog-

nized for doing a great job with

directing the St. Patrick's Day

Party. It was a wonderful

event.

Colette Richards announced

that the Dearborn Rotary Vi-

sion meeting will be April 29th

from 5pm to 9pm Tuesday at the

Dearborn Public Schools Admin-

istrative building. This is an op-

portunity to mold the club to

what you would like it to be.

Please see Colette to sign up for

this event.

Merritt Robertson was intro-

duced as President nominee by Rick Enright.

Ray Trudeau announced that

there is another planned trip to

Nicaragua in August. It will be

an 8 day excursion. Please see

Ray for more details.

The Past Presidents Scholarship

was bestowed today upon three

deserving students. the scholar-

ship was presented by John Artis,

former Dearborn Public Schools

Superintendent. Mr. Artis recog-

nized Mr. Bob Young for his

extremely generous donations

toward this award, and acknowl-

edged the award would not have

been so lucrative if it were not

for Mr. Young.

Each of the three winners re-

ceived $3,000.00 towards their

academic career. The winners

are listed below with a brief

summary:

Samuel Mousigian- He

is a Senior at Dearborn High, has

maintained a 4.1 GPA and ranked

6th in his class. Samuel is very

involved both within his school

and outside with many sport,

charitable and volunteer efforts.

He announced his intentions to

attend the greatest University in

the United States, The University

of Michigan...Go Blue. He

thanked his teachers, parents and

the Dearborn Rotary for this

honor.

Hana Bagomaan- She

graduated from Dearborn High with a grade point average of 4.1

which was 14th in her class. She

Future Meetings

4-03-14 Bob Young on Ben Franklin

4-08-14 Club Board Meeting

DPS Admin Building

4-10-14 Dearborn Education Foun-

dation Eddie Fakhoury

4-17-14 Young Man’s Journey

Through Blindness Khodr Farhat

4-19-14 Adopt_A_Highway

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Duty Roster

4-03-14

Attendance

Jack & Jane Mueller

Greeter

Majed Rizk

Guests and Visitors

Majed Rizk

Invocation

John Artis

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Announcements

This Month is International Foundation Month and Our speaker’s for the past two meetings talk about our

Rotary International Foundation. Each year our club President sets a goal for our Club’s giving to the Rotary

International Foundation. One goal is for annual giving, and another goal is for Polio Plus. Our goal for annual

giving is set at $7,500.00 . By contributing to the “Every Rotarian Every Year” if every member contributes we

will make the pledges with no problem.

Remember “It’s not about the money, but what the money can do.”

Win Arneson, Margaret Blohm, Rick Enright, John & Mary Fish, Bob Gleichauf, Morris Goodman, Val Murphy-

Goodrich, Omar Guevara, Maureen Guevara, Joe Hallissey, Hassen Hammoud, Art Hamparian, Jim Ives, Diane

Ives, Coleen Kamke, Don Karcher, Al Martin, Roger Miller, Jack Mueller , Jane Mueller, Kim Najarian, John

Paepke, Colette Richards, Merritt Robertson, Dave Sample, Darlene Schoolmaster, Nancy Siwik, Sue Surdu-

can, Jim Thorpe, Ray Trudeau, Sue Waters, Nancy Widman, Brian Whiston, Bill White, Bob Young, Waseem

Younis.

Need X-Ray meeting minute writers. Promise maximum writing is only once every six

weeks. Can volunteer for even once a quarter or year. Please contact David Anderson.

Please sign up with Bob

Gliechauf to be a greeter or to give the invocation at meetings

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Adopt-A-Highway April 19. Please let Sue Surducan know if you are able to help.

SSURDUC1@hfhs.org

or (734)287-9850 8:30AM-10:30AM

Adopt-A-Highway

Our next Adopt-A-Highway Telegraph clean up will be Sat. Morning, April 19. We

need lots of help for this Community Service Project. We meet at Bryant Middle School Parking

lot (Cherry Hill and Telegraph) at 8:30AM. It should not take more than 2 hours- tops. Every participant

will get some homemade treat- I’m not sure what yet either cookies or cake. So I need to know who’s com-

ing. Rotary Anyone who’s interested can sign up at April 3, 10 or 17th meetings or call or email me.

SSURDUC1@hfhs.org or (734)287-9850.

Foundation Giving—Every Rotarian Every Year

Past President Scholarship Recipients

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Polio in SE Asia Declared Eliminated

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today congratulated the countries in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) on being certified polio-free, a historic milestone in the worldwide effort to end polio. The 11 countries in the region – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor Leste – are home to 1.8 billion

people and represent the fourth of six WHO regions of the globe to become polio-free. India, once deemed the most difficult place to end polio, recorded its last case on 13 January 2011, enabling completion of regional certification. Other countries such as Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan have been polio-free and waiting for this day for more than 15 years.

“This is a momentous victory for the millions of health workers who have worked with governments, nongovernmental organizations, civil society and international partners to eradicate polio from the Region. It is a sign of what we can bequeath our children when we work together,” said Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director for the WHO South-East Asia Region.

Rotary, which has committed more than $1.2 billion to the global eradication effort, thanked health workers, governments, Rotary members and its partners in the GPEI at the official certification meeting in Delhi.

“I speak for every Rotarian when I say again what an honor it is to be a part of today’s events. We have beaten polio in South-East Asia, and now we

must do the same in the rest of Asia and in Africa. Our goal is so close, we can almost touch it,” said Rotary Foundation Chair D.K. Lee. Rotary also received praise from Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO assistant director-general for polio, emergencies and country collaboration. “I want to

thank Rotary and their 150,000 members in the South-East Asia region for their tireless work to eliminate polio,” he said. South-East Asia’s remarkable achievement in ending polio was made possible by unprecedented commitment from governments to hold high-quality vaccination campaigns that reached a cumulative total of 7.5 billion children over 17 years, thanks to the dedication of millions of community health

workers and volunteers. Between 1995 and 2012, the polio program conducted 189 nationwide campaigns across the region and administered more than 13 billion doses of oral polio vaccine. The region’s accomplishment marks a vital step toward the GPEI’s goal of delivering a polio-free world by 2018. Innovative approaches and new part-

ners are driving global progress in a multi-year plan to stop transmission, improve immunization rates and make a lasting impact on child mortality. However, this progress is at risk unless polio is ended in the three countries where it has never been stopped: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. Re-cent outbreaks in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa are stark reminders that polio anywhere is a threat everywhere. Until polio is stopped in

the remaining three endemic areas, all countries need to maintain sensitive surveillance and high immunization rates to rapidly detect any importation of poliovirus and minimize its impact. Now that 80 percent of the world’s population lives in regions certified polio-free, the goal of eradication is closer than ever.

PP John Artis Samuel Mousigian Hana Bagomaan

Jason Lin Students with Scholarship Chair John Artis,

and Scholarship originator Bob Young

Pictures from Pro Literacy Breakfast

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Emcee PP Bob Ziolkowski

CEO of Pro Literacy Detroit

Margaret Williamson

Stars of the morning were Tutor Lynn Carpenter

(above), and Kenneith Clark, the student (left)

Vocational Training Team Team Leader John Clark

from Australia