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Embracing Humanity key to experiencing the Rotary spirit
The Rotary Club of Tupelo understands the importance of Rotary Internationa'sl theme for 2011-12, "Reach Within to Embrace Humanity." Embracing our fellow men, women and children around the world is not only central to Rotary's motto, "Service Above Self," but it's an important factor in working to achieve peace across all kinds of borders, both real and imagined.
In embracing humanity around the globe, Rotary continues to work to eliminate the scourge of polio from the face of the Earth. The Rotary Club of Tupelo contributes heavily to this cause each year.
Additionally, another goal of the Rotary Club of Tupelo is to see every child in Tupelo and Lee County be able to read and receive the best education possible. Our club annually gives hundreds of dictionaries tomake sure every third-grade student in Lee County has a copy at no cost to them or their family, or the school system. Our club also regularly supports great causes in our community, such as the Antone Tannehill Good Samaritan Free Clinic, Salvation Army, and more. And in our club's biggest community event each year, the Rotary Club of Tupelo is proud to be able to recognize the top students in grades 7-12 of the Tupelo Public School District at our Rotary Scholars celebration.
Are you interested in being someone who will share in promoting the common good in Tupelo and Northeast Mississippi? If so, we'd love to have you become a part of our club. Simply talk to any of our members, or come to our club meetings for more information. Our club meets every Monday at The Summit conference center (formerly Ramada Inn) on North Gloster Street in Tuplo at Noon. |
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| What is the Rotary Four-Way Test? |
The Four-Way Test is a series of questions every Rotarian should ask themselves concerning their treatment of others. The questions are:
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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| Healthy Start |
| Rotary Club of Tupelo president Julianne Goodwin, left, and Dr. Swan Burrus, right, a Rotarian and retired obstetrician-gynecologist, present an immunization record booklet to Monica Henderson and baby Ophelia of Mantachie. The Rotary Club recently donated $2,000 to help purchase the booklets for newborns at the North Mississippi Medical Center Women's Hospital. Since 1995, the local Rotary Club has donated almost $40,000 to improve immunization rates locally. Rotary's efforts have included not only providing immunization record booklets for 16 years, but also partnering in the early years with NMMC and the Mississippi State Department of Health on after-hours immunization clinics to make it more convenient for working parents to get their children vaccinated. When Rotary Club of Tupelo launched the project in 1995, the immunization rate in Lee County was 66 percent. Within the first 18 months, the county's immunization rate rose to 94 percent. Since that time, Lee County has maintained an immunization rate of 96 percent or higher. |
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| Inspiring teachers |
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| Former Tupelo educator and coach Bob Monroe addressed Tupelo Rotarians and the teachers being honored during last week's Teachers of Distinction ceremony. Monroe spoke about the love he and his late wife, Marilyn, shared for the time they spent teaching in the Tupelo Public School District, and encourage the teachers nominated for the annual awards to continue to strive to do their best. |
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| Untangling a web |
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| Author, journalist and Ole Miss professor Curtis Wilkie, right, shares the inner workings of the scandal surrounding the saga of former Oxford attorney Dickie Scruggs. Wilkie discussed with Tupelo Rotarians a portion of what he learned while investigating for his book, "Fall of the House of Zeus." Rotary Club President Julianne Goodwin looks on. |
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| Student of the Year 2011 |
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| Amina Bahammou shared her essay, "How can you apply the Rotary Four-Way Test in your own life" during last week's meeting. Bahammou was honored at the meeting as the Student of the Year for 2011. |
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Time to ramp up fight against polio
FROM ROTARY.ORG:
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has made significant progress since the launch of its new strategic plan and the bivalent oral polio vaccine last year. In India and Nigeria, the sources of all recent wild poliovirus importations into previously polio-free countries, the disease declined by 95 percent between 2009 and 2010.
The World Health Organization calls the progress encouraging, "but the job is not yet finished, and we must see this through to the end," said its director-general, Margaret Chan, at the World Health Assembly in May.
In addition to the gains made by India and Nigeria, 15 countries in Africa have stopped outbreaks of the disease that started in 2009, reported the GPEI Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) in April.
The GPEI's leading partner agencies -- the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF -- and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation welcomed the report. They particularly noted the IMB's assessment that polio eradication is "entirely feasible" and "desperately needed," and that countries that are off track in meeting GPEI milestones can be brought back on track with support from national governments, donors, and the spearheading partners.
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