Charlotte-Shelburne Rotary - Newsletter

On Sunday, Aug. 30, Leunig’s at the corner of Church and College Streets in Burlington is donating 20% of their food sales to Hands to Honduras. Everyone (Rotary members, friends, relatives and anyone else you know who enjoys a good meal) is encouraged to plan to eat at Leunig’s that evening. They take a limited number of reservations but have promised that anyone who comes will be seated within half-an-hour. Good food and a good cause!

Meeting

President John Beal lead the Pledge and Kris Engstrom gave the devotional.

John welcomed two guest, Linda Gilbert’s sister Noelle Nelson, visiting from Florida, and David Gladstone, a member of Burlington Rotary and resident of Shelburne.

John quoted some interesting statistics.

RI President John Kenny shared the following:

Healthy and hunger issues affect the entire world, particularly children.

About 2.3 million children under age 15 are living with HIV
Malaria kills more than a million people each year, most of them children
Over half a million women die of pregnancy-related complications annually
About 852 million people are currently malnourished
More than 25,000 people, including many children, die of hunger each day
An estimated 10.1 million children die before their fifth birthday.

The Health and Hunger Resource Group of Rotary is focusing on solutions to this monumental challenge.

Announcements

Upcoming events:

8/20 – Board meeting – 7:30 a.m.
8/26 – Lake Champlain Sailing Center speaker
9/2 – Committee meetings

Looking ahead:

6/11/10 – District Conference at UVM
6/20/10 – Rotary International Conference in Montreal

Shelburne Day Report

Linda Gilbert reported on a successful Hands to Honduras food booth at the Shelburne Day event on the Parade Ground on Saturday. In spite of the stifling heat, there was a good crowd and lots of customers for hot dogs, hamburgers, corn, drinks and goodies. A big thank you to everyone who volunteered supplies and/or time, and a special thank you to William who donated the grill.

International Exchange Student

Alex from Argentina has been delayed slightly in his travel plans, but will be here on Sept. 1. Jim Spadaccini reported that he has host homes for Alex until January and would like to talk to anyone who could host him for part of the rest of his visit.

New Member Induction

Sponsors Linda Gilbert and Colleen Haag, inductee Sam Feitelberg and inductor Ric Flood

Sam Feitelberg was inducted as the newest member of the Charlotte Shelburne Rotary Club.

Already well-known to our club because of his generous and energetic work with the Hands to Honduras program, recruiting physio-therapists, raising funds for the PT Center in Tela, training people to work there and leading the therapy team, Sam introduced himself and detailed an impressive career. He graduated from Cornell and Columbia and taught at Columbia Presbyterian. He established schools for physio-therapists at Columbia and the SUNY’s Downstate Medical Center, and then in 1970 came to UVM where he established the PT Department, served as department chair, and was also associate dean and director of the Health Service Division in the School of Allied Health Sciences.

In addition to running the academic programs, he directed PT and occupational therapy services at Fletcher Allen Medical Center in Burlington. After retiring from UVM he spent 10 years at Clarkson University where he designed and built a fully integrated PT degree, research and clinical program. He and his wife Gail have been married for 55 years.

Guest Speaker

Nancy Kerr and John Beal

Nancy Kerr, Director of the communications program at Champlain College, shared her observations of the group of young people she calls the Millenials – born between 1980 and 2000 and now entering the workforce.

She said that Millenials have a new perspective, a new work ethic and many skills to bring to jobs, as well as behaviors that may take some getting-used-to for managers:

Don’t have the traditional ‘paying your dues’ ethic
Grew up with digital media – prefer internet to telephone and television
Accustomed to being scheduled/kept busy and focused
Have lived through an era of terrorism and have a stronger sense of patriotism and heroism
Their parents are very involved in their lives – helicopter parents, she calls them
Hopeful, optimistic and ready to be challenged
Believe they will get a good job with good compensation
Civic minded – the highest rate of volunteerism in 50 years
Team oriented – prefer working collaboratively
They want supervision, mentoring
Like to work with their friends
Need time for social networking