ANNOUNCEMENTS:NEW PAUL HARRIS FELLOW: Alison Kuipers, wife of Past President Devrin Kuipers, has been named a Paul Harris Fellow as a result of Devrin’s contributions of an additional $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation. Fred Heitman presented her with a certificate and Devrin presented her with the Paul Harris Fellow medallion and pin. Fred said that over a million people in the world are or were Paul Harris Fellows, including the late Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, the late Indira Gandhi, Prince Charles, and the late Pope John Paul II. DAFFODIL PLANTING SATURDAY: Tom Row announced that volunteers are needed to help him plant daffodils starting at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 20, in the Jefferson Circle area on the uphill side near the bank building. Some 350 holes for the flowers will have been dug before the planting. “Your task will be to bend over, place a daf-fodil bulb in a hole, and cover it with dirt,” Tom said. And then do that again and again. BOARD ACTIONS: As reported by President Barry, our club’s board at its last meeting approved a plan of an ad hoc committee on how to increase the number of Paul Harris Fellows in our club to maintain our status as a Sustaining 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club; sent $2,000 to the Heart-2-Heart project in Mexico and decided to con-tribute money to offset the costs of travel by Ron Stellhorn and another club volunteer to Mexico City to work on the project Feb. 13-20, 2011; discussed the GSE team from Thailand that will visit District clubs in late April and early May and that we will help host; accepted the resignation of Rod Strand and granted a three-month leave of absence to Joe Storch; and decided to present to the club its nomination of Past President Jack Bailey as a candidate for Rotary 6780 District Governor for 2013-2014. Ann Dunthorn made a motion, seconded by Charlie Samuels, that we approve the nomination, and the motion passed unanimously. HELP ORHS INTERACT CLUB: The Interactors have asked us to work with them on Saturday, Dec. 11, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ringing the bell to collect donations for the Salvation Army. Sign-up sheets with shift times will be available at the meeting this week. POLIO CANS: Weekly reminder to please bring the money from your “You Can Change the World” can to the weekly meetings and put it in the big jug which will be on the head table.

LAST WEEK’S PROGRAM: OUR SPEAKER: Before introducing our speaker, Adolf King, director of International Service for our club, announced that the board has decided to get our club involved in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. The plan is to identify host families in Oak Ridge before August 2011 who would like to host a foreign student from one of 40 countries in the program. Scott Shanks, chair of the District Youth Exchange Program Committee (of which Charlie Samuels is a member) and past president of the

THIS WEEK - November 18, 2010:Program: Jim Roxlo, The Rotary Foundation Grants Host: Jack Bailey, Jr.Greeters: Charlie Hensley, Bob HightowerInvocation: Tom HillGuests & Visitors: Melinda Hillman

NEXT WEEK - November 25, 2010:Program: Happy Thanksgiving! No meeting! December 2, 2010: Greeters: Tom Hiton, Chuck HopeInvocation: Wayne HopeGuests & Visitors: Bob Howard

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ATTENDANCE-UPDATE - 11/11/2010 Members: 125 ( including 1 honorary) 68 Members; 1 Visiting Rotarian; 3 Member Guests; 0 Other Guests; Total Present - 72; 75%

AREA ROTARY CLUB MEETINGSANY TIME eClub eClub – http://www.rotaryeclubone.orgMONDAYOak Ridge Sunset: Flatwater Grill Events Center – 5:30 pm S. Knoxville: UT Medical Ctr, Morrison Cafeteria – 12:15 pmRockwood: Victorian Square – 6:15 pmLenoir City: 1st Baptist Church, 2085 Simpson Rd. E – NoonTUESDAYLoudon: First Baptist Church Annex – 12:00 NoonClinton: Clinton Community Center – 12:00 NoonKnoxville: Knoxville Marriott – 12:00 NoonKingston: Two Chefs Deli, Bakery & Florist – 6:00 pmAlcoa: Airport Marriott – 6:00 pmWEDNESDAYKnoxville (B): Gettysvue Country Club – 7:00 amOak Ridge (B): Flatwater Grill Events Center – 7:15 amFarragut: Fox Den Country Club – 12:15 pmTHURSDAYMaryville: Green Meadow Country Club – 12:00 NoonHarriman: Roane St. In the Faculty Dining Room – NoonN. Knoxville: Litton’s Restaurant – 12:00 NoonOak Ridge: Flatwater Grill Events Center – 12:15 pmFRIDAYTellico Lake: Tellico West Conference Center – 8:00 amKnoxville Volunteer: Knoxville Marriott – NoonWest Knoxville: Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall – 12:15 pm

MEMBERS’ BIRTHDAYS:Stephen Whitson, 19 Nov.Mary Ann Damos, 22 Nov.Connor Matthews, 24 Nov. Bill Lenihan, 25 Nov.

PARTNERS’ BIRTHDAYS:Jane (Dan) Conrad, 19 NovemberNancy (Rick) Morrow, 19 November

CLUB ANNIVERSARIES:Barry Stephenson, 8 YearsMario Fontana, 26 Years

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IN TWO WEEKS - December 2, 2010:Program: Jim Graham, Rotary Service Internationally Host: Rick Morrow

The 2011 Rotary International Convention will be held May 21-25 in New Orleans, Louisiana. To register for the 2011 RI Convention, visit http://www.rotary.org/kiosk/KioskC2011/index.html.

FOUR WAY TESTOF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO…

• FIRST, Is it the Truth?• SECOND, Is it Fair to all concerned?• THIRD, Will it Build Goodwill and Better Friendships?• FOURTH, Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

ROTARY AND LOCAL LINKSRotary International on the Web includes links to:

• Where Rotary Clubs Meet• Rotary International Publications• Many other Interesting Topics• District 5450 eClub- http://rotary5450.org/eclubThis is a new area to make up meetings any time!

Rotary Club of Crossville, presented a talk on the Youth Exchange program and answered questions. Scott started a Rotary project in Ghana that resulted in more than 40 wells that provide clean drinking water to the villagers there. He made seven trips to Ghana to participate in and oversee the well work. He holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee. He is the president and CEO of the L. P. Shanks Company, a distributor for convenience stores. He is mar-ried and has two children, both in college. YOUTH EXCHANGE: Scott Shanks, chair of the District Youth Exchange Program Committee, listed and explained several steps to guide our club in preparing to give a foreign student between 15 and 18.5 years old a great learning and cultural exchange experience in Oak Ridge starting next August. First, put together a Youth Exchange committee so the work does not fall on one person. The committee should start now to develop a list of at least 10 good potential host families. It is recommended that three families host the student for three to four months each to enhance the student’s experience. The best “first” family has teenage children about the same age to help the student make friends at Oak Ridge High School. The first family gives the student automatic friends and help with the English language. The second and third family can have no children present or have small children (who can also help the student with the English language). Second, identify from our club a male counselor for a male student and a female counselor for a female student (our club has not specified a preferred student gender or country). The counselor is a person that the student can confide in if the student has a problem, say, with the host family. Typically, the counselor is a Rotarian. The counselor will interview potential host families using a prepared set of questions and the district will conduct a background check on every interested family. The counselor often picks up the student at the airport, gives the student a temporary home while attending to paperwork and taking the student to the health department to get the required vaccines, and then turns the student over to the first host family. Third, budget for at least $100 a month for the student’s allowance plus less than $100 for sending the student to the annual Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) event in Crossville. Fourth, between March and May our club will receive an ap-plication from a foreign student who would like to stay and study in Oak Ridge for a year. Our youth exchange committee should review the application. If the student does not seem like a good fit, the committee should feel free to ask for another student application. Our district generally hosts eight foreign students. Make hard copies of or scan the application to produce a digital file and then send/e-mail copies of the application to all potential host families to find out which three families are most willing to host the selected student. The application includes a photo of the student and a letter about the student from the parents. The application will ask for the name of the first host family and the signature of the high school principal. Sometimes it is easier to get the second and third host families after the student arrives and meets the potential host families. Fifth, we should make the student part of our club. Different club members should take the student out to lunch or to different activities on the weekend. A lot of foreign students are very good soccer players and potential field goal and extra point kickers for high school football teams. See Rotary District 6780/Service Projects/Youth Exchange/OhioErie for in-formation on the Youth Exchange program. Our district’s Youth Exchange students were taken to the UT-Ole Miss football game this past weekend. The students will all go to RYLA, the Interact annual conference, and the District annual conference. The students will pay for optional trips if they come from affluent families. Several go to Disney World and take scheduled bus tours of the eastern U.S. (spring break) and the western U.S. (for two weeks after flying to Salt Lake City). The Cookeville, Crossville, and Farragut clubs all have youth exchange programs. Oak Ridge, said Scott, is perfectly set up for hosting foreign students (inbound) and sending ORHS students abroad (outbound) as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. RULES FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS: The five D’s: no drugs, no dating, no drink-ing, no driving, no dumb actions. They have to pay for their own medical and dental insurance, which costs $450 a month.

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS Rotary responds to polio outbreak in Congo Republic By Dan Nixon Rotary International News -- 11 November 2010 Rotary International and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative -- the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- are responding to a recent outbreak of wild poliovirus in the Republic of the Congo. Rotary is providing a total of US$500,000 in emergency grants to WHO and UNICEF for immediate polio immunization efforts throughout the country.

At least 97 people have died in the outbreak, with 226 cases of acute flaccid paral-ysis reported as of 9 November. Most of the cases involve young people between ages 15 and 29. To date, four of the AFP cases have been confirmed as polio.

The outbreak is due to imported poliovirus that is related to the virus circulating in Angola. The Congo Republic recorded its last case of indigenous polio in 2000, and urgent action is required by government and partner agencies to again make the country polio-free.

“Polio outbreaks highlight our global vulnerability to infectious disease,” says Dr. Robert Scott, chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee. “It reinforces the fact that polio ‘control’ is not an option, and only successful eradication will stop the disease.”

According to WHO, at least three national vaccination campaigns are planned to combat the outbreak, with the first targeting three million people of all ages in the Congo Republic and parts of neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola on 12 November and 18-22 November. Subsequent campaigns are planned for 3-7 December and 26-30 December.

“Every man, every woman, every child will be immunized irrespective of their past immunization status,” says Dr. Luis Sambo, WHO regional director for Africa. “This way we can be assured that everybody is reached, including young adults, whose immunity may be low.”

Outbreaks of imported polio cases are not uncommon during eradication efforts, underscoring the critical need to stop transmission of the virus in the remaining polio-endemic countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

“Our experience shows that where polio transmission has been stopped before, it can be stopped again,” Scott says. “A fast, large-scale, high-quality immunization response using the new tools at hand, along with strong surveillance, is absolutely critical.” Online contributions break records 18-24 October Rotary International News -- 17 November 2010

During the week of 18-24 October, approximately US$3.3 million was raised in online contributions for PolioPlus. To honor World Polio Day on 24 October, The Rotary Foundation offered for the first time double Paul Harris Fellow recognition points for online-only contributions of US$100 or more during that week.

The results represent a significant increase in online donations. To compare, $660,000 in online donations to PolioPlus were made from January to September 2010.

As of 9 November, Rotarians have raised about $152 million for Rotary’s US$200 Million Challenge. These contributions will help Rotary raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

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