Wednesday, May 16, 2012 NO ROTARY MEETING Thursday, May 17-Sunday, May 20, 2012 District 5520 Conference at Hotel Al-buquerque Friday, May 18, 2012 Rotary Meeting: 11:30 a.m. at Hotel Al-buquerque, Old Town. Program: Polio Plus

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel. Program: Alzheimers As-sociation by Myles Copeland

Monday, May 28, 2012 Memorial Day. Rotary Office Closed Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Shera-ton Uptown Hotel. Program: Surviv-ing the Cruise Ship-Costa Concordia by Alex Beach

THE NORTHWIND

Rotary Club of Albuquerque Del Norte May 4, 2012

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel. Program: Women’s Focus Day with APD Officer, Julie Jes-sen, topic Self Defense Saturday, May 5, 2012 Boys & Girls Ranches work day in Belen, NM 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Board of Directors reports due. Email them to Joanna and Bill Michael Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Shera-ton Uptown Hotel. Program: Cancer Research by Dr. Jeff Brinker of Sandia Labs

Sunday, May 13, 2012 Happy Mother’s Day

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Board of Directors meeting, 5:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel

Sunday, May 13th is Mother’s Day. Be sure

to send your love to Mom on this

special day!

Memorial Day Remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice this Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2012

Wednesday, May 9, 2012-Guest Speaker, C. Jeffrey Brinker

Our program at the meeting of the Rotary Club of Albuquerque Del Norte will be information about Cancer Research by guest speaker, Dr. C. Jeffrey Brinker. In this presentation Dr. Brinker will first provide a perspective of potential applications of nanotechnology in cancer treatment. He will then present recent work on the devel-opment of nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery. Encapsulation of drugs within nanocarriers that selectively target malignant cells promises to mitigate side effects of conventional chemotherapy and to enable delivery of the unique drug combina-tions needed for personalized medicine.

To realize this potential, targeted nanocarriers must

May, 2012 Vol. 27, Issue 38

IN THIS ISSUE

Del Norte News Programs May Calendar Meetings, Events, Anniversaries & Birthdays April Perfect Attendance Report A Peek at June

C. Jeffrey Brinker story cont. on pg.2

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ARE YOU LIVING BY THE

4-WAY TEST?

Is it the Truth?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Is it BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

District 5520 Newsletter at the link

below: http://rotary5520.org/

newsletter/

Do You Have A Meeting

Make-Up? Committee chair and

members, please send to the Rotary

office your commit-tee meeting atten-dance or give them

to Joanna at our regular meeting

ASAP so it will help

our clubs monthly attendance figures reported to District,

thanks.

Rotary International www.rotary.org

President….…....Kalyan Banerjee

District 5520 www.rotary5520.org

Governor……..........Bobby Wallace Lt. Governor………..Bill Rothweiler Asst. Governor……...John Gordon

Exec. Director……..Loren Kuehne

Rotary Club of Albuquerque Del Norte

www.rotarydelnorte.org

Club Officers President………..……..Bill Michael President-Elect........Darcy Savage Vice President………….Gene Gaik

Secretary…….......Carolyn Vatuone Treasurer……………...Mike Eskew Past President……..John Valentine Sgt-at-Arms…………Mike Skolnick

Directors

International…………..Bob Rausch Vocational…..........Terry Boulanger New Generations………….Michael MacDonald Club Service...........Larry Strickland Commun it ySer vice. . .Maur een Anderson

Membership............Kathie Williams

Public Image…………Sonia Torres

Del Norte Foundation

President... ...........Jay Rosenblum

Members... ...Dave Anderson,

Charlie Ofelt, Lee Dunsirn, Norm

Liss, Darcy Savage, Brooks La-

Gree

Rotary Meeting Schedule Wednesdays, 12:00 noon

Sheraton Hotel Uptown

2600 Louisiana Blvd., NE

Office Information PO Box 3951

Albuquerque, NM 87190

secretary@rotarydelnorte.org

Office Hours:

9:00 am - 1:00 pm M, Tu, Th, Fr

Wednesday—Rotary Meetings

Phone: 505-344-9162

C. Jeffery Brinker story Cont. from pg.1

simultaneously overcome multiple challenges, including specific-ity, stability and a high capacity for disparate cargos. Recently developed is a new class of nanocarriers termed protocells that synergistically combine features of porous silica nanoparticles and liposomes. Protocells are constructed through the fusion of liposomes to a spherical, high surface area, porous silica nanoparticles to create a supported lipid bilayer (SLB). The pro-tocells are completed by modification of the SLB with multiple copies of a targeting peptide, an endosomolytic peptide and PEG. Compared to ‘liposome-only’ nano-carriers, the protocells have improved capacity, selectivity, and stability, enabling tar-geted delivery and controlled release of high concentrations of multicomponent cargos (chemotherapeutic drugs, siRNA, dsDNA, toxins, etc.) within cancer cells. Furthermore, owing to the substrate–membrane adhesion energy, the core suppresses large-scale membrane bilayer fluctuations, resulting in greater stability than unsupported liposomal bilayers. The nanoporous support also results in enhanced lateral bilayer fluidity compared with that of either liposomes or SLBs formed on non-porous par-ticles. The enhanced fluidity and stability of the SLB enables dy-namic reconfiguration of the surface allowing membrane bound ligands to engage in complex multivalent interactions with the target cell. The synergistic combination of materials and bio-physical properties organized over several hierarchical length scales enables high delivery efficiency and enhanced targeting specificity with a minimal number of targeting ligands, features crucial to maximizing specific binding, minimizing nonspecific binding, reducing dosage, and mitigating immunogenicity. C. Jeffrey Brinker was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and attended Rutgers University where he received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in ceramic science and engineering. Dr. Brinker joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1979. He was promoted to Distinguished Member of the Tech-nical Staff at SNL and appointed Distinguished National Labora-tory Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of New Mexico in 1991. Since 1999, he has been jointly employed at SNL where he is the sole Sandia Fellow

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and at UNM where he is Distinguished and Regent’s Professor of Chemical and Nu-clear Engineering with co-appointments in the Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the UNM Cancer Cen-ter. Dr. Brinker has been recognized nationally and internation-ally for his work in sol-gel processing (the fabrication of nano-scale materials from soluble molecular precursors) and its exten-sion to self-assembly of porous and composite nanostructures, and recently novel types of biotic/abiotic materials and inter-faces, including porous nanoparticle supported lipid bilayers used as nanocarriers. His awards include R&D100 Awards in 1996, 2007, 2008 and 2011, the American Chemical Society’s Ralph K. Iler Award in the Chemistry of Colloidal Materials, five Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Awards, the DOE Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award in Materials Science, and the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2003 Medal. In February 2002 he was elected into the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2009 he was elected Fellow of MRS. Join us on Wednesday, May 9th to learn more about Dr. Brinker’s exciting research.

Cont. from pg. 2 Membership Directory Advertising I am working on updating a new directory for 2011

-2012. The cost for a full page ad (4" wide x 6"

long) is $150, for a half page ad (4" w x 3"L)

$75. Again, there will be a cap placed on the num-

ber of ads ran in the Directory and after May 31st

all ads will be placed on a first come first served

basis. Please let me know what you would like to

do on or before Thursday, May 31st. To sub-

mit your ad copy just e-mail it to Joanna as a jpeg

file. You will be billed in July.

NorthWind Advertising The new Rotary year is around the corner. That means

it’s time to place your ad. All ads need to be submitted electronically to Joanna as a jpeg file.

Business Card Ad (2” tall x 3” wide) $150/year or

$40/quarter Quarter Page Ads can be run by the quarter only for

$75/quarter

There will be a cap placed on the number of ads run in

the NorthWind. All advertising will be placed on a first come first served basis. If interested, submit your ad to

Joanna, not an e-mail saying you want an ad. Deadline to submit NorthWind ads is June 1. You will be billed in July.

Don’t forget that you can also run a classified ad for

only $10 an issue. This is a great way to promote your favorite non-profit’s fundraiser or to let everyone know

about an upcoming art event or yard sale!

Thank you.

Don’t METH With Us Del Norte Rotary President, Bill Michael and The Don’t Meth With Us Committee would like to thank the members who have already donated to the "Don't Meth With Us" fund. Members and anyone inter-ested will have two ways to donate; they will be able to write a check payable to: Del Norte Rotary DMWU, & mail to PO Box 3951; Albuquerque, NM 87190 or they will be able to donate through a 501c3, make checks payable to: APSEF Albuquerque Public School Education Foundation). Stay tuned for more develop-ing information about this exciting program, and again, thank you for helping area students in under-standing the danger of using drugs.

April Attendance Our attendance in April was 86%. Congratulations to the following 48 Del Norte Ro-tarians who achieved 100% attendance! Ken Abbott Dave Anderson Maureen Anderson Steve Becker Terry Boulanger Fred Bryant Sally Casey Geno Casanova Greg Chalmers Joanna Douglas Kathie Williams Frank Bird Mike Eskew Jim Easley Gene Gaik Kim Helm Craig Hinnen Art Humphries Bill Johnson Barbara LaGree Claudia Lucas Mike Creedon Brooks LaGree Jim Perner Leah Persons Rob Maruca Charlie Ofelt Michael MacDonald Les Smith Michael Madanick Bill Michael Janice Matteucci Mark Rudolph Dan Regan Marty Padilla Bob Rausch Ruth Ronan Mike Skolnick Larry Strickland Sonia Torres John Valentine Donette Wagner Carol Wright Scott Honsowetz Don Wagner John Wright Tim Salazar Sandy Seilgman

ROTARY MEETINGS

Sheraton Uptown Hotel June 6: At Rotary Park, Program-fellowship June 12: Board reports due e-mail Joanna & Darcy June 13: Program-Del Norte Foundation, Jay Rosenblum, Location: Marriott Pyramid North June 20: Program-TBA June 26: Party for New Members at the home of Barbara & Brooks LaGree,13024 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 June 27: Program-Last meeting for Bill Michael ROTARY BOARD MEETING Tuesday, June 19: Joint Board of Directors meeting, 5:00 p.m.at the Sheraton Hotel Uptown.

A Peek at June-2012

ROTARY DEL NORTE NEWS

Rotary Service Help May, 2012

Invocation: 5-9: Need Help; 5-23: Dan Regan; 5-30: Need Help Registration: 5-2: Fred Bryant; 5-9: Mike Eskew; 5-23: Norm Liss; 5-30: Need Help Greeter/Pledge/Introduce Guests: 5-2: Mike Es-kew; 5-9: Kathie Williams; 5-23: Larry Strickland; 5-30: Scott Honsowetz Thought Of The Day: 5-9: Need Help; 5-23: Sonia Torres; 5-30: Need Help

If you are unable to keep your commitment, it is your responsibility to find a replacement. Sign up sheets are available at each meeting, or contact Jo-anna at: secretary@rotarydelnorte.org. Let’s pull together In Service Above Self to complete the month of May. Thanks!

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Rotary District 5520 Conference May 17-20, 2012

At the Beautiful Albuquerque Hotel In Old Town

The Del Norte Rotary Club will not have a meeting on Wednesday, May 16th, instead we will meet at the District Conference on Friday, May 18th. at noon for the Polio Plus luncheon.

Myles Copeland-Speaker on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Myles Copeland is the Communications and Advo-

cacy Director for the Alzheimer’s Association, New

Mexico Chapter. He will be speaking on the topic of

Alzheimers at the Del Norte Rotary Club’s regular

meeting, Wednesday, May 23 at the Sheraton Up-

town Hotel. Mr. Copland was a volunteer for eight

years with the Alzheimer’s Association before his

employment in January 2012. Prior to that, he

spent 12 years as host of the Tony Lynn & Myles

morning radio show on Albuquerque’s Big I 107.9

FM. Having grown up in Albuquerque’s South Val-

ley, he attended St. Pius X High School, and received

his bachelor’s in philosophy from Whittier College,

in Whittier, CA. He is currently pursuing his MBA at

UNM’s Anderson School of Management.

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