Events

 

We will be welcoming, Rotary International Director 2015-2017, Karen Wentz to our seminar! She was the first woman in Zones 30-31 to serve as RI Director and she will be discussing where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going.

Join us along with our valuable instructor, Pamela Stewart, as we journey through our amazing years as Governors. We are planning on an hour or so of inspiration, stories and what inspired us to be leaders in Rotary! Maybe you would like to join the ranks of leadership in Rotary. Let us share with you our accomplishments and give you tips on how to achieve your goals. Share a beverage with us and have some fun!

 

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How do we create positive change through times of great change? How do we empower others to create positive change? Now more than ever, we have an opportunity to be transformative leaders!
In this interactive session with Rotary International Director Elect Elizabeth Usovicz, we’ll explore ways we can lead ourselves through change, encourage positive change through others and intentionally create opportunities for a next generation of transformational leaders in Rotary by supporting young women. Come with an open mind and an open heart – come away inspired for the journey ahead.

We’ll also have a special opportunity to hear from Angel Harris, an alum of Rotary’s Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) participant and to create leadership opportunities for young women in Missouri.

 

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Join our speakers Razia Jan and Martha Hoffman Goedert.

Razia has worked for many years to forge connections between Afghans and Americans. Her humanitarian efforts are honored in First Lady Laura Bush's 2016 book We Are Afghan Women.

Born in Afghanistan, Razia moved to the United States in 1970. The proprietor of a small tailoring business in Duxbury, Massachusetts, for 20 years she served as president of the town’s Rotary Club. In the aftermath of September 11, Razia rallied her adopted New England community to send over 400 homemade blankets to rescue workers at Ground Zero after September 11. Her efforts expanded to include sending care packages to US troops in Afghanistan. Through her involvement in the military’s Operation Shoe Fly, she coordinated the delivery of over 30,000 pairs of shoes to needy Afghan children. Her handmade quilts commemorating September 11 have been exhibited at Madison Square Garden, the chapel at the Pentagon, and at fire stations in New York and Massachusetts.

Razia has received many awards for her humanitarian work (see below for chronology), including a 2012 CNN Top 10 Hero award, the 2007 Woman of Excellence award from Germaine Lawrence Inc., multiple Rotary Club International Peace Awards, and certificates of appreciation from the Army Corps of Engineers and the American Legion. She has spoken on women and children’s issues at venues across the United States as well as in Europe and Afghanistan. In 2014, Razia was named Social Innovator by the Lewis Institute at Babson College and in 2015 she was awarded a Woman of Action award from Rotary International at the United Nations in New York City. In 2016, she was honored with Rotary International’s Service Above Self Award.

Razia has served as a member of the Interfaith Council, the No Place for Hate Committee, and Jordan Hospital’s board of directors.

Today, in order to continue her humanitarian work, school administration, fundraising efforts, and spending time with family, Razia travels between Afghanistan and the United States.

Martha Hoffman Goedert earned a MSN in Family Nursing at the U of Kentucky (1979); with CNM certificate from Frontier School and a PhD from the University of Utah. Vulnerable populations have been her career emphasis competency-based clinical and didactic work in interdisciplinary health care teams. Goedert’s experience involves service in Ethiopia, Togo, Haiti, Uganda, Kenya, Mali, India and Tanzania. Seed Global Health/Peace Corps responsibilities as a visiting professor for the University of Dodoma, Tanzania and Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia where both clinical and didactic flipped classrooms were approaches used for graduate education. Life-saving skills, vacuum extraction, stunting, Kangaroo Mother Care and as a Master trainer HBB, ECEB, ECSB through AAP. Goedert most recently was an Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. She continues to teach lifesaving skills globally, training trainers to disseminate sustainable lifesaving skills in the global south. Martha is a member of Morning Rotary, Omaha where she is President-elect.

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Topic:  Together, We End Polio

 

Join Susan Haralson as she brings to us Ann Lee Hussey and Carl Chinnery - two polio survivors - to speak about World Polio Month!

Ann Lee Hussey has made the eradication of polio and the alleviation of suffering by polio survivors her life’s work. In the past 12 years she has actively participated in 25 volunteer NID (National Immunization Days) teams organizing and leading the last 18 teams herself, choosing to take those NIDs to places that do not often see westerners – Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Niger, Nigeria as well as less “touristy” destinations in Egypt and India – where the need is greatest and where the publicity and goodwill surrounding the trip are as critical as the immunizations themselves to help communicate the need for eradication. She has shared her story and passion hundreds of times carrying the message of PolioPlus around the Rotary world and beyond, raising money and creating new converts to the fight. She is determined that no child will needlessly have to suffer what she herself, a polio survivor, has been through. But for all the immunizations Ann Lee has herself made possible through NIDs, she considers fundraising and public awareness her most critical accomplishments. Ann Lee’s work has earned her the International Service Award for a Polio-Free World and the Rotary Service Above Self Award. Outside Rotary, Ann Lee served as a trustee of York Hospital and currently serves on the board of Port Resources, an organization that supports developmentally challenged adults in Portland, Maine.

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Topic:  Together, We Transform: Doing Good in The World

 

Join Linda Puchbauer as brings to us Pam Stewart and Brenda Cressey

Brenda Cressey, the first female to become a Chairman of the Board of Trustees, is the former CEO of Office Support Systems, a telecommunications business in Maine. She has served in many volunteer capacities with civic organizations such as the American Cancer Society.

A Rotarian since 1989, Cressey served as the first female chair and vice chair of The Rotary Foundation. Before that, she held numerous positions in membership, the Foundation, and training. Cressey was a Future Vision RRFC Training Institute moderator, an endowment/major gifts adviser, Council on Legislation representative, RI president’s representative, 2012 International Assembly executive committee member and its partner moderator, district governor, and RI training leader.

Cressey is a recipient of Rotary International’s Service Above Self Award, the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service, and the Rotary Foundation Distinguished Service Award. Cressey and her husband, Dick, are Major Donors and members of the Paul Harris, Arch Klumph, and Legacy societies.

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