My name is Tanja Curcic. I have 2 homes, Uganda and Australia. Now married to a Ugandan man called Jonathan Ogil. I live in a town called Soroti. My work extends to the Teso region.
Little Blue Shed is located in Uganda, East Africa. It is a safe hub where vulnerable women and girls learn, create and grow.
Jeffry Cadorette, a past RI director and a member of the Rotary Club of Media, Pennsylvania, USA, plunged two miles (3.2 km) from an airplane as part of the Drop to Zero skydive for polio eradication, which generated more than $2.5 million for Rotary’s PolioPlus Fund. Not everyone is willing to jump out of a plane to raise money for polio eradication, but each year, Rotary members and supporters are inspired to contribute and find creative ways to fundraise so children can be protected against polio.
These fundraising efforts support a global network of polio workers and other important eradication activities. Thanks to Rotary and our partners, nearly 3 billion children have been vaccinated against polio, and more than 19 million people who otherwise would have been paralyzed can walk today.
Although we still face challenges in the fight against polio, we’re getting closer to eradicating wild poliovirus. Help Rotary and our partners bring this devastating disease to an end. Contributions are matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rotary and our partners seize the moment to achieve a polio-free world
The world may never have a better chance than now to eradicate polio, according to Aidan O’Leary, polio eradication director for the World Health Organization. Before polio can be considered eradicated, the number of cases must reach zero and no virus can be detected in the environment. During the first nine months of 2021, just two cases of polio caused by the wild virus were recorded — one each in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two countries where wild polio is still endemic. Environmental testing throughout those countries has also shown significantly less wild poliovirus in water and sewage samples. O’Leary explains how we can protect our progress against polio and reach more children with a new polio vaccine and a new Global Polio Eradication Initiative strategy. This strategy aims to address our remaining challenges, including vaccine hesitancy, political uncertainty, and the difficulties of continuing vaccinations during a pandemic. Read more from O’Leary about the determination and support it will take toovercome today’s challenges and achieve a polio-free world.
Klumph on the cover of the September 1916 issue of The Rotarian.
Who was Arch Klumph?
Arch Klumph was born in the small town of Conneautville, Pennsylvania, USA in 1869. When he was a child, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he would become a founding member of the Rotary Club of Cleveland in 1911 (at age 42). As club president in 1913, he advocated for the club to build a reserve that would ensure its means to do future good work.
Five years after he became a Rotarian, at age 48, Klumph was elected to serve as Rotary’s president for 1916-17. Near the end of his term, at the 1917 Rotary Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, he reminded Rotarians that “Rotary is at the present time entering a new era, demanding improved methods in administrative machinery, with which to carry out the splendid principles which have been laid down heretofore.”
One of those improvements was to become The Rotary Foundation, which became a way for Rotarians around the world to pool their resources to tackle projects that were bigger than a single Rotary Club could handle. Its first major charitable project was an award of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children in 1930.
Klumph remained an active supporter of The Rotary Foundation until his death in 1951, setting the groundwork for its long-term future.
Since 1965, the Foundation has been pooling contributions from Rotarians around the world to support club and district projects with various types of matching grants. A portion of your personal and club contributions to the Foundation’s Annual Fund are returned to our District to magnify the size of projects that our clubs are carrying out here in Australia and around the world.
November is Rotary Foundation Month, which makes it a great time to recognize the leadership of Arch Klumph in planting the seeds for our Foundation. Please consider planting your own seeds by way of becoming a Centurion with a donation of $100 to the Annual Fund this month.
For more information, please contact David or Haran (see below for details)
As Rotary members, we use our connections to create lasting change in our communities and around the world. And although we’ve all faced the challenges of the pandemic for the past year and a half, we’ve continued to take action, solve problems, and make a positive impact. So we are optimistic that we can gather in person to explore new opportunities for friendship and service at the 2022 Rotary International Convention, 4-8 June in Houston, Texas, USA. We invite you to join us! At the convention, you will:
Develop new friendships and strengthen old ones
Share your Rotary experiences and learn more ways to get involved
Find inspiration in the family of Rotary
Register now to take advantage of our reduced rate, available until 15 December. You’ll be able to cancel for a full refund, minus a $50 per person administration fee, until 30 April. Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your passion for Rotary.
ROTARY VISION: The application of practical action in solving problems, locally and worldwide
" The prevailing Rotary attitude is rendering service is practicality. Its aim in performing a useful action is to be helpful and serviceable, not sentimental...As Practical idealists, we temper the fanciful flights of the dreamer with the limitations of common sense."
- Address to 1943 Rotary Convention, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Development of the Spruce Goose cost a phenomenal $23 million and took so long that the war had ended by the time of its completion in 1946. The aircraft had many detractors, and Congress demanded that Hughes prove the plane airworthy. On November 2, 1947, Hughes obliged, taking the H-4 prototype out into Long Beach Harbor, CA for an unannounced flight test. Thousands of onlookers had come to watch the aircraft taxi on the water and were surprised when Hughes lifted his wooden behemoth 70 feet above the water and flew for a mile before landing.
Today, the Spruce Goose is housed at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon
On November 2, 1960, a landmark obscenity case over Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence, ends in the acquittal of Penguin Books. The publisher had been sued for obscenity in publishing an unexpurgated version of Lawrence’s novel, which deals with the affair between the wife of a wealthy, paralyzed landowner and his estate’s gamekeeper. The book had been published in a limited English-language edition in Florence in 1928 and Paris the following year. An expurgated version was published in England in 1932. In 1959, the full text was published in New York, then in London the following year.
Lawrence was born to a poor coal-mining family in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. His mother struggled to teach her children refinement and a love of education. She depended heavily on Lawrence for emotional support and nurturing. He won a scholarship to Nottingham High School, worked as a clerk, and attended University College in Nottingham, where he earned a teaching certificate. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911.
The following year, Lawrence fell in love with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of a fellow teacher. The pair fled to Germany and wed after Frieda divorced her husband. In 1913, Lawrence published his first major novel, Sons and Lovers, an autobiographical novel set in a coal town. The couple returned to England, and Lawrence’s next novel, The Rainbow (1915), was banned for indecency. After World War I, Lawrence traveled to Italy, Australia, and Mexico and wrote several more novels, including Women in Love (1921). He died of tuberculosis in France in 1930, at the age of 44.
This strategy aims to address our remaining challenges, including vaccine hesitancy, political uncertainty, and the difficulties of continuing vaccinations during a pandemic. Read more from O’Leary about the determination and support it will take to
Klumph on the cover of the September 1916 issue of The Rotarian.
. An expurgated version was published in England in 1932. In 1959, the full text was published in New York, then in London the following year.