Rotary International

President:

Wilfrid J. Wilkinson

Rotary District 5160 Governor:

Stan Smalley

Durham Rotary President: Daryl Polk

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Rowel Editor: Phil Price

 

 

January 29 , 2007

The Next 2008 Harvest Festival Committee meeting will be held in February 2008 at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway.  

 

The  2008 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2007.

2008                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
 

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No Meeting
New Years Day		 2 3 4 5
6 7 8
Meeting
 Kevin Spafford of Legacy by Design
(Chris Hatch)		 9 10 11 12
13 14 15
Meeting
Colleen Aguiar from the Butte County Farm Bureau
(Joe Nock)		 16 17 18 19
(B) Bill Apger
20
(B) Andy Farrar		 21 22
No Meeting
Travel Day for MLK Day		 23
(B) Bruce Norlie		 24 25 26
Crab Feat at Durham Memorial Hall
27 28 29
Meeting
 Kimberly Schafer, MS, the Administrative Director of the University of California, San Diego  School of Medicine’s Center for AIDS Research and the AIDS Research Institute. Kim is the daughter of Chico Rotarian Walt Schafer, who often makes up at our club.
(Dar Meyer)		 30 31
(A) Phil Price		    
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(A) Client Guss		 2
3 4
(A) Dave Jessen		 5
Meeting
Cancelled due to BCCC being used as polling place
(Roy Ellis)		 6 7 8 9
10 11
(B) Bruce Miller		 12
Meeting
 Valentine’s Day Dinner
(Jane Ziad)		 13 14 15
(B) Joe Nock		 16
17 18 19
 No Meeting
Travel Day for Presidents Day		 20 21 22 23
24 25
(A) Tom Vanella		 26
Meeting
Dino Corbin of KHSL TV/Radio.
(Dave Jessen)		 27 28 29  

 

 

President Elect Glenn Pulliam called the meeting to order at Butte Creek Country Club.  President Daryl was running a little late at the bank.  Roy Ellis led the members in the pledge.  Andy Farrar gave the invocation.

 

Thanks to Jim Kirks to take notes for me tonight.  Cindy and I were entertaining a niece from out of town.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

 

January 22nd:  No meeting.  Travel Day for MLK Day.

 

January 26th:  CRAB FEED

 

January 29th:  Dar Meyer will present Kimberly Schafer, MS, the Administrative Director of the University of California, San Diego  School of Medicine’s Center for AIDS Research and the AIDS Research Institute. Kim is the daughter of Chico Rotarian Walt Schafer, who often makes up at our club.

 

February 5th:  Roy Ellis – Camp Royal Team?

 

February 12th:  Valentine’s Day Dinner by Jane Ziad.

 

February 19th:  No Meeting.  Travel Day for Presidents Day.

 

February 26th:  Dave Jessen.

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

President Daryle arrived in time to ask Dar Meyer to introduce the visitors at Dar’s table. Dar seemed to have trouble introducing Walt Schafer, however others present added that Walt was Past President of Chico Rotary and a Paul Harris Fellow.

 

Dar introduced our speaker Kim Schafer successfully, but managed to forget the guest to his right, Jan Wacker.  Fortunately, Mike Wacker was right there and reminded Dar to introduce Jan. Even though there was ringing of water glasses and some suggestions of recognizing Dar by Durham Rotarians, Pres. Daryle passed up the opportunity to recognize Dar

 

NEXT MEETING

 

I believe that Roy Ellis will have the Camp Royal Team.  At least that was what was scheduled when the schedule was made up last summer.  I have heard nothing further.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

CRAB FEED

 

 

 

The crab feed was held last Saturday.  The tables looked to be full so I assume we got most of the tickets sold.  There was no report tonight, but I expect one at the next meeting.  There a few pictures of setting up at the end of this Rowel.  Mal-functioning batteries (which had been charged that morning) prevented more.

 

 

 

CLUB BYLAWS

 

K. R. Robertson asks that you get your comments to him about the Bylaws he distributed in December, which you have, I am sure, reviewed as he asked.  We will eventually discuss them.  We cannot find the Bylaws for the Club and need to adopt new ones.

 

District 5160 Conference

 

Stan Thompson reminded members of this Conference.

 

A Rotary Conference, Golf Event, Poker Tournament, a Rotary Club Hospitality Party in the theme of the Prospectors (think Gold Rush era, Paint Your Wagon).  The pricing is reasonable, the lodging is inexpensive.  There is a 25% discount for registering before December 31, 2007.  Go to www.rotary5160.org and get all the details. 

Lodging is limited.  Call now for room reservations: 

Radisson Hotel Reservations

500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento, CA 95815

Thursday, April 24 through Saturday, April 26, 2008

Check Rates and Availability at www.radisson.com

Enter "D5160" into the promotional code box for special member rates:

Single or double: $93; Triple: $103; Quad: $113.

 


 

 

NEW MEMBER POSTING

 

 

 

Greg Casey, sponsored by Clint Goss, John Rivera, sponsored by Dan Davis and Dan Becket, sponsored by Dar Meyer have been published long enough.  When are they being inducted?

 

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Daryl called on Rev. Jim Patterson because the tee-totaling pastor asked Daryle to buy a drink for a guest at the recent Durham Rotary Crab Feed.  Jim’s answer was "When in Rome, do as the Romans." Rev. Jim contributed $10.00 to the Club and announced that it would buy four drinks.

 

PROGRAM

 

Dar Meyer introduced Kimberly Schafer as our speaker. Ms. Schafer attended Chico High and Butte College. She graduated in 1982 from CSU, Chico in psychology and business. Kim completed a Masters of Science degree in preventive medicine from Ohio State University.

 

Kim is the Administrative Director of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine’s Center for AIDS Research and the AIDS Research Institute. Ms. Schafer‘s Power Point presentation topic was "The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: An Overview."

 

The UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is one of 19 national CFARs funded by the National Institutes of Health. The mission of the CAR is to develop improved vaccines and therapies for HIV infection and associated diseases through:

 

Basic research in the areas of molecular pathogenesis and immunopathogenesis.

Utilization of insights from basic research to develop pre-clinical and clinical trials of therapies and vaccines,

 

Furthering clinical research to address fundamental scientific and practical medical issue, and

 

Providing leadership and serving as a regional resource to coordinate, stimulate and cross-fertilize all of the above to foster synergism, economies of scale and novel and creative approaches.

 

HIV/Aids is a pandemic spreading around the world. The greatest number of individuals with HIV/Aids are in Sub-Sahara Africa. The HIV/Aids virus first was transmitted to humans in Africa in 1959. In the United States the first HIV/Aids diagnoses in humans was in 1981.

 

There is a similar virus that lives in a chimpanzee specie native to the Cameroons. It is thought that the chimpanzee virus infected hunters exposed to the animal’s blood or infected people who ate the chimpanzees. Today HIV/Aids is the 4th largest cause of death worldwide.

 

The United State federal government is spending $23 billion on HIV/Aids programs. It will be many years before a vaccine will be available as the HIV/Aids virus is constantly mutating.

 

There are promising studies of male circumcision in Africa. The study showed that circumcision was very good in reducing HIV/Aids.

 

Microbicides are desirable for treating HIV/Aids.

 

What people can do to limit their exposure to HIV/Aids virus:

Practice safe sex.

Get tested! CDC recommends that all adults get tested as part of routine medical care.

Talk about getting tested.

Support local HIV/Aids research through volunteer service and donations.

Write your Congressional Representatives.

 

Mike Wacker asked if mosquitos carry HIV/Aids since they carry blood from one creature to another. Ms. Schafer responded that it is not possible because the mosquitos are more exposed to air.

 

The CFARs are very collegial and share information among the 19 CFAR centers.

 

The Gates Foundation has given 100s of millions of dollars to AIDS programs.

 

To obtain a copy of Kimberly Schafer’s Power Point presentation, contact Walt Schafer. He will e-mail the slides to anyone who contacts him.

 

DRAWING

 

Andy Farrar was present to win the “Must Be Present” to win drawing.  He donated it back to the Club.

 

 

Membership Teams


Mike Wacker reported that Team One has accumulated 6 points while the remaining teams have only 1 point each.

 

Team One - Captain Roy Ellis. Members, Dar Meyer, Dan Davis, Steve Plume, Norm Larson, Jim Patterson, Dave Mulqueeney, and Glenn Pulliam.

Team Two - Captain Tod Kimmelshue. Members Steve Greenwood, Bruce Miller, Clint Goss, Daryl Polk, Dave Jessen and Joe Nock.

Team Three - Captain Mike Wacker. Members Chris Hatch, Jen Liu, Kent , Jackson, Mike Crump, Jim Edwards, Jim Kirks and KR Robertson.

Team Four - Captain Jane Ziad. Members Bill Apger, Phil Price, Tom Knowles, Tom Vanella, Andy Farrar, and Bruce Norlie.

 


                       

 

The Rotary International web site is: www.rotary.org

District 5160 is: www.rotary5160.org

The Durham Rotary Club site is:  www.durhamrotary.org

The Rowel Editor may be contacted at pbhlaw@sunset.net
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