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May 11, 2010
The QB Sunrise Scuttlebutt is a weekly publication that highlights the activities of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise. Rotary District 1950 (Germany) Doing Good in the World  Kerstin Jeska-Zimmermann, 2004-05 governor of District 1950 (Germany), was vacationing with her husband in Sri Lanka's Hikkaduwa resort town in December 2004 when the powerful tsunami hit. "All of a sudden, there was absolute silence, as if nature was holding her breath," Jeska-Zimmermann recalls. "After a few minutes, we heard people frantically screaming, 'The water is coming!' " In the days following, as Jeska-Zimmermann and her husband tried to grasp the scope of the devastation, they joined a group of Sri Lankans attempting to discover the fate of patients at the Mahamodara Hospital in Galle, about 12 miles southeast of their resort, where 40-70 babies were born daily. Mercifully, all the patients had been evacuated to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital further inland before the second, stronger wave hit. Seeing dozens of women in labor lying on cardboard on the floor of the overcrowded teaching hospital, Jeska-Zimmermann vowed to help. She faxed a handwritten list of urgently needed medicine and supplies, along with a plea for help, back home to be distributed to all club presidents in her district. The first, 2-ton shipment of emergency medical supplies left the Frankfurt airport within two weeks of her appeal, followed shortly after by a second, 7-ton shipment that included sonogram equipment, operating tents, tables, and tools for the devastated hospital. In the aftermath of the tsunami, German Rotary clubs in 12 districts raised more than €1.5 million (US$2.1 million) in donations and equipment. Jeska-Zimmermann also met with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was vacationing on the same island, and the Kohl Foundation agreed to provide €9 million ($12.9 million) to construct a new maternity hospital about 9 miles inland of the Mahamodara facility. Workers broke ground on the project on the one-year anniversary of the tsunami, but work was subsequently delayed by Sri Lanka's civil war. In early 2010, German clubs, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Colombo, Western Province, plan on providing about $300,000 to equip the old Mahamodara hospital building with two new delivery rooms and two operating rooms. Jeska-Zimmermann will travel to Sri Lanka in January to oversee the effort. "Our tsunami project in Sri Lanka -- which is only one of hundreds of Rotary recovery projects -- shows the tremendous speed, efficiency, and flexibility of the Rotarian network," she says. "This powerful sentiment was echoed by the medical staff and mothers who saw firsthand our global humanitarian network in action."  This Week in Rotary May 18th Activity Roster
 May 11th Meeting This Weeks Announcements  Kim, pinch hitting for Ron, announced that 27 people have signed for Burgers and Bowling this next Friday; 5:40 p.m. at Sunset Lanes in Parksville  Last Years Rotarian of the Year recipient Ken is chairing the selection committee for this year’s selection. He asks that members submit names of nominees (email will work) to him over the next couple of weeks. Ken suggests a name and a short rationale would work best for the selection process.  President Ken announced that next weeks meeting will be a club Assembly and will focus on the next phase of our Visioning Exercise Birthdays and Anniversaries  Happy Birthday Amy  Happy 51st Allen and Marjory Guests  We welcomed Linda Rutledge as a guest for the last time; she’ll be inducted into our club next Tuesday – Welcome Linda Rotary Moment  Larry might have met a Rotarian while transiting the Panama Canal, we don’t know for sure, but that was to have been his rationale for relating his and Eleanor’s Panama experience. Anyway Larry got bumped this morning so we may never know if Larry actually did meet a Rotarian on the Cruise Ship. The Four Way Test  Derek ponders and successfully recites Rotary’s Four Way Test. Planning for the 2010-11 Rotary Year  President Elect David reviewed the first cut of Committee assignments for his Rotary year, 2010-11 which of course starts July 1. David suggested that members need to speak up if they have preferences that are different from those assigned. May 11th Program The Fascinating History of Medical Imaging  Fascinating was the operative word that best describes Stuart’s presentation this morning. Who but Stuart could take a topic as seemingly mundane as XRays; Radium; glow in the dark watches; Alexander Graham Bell; Penny Lane; the mortality of radiologists; C scans; and MRI’s and turn that into a riveting 20 minute presentation. I started to take notes but I got so interested that at the end of the presentation my note pad was virtually bare. So all I can say is “you had to be there”; and for those of you who were absent – bad choice because you missed a good one.  Spotlight on Visioning and Goal Setting  The process of Visioning began in February at the Bradley Centre when about ten members met with Craig Gillis and the District Visioning Resource team. We were asked to describe the kind of club we wanted to be in 2015. Lists were created under each of the Service area categories and then each of the items was prioritized.  In the second stage of this Visioning process we were fortunate to have Lauren Gannon serve as our facilitator because without Lauren’s experience and leadership we could well have floundered. What Lauren had us do in two sessions at Rotary House was to take the statements we had identified in February and develop quite global Vision Statements and then place each of the statements into a service area category. At next Tuesday’s Club Assembly Ken and David will use the time to bring all of the members up to speed on the first 2 phases of the Visioning Exercise and prepare us all for the June 1 – 3 hour session. On June 1st Lauren will take us through a Goal setting Exercise. She will ask us to take each of the Vision Statements and establish one or more goals that will have to be achieved to get us to the place we want to end up. Included in the goal setting will be an implementation time line and as well as a validation process.
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