The Uptown Weekly
Welcome to the Rotary Club of Dallas-Uptown, TX USA
the exclusively inclusive Rotary club
Rotary Year: July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010
December 24, 2009
Bengal Coast in Centrum Plaza
3102 Oak Lawn, Dallas Texas 75219
Thursdays from 11:45am -1:00pm
"[Rotary has] proven how much can be accomplished when a group
selflessly uses every ounce of the political capital it has to help the
world's most disenfranchised children."
— William H. Gates Sr., Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"Rotary has the ability to organize campaigns to mobilize
support for some of the worthiest causes that exist, and
that makes Rotary a precious resource."
— Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
RI President 2009-2010 John Kenny
"Everything begins and ends with our clubs... The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands."
1.2 million men and women donate their expertise, time, and funds to support local and international
projects that help people in need and promotes understanding among cultures. Rotary's flagship program
is its effort to protect children against polio, with the goal of ending the disease throughout the world.
www.rotary.org www.rotary5810.org http://www.dallasuptownrotary.org/
Nearby Rotary Clubs to Make-Up Missed Meetings
Dallas Evening Rotary Club Dallas Trinity Rotary Club
La Calle Doce Info Mart
415 W. 12th Street 1950 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, Texas 75208 Dallas, Texas 75207
Meeting Day and Time: Thursdays at 7:30pm Meeting Day and Time: Mondays at noon
East Dallas Rotary Club Park Cities Rotary Club
Radisson Hotel Maggiano’s Restaurant
6060 N. Central Expressway 2nd Floor
Dallas, Texas 75206 8687 North Central Expressway
Meeting Day and Time: Tuesdays at noon North Park Center
Dallas, Texas 75225
Preston Center Rotary Club Meeting Day and Time: Fridays at noon
Park City Club
5956 Sherry Lane Rotary Club of Dallas
17th Floor Fairmont Hotel
Dallas, Texas 75225 1717 N. Akard
Meeting Day and Time: Wednesdays at 7:15am Dallas, Texas 75201
Meeting Day and Time: Wednesdays at noon
Special Thanks to the Following…
Author David Childs, PhD, Fit for Service, for presenting the previous program.
Previous Program, Thursday, December 17, 2009
Fit for Service: Learning to Recycle Inefficiency into Service/Philanthropy
Author David Childs, PhD, Fit for Service
www.fitforservice.org
214-450-4075
Today’s Program, Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wine Chinese Gift Exchange
Bring a bottle of wine $15 or less for the exchange
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Service Project at Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center
3:45pm-6:00pm
3014 Oak Lawn
Dallas, Texas 75219
www.olumc.org
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Breathing New Life into Your 2010 Creations
Heather McDonald
School of Metaphysics Dallas
www.som.org
Thursday, January 7, 2010
CPR Awareness
Jeff Hill, President
Mission: CPR
www.missioncpr.com
817-509-0004
Friday, January 8, 2010
Board Meeting at 7:30am
Breadwinners Café and Bakery
3301 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, Texas
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Service Project at Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center
3:45pm-6:00pm
3014 Oak Lawn
Dallas, Texas 75219
www.olumc.org
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Your Collegiate Advocate
Catherine Marrs, President
Marrs College Admissions Advisors
www.yourcollegiateadvocate.com
214-350-8581
Special thanks to the following Visiting Rotarians for attending last week…
PDG Richard Gilman, Richardson Central
DGE Linda Elliott, Grand Prairie
District TB Chair David Crist, Grand Prairie
Daudi Kalisa, Los Osos Rotary Club in California
Richard McGowan, West U Houston
Special thanks to the following Visitors for attending last week…
Catherine Marrs, Marrs College Admission Advisors
Evan Berg, Southwest Airlines
German Rotary clubs help Sri Lanka recover
By Sandra Prufer and Arnold R. Grahl
Rotary International News -- 22 December 2009
A mother holds her baby at the maternity hospital in Sri Lanka a year after the tsunami. Photo courtesy of District 1950
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!' "
Stepping outside, from the safety of their elevated perch, Jeska-Zimmermann and her husband saw locals and tourists running from the beach uphill to a Buddhist temple on higher ground, many bleeding, others carrying children in their arms.
"We and our Sri Lankan staff immediately invited some of the worst injured inside, giving first aid to about two dozen people," she says.
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."
Highlighted Member of the Week: Alicia Slay
Name: / Alicia M. SlayClassification: / Couture
Name of Business: / Preston Hollow Couture
Your Title: / Owner
Best way to describe your business: / Sophisticated Ladies Apparel
What you like best about your work: / My independence and the people I meet
Spouse or significant other’s name: / Matt
Member‘s Birthday-Month and Day: / July 25th
Spouse’s Birthday-Month & Day: / December 21st
Anniversary-Month and Day: / October 19th
Education and Degrees Earned: / Texas A&M University - B.S. Agriculture Economics and a Minor in Management
Tyler Junior College - Associates Degree in Agriculture
Famous Person You Would Like to Meet: / Cleopatra and Christopher Columbus
Favorite Kind of Pen and Pen Color: / No preference, just one that will write!
Hobbies: / Tennis, Yoga, Reading, Gardening and Volunteering
Other Civic Organizations: / The Fashionistas, Preston Hollow Women's Club, Junior League of Dallas and
The North Texas Mustang Club
Foreign Languages Spoken: / Muy poco español and Je parle de très petit français, parlez-vous l'anglais ?
Children’s Names: / Sydney
Pets-Names, # of, Breed Name: / 3 pets; Tundra - fox red English Labrador, Lucille - black Pitbull/Labrador cross
and Socs - grey/white cat
Favorite Vacation Spot(s): / Anywhere with family; preferably with a spa near a beach or a lake
Favorite Music Genre: / Classic country, The 80's, Current Pop and Classical
What you like best about Rotary: / That it will challenge me in a new venue of volunteering
Proudest Moment: / Sorry, I can not pick just one….
Favorite Sports: / Tennis and wave runners
Favorite Restaurants: / Nate's, Uncle Julio's and Simply Fondue
Miscellaneous: / Two things I would like to do are; join an archaeology excavation and travel in
outer space
Email: /
Company website: / www.prestonhollowcouture.com