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Volume 39  Number 30  Monday, 3rd March 2014
BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALCUTTA MIDTOWN - DISTRICT 3291
Midt o wner
President:
Rtn. Dr. Surinder K. Kapoor
Today
Joint RWM with RC Calcutta South
East on Mon 3rd March14 at Saturday
Club.
Speaker - Dr. Somnath Sorcer
Topic - Early diagnosis and way
forward for Cancer patients.
Next Meeting
Next RWM on Mon 10th March14 at
6.30pm at Saturday Club.
Secretary:
Rtn. Sanjay Chowdhary
Today’s Speaker
Somnath Sorcer,
Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Editor:
2013
14
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Rtn. Udayendu Dass
Club News
Graduate from- Calcutta National Medical College
Post Graduate from- Calcutta Medical College
Trained from - All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Working- As Senior consultant in Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital, Ruby General
Hospital, Anandalok Hospital.
Member of European Society of Clinical Oncology (ESMO)
Participated as investigator of many clinical trials.
Attached with Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital, Ruby General Hospital, Anandalok Hospital, Apollo Nursing Home
Royce Abbey, Former RI President And War Hero, Dies At 91
 Cats have over 100 vocal chords.
 Elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24
period.
 Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
 Elephants are the only mammal that can't
jump.
 A 1/4 of your bones are in your feet.
 Your tongue is the fastest healing part of
your body.
 You share your birthday with 9 million
others.
 A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories.
 You burn more calories sleeping than
watching TV.
 Frogs don’t drink (they absorb water through
their skin).
 At birth Dalmations are always white.
 Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly
backwards.
 A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
 A hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000
times a minute.
 Dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk.
 A crocodile can't move its tongue.
 A strawberry is the only fruit where seeds
grow on the outside.
 In 1878 the first telephone book made
contained only 50 names.
A.H. Royce Abbey, a former RI president and World War II hero who championed
the inclusion of women members in Rotary clubs, died on 20 February. He was 91.
In addition to his term as RI president in 1988-89, he served as RI VP and director,
Foundation trustee chair, committee member and chair, International Assembly
moderator, and District governor. Abbey, who joined Rotary in 1954, was a
member of the Rotary Club of Essendon, Victoria, Australia.
I will always remember Royce for his enthusiasm, his relentless energy, and can
do attitude, says Clem Renouf, a fellow Australian Rotary member, who served as
RI president in 1978-79. He always said, Rotary takes ordinary men and gives
them extraordinary opportunities to do more with their lives than they had ever
dreamed possible.
During his term as RI president, one of the most dramatic changes in Rotary s history occurred when the Council of
Legislation changed the constitutional documents to allow women membership to Rotary clubs.
Abbey was a recipient of The Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service and its Distinguished Service
Award.
The presidential theme during Abbey s term, Put Life Into Rotary Your Life, urged Rotary members to make a
personal commitment to their community and Rotary.
ROYAL HONORS - Abbey s commitment to community service was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II, who, on
Australia Day in 1988, made him a Member of the Order of Australia. The next year he was chosen Victorian of the
Year by the State of Victoria. Additionally, while serving in World War II, Abbey was awarded one of Australias
highest military honors, the Distinguished Conduct Medal for an act of heroism and leadership.
Abbey was active in his church, enjoyed playing the guitar and table tennis, and became a YMCA leader. He was a
life governor of the National Council of YMCAs of Australia, and a Patron of the Australian Rotary Health Research
Fund. He was also a board member of the Greenvale Centre of the Aged.
Polio Plus Camp at RCC Thakurpukur
in Wards 59 & 64 on 23rd February 2014
5th March - Shalini Agarwal
WE MEET EVERY MONDAY AT THE SATURDAY CLUB AT 6.30 PM
Minutes of the 1850th Regular Weekly Meeting at
The Saturday Club on Monday 24th January'13 at 6.30 pm
Acting President Rtn. Brij Chatrath declared
the meeting open.
National Anthem was sung by all present.
1849th RWM minutes were confirmed.
Mother & Child Health Care camp at Navnir
Centre was held on Saturday 22nd Feb'14
Existing - 9, Food packets distributed -36. Dr.
Mittal conducted children medical check up
attending 8 children .Camp was attended by Rtn.
Dr. Kalyan Sarkar, Dr. V Mittal and a guest. Next
camp along with medical check up will be held on Saturday 29th March'14. Members are suggested to attend.
4thPulse Polio NID camp in Ward No.
59 & 64 was held at RCC Park Circus
Thakurpukur BalakJ ubak Sangha on
Sunday 23rd February 2014 at 9 am. In
Total 5540 Children [ Ward No. 59 -4166
& Ward No. 64-1374 ] were given Polio
drops. Rtn. Kalyan Dutta Gupta, Rtn.
Debojit Halder and Mr. Subrata Sen
alongwith team of RCC Park Circus
Thakurpukur Balak Jubak Sangha attended.
Next Mother & Child Health Care Camp alongwith RC Madhyamgram at
Nirmala Kennedy Centre will be held on Sunday 9thMarch '14. Members are
suggested to attend.
Rotary Club of Calcutta Midtown Trust will be contributing Rs. 70000/- (INR
Seventy thousand) towards scholarships to the needy students selected by
Alumni Association NCE Bengal and Jadavpur University. Scholarship award
ceremony will be held at Dr.
Triguna Sen Auditorium within
the university premises at 5 pm
on Monday 24th February 2014.
President has already written to
the University and has handed over a letter along with Cheque of Rs.
70000/- for the Jadavpur University Scholarship to Dr. Virbala Mehta
for handing over the same during the ceremony.
Due to Holi Festival Urology Camp planned at at Nimpith on Sunday 16th March'14 has been cancelled. New date
of the camp will be announced soon.
Joint weekly meeting will be held
alongwith RCC South East on Monday
3rd March'14 with Dr SomnathSorcer
as the speaker. Dr. Sorcer will speak on
"Early diagnosis and way forward for
Cancer patients".
President elect Rtn. Bhupesh
Kapoor proposed installation date to
be Monday, 30th June 14.
Rtn. Rakesh Khanna informed that
the 1st session of Usha Sewing School
will be ending this month and the new
session will start pretty soon.
Rtn. Nirmal Agarwal will conduct a Couple HRD program followed by Lunch. More details will follow soon.
Secretary Rtn. Sanjay Chowdhury made following announcements :
a. Wedding Anniversary greetings - Rtn. Dr. Kalyan & Ann. Lipika Sarkar on 26thFebruary, Rtn. Debojit & Ann. Abha
Halder on 26th February.
b. Birthday wishes - Rtn. Lal Hiranandani on 28th February.
c.The Sunshine box collection was Rs. 500.00 over and above the usual.
d. The meeting was attended by 11 of 41 and 8 being exempted; the attendance came to 34%.
President thanked all and declared the meeting closed at 8.00pm.
In Pakistan, Polio
Vaccinators Earn Community
Trust In Spite Of Danger
No polio vaccinator had ever set foot in Killi Baksho, near
Pakistan's rugged northwest border with Afghanistan. Most people
there have long opposed immunization, believing the polio vaccine
causes infertility or AIDS.
The combination of that public mistrust and intimidation from
militant groups has been nothing short of deadly. In 2013, 20 polio
vaccinators and nine police officers assigned to guard them were
killed in Pakistan. With that memory fresh in their minds, a team
from a Rotary-supported polio resource center went to the village
to promote acceptance of the vaccine. They expected an uphill,
potentially life-threatening battle. It took the team a month just to
persuade village elders and religious leaders to meet with them.
But their persistence paid off. Immunizations were allowed to
begin.Then the campaign stalled again.
“After the team had covered half the children, some militants came
and started investigating,” says Pakistan Polio Plus Committee
Project Manager Asher Ali. “But the leaders of the community
defended [the team] and, after an hour, convinced the militants to
back off and allow the vaccine drops to be administered.”
Rotary members have established seven polio resource centers in
Pakistan to build community trust in areas that are at high risk of
the disease. The centers, along with individual Rotary clubs,
sponsor health camps that offer immunization against polio,
measles, and other diseases, as well as free checkups, medicine,
vitamin A supplements, and eyeglasses.
Rotary members also work with leading Islamic scholars to form
the Pakistan Ulema PolioPlus Committee, which strongly endorses
the drive to rid the country of the disease.
Winning community trust is vital to carrying out the polio
endgame plan worldwide. Rotary and its partners in the Global
Polio Eradication Initiative are at the forefront, focused on
countries where transmission of the wild poliovirus has never
been stopped: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan.
In Afghanistan, not a single case of endemic polio occurred in 2013.
Of the 11 cases reported, all were linked to cross-border
transmission from neighboring Pakistan. This achievement reflects
the success of social mobilizers, community elders, and religious
leaders in forging community trust.
In many countries, Rotary has enlisted celebrity polio eradication
ambassadors to build trust. In Pakistan, international cricketing
superstar Shahid Afridi has engaged the Pashtun community,
which composes 15 percent of
the population but contracts
more than 80 percent of the
polio cases.
This bulletin is courtesy
Rtn. Kalyan K. Duttagupta
www.rotarymidtownkol.org
Published by: Rtn Sanjay Chowdhary, Hon Secretary, RC Calcutta Midtown