Rotary Club of Wahiawa-Waialua

Vol 11 Issue 5 – October 19th, 2023

The Pineapple ClubThe Hulali“The Reflector”
Charted on March 9th, 1937

“Making a Difference in Hawai’i”

Mark Merriam

Marie Abatayo

The strength of our Club lies in its members"One restored or newly created hope at a time."
RI President Gordon R. McInallyMission
Polio Eradication!
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

Rotary Observes Polio Eradication during theMonth of October& World Polio Day on October 24th

This Year’s theme is “One Day. One Focus:
Ending Polio”

During the month of October, in addition to celebrating
andrecognizing
Community
EconomicandDevelopment, Rotary International is also focusing on
eradication of Polio, worldwide, and celebrating
World Polio Day, on October 24th, with many events.
World Polio Day 2023. World Polio provides anopportunity to highlight global efforts toward a poliofree world and honor the tireless contributions of thoseon the frontlines in the fight to eradicate polio fromevery corner of the globe.
Since 1978, Rotary Internationals has worked
tirelessly, fighting to eradicate Polio from the face ofthe earth. A couple of times we were so close, but cases
keep popping up. The reason is, a country to beclassified as polio-free, they have to report three yearsof 0 polio cases.

Editor – PP Geoff HorvathRotary was a pioneer in the fight against polio andstarted efforts in 1978 with a very ambitious goal toreach a polio-free world. Rotarians have upheld theRegion over the most challenging times, including
financial and political crises.

“Joint efforts between Rotary and PAHO havehelped make the Americas the first region in theworld to be certified polio-free and maintain theachievement over the years.”
In this monumental effort. Rotary members have beenpermanently present in all countries of the Region, as
well as other regions around the world, since 1981 andhave played a fundamental role in this long-lasting
collaboration with the Pan American HealthOrganization (PAHO)Polio by the Numbers$3average cost to fully protect a child against polio
430 million
children in total vaccinated in 39 countries in2017$100
millioncost to conduct polio surveillance worldwide

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By Kathrine Lee Bates

PledgeKathrine Lee Bates

PP Geoff Horvath

Derek Conselva

The song, “America the Beautiful," was based on apoem written by the professor, poet, and writer,
Katharine Lee Bates, during an 1893 trip to Colorado
Springs, Colorado. When she got to the top of Pike’s
Peak, the view was so beautiful that it inspired her towrite, "All the wonder of America seemed displayed
there, with the sea-like expanse."
The poem that Bates wrote first appeared in print in
The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4,1895. Within a few months, it was set to music by Silas
G. Pratt. Bates revised the song in 1904, after
receiving many requests to use the song in publications
and special services. An additional change was madeto the wording of the third verse in 1913 to give us theversion we know today. The song is considered by someto be the country’s unofficial national anthem.

Song Leader, Rene Mansho
RI President: Gordon R. McInallyDistrict: Mark Merriam
Asst. Dist. Govt: Joshua Laguana
Club President: Mari Abatayo
IPP: Marie Abatayo
President Elect: Open
Secretary: Mark Anthony Clemente
Treasurer: Cross CrabbeClub Trainer: PP Doc Bill McKenzie &Marie AbatayoProgram/Speakers :PP Doc Bill McKenzie &PP Geoff Horvath
Membership:
Foundation: PP Doc Bill McKenzie, Chris
Compisano

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Club Service: Marie Abatayo
Community Service: Derek Conselva, Pat
CompisanoIntnl Service: PP Doc Bill McKenzie
Youth Services: PP Geoff Horvath
Vocational Service: Derek Conselva - PP
Geoff Horvath
Public Relations: Rene Mansho
Sergeant at Arms: PP Geoff HorvathFundraising: Marie Abatayo
PP Doc Bill McKenzie,
PP Geoff Horvath
HRYF: PP Geoff HorvathSocial Media: Arthur Hughes
Newsletter: PP Geoff HorvathHawaii Rotary YouthFoundation (HRYF)
Outside D5KNoneWithin D5K
PDG Roz Cooper, RC of Metropolitan Honolulu
PDG Laura Steelquist – RC of East Honolulu

RCWW

Loretta Sewake – One of the UH Volleyball Aunties
Dr. Joslyn Sato – Blue Zones Executive Director
Andrew Burgos – Former Mililani Interact andRotaract member, and prospective members!

ROTARY MINUTE
Rotary’s Campaign to End Polio
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for morethan 35 years, and we've made incredible progress inthe fight to rid the world of it forever. As a founding
partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've
helped to reduced polio cases by more than 99.9
percent.

PolioPlus is a Signature Program of The RotaryFoundation.
What does Plus stand for in PolioPlus?
The “Plus” is something else that is provided as a partof the polio eradication campaign. It might be a handoperated tricycle or access to water. It might be
additional medical treatment, bed nets, or soap.

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HRYF Vice President, Geoff Horvath receiving this year’s certificate on
behalf of HRYF, from Leah Lee, Community Relations Manager
Foodland Super Market, Ltd.

In September (1-30) Foodland held its 24th Give Aloha
Program, again, supporting Hawaii’s non-profit
organizations.
What is Give Aloha? Give Aloha, Foodland’s Annual
event is, as Foodland puts it, is a “Community Matching
Gifts Program” “that was created to honor Foodland’sfounder, Maurice J. “Sully” Sullivan and continues his
legacy of giving back to the community. Each year
during the month of September, customers are invited
to donate at Foodland to their favorite participating
Hawaii non-profit organizations. Since the program
began in 1999, a total of more than $38 million has
been raised for Hawaii’s charities.”
District 5000 Rotarians and Clubs, opened their hearts,purses and wallets, contributing $11,243.00, which wasmatched by an additional $3,220.51 for a total
contribution of $14,463.5.

2024 HRYF Program

HI $5’s

Get ready for the 2024 HRYF Scholarship Program!
On November 1st, all schools throughout the State ofHawaii will be notified of the 2024 HRYF Scholarshipprogram. School counselor’s, in turn, will notify theirseniors of the availability of scholarships. Students willsubmit their applications Rotary Clubs nearest to where
they live, by February 1st.
The following training opportunities will be available inthe months ahead.
November 4th, 2023 – HRYF Representative
Application Processing – 9:00-19:00 am
January 20th – Formal Youth Protection training– 9:0019:00 am
February 3rd – HRYF Interviewing Technique Training –9:00-19:00 am
Zoom links will be sent out in advance of the training.
If you are unable to attend any of these trainings,
please have an alternate attend.

Hold until our next meeting.

Trip Reports

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Recognitions for October 1st to October 22nd, 2023

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A little-known fact about The Dictionary Project. Ourvery own PDG Roz Cooper started the program in2005, in D5K, while serving as District Governor. The

program has grown and continues to be a popular
program in our Club.
We will be ordering dictionaries for the schools listedbelow. The total number of dictionaries needed is 709!
This will be enough dictionaries for every third-gradestudent in the Leilehua and other school complexes,
including:
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Daniel K. Inouye
Haleiwa Elementary
Helemano Elementary
Iliahi Elementary
Kaala Elementary
Solomon Elementary
Sunset Elementary
Wahiawa Elementary
Waialua Elementary
Wheeler Elementary
Kamalani Charter
HōʻalaSt. MichaelTrinity Lutheran

ExtraAutumn Fair

The parade will feature a 102-year old WWII
Veteran, and the first female Grand Marshall, LTC
Lynn Ishii, Hawaii National Guard, Retired.

LTC Lynn Ishii (Ret)Nov 11 – Wahiawa Kokua for Maui event, being held
immediately after the Veteran’s Day parade, 11:304:00 pm at Ka’ala Elementary School. There will be
crafts, food, games and bouncers for the keiki, and live
entertainment by Kapena, Melveen Leed, and more!
Proceeds will go to the Hawaii Community Foundation
Maui Strong Fund. Dereck Conselva will have hispopsicle franchise booth there and will donate 25% of
the proceeds to our Club, and around 50% to the Maui
Fund. All other venders will be giving 50% of theproceeds to the Fund also.
Nov 16 – Zoom meeting with our Sister Club,Takasaki Symphony Rotary Club. We will meet at
7:00 – 8:30 PM, to accommodate the time differences.

Nov 2 – PDF Laura Steelquist – Global Grants
Dick May – Annual Funds Chair?
Our first Autumn Fair, hosted by Ho’ala School, was acomplete success Everyone had a blast mingling withall the attendees. There was excitement in the air, withevery one feeling the Autumn spirit. The day was
perfect and the weather was glorious! We sold 120
plate lunches for a total of $1,200!

Nov 11 – Veterans Day Parade. The Parade starts at
10:00. Marchers are asked to show up at 9:00 am, at
the Wahiawa District Park.
This will be the 77th Veteran’s Day Parade, the oldest,
largest and longest running Veterans Day Parade in
the State of Hawaii. The route of the parade haschanged! It will start at the Wahiawa District Park andend at Ka’ala Elementary School, just the opposite inprior years.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director,producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of
the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking
movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is therecipient of five Academy Awards, six Golden GlobeAwards, two Palmes d'Or and a British Academy FilmAward.

Briefly, Polio is a viral disease that is transmitted mainly
from person to person, mainly through a faecal-oralroute. While there is no cure for polio, the disease canbe prevented through the administration of a vaccine.
If a population is fully immunized, they will beprotected against all forms of polioviruses.
It is prevalent in highly populated and remote areas,
where sanitary conditions are poor or non-existent.
Roz told us, with all the effort and hard work, polio “isstill out there.” It is a horrible disease.

Who surpassed Elon Musk as the richest person in theworld in 2023 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

Roz thrilled us with the story of her first Polio
immunization program she went on! It was a harrowing,exciting, memorable, and rewarding beyond belief.

The Polio Immunization ProgramRoz made her first trip to Ghana, in West Africa, next
to the country of Côte d'Ivoire, in 2001. The country ismade up of plains and scrublands, rainforests andsavannas.
Soon after arriving, Roz and 16 members from District
5000, with 60 other Rotarians from around the world,
made the arduous trip into the interior, going to remotevillages, where the patients were.

PDG Roz Cooper

Our guest speaker, PDG (2005 – 06) ROZ Cooper, RCof Metro Honolulu, is a busy Rotarian, supporting
many, many activities within District 5000, Zone 26/27and Rotary International. Locally, Roz is a member ofthe Council on Legislation as a representative, on thePolioPlus Subcommittee, and a part of Zone 26/27
team. Her passion is eradicating Polio from the faceof the world.

A village in the middle of nowhere!

The trip to the remote village was a long and hard one
because of road conditions.

Operation Polio Vaccine Distribution –Ghana, Africa

Shutterstock.com

Before getting into her adventure, Roz asked us,“What is Polio?

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In countries like Ghana, teams go to the children, notthe children coming to the teams.

One of the major hurdles that had to get over, was thebelief of the elders and mothers, that they were there
to sterilize their children. So those administering thevaccine started wearing the Rotary vest, and hats togain the trust of the villagers.

It didn’t help that Roz, when giving her first
immunization dose to a little baby, that she accidently
squeezed the vial, and it slipped out of her hand andended up in the baby’s mouth! Roz survived thisepisode!

Administering the polio vaccine

These vaccine teams didn’t go out on their own, they
always had field workers accompany them, advisorsthat know the culture and spoke the language.
What was it like in the middle of nowhere?
Roz told us that there was no running water, electricity,
bathrooms or sanitary service, so they had to be extra
careful. They had to train themselves on consumption offood and water, to minimize the “urge” to go. The only
other option was going in the wild to relieve
themselves.
They were issued bottled water and always hadbottles with them. The water was not used for bathing,
only for drinking, washing your face and brushing yourteeth. This meant no showers, sometimes for three days.
Meals were also very challenging. Sometimes they hadto eat what the villagers provided.
Hotel accommodations were next to none. What wewould consider a “no-star” hotel elsewhere, was a fivestar in the area their base headquarters was!

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A hotel in Northern Ghana

Complaining was not an option. Roz said you justaccepted your situation, remembered why you werethere, and what you there for, and got down tobusiness the best you could.
Through all the hardships experienced, Roz said it wasan experience she would never forget!
It was a good feeling at the end of the trip, afteradministering the vaccine to the little ones, knowing thatthey would be protected against all polio types.
After returning home Roz disposed of all her clothes,and said, “Never again!” But guess what? Again, andmany, many again’s have passed with the satisfactionof work well done.
How successful was this program in Ghana? Theimmunization program that started in Ghana in 1978,
was certified polio free in 2015, after over five yearsof having no reported case of poliovirus. Sadly, there
were just three cases reported in 2022. So, you see, asRoz said, “It’s still out there.”With positive reports like this, Roz is a top supporter ofthe world-wide program and works tirelessly in theprogram.

Polio Update
According to the World Health Organization, (WHO)there were three cases reported in 2022.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported, in2022, Ghana Malawi and Mozambique reported wild
poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases linked to a Pakistan
strain, the first WPV1 cases in the African region since2016. During 2022 and 2023, Afghanistan andPakistan reported WPV1 cases. Circulating vaccinederived polioviruses were detected in areas of theworld where poliovirus had been eliminated. The fightgoes on!
Meetings are In-person and are subject to change.
Nov 2 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Nov 16 – 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Ho’ala School
Nov 23 – Thanksgiving – No meeting (DARK)
Nov 30 – 5th Thursday – Meeting to be determinedDec 7 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School – PearlHarbor Day
Dec 21 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School2024
Jan 4 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Jan 18 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Subject to change

Who surpassed Elon Musk as the richest person in theworld in 2023 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?
Bernard Arnault

In support of Mental Health, we had donations ofDr.(Psy.D) Daniella Granzotto’s Book WOMAN TOWOMAN
Dr. Daniela Granzotto is a Licensed ClinicalPsychologist in Honolulu, Hawaii and author of thebook Woman to Woman: The Truth About Our Intimate
Relationships: How We Love, Hurt, and Triumph.
As a practicing therapist, she works with adults with arange of issues and symptoms including anxiety anddepression, low self-esteem, grief and loss, andrelationship problems. She empowers clients to makepositive changes that allow for effective outcomes andan increased sense of well-being.

The Uncommon Man

Bernard Arnault

Bernard Arnault is Chairman and CEO of LVMH MoëtHennessy – Louis Vuitton, the world’s leading luxury
products group.
In 1989, Mr. Arnault became the majority shareholderof LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton, creating theworld’s leading luxury products group. Mr. Arnault has
been Chairman and CEO of the company since thatdate.
We give a special and heartful thanks to our Sister
Club, Takasaki Symphony Rotary Club, for their kindand generous contribution to the Maui Relief Fund. They
were not asked, but asked us for directions on how they
could transfer the funds from Japan to here. PDG
Naomi Masuno and Sharon Amano provided great
instructions, and the transfer was successful!
The above article was written is about one of ouroutstanding Past Rotary International Presidents,Richard D. King (2001-2002), and shared by PDG
Laura Steelquist.

Around the Club in Photos!
To keep the size of this document down, I will not
publish all pictures. If interested, you can view themall on our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/rotarywahiawaw
aialua/Dr. Daniella Granzotto and Derek Conselva

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RCWW Members – Photo by PDG Roz Cooper

Rene Mansho briefing us on the Veteran’s Day
Parade on November 11thDerek Conselva with his RCWW Mug prize for selling45 plate lunches!

Derek Conselva briefing on the Wahiawa Kokua for
Maui event on November 11th

Dr. Joslyn Sato – Blue Zones Executive Director

Chris Compisano

Rene Mansho with Dr. Joslyn Sato with a donatedBlue Zone Cookbook

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PDG Laura Steelquist with her prize eyeglass
holder om recognition of all she has done for ourclub

Designer nails!

President Marie Abatayo with our new RCWW mugs
Prospective member, Andrew Burgos

The 4-Way Test blindfolded!

PP Doc McKenzie
Loretta Sewake – One of the UH Volleyball Aunties

PDG Roz Cooper

Loretta Sewake handing out her Halloween favors

Pizza time!

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Silva slippers, Cinder-Cooper?!

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