Rotary Club of Wahiawa-Waialua

Volume 7 Issue 33 – April 30th, 2020

Hulali“The Reflector”
District Governor
Eric Kaler“Making a Difference in our Local and Global Communities”

President
Alexander “Alex” Kanamu

The strength of our Club lies in its members

What’s MyVocation?
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

Maternal and Child Health Month
Rotarians taking action to improve maternal andchild health
By the Rotarian Action Group for Population and Development(RFPD)

We believe that maternal and child health is not only
an important area of focus, but the most important ofthe six areas of focus. Women in the twentieth century
have achieved significant progress in the economicallyprogressive areas of the world. Meanwhile, womenand girls in non-developed countries have a much moredifficult life, especially in comparison to their malecounterparts. Many of these women and girls accept
their inferior social status and tend to fall into
traditional roles.

Editor – PP Geoff Horvath

Economic depression often times forces extended
families to live together under one roof, leaving young
women who desire to make even the smallest change intheir lives to fall under the subordinate customs andvalues of their parents and their grandparents. In
addition, many non-developed countries still commonly
marry off underage girls, many of who are under theage of thirteen but the vast majority being under theage of 18. This not only impacts their opportunity foran education, but has a profound effect on the numberof pregnancy-related complications that occur for girls
who are not physiologically ready to bare children. To
combat this, we must address family planning to reduce
30% of maternal deaths which will ultimately empower
women and achieve a demographic dividend fordeveloping countries.

Mother with children in hospital
RFPD meeting the local community

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The Rotary Action Group for Population andDevelopment (RFPD) is a resource in the Maternal andThe Rotary Club ofWahiawa-Waialua

Child Health area of focus and supports clubs anddistricts in initiating, planning and implementing
professional projects. Our group is headed by three
dedicated leaders from around the world: Mr. BuckLindsay of the U.S., Prof. Robert Zinser of Germany,and Dr. Emmanuel Adelodolapo Lufadeju of Nigeria.
Each has served in various leadership roles in RotaryInternational and has a vast network of Rotarycontacts.
As an organization of 20,000 Rotary members, weaddress the population crisis around the world. RFPD
agrees that more aid is needed in this area. We arededicated to motivating the 1.2 million Rotarians
around the world in developing and implementing
projects that directly address population issues.
In its work, the Rotarian Action Group for Population
and Development shifts values among community andpolitical leaders in countries, by speaking out onpopulation and development issues and committing
resources and efforts towards solving the problem. In
most communities, Rotarians are seen as the leaders in
all professions and vocations, and as multipliers insociety. When sufficiently convinced of the merits of
population advocacy, Rotarians can be most effective
in further spreading the word and work.

Oli

Outside D5K

Within D5K
With 13,500 worldwide members, the Rotarian
Action Group for Population & Development (RFPD)
has the largest membership of any action group. RFPD
assists with projects addressing the intersection ofunsustainable development, human suffering, andoverpopulation, such as access to health services.

RI President: Mark Daniel MaloneyDistrict: Eric Kaler
Asst. Dist. Govt: Sonya Mendez
Club President: Alex Kanamu
PP: Lilette SubediPresident Elect: Keoni Ahlo
Exec Secretary: Alison Kanamu
Recording Secretary: Jackie Barnes
Treasurer: Kate Butts
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dr. Carver Wilcox
Asst. Sergeant-at-Arms: Austin
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The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable
Rotary members to advance world understanding,goodwill, and peace through the improvement ofhealth, the support of education, and the alleviation ofpoverty. The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation
supported solely by voluntary contributions fromRotary members and friends of the Foundation whoshare its vision of a better world. This support isessential to make possible projects, funded withFoundation grants, that bring sustainable improvement
to communities.

ROTARY MINUTE
Some Rotary Firsts•••

in need.

Hawaii Rotary YouthFoundation (HRYF)•••

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Spouses’

The first regular luncheon meetings were in
Oakland, California, chartered in 1909.
The first Rotary convention was in Chicago in
1910.
The first Rotary club outside of the U.S. waschartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in1910.
The first Rotary club outside of North America
was chartered in Dublin, Ireland, in 1911.
The first Rotary club in South America waschartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1918.
The first Rotary club in Asia was chartered in
Manila, Philippines, in 1919.
The first Rotary club in Africa was charteredin Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1921.
The first Rotary club in Australia waschartered in Melbourne in 1921.
The first Rotary club in Northern California
was chartered in Eureka in 1923.

Rotary Club of Wahiawa Supports
Hawaii Food Bank Through Club andMember Contributions!

Anniversaries

HI

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The call went out to our club members requesting
contributions to support the Hawaii Food Bank. Their
greatest need now is for contributions to purchase foodto support the COVID-19 spike in distributing to thoseaffected by the Pandemic. When Jackie Barns
researched the needs, she reported back to the club,that contributions are their greatest requirement now.
Our Club contributed $100 with members kicking in fora total of $600! More donations from club members
and their spouses are expected!
Thanks to all who have contributed so far, and those
who will contribute.
RCWW: $100
Mike Butts: $100
PP Doc Bill McKenzie: $100
Derek Conselva $100
Jackie Barnes $50
Rene Mansho $50

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PE Keoni Ahlo on behalf ofTeaspresso Bar Wahiawa $100

History of America The Beautiful

Katharine Lee Bates, was born in Falmouth,
Massachusetts in 1859 and grew up near the rollingsea.
Katharine became a full professor of English literature
at Wellesley College, and made a lecture trip toColorado in 1893 and there she wrote the words to"America the Beautiful."
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 inThe 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.
For several years "America the Beautiful" was sung toalmost any popular air or folk tune with which the lyrics
fit: "Auld Lang Syne" was one of the most common.

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Today it is sung to a melody written in 1882 by Samuel
Augustus Ward, a Newark, New Jersey, churchorganist and choirmaster. Ward originally composed
the melody (also titled "Materna") to accompany thewords of the sixteenth century hymn "O Mother Dear,Jerusalem." When the National Federation of Music
Clubs sponsored a 1926 contest to elicit new music forBates' poem but failed to find a winner, Ward's music
prevailed.

OUR ANIMALSNEED YOUR HELP!!

Received from our Friends at Oahu SPCA inWahiawa:

Won't You Please Foster
A Rescued Animal?
Aloha,
More than anything, the health and safety of you oursupporters, your pets, and our staff are our primaryconcerns. Though the information and status of COVID19 in Hawaii remains fluid, the Oahu SPCA is taking
steps to ensure our companion animals and our rescued
animals continue to be well taken care of, even as weface this time of uncertainty…..
During this state of emergency, the Oahu SPCA is trying
to prepare for the worst. We are seeking the public’s
help to foster our shelter animals in the event thefacility must temporarily close its doors. Fostering a petis rewarding as you are caring for one of our rescued
animals while we actively search for a permanenthome. During this time of crisis, our Foster Care
Program is crucial to safeguarding our rescues andsaving more lives.
As we practice social distancing or are being told towork from home, having a pet by your side can beespecially rewarding and therapeutic. Pets always
help us humans be a little more thoughtful – they
inherently lead us to think beyond ourselves. And
they’re engagingly fun!
If you’re not in a position to foster but want to help ouranimals, consider making a much-needed monetary
donation or a donation of food and supplies. As manymembers of our community are forced out of work, thenumber of animals surrendered or abandoned to ourcare intensifies. Adoption events are being cancelledwhich translates to fewer pets being adopted, yet moreanimals continue to need emergency care.
Your help has never been needed more.
Please contact our Foster coordinator at
info@oahuspca.org, or make a donation here, andhelp save the life of an animal.
Gratefully,Lucy Ahn•Ask your members to make appointments at adonation center.

•Hold your members accountable by calling,
texting, emailing or posting social media
reminders about appointments already made.

•Discuss with your account manager ways topartner in order to help each other•Remind everyone to give the appropriate
Group ID at registration.

•All speaker engagements have been canceled until
further notice due to COVID-19

May 28 – Hawaii Blood Bank blood drive – Dot’s
parking lot. If interested in giving blood, you can signup utilizing Blood Bank Hawaii’s eDonor program. You
have three options. The most direct option is to go to
www.BBHdonor.org/SC and register. These two
options give you more information and will allow youto sign up. These two links are, www.BBH.org andwww.BBHdonor.org. May be cancelled.

Blood Bank of Hawaii develops bold newplan to address COVID-19
Received from our Friends at the Blood Bank ofHawaii, April 6th, 2020.
Aloha Lifesaver Club Coordinators,
We always consider the safety of our donors, staff andblood supply our number one priority. We have beenmonitoring updates from the CDC relating to COVID19 very closely and adhering to safety and healthrecommendations. As a result, we have decided tocancel all lifesaver club blood drives through themonth of May and extend our new operational hours
at the six locations we’re currently utilizing. All donors
who were scheduled for your blood drive for May will
be notified. Should anything change, you will beinformed. All donations will continue to be made byappointment only during this time.
To make an appointment, visit our website:www.bbhdonor.org or call (808) 848-4770
What can you do as a LifeSaver Club coordinator?
•We need your help!

•Your drive may be cancelled, but your group
can still save lives and you can lead the way

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Ask them to pledge to help us save lives not only
now but over the next few months
To make an appointment, visit our website:www.bloodbanktough.org or call (808) 8484770.

No announcements“If the basis of enterprise of yourprofession or business is solely that ofpersonal gain or private profit, thenyou do not and cannot subscribe to
Rotary’s ideal.” ~M. Eugene Newsom Rotary Club ofDurham, North Carolina, November 1927

Where did the Tango originate?

What’s My Vocation?
This article is taken from our archive vaults from theyear I was inducted into Rotary!
Hulali, August 26, 1999, by Past Editor Jim Fromm

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Answer to this week’s Quiz: Buenos Aires

PP Bob Pang

Bob Pang has a classification title that is about as longas one of his pineapples is tall. Horticulture – Growth –Management means that Bob overseas the growth ofproduce at Del Monte. Bob has been with Del Montefor 22 years. A local boy who graduated UH, servedin Viet Nam and decided that chemistry wasn’t such agood career choice. Back in the late 60’s a lot ofstudents were majoring in chemistry. Seems there wasa big demand for mood altering chemicals back then.
But Bob, being of sound body and moral character
decided to go into agriculture. The growing of things
interested him more.
Once considered a summer crop pineapple is now
grown 52-weeks a year. It’s mono-agriculture with norotation of crops.
Bob told us that Del Monte sells about 115,000 tons of
pineapple each year. Of which, 50% is sold as fresh
produce, 30% goes into the processing plant and 20%
is used for juice concentrate.
Pineapples have been grown in our area for 100 years
and, according to Bob, if asked where does the best
tasting pineapple come form, he would answer
Wahiawa. the Pineapple Kingdom of the World.
Bob’s been with Del Monte for 22 years and considers
them good employers because they are innovators intheir field and are good to their people. And, Bobsays, people make a company successful.
In closing, Bob told of one employee who retired at theage of 76. This employee could plant 10,000 pinebuds in an eight-hour shift. They are very sorry to see
him go into retirement.

Ace of Hearts

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The Tango, often called 'The Argentine Tango', isArgentina's contribution to the world of dance. TheTango came from the brothels and low cafes of Buenos
Aires at the turn of the century. However, at it's very
beginning, it was a ballet-like dance between two men,which, just a little later, became the obscene dance ofthe brothels where both men and women had theopportunity to rub their bodies together. Over theyears, the Tango has changed becoming an elegant
and stylish dance evoking a picture of high society, withwomen in sleek glittering evening gowns and men in
tuxedos and tails.

During the last 25 years of the nineteenth century, thedesperate poverty of a disintegrating Europe caused
a great migration - "to make America" was the saying.
Very large numbers of eastern Europeans emigrated
to the New World. While New York City was a favoritedestination, a great many landed in Buenos Aires with
their few tattered belongings and a pocket full of
dreams for a better life. Although a few emigres didbring their families, generally it was the men who camefirst to build a home and then later sent for their wives
and children. Many found a new home in the outskirtsof Buenos Aires during the 1880's.

Here, instead of their dreams, they found the stark
reality of the meat packing houses along the Riachueloin Buenos Aires, and near the port in Montevideo,
Uruguay. In places like the Mataderos district of Buenos
Aires and El Cerro in Montevideo; or along the docks
on both shores of the mud colored Rio de la Plata, they
worked from dawn till dusk amid the heat and thestench of spoiling meat.
In this 'male world' there was often violence as thealcohol and the cocaine took effect. Knife wielding
toughs, called "compadrones," ruled the arrabales. In
the beginning, the Tango was danced by two men "the tango of the compadron". They danced not arm inarm, but in something of a ballet-like, style, expressing
a tale of two men locked in symbolic mortal combat(and often ending in real combat). The expression'ballet-style' may be confusing. In the Spanish ethos,
there is a history of men dancing either alone, or in agroup. Nowadays, we can conjure up a vision ofmodern day male Flamenco dancers dancing in bolero
jackets, with a hat pulled low over one eye, and such.
So too, with the early Tango. It was danced by one
man alone, -expressing his sorrows and hopes, or by
two men expressing some sort of moral combat. This is
the type of dancing to which 'ballet-style’ makes
reference.

Not wishing to lose the "customers" to boredom while
they were waiting, the bordello owners hired musicians- usually trios playing guitar, violin and flute -asentertainment. Mostly they would play the popular
music of the time: polkas, habaneras, waltzes, andmazurkas. And, the customers, might often "dance" witha prostitute. Since these humble people had no dance
training whatsoever, it must have been some very
simple "walking" dance, with quite a bit of bodyrubbing. (In today's ballroom, the Basic steps of theTango are 'walks' and the dance protocol demand thatthe dancer's bodies be in contact.)
http://www.triogarufa.com/tango-history.html

Yes!!! We had a Zoom Meeting today! All of us are
doing well. We shared some of our experiences andchallenges during this pandemic, but overall we arehandling this well, as all Rotarians are doing! We Will
be Zooming along with the below schedule from PE
Keoni Ahlo:
Here's the information for the meetings (Thursday, noon
Hawaii Standard Time):
In time, women - many of them prostitutes - made their
way to the ports. They too, found their way into theTango. The "kilombos" and "enramadas" (brothels),
where they plied their trade around the turn of thecentury, became show places for the Tango. French,Italian, Spanish, Polish, and German women werebrought in to work in these bordellos. Supply very often
did not meet Demand and eager men would wait inlong lines.

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