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February 23rd, 2016
Welcome: President Lora Fisher welcomed club members and guests, promising today’s meeting would look back at the past and also into the future
Invocation: Burton Housman
Pledge: Don Lincoln
Song: Sally Fuller with the help of Ron Spelman carried forth with “God Bless America”
A step into the future and look at the past:
Cal Mann Skyped into the meeting from Tokyo, Japan (and 17 hours into the future!) to report on his visit with our sister club in Sasebo, Japan. He described an action-packed weekend of sight-seeing, meetings, and a celebratory cabaret show including six-course dinner in honor of the club’s 75th anniversary. He admitted — after questioning from Rotarians – that there may have been some karaoke.
Cal extended an invitation to Sasebo Rotary members to join us stateside when La Jolla Rotary celebrates its upcoming 70th anniversary. The opportunity to play golf at the La Jolla Country Club is apparently a strong incentive to visit our club. See Cal’s ‘Report from Sasebo’ below.
Lora asked club members to take a walk down memory lane as she recalled historical events that took place on today’s date. A few historical highlights were the Dow closing above 4,000 for the first time (1995), mass inoculation against polio using the Salk vaccine (1954), and the first Rotary Club meeting held on this day in 1905 by four men who gathered at the Unity Building in Chicago.
Susan Farrell pointed out, in honor of her late Marine father-in-law, who took part in the Battle for Iwo Jima, that this was also the day in 1945 that the Marines raised the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi.
The Club Welcomed…
Club/Committee/Event Announcements:
Speaker: Mark Dibella’s, “Enhance La Jolla”
Ken King introduced speaker Mark Dibella who informed the club about plans to create a Maintenance Assistance District (MAD) for La Jolla. Problems a MAD would address for La Jolla residents and businesses include improved maintenance of the village’s infrastructure; offering a point of coordination/integration for the maintenance needs of existing civic
organizations such as La Jolla Merchant’s Association, LJ Town Council, LJ Planning Association; re-establishing La Jolla’s identity as the “jewel” of San Diego and countering UTC’s marketing efforts to co-opt La Jolla’s brand.
Dibella noted that the important thing for him in chairing the MAD effort, “Is that we are organized and transparent.”
With hoped-for broad representation from the community, immediate goals are:
Creation of a Maintenance Assistance District would require approval of La Jolla residents and businesses. It would be supported on an ongoing basis through fees charged to residential and business property owners. 
“When you form a MAD, the first parcel owner that will always vote ‘yes’ is the City of San Diego, because they own property here,” Dibella said. He said the city’s annual fees will be about $50,000, which the MAD can spend as it pleases. The La Valencia, which is the firth-largest parcel in the Village, would pay a yearly fee of $8,900.
As he wrapped up his presentation, Dibella told Rotarians, “If we don’t do anything, it’s not going to get any better.”
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RYLA UPDATE:
RYLA is coming and facilitators are needed. We are looking for Rotarians who are motivated to make a real difference in the lives of top High School juniors at Idyllwild Pines April 15-17th. We provide great students, accommodations, motivational speakers, leadership activities, gourmet (sort of) meals, and…possibly the most rewarding single experience you’ll have as a Rotarian. You provide enthusiasm, a positive attitude and the desire to make a difference in a student’s life.
Facilitator orientation is mandatory and will be held on Sat. 3/26 (site TBD) from 8-12 noon. Female applicants are especially welcome because we always have more girls than boys participate.
Starting this year, there will be no cost to your club for your participation as a facilitator. Please click the following link to view the application http://ryla5340.org/Facilitator_Application and be prepared for an amazing Rotary experience.
La Jolla Treasure Hunt:
It’s treasure hunting time at Surf Beat. Are you ready? Be the first person to correctly identify the location where the above photo was taken. Correct answers must be emailed to: surfbeat@rotarycluboflajolla.com The winner will receive recognition in next week’s Surf Beat! LJ Treasure Hunt spotlights the hidden gem locations in La Jolla. If you have a suggested location, take a photo or send a note to surfbeat@rotarycluboflajolla.com – previous treasure hunt locations can be found by exploring the Surf Beat archive beginning with the March 6, 2014 edition.
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Keeping a Lid of Cancer in Sri Lanka
When the Rotary Club of Colombo, Sri Lanka, launched the National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Center in 2004, the clinic operated in a small, rented house staffed by a volunteer doctor and two nurses. Services were basic but effective – physical exams and ultrasound to detect breast cancer and Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer. All services were free, and word spread fast among the lower-income patients the center hoped to attract. Run in partnership with the National Cancer Control Programme of the government’s Ministry of Health, it was (and still is) the only national facility dedicated to the early detection of three of the more treatable cancers: breast, cervical, and oral.
Colombo Rotarians planned to expand the project quickly, but resources had to be diverted to relief and rebuilding efforts after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The catalyst for the cancer detection center’s growth didn’t come until several years later, when members of the Rotary Club of Birmingham, Ala., met (now RI President) K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran during his visit to Alabama as chair of the country’s Schools Reawakening tsunami relief project. After his Birmingham visit, Ravindran invited Alabama Rotarians to Sri Lanka. That’s when they learned about the center.
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I will be presenting my work in Neuroscience drug discovery. The presentation will summarize work on drug development to combat deadly brain diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
How did Reality Changers turn $300 of seed money into $100,000,000 in scholarships for low-income youth? What does the program plan to do for an encore? Come hear some inspiring stories about how to change realities!
February 16th, 2016
“What’s my line?” Three Rotarians, Claire Reiss, John Donaldson and newly inducted member, Susan Rutan, shared a secret about their past. One had participated in the decathlon in junior high school; one had sold popcorn at a movie theater; and one was a drummer in a high school marching band. After many incorrect guesses, it turns out that Claire was the decathlon participant; Susan, the drummer; and John, the popcorn salesman!
Susan Rutan was installed as a new member of our club sponsored by Pat Stouffer and with the participation of Membership Chair, John Trifiletti.
Welcome:
President Lora once again opined that there was no better place to be on this day than the Rotary Club of La Jolla, and heard no opposition to that stance.
Invocation:
Zeke Knight: First acknowledged the three octogenarians in the club: Betty Dow (actually 93!); John Todd, and Zeke, himself! (It later turned out that Sid Stutz is also in the “Octoclub”). Then, Zeke shared his “post-Valentine’s day prayer, noting that “Love is the highest form of connectedness.” He cited Lewis Richmond, a Buddhist Priest, in “Aging as a Spiritual Practice.”
Pledge: Betty Dow – who noted that Dwight Eisenhower was the president under whom the term “under God”, was added to the pledge.
Song: John Todd led us in a rousing rendition of “When You’re Smiling”
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Speaker:
Introduced by Leanne MacDougall, Faye Girsh, the former president of the Hemlock Society of San Diego and a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, presented a talk entitled, Dying in the Age of Choice. She reminded us that the California Legislature passed and Governor Brown signed the California End of Life Option Act, following the model of Oregon, Washington and Vermont.
The law, which has yet to go into effect, provides that a person who is mentally competent and not under duress and with a life expectancy of less than six months, may apply to two physicians who agree with the prognosis, one of whom is willing to prescribe a lethal medication after a waiting period of 15 days and a total of three requests. A willing pharmacist may fill the prescription. No physician or pharmacist is required to provide the medication, and no patient is required to ask for it.
The use of the act in Oregon, which has at 18 years, the longest experience, is infrequent and of those who ask for the prescription, only about 67% actually use it.
A 29-yeay-old California woman, Brittany Maynard, who had a malignant glioblastoma (brain tumor) went with her family to Oregon to take advantage of the law there. She posted a video before her death advocating for the passage of such a law in California so that others wouldn’t have to go out of state to fulfill their wish to die with dignity.
Japan: trains, planes and automobiles!
Dateline Kyoto, Japan 6:20 a.m. Friday, February 19 (1:20 p.m. Thursday San Diego time)
Greetings fellow Rotarians,
Your intrepid scribe here reporting in from the road to Sasebo.
Wednesday night, after a smooth 12-hour flight from Lindbergh Field to Narita airport, ready was my jet-lagged body for the very comfy bed that awaited me at my near-the-airport hotel. If there was a sound that night, it escaped my notice.
I awoke at 4 a.m. to begin leg one of my cross-island trek toward the city of Sasebo, home of our sister Rotary Club of, you guessed it, Sasebo. A short shuttle ride took me back to the airport where, conveniently, there is a station linking travelers to Japan’s marvelous public train network.
Deviation from my I-thought-brilliant travel plan began immediately as I discovered that although the trains run near continuously, the ticket office wouldn’t open until an hour later. That gave me time to explore the spectacle of an almost completely empty Tokyo and to learn that a 24/7 7-11 (#-lovers unite!) is a gift from the gods. That afforded me an early breakfast that included a boiled egg sold in its own perfect little box. (Note to P. Stouffer: This may be a much easier alternative to corralling live chickens into a Haitian coop!)
At 6:30 on the dot, the ticket office opened and I was soon on a train west.
My transfer at the enormous Tokyo station was, in a word, mind-boggling! (Okay, two words, thank God for hyphens!) I recommend it to anyone who would like to know what being in an extremely busy ant colony would feel like. It made our beloved NY Grand Central station seem like a 4-way stop intersection in Iowa. (Ed. note: Sincere apologies to all Iowans.)
Having survived that experience, I hopped the next train to Kyoto where I spent last night in a 150 year old traditional Japanese home. I’ll see a bit of Kyoto today then jump a Sasebo-bound train tomorrow morning.
There my plan is to meet up with fellow La Jolla Rotarian, Hiroshi Yoshida, and to finally meet our Sasebo friends.
もっと来て (More to come!)
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Q&A: In Exile
Melhem Mansour lives in London now. But for nearly a year, he didn’t have anywhere to call home. “After my fellowship ended, I was just traveling around. I was in 12 countries,” he says. “I didn’t know where to go.” It was the spring of 2012, and he had just finished the three-month program at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. In his native Syria, violence was escalating. Before he left for Thailand, he had been detained and questioned for criticizing the government. If he returned, he risked being jailed.
Though he’s unable to go home, he’s careful to note that his passage to England was much easier than for many people now fleeing the region. Mansour has a day job working for Apple, but his heart is in peace and conflict resolution work. He consults with several nongovernmental organizations on the Syrian conflict and helps organize “hackathons,” competitions that bring together programmers and nonprofit experts to find technical solutions to humanitarian problems. Though he was critical of the Syrian government before the war, today he keeps his comments focused on the humanitarian crisis created by the conflict out of concern for the safety of his parents, who still live in Damascus. He spoke with Contributing Editor Vanessa Glavinskas.
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February 9th, 2016
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Welcome: President Lora called the meeting to order noting what a beautiful day it is in La Jolla.
Invocation: Burton Housman
Pledge: Ted Rutter, “One” of President Lora’s favorite Past Presidents.
Song: “Have I Told You Lately” by Rod Stewart and Van Morrison, with thoughts of upcoming Valentine’s Day festivities, led by David Shaw.
Reporters note; this was probably not our best effort.
The Club Welcomed…
Sally Fuller introduced her guest, Sook Hansen.
Judy Nelson was visiting us again; she is a member of the Temecula Rotary Club and works across from the La Valencia.
Karla Marsh’s daughter, Molly, graced us once again with her presence, while Chuck was off skiing in Lake Tahoe.
Club/Committee/Event Announcements:
Thank You, Mac Millar!
Speaker: Kin Searcy
Ken King introduced today’s speaker, Kin Searcy, a docent at the Palomar Observatory.
The observatory is owned and operated by Cal Tech. It was designed and built to be “beautiful”. It is open to the public with a visitor gallery, tours and educational events.
The telescope is in use approximately 300-nights a year and is shared by scholars from around the world, including Yale, China, and Oxford, as well as Cal Tech. Its mission is to do science, train astronomers, and support the development of state-of- the-art technology, and share all this information.
The key observational tools are Direct Imaging, Photometry, and Spectroscopy, which splits light with a prism to measure what things are made of.
The telescope employs a 200 inch mirror and went into operation in 1949, with the help of Edwin Hubble. (Think Hubble Space Telescope).
Recently, Cal Tech and Palomar Observatory have been called the “Pluto Killers” as they have delisted Pluto from the list of planets. Apparently it does not possess two of the three requirements to actually be a planet.
Palomar uses the PALM-3000 Adaptive Optics System, which is currently the most advanced in the world at this time.
Tours are conducted at the observatory from April to October each year. Check the website for hours and more information:www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/
La Jolla Treasure Hunt:
It’s retro-time at Surf Beat. This week we’re taking you back in time to our old “La Jolla Treasure Hunt” contest. Are you game? Be the first person to correctly identify the location where the above photo was taken. Correct answers must be emailed to: surfbeat@rotarycluboflajolla.com The winner will receive recognition in next week’s Surf Beat! LJ Treasure Hunt spotlights the hidden gem locations in La Jolla. If you have a suggested location, take a photo or send a note to surfbeat@rotarycluboflajolla.com – previous treasure hunt locations can be found by exploring the Surf Beat archive beginning with the March 6, 2014 edition. Photo credit: Greg Wiest (dedicated to David Weston)
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“The world sees Germany as a country of hope and chances,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared last September, as refugees fleeing war and conflict in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere were streaming into her country in unprecedented numbers. As of November, 792,000 people had made the journey to Europe by boat since the beginning of 2015, with the majority ending up in Germany. There, they receive food, clothing, medical attention, and shelter while they wait for their claims to be evaluated and the government to decide if they can stay.
Watching the crisis unfold in Berlin last year, Anne Kjaer Riechert saw a need – and an opportunity. Riechert, originally from Denmark, studied at International Christian University in Japan as a Rotary Peace Fellow in 2010-12 and helped set up Stanford University’s Peace Innovation Lab in Berlin the following year. “What we are trying to do is to bring people working in innovation, technology, user interface, start-ups, entrepreneurs – people with a lot of ideas – together with NGOs and people with social causes,” she says. “In April, when the refugee crisis was starting, we did a lot of interviews with refugees and social workers and brainstormed ideas.” One of the projects that resulted was Refugees on Rails.
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February 2nd, 2016
Welcome: President Lora Fisher, back from two weeks off, welcomed us to Rotary, “It’s lunch time on Tuesday, and there’s no better place to be than La Jolla Rotary! We are the club with the best view of the Pacific, amazing club projects, and we have a lot of fun too!”
Invocation:Penny Shurtleff
Pledge:Diane Salisbury
Song Led By: Eric Jones from Torrey Pines Rotary, “God Bless America” preceded by a nice lead into the song.
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Who Am I:
Evelyn Nelson, Jane Reldan’s frequent guest at our club meetings, was invited to give us a “Who Am I”.
Evelyn was born in Guam to a US Air Force father and a Japanese mother. She moved to Cupertino California when she was eight, eventually attending UC Berkeley where she received her undergrad degree. She worked with some psychologists at Stanford before attending medical school in New York for two years, then on to UCSD for her internship. She enjoys her medical training but says “I don’t know who I will become”.
RYLA
The interview team for our Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (aka RYLA) individually interviewed 23 juniors from La Jolla High and Bishop’s School. From that group, 10-12 award winners will be selected. Besides the recognition of our award represents, each awardee will spend three days conferencing with the more than 250 RYLA awardees from San Diego and imperial counties. Pictured are (L-R) Eileen Jolly, Pat Stouffer, Laurnie Durisoe, Bill Boehm and Craig Schniepp. Not pictured are Wade Aschbrenner and Cal Mann.
Applicants for our Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program are all juniors at La Jolla High School or The Bishop’s School. From this group of 23 applicant, 10-12 will be chosen as our club’s award winners.
Speaker:
Claude Rosinsky introduced the speaker, Aviva Paley, one of the founders of “Kitchens for Good.” Her grandfather was a Rotarian for 31 years with perfect attendance, and her father is a world-renowned surgeon. Aviva told us that
40% of food goes to waste, and one in five San Diego residents are “food insecure,” but food alone can’t solve the problem. Poverty is the real issue.
Kitchens for Food has a goal of becoming a self-sustainable non-profit that provides employment training in the food-service industry as well as using local food sources, including food that is discarded by supermarkets, etc. Currently, they operate a 13-week training program specific to the food-service industry that focuses on the “Hard to Employ”, i.e.: former prisoners, drug addicts, abuse victims, etc. The training includes soft skills such as financial literacy, punctuality, and attitude in the work place.
Kitchens for Good took over a catering company in October of 2015 with the goal of becoming self-sustainable financially, and currently produces 75% of their annual revenue needs. Near -term goals are expanding to North County and downtown as well as increasing culinary job training.
President’ Lora’s Parting Words
Lora closed the meeting by reminding us that one thing we all have in common is the foundation of Rotary, which is the Four-Way Test.
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“As a child, I suffered from amebic dysentery, a disease that could have taken my life,” he says. “Fortunately for me, a Catholic brother gave my uncle the proper medicine, and that medicine saved my life. That’s when I decided that I should be a doctor and help sick people too.”
Medical school is a big dream for anyone, but for a poor boy in a poor country, it was stratospheric. Lokangaka persisted. He chopped and sold wood to pay for his grade school and high school education. An uncle stepped in to fund his university tuition; still, to make ends meet, Lokangaka typed papers for other students and taught English in his spare time.
After graduating from medical school in 2008, Lokangaka joined the Kinshasa School of Public Health, motivated by the poverty and disease he saw as a child – particularly the many deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth. There, he developed his interest in public health. “As a physician, the goal is to help people. If I were a medical practitioner, I could help one person at a time, but not many,” he explains. “I wanted to have a greater impact.”
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