Bellevue Rotary Club

Chartered March 9, 1961

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WEEKLY BULLETIN

FEATURED MARCH 1, 2005

PLEASE NOTE: This week's meeting, March 1, will be
held in the Olympic Room, which is at the opposite end of
the Harbor Club from our normal meeting room.

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Dr. Ken Stuart, PH.D.
Seattle Biomedical Research
Dean Allen, SBRI board member &
President of McKinstry Co.
"Puget Sound: An Epicenter for
Global Health Research"

Ken Stuart, Ph.D., is President and Director of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the largest non-profit organization in the U.S. focused solely on infectious disease research.

His research encompasses genomics, gene expression processes, and gene function in parasites that kill about a million people each year. Dr. Stuart discovered RNA editing, which provides the basis for new drug treatments for several deadly diseases. He is a leading expert in trypanosomal and leishmanial pathogens and led interactive research projects with several organizations around the world to sequence and analyze the genomes of Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease (a leading form of heart and intestinal disease), and Leishmania major, one of the parasites that cause a variety of mild to lethal diseases.

A native of Boston, Dr. Stuart received his undergraduate degree in biology from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in biology from Wesleyan University. He earned his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Iowa. He engaged in postdoctoral training in biochemistry at the National Institutes for Medical Research in London England and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dr. Stuart founded SBRI in 1976. Since 1985, he has served as a professor in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Washington, as well as department chair from 1996-2004. He has provided extensive research advisory service to many organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the National Science Foundation, the Human Frontiers of Science Program, the Wellcome Trust, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Currently, Dr. Stuart serves on the external advisory board for the University of Washington’s Keck Center for Microbial Pathogens and on the executive committee for the Gates Foundation’s Puget Sound Partners for Global Health.

Dr. Stuart was a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar in Molecular Parasitology from 1988-1993, received the Denis Thienpont Prize in Molecular Parasitology in 1997, and the Stoll-Stunkard Award from the American Society of Parasitologists in 2002. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on his research on parasites.

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Dean Allen, President and CEO of McKinstry Company, has been a member of SBRI’s Board of Trustees since 1995. Allen graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with degrees in Biochemistry and Psychology. With extensive experience and knowledge of the commercial real estate business, Allen has been successful in building McKinstry, which his father, George Allen, co-founded in 1960, into the leading "full service" mechanical contractor in the Pacific Northwest.

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AUction Item of the Week!

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Crystal Mountain Ski Fellowship

It's time once again for the annual Crystal Mountain Ski Fellowship! Dates for this overnight event are Tuesday, March 8 (after work), and Wednesday, March 9, 2005, the ski day. Most skiers will return that evening,. Some skiers and non-skiers will return shortly after breakfast or lunch.

If you are planning to attend the ski fellowship this year, send an email to Scott East with as much information as you can now pin down, such as departure time on Tuesday afternoon, whether you can/want to drive or prefer to be a passenger, and when you plan to return on Wednesday, e.g., before breakfast, mid-morning, after lunch, at end of ski day. Carpools will be formed from the information received.

If you have never attended this trip or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Scott East.

More information will be provided as the event draws near.

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Come to Camp Goodtimes this year on Wednesday, June 22. Plan to spend the day on Vashon Island. Bellevue Rotary members will once again put on a rip roaring, way cool, action packed carnival garnished at the end with lots of whipped cream. Sign up anytime with Charlotte Ellis, or check out the table flyers in late May/early June. Spouses and teens can help too.

In fact, we are looking for someone who likes to fish. At Camp Goodtimes the kids need some help getting their lines untangled, baited and ready for the fish to bite. We take each group of ten kids, ages 7-17, to the old dock on the east side of Vashon Island. Every camper should get at least one fishing trip during the week of camp, June 19-25, and we need someone to help make this activity a highlight of the week. Two regular counselors accompany each group but sometimes no one has ever fished before.

Help us out! Come to camp for half days on June 20, 21 and 24!

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Paul Harris Activity on February 22
Photos courtesy of Rob Rose

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Saddle up for a great day in the country! This spring, you and your fellow Rotarians are invited on a trail ride for fun and fellowship. Date and place are yet to be determined. You will need your own horse! 

Contact Dean Rebhuhn or Peter Hammett for details.

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Auction Invoices Have Been Mailed! 

All Rotarians are billed for two auction tickets, regardless of whether you are attending the event, but we hope you will attend the auction!

If you are currently on leave of absence, we still ask that you support our annual major fundraiser.  We hope you will attend the auction, but if you are unable, we will need your payment that much more to raise funds!

We appreciate your prompt payment in a separate check made payable to the "Bellevue Rotary Foundation," which is a separate charitable organization. You may consider the fair market value of each ticket to be $40 and deduct the rest as a donation.

If payment is not received by March 28th, the credit card you use for “Quick Pay” will be charged the night of the auction.

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Community Grant Applications

The Community Grants Committee is taking applications until March 1st. Forms can be found here on the website at the CLUB FORMS dropdown menu at the top of this bulletin page and all other pages on the website. Or, you can send the same information to Phil Bevan by mail. Remember these general guidlines:

1) Not for operational expenses
2) To be used to benefit the Eastside and
3) Not to exceed $5,000.

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Next Meeting
March 1, 2005

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GREETERS
Milt Douglas
Kathleen Steele

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Newest
BLUE Badge
Members 
Mike Ryan
Peter Kalunian
David Allen
Jason Weese
 

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Newest
Red Badge
Members
Tresa Leftenant
Jeremy Burnstein
Kathleen Steele

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FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS

Dan McDonald, 02/04

Scott East, 02/10

Conrad Lee, 02/10

Don Morehead, 02/10

Steve Sarkozy, 02/16

Josh Steele, 02/17

Dick McDermott, 02/18

SanDee Olson, 02/21

Mike Creighton, 02/22

Craig Edwards, 02/25

Leslie Lloyd, 02/25

Frank Young, 02/26

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Award Winning!
BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROTARACT CLUB
Check out the website.

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If not, contact Laurie Larson or email The Rotarian Magazine.

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The permanent mailing address for Bellevue Rotary is:

Laurie Larson
Club Administrator
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009
bellevuerotary@seanet.com
Ph 425 451-3819
Fax 425 451-8025

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