Bellevue Rotary Club, Bellevue, WA
WEEKLY BULLETIN
JANUARY 16, 2006
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Dr. Ronald W. Berninger, Ph.D., Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, CellCyte Genetics, "Stem Cell Research" | Be a Part of the Highly Successful Bellevue Rotary Mentor Team! | Rotary Cross Country Ski Event | Special Olympics Ski Competition at Snoqualmie Pass | Mona Foundation Grant: Solar Water Heaters Installed & Operational | December "Adopt-A-Stream" Event | Kathmandu School of Deaf Visit on December 27 | Enjoy a Wine Tour on the Way to the 2007 District 5030 Conference! | New Orleans Reconstruction Project | Bellevue Rotary Forest Explorers Program, Lake Hills Elementary 2nd Graders
THIS WEEK AT THE BRC
NEWEST RED BADGE
MEMBER(S)
Keith Folz
Ev Stitz
Paul Dressel
Craig Hendrickson
GREETERS
John Walsh
Cecille Schuman
BACK TABLE DUTY
Kathy Hanson
Lourdes Tsukada
CLUB MAILING ADDRESS:
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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Bill McCaughey, 01/03
Troy Roper, 01/05
Andy Barlass, 01/06
Grant Ringel, 01/09
Debbie Acton, 01/11
Mike Schaefer, 01/18
Jim Montgomery, 01/21
Phyllis Foro, 01/23
Geri Lucks, 01/23
Pete Swindley, 01/25
Roxanne Shepherd, 01/28
Steve Hopp, 01/30
Classification Report: “Banking” and "Financial Services" classifications are currently full.
Dr. Ronald W. Berninger, Ph.D.,
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer
CellCyte Genetics
"Stem Cell Research"
Dr. Ronald Berninger has over 20 years experience in building research teams, transferring products and procedures from R&D into manufacturing and the marketplace. He served as Vice President and Director of R&D, QA/Regulatory for Cennapharm Corporation, where he was responsible for formulation of drugs and building the infrastructure for R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Documentation. He also served as Vice President and Director of R&D, QA/Regulatory for Genespan Corporation, where he was responsible for building the infrastructure for R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Documentation. In addition, Dr. Berninger served as Senior Scientist and Head of Biochemistry at CellPro, a stem cell company, where he documented and formulated IgM and other compounds to meet FDA requirements, increased manufacturing efficiencies and stabilized and purified various molecules.
As a member of the award winning Ceprate® SC Concentrator development team, Dr. Berninger was instrumental in establishing the first FDA approved process for purification, biotinylation and formulation of the CD 34 IgM monoclonal antibody for purification of stem cells. Dr. Berninger also played a vital role in defining the chemistry for the affinity gel employed in the Ceprate® product used for cancer and gene therapy applications.
As Senior Scientist for NeoRx Corporation, Dr. Berninger used his expertise in chemistry to design, investigate and document formulations for murine gamma three monoclonal antibodies. He played a pivotal role in purifying and chemically modifying monoclonal antibodies to target tumor cells in diagnostic and clinical applications.
1980 to 1986, Dr. Berninger served as Assistant Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, where he conducted many research projects, including purification and characterization of Mucus Stimulating Substances in human sera. Dr. Berninger was also a Fellow, Instructor and Assistant Professor at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1975 to 1980. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Drexel University in 1968 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1972 from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Berninger has received numerous awards, patents and honors for his scientific discoveries and has over 70 scientific publications.
Be a Part of the Highly Successful
Bellevue Rotary Mentor Team!
Katherine Thompson
We still need a couple of people for Winter quarter classes at BCC beginning January 10. Contact
(Ph 425-455-2555) for information about this terrific hands-on Rotary project.
Businesses apply through the Bellevue Entrepreneur Center for participation in the consulting project. They are carefully screened to ensure that they have a project that is appropriate for the student team to work. Each student team of 5 or 6 is paired with two Rotary mentors and one business. The consulting project must have some "deliverable" and the students make a presentation to the class at the end of the quarter. The Rotary mentor's role is to provide a real world perspective and to keep the students focused on an achievable product.
Time required is 8-10 hours over the course of the 10 week quarter. This project, now it it's third year, has received very positive reviews from Rotarians, students and the business owners.
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Rotary Cross Country Ski Event
Jim Price
Next Saturday (the 20th) will be our second annual Rotary Cross Country Ski Event. We will meet at 9:00 am at the temporary Issaquah Park and Ride (3 blocks south of I-90 on SR 900 and just south of the main park and ride, which is under construction). The location of the ski area will depend on snow conditions, but will have easy and intermediate tracks.
Contact
(Ph 425-453-9292 x110) if you have questions or if you need to know where to rent equipment.
Special Olympics Ski Competition at Snoqualmie Pass
Tom Eckhart
This year's annual Special Olympics Ski Competition will be held February 10 at Snoqualmie Pass. Please mark this date on your calendars. We have had great support for this event in the past, and I hope you can come this year. More information will be forthcoming. If you have questions, please
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Mona Foundation Grant: Solar Water Heaters Installed & Operational
Rita Azizi Egrari, Mona Foundation
I am delighted to let you know that the generous grant from Rotary allowed BARLI Development Institute for Rural Women to purchase and install solar water heaters (see photo). They are up and running and hot water is now being supplied to the student and staff bathrooms and to the volunteer and guest apartments.
On behalf of Mona Foundation, I sincerely thank you for your generosity and trust. Your gift has made a significant and sustainable difference in the lives of many women in rural India. BARLI is an outstanding project and has improved the lives of hundreds of women in many ways, including literacy, nutrition and hygiene training, and training in income generation.
December "Adopt-A-Stream" Event
This past December 2, a group of BRC members filled 10 yard waste toters to overflowing and picked up a lot of trash for its "Adopt-A-Stream" project. This great service project at Valley Creek, winding through Highland Park, near 140th and Northup Way will continue for at least the next two years
Kathmandu School of Deaf Visit on December 27
Rob Rose
This is an email from the president of the Rotaract Club of Patan in Nepal, who visited the Kathmandu School for the Deaf at the end of last month. Bellevue RC and Bellevue Rotaract Club have participated in several matching grants at this location, including building a library/recreation hall at the school.
My own .org, The Rose International Fund for Children, is currently sponsoring 11 of the children, whose families are too poor to afford the school fees (about $150) per year. The Nepali Rotaractors who visited the school are coming away with an expanded perspective on the challenges of being born with a disability as well as the fact that these children have many abilities and capabilities of which most people are not aware.
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Dear Rotarians and Rotaractors,
This is to inform that Rotaract Club of Patan and Rotaract Club of Dillibazar Visited Kathmandu School of Deaf on 27th Dec 2006.
Rotaract club of Patan has been school administering at Kathmandu School of Deaf for 11 Scholorship Student by Rose International Fund for Children (Rtn Robert Rose, Rotary Club of Bellevue, Washington USA).
All together 25 Rotaractors from RC Patan and RC Dillibazar and one Rotaractors from South Brisbane, Australia with DRR (E) Rtr Anil Shrestha and DD Inernational Rtr. Shrwan K Shrestha Visited Deaf Blind Unit, Interaction with 11 Scholoship Students, Handed over games materials to School, Interact with student of Class 6 and make then write in form of picture or written about their dream in their life and had lunch prepared by School student.
After visiting the school one of rotaractor expressed his emotion and i have tried to attached along with this email below. Please read, feel it ...
Rtr. Yugal Bajracharya
President, Rotaract Club Patan
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My impressions from a visit to a school for the deaf and blind
By Rotaractor Sheren Shrestha, RC Patan
I have pondered over this a number of times- if I had to choose between my hands and my legs, I would choose my hands; and between my vision and my hearing I would choose the latter. Clearly that choice is not ours, as can be seen with all the children of the school for the deaf and blind, where the members of several Rotaract Clubs including the Rotaract Club of Patan visited on the 27th of December, 2006.
Some are deaf, others blind and others both deaf and blind. When I saw the deaf children, I was amazed at the agility of their fingers and the fluency with which they expressed themselves. They were no different from us: I saw them laugh, talk, fight, study, play, express their discontent, their pleasure and anything else, just like us. The only visible difference was that they did all that silently. There might be many of them who will never hear the sounds of life. Nevertheless, I wonder if that has to be the factor that prevents them from speaking, after all they do possess the vocal cords, tongue and lips, just like any one of us; and the sounds that we produce are through the coordinated movements of the tongue and the lips. And evidently, apart from hearing, they have the ability to perform any thing that has been taught to them; so why not try to teach them to speak?
My heart totally goes out the the children who are both deaf and blind. My perception was that their world is only as big as their hands can reach, but I realized that day how wrong I was. I salute the teachers who dedicate their lives to teach one child each to understand that there is more to life and more to themselves than the emptiness that seems to surround them. Another thing that I learned that day was the possibility of a sixth sense that these children seem to possess; they were visibly shy and playful in our presence, although according to our understanding there could have been no way they could have know that we were there. At this moment, I recall a quote and am amazed at the universality of this simple saying, " The physically handicapped are as able as anyone of us and although they have to try harder than us to scale the same height, they are not complaining because it's not what we have, but what we do with what we have."
www.rcpatan.com and www.hearnepal.org (website for Kathmandu school of deaf)
Enjoy a Wine Tour on the Way to the 2007 District 5030 Conference!
Northgate Transit Center, 8:00AM
OR
Issaquah Park and Ride, 9:00AM
Arrive The Coeur d'Alene Resort, 6:00PM
Return departure from Coeur d'Alene at 1:00PM on April 22
Arrive Issaquah Park and Ride, 7:00PM
OR
Northgate Transit Center, 8:00PM
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Tour price includes:
* Round trip Deluxe Motorcoach Transportation
* Wine Country Concierge Service
* Tour of 2 Wineries
* Expertise of Washington Wine Tour Guide
* Maps and other visuals
* Lunch and Snacks in route to Coeur d'Alene
* Fun and Fellowship with other Rotarians!
$135.00 Per person
Limited space! Reserve your seat by downloading this registration form and sending it in to the District Office today!
New Orleans Reconstruction Project
April 14-22, 2007
Peter Kalunian
You are invited to be a member of a medical and construction team to assist in the reconstruction of New Orleans. Participants will stay at the St. Paul’s Homecoming Center, New Orleans, which can house 25 volunteers and includes a full kitchen. The construction team will meet daily at a central location and will be divided into work crews.
Each crew will be under the direction of a local crew chief. The medical team (R.N.,M.D.,APRN) will be part of the St. Anna’s Mobile Medical Mission and will provide basic medical examinations and care. One person also is needed to be head cook. The remaining members of the team will assist in setting up and cleaning after meals.
Cost per person: air fare ($300+), food needed for meals (approx. $100) and rental vehicles and gas for ground transportation ($75). Lodging is free but a donation will be appreciated. More information is available at www.edola.org, click on “volunteer resources.” If interested, or if you need more information, please contact
(Ph 206-854-0612). The team will be limited to the first 25 people who apply.
Bellevue Rotary Forest Explorers Program
Lake Hills Elementary 2nd Graders
Peter Wang, Chairman, Community Grants Committee
Four classes of the 2nd Graders from Lake Hills Elementary School, BSD, attended the Forest Explorers program at the Woodland Park Zoo this fall, courtesy of Bellevue Rotary Community Grants. The Forest Explorers program presents the students an opportunity to experience first-hand the differences between tropic and temperate rain forests and the effect that they have on our environment.
The students and teachers from these classes have expressed their appreciation by sending us 79 original masterpieces of thank-you pictures and drawings. These wonderfully drawn thank you pictures are being displayed with Club Administrator for all to enjoy.
Here are some of the many wonderful comments from Mrs. McClanahan, Ms. Okawa, Ms. Tzucker’s classes and the fabulous writers of Room 111:
Amazing hands-on experience …
My favorite is a gorilla because the gorilla was picking it’s nose.
I saw a funny looking squirrel, a jaguar and a fat white owl …
I learned about the temperate rain fores t…
The live jaguar — that is our school mascot.
We learned the four layers of the forest …
Amazing … so cool … thank you …
Really appreciated that you let us go …
Great learning experience and appreciate your wonderful gift to us!
It was a real live jaguar! I love zoos.
And the penguins and peacock too.
I learned that the forest floor has bugs that eat the leaves and poop the soil out.
I love going to the zoo. I never been to zoo.
The bats make me scream, I jumped …
I learned about the monkeys, the ones with the beards.