[D9640general] [eFlash_Rotary] Digest Number 840

[Garry Krischock]

 1. 1596: Diabetes conference first of its kind in Mexico From: Sunil K
Zachariah 

2. 1597: Chicago Rotary club puts its past online From: Sunil K Zachariah 

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conference first of its kind in Mexico 

 Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:26 am (PST) 

Diabetes conference first of its kind in Mexico By Arnold R. Grahl
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A nurse tests the blood glucose level of a San Miguel de Allende
resident during the Diabetes Conference 10 April. Photo courtesy of
Rotary Club of Tallahassee, Florida, USA
With diabetes a leading cause of death in Mexico, two Rotary clubs in
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, organized a conference to bring
together medical professionals from both the United States and Mexico to
address the issue.

The Diabetes Conference in San Miguel, held 10-12 April, was
Mexico's first-ever bilingual conference on diabetes and the first
organized entirely by Rotarians. The village, a popular tourist
destination, has a sizable English-speaking population.

More than 200 doctors and health care professionals took part in the
event, educating health care providers on better detection and treatment
of the disease. At least 300 members of the public attended sessions,
conducted in both English and Spanish, raising awareness of diabetes,
and ways to prevent its onset. Free diabetes testing and glucose
monitoring devices were provided.

William B. Webb, international service director for the co-sponsoring
Rotary Club of Tallahassee, Florida, USA, said the conference armed more
than 500 villages in the area with knowledge and resources to combat the
disease.

The event was paid for with a grant from pharmaceutical company Eli
Lilly. The Municipality of San Miguel de Allende also provided financial
and logistical support.

"We realized that diabetes, especially here in Guanajuato, is a major
health problem," said Salvador Quiroz, an internist at Hospital de la Fe
and a member of the San Miguel Allende club, in a press release. "That
is why we organized this conference."

The three clubs, along with the Rotary Club of St. Francisville,
Louisiana, USA, also secured a Matching Grant from The Rotary Foundation
for a digital camera and laser, which will be donated to the town's
general hospital, for the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, a common
cause of blindness in adults.
Roots of the idea Webb chose San Miguel de Allende to partner with for a
service project
because he had been charmed by the town during a visit years earlier. In
2007, he attended a service projects committee meeting of the San Miguel
midday club, and knew he'd discovered the core of a project
management team. They chose the topic of diabetes because both clubs had
experts on the subject, and it's a leading health concern in the
country.

Dr. Larry C. Deeb, a Tallahassee club member and pediatric
endocrinologist, spoke on the modern management of the disease. He noted
that Mexico has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world. Other
experts included Dr. José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, health
secretary of Mexico; Dr. James R. Gavin III, an endocrinologist
specializing in diabetes and member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta; and
Dr. Claudia Karina Anaya, an epidemiologist with the Health Center of
San Miguel.

Webb gives much of the credit for organizing the event to the host
clubs.

"The Rotarians in San Miguel are the real heroes, in my opinion," he
says. "They got it all organized in a remarkably short time."

For more on diabetes, read how a former Miss America is giving the
disease a new face
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Source: Rotary International News / Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary



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club puts its past online 

 Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:36 am (PST) 

Chicago Rotary club puts its past online By Donna Polydoros
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Chicago club members kick back at a weekend retreat at Paw Paw Lake in
Michigan, USA, July 1910. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Chicago
The Rotary Club of Chicago
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http://www.rotaryone.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=501199&module_\
id=41596> has put 20,000 items from its archives into a new online
collection.

The online archives
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http://www.rotaryone.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=501199&module_\
id=41596> feature photos, correspondence, and other writings from VIP
members like Paul Harris, Chesley Perry, and Silvester Schiele; minutes
of board of directors meetings dating back to 1920; a scrapbook
assembled by Perry; a collection of documents about women of Rotary from
1921 to 1995; and other important records such as bylaws and early
newsletters.

Richard McKay, past club president and founding secretary treasurer of
the Rotary Global History Fellowship
< <http://www.rotaryhistoryfellowship.org/>
http://www.rotaryhistoryfellowship.org/> , and his wife gave more than
US$40,000 to launch the project.

"Through working with the Rotary Global History Fellowship, I could see
what Rotary historians around the world are doing to preserve Rotary
history, and I thought that Rotary One (the Rotary Club of Chicago)
should certainly promote its archives too," says McKay.

Past club president David Templin headed the archives project, and
consultants Jane Kenamore and Laura Lorenzana were hired to begin
electronically archiving the massive collection.

"The Rotary One archives are fantastic," says Kenamore. "The files
contain early correspondence of Paul Harris and other leaders of Rotary.
They have a tremendous amount of material."
Early letters
Some of the team's favorite items are correspondence between Perry and
Harris about the role of women in Rotary, Perry's letter of resignation,
and photos of early members enjoying a belly-dancing performance at a
Rotary celebration.

Templin helped publicize the project among club members by making
photocopies of some of the interesting finds and passing them out at
meetings.

The club introduced the electronic archives at its booth at the 2008 RI
Convention in Los Angeles.

Templin says the club plans to continue scanning documents from the
collection as they're requested by members and other Rotarians
worldwide. Archives visitors can also search through a list of archived
materials not yet posted online--including dozens of documents related
to other Rotary clubs, such as a letter from a Japanese club in the
1930s and letters from a club in Shanghai in the 1920s.

"We thought this was a great opportunity to give something back, to get
20,000 documents scanned and onto the Internet and make them available
to Rotarians and historians worldwide," says Templin. "Today is a
different challenge from the last 100 years. It'll be interesting to see
how the Rotarians of the next 100 years track their activities."

Source: Rotary International News / Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary

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