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DEAR FELLOW ROTARIANS, T oday, we look ahead toward a Rotary year that may one day be known ON THE WEB as the greatest in our history: the year that sees the world’s last case of polio. Wild poliovirus caused only 74 cases of polio in 2015, all of them in Speeches and news from RI Afghanistan and Pakistan. As we continue to work tirelessly toward our goal President John F. Germ at of eradication, we must also look beyond it: preparing to leverage our success www.rotary.org/office-president into even greater successes to come. It is tremendously important to Rotary’s future that our role in the eradica- tion of polio be recognized. The more we are known for what we’ve achieved, the more we’ll be able to attract the partners, the funding, and, most important, the members to achieve even more. We’re working hard at RI headquarters to be sure that Rotary gets that recognition. But it can’t all happen in Evanston. We need you to get the word out through your clubs and in your communities about what Rotary is and what we do. We need to be sure that our clubs are ready for the moment when polio is finally eradicated – so that when people who want to do good see that Rotary is a place where they can change the world, every Rotary club is ready to give them that opportunity. We know that if we want to see Rotary Serving Humanity even better in the years ahead, we’ll need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our work forward. We’ll need clubs that are flexible, so that Rotary service will be attractive to younger members, recent retirees, and work- ing people. We’ll need to seek out new partnerships, opening ourselves more to collaborative relationships with other organizations. Looking ahead, we also see a clear need to prioritize continuity in our leadership. We in Rotary are all playing on the same team, working toward the same goals. If we want to reach those goals together, we all have to move in the same direction – together. Every day that you serve in Rotary, you have the opportunity to change lives. Everything you do matters; every good work makes the world better for us all. In this new Rotary year, we all have a new chance to change the world for the better, through Rotary Serving Humanity. JOHN F. GERM President, Rotary International jul16-Presmessage_v4.indd 1 4/21/16 3:53 PM

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july contents Vol.195 No.1 FEATURES 32 Champion of Chattanooga John Germ, one of Tennessee’s most committed citizens, brings the spirit of the Volunteer State to the office of Rotary International president. By Kevin Cook Photography by Alyce Henson 40 A history of The Rotary Foundation Founded in 1911, this magazine is one of the few aspects of the Rotary experience that have been around even longer than our Foundation. See how Rotarians have used this space to talk about the Foundation’s first century. 48 What you don’t know about the campaign to end polio Meet the scientists tracking and testing the world’s remaining samples of poliovirus in the age of eradication. By Erin Biba DEPARTMENTS COLUMNS 1 President’s message 6 Letters To serve humanity 11 Up front 4 Contributors • The book on Brad Rubini 23 Culture • Q&A: Alumna Susan Davis Open to interpretation on social entrepreneurship 28 Health • Cynthia Salim makes clothing with a conscience Which bit is fitter? 22 Calendar 57 Trustee’s message 58 Crossword 55 Insider 64 The Rotarian online • Networking for International Women’s Day • Call for committee applications • New directors take office ON THE COVER Volunteer state of mind. (Photography by Alyce Henson/ Rotary International) LEFT 2016-17 Rotary International President John Germ greets his grandson Franklin in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn. Read about his path from local service to global leadership on page 32. jul16_contents-v3.indd 3 5/12/16 1:28 PM

rtheotarian contributors ® ERIN BIBA Editor in chief When we first considered profiling a Rotarian who JOHN REZEK happens to be a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Art director JENNIFER MOODY we needed a journalist with a science background Senior editors to interview him and break down his work in an JENNY LLAKMANI DIANA SCHOBERG accessible, compelling way. Contributing Editor Assistant editor Vanessa Glavinskas recommended Erin Biba, a SALLYANN PRICE fellow alumna of Northwestern University’s jour- Contributing editor VANESSA GLAVINSKAS nalism program, for the job. Copy editor is month, Biba delves into the fight against NANCY WATKINS polio from the perspective of the scientists enlisted Production manager MARC DUKES in eradication efforts. She spoke to representatives from the U.S. Centers for Disease Design & production assistant Control and Prevention and the other partners in the Global Polio Eradication Ini- JOE CANE tiative, and interviewed the sci- Research editor MARK DURAN “entists who climb into sewers to Even with my science Senior editorial coordinator collect samples and run lab tests CYNTHIA EDBROOKE to confirm poliovirus. background, I was Circulation manager “ ey’re the ones who work MAY LI with the actual virus cells, and surprised to learn that they’re the ones who will deliver Advertising representatives the news when polio is finally polio is still a problem, JWK MEDIA GROUP gone for good,” she says. “I and how close we are Ad inquiries: [email protected] to ending it. ” JWK MEDIA GROUP FLORIDA - 954-406-1000 wanted to write for e Rotarian 212 SE Eighth St., Suite 101, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 because it was an interesting op- JWK MEDIA GROUP NEW YORK - 212-292-3718 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 43rd Floor, New York, NY portunity to explore a subject you 10020 might not think of as‘science’ from a new perspective. 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General O cers letters of Rotary International April wowers 2016-17 I have been a Rotarian President for nearly 30 years. I JOHN F. GERM read the magazine from Chattanooga, Tenn., USA cover to cover every month, and I believe the President-elect April issue to be one of IAN H.S. RISELEY the best I’ve ever seen. Sandringham, Australia Several articles were educational, informative, Vice President interesting, and insight- JENNIFER E. JONES ful. The article “On Windsor-Roseland, Ont., Canada Board” about the Board Treasurer meetings was especially governing philosophy year. Some senior HSIU-MING LIN interesting and educa- of the candidates. officials circumvented Taipei Tungteh, Taiwan tional – it was nice Inviting candidates to this by coming as getting a behind-the- speak to our club helps Rotarian guests but were Directors scenes look at us to assess them up limited to a typical MIKAEL AHLBERG our organization. close and personal. If we guest’s greeting. The rule Ölands Södra, Sweden invite one candidate, was relaxed somewhat Earl Franklin Hawkins we make a point of for judicial candidates, GÉRARD ALLONNEAU Upper Arlington, Ohio, USA individually inviting who struggle for recogni- Parthenay, France all candidates to visit tion in metro Miami- Culling candidates separate meetings. And Dade County. JORGE AUFRANC we ask that they observe Guatemala Sur, Guatemala I found Nancy Shep- The Four-Way Test in The club agreed herdson’s column, “A their remarks. It seems to hold a candidates’ MANOJ D. DESAI Well-Informed Elector- to work for us. debate at the suggestion Baroda Metro, India ate,” in the April issue to of the town’s former be interesting. Unlike John K. Rutledge vice mayor, a Rotarian. CORNELIU DINCAˇ some, I do not believe Wheaton, Ill., USA Craiova, Romania everyone should vote We drafted questions – just those who are Nancy Shepherdson’s based on important local BRADFORD R. HOWARD well-informed. And as article in the April issue issues and persuaded an Oakland Sunrise, Calif., USA Rotarians it is our duty on “A Well-Informed esteemed community to do our part in Electorate” reflected leader to act as modera- JOSEPH MULKERRIN assuring good gover- our experience in the tor. Audience questions Hampton Roads (Norfolk), Va., USA nance. We do not need Rotary Club of Home- were screened for issue votes based on skin color, stead, Fla. relevance due to time. PETER L. OFFER ethnic heritage, or the The event was taped and Coventry Jubilee, England number of X chromo- Our board adopted a televised on the cable somes, but rather a rule that candidates access channel. SAOWALAK RATTANAVICH response to a studied could not address the Bangrak, Thailand understanding of the club during their election The evening was a huge success with HENDREEN DEAN ROHRS Langley Central, B.C., Canada TADAMI SAITO Toyota, Japan EDUARDO SAN MARTÍN CARREÑO Majadahonda, Spain JOSÉ UBIRACY SILVA Recife, Brazil NOEL J. TREVASKIS Bega, Australia KAREN K. WENTZ Maryville-Alcoa, Tenn., USA General Secretary JOHN HEWKO Kyiv, Ukraine jul16-06-08-letters-v6.indd 6 5/19/16 8:25 AM

capacity crowds. The dinner to Rotary’s annual is a single-issue organiza- Trustees of moderator, a retired fundraising auction. tion focused on polio. The Rotary Foundation naval commander, interrupted when Rotary is recognized While we older 2016-17 answers wandered and here as a forum for Rotarians are committed admonished the crowd respected policy discus- to eradicating polio, Chair for partisan displays. sion, as the club fulfills this specific cause is not KALYAN BANERJEE This was critical to a community needs even a top priority among substantive debate. when a service is not our key target audience Vapi, India Despite partisan ap- strictly charitable. for membership: plause, the crowd was people under 40 in Chair-elect extremely respectful. Larry Diehl the United States. PAUL A. NETZEL Homestead, Fla., USA Los Angeles, Calif., USA Our club has since As we end polio, I held three town debates, Cause of concern think there is also a Vice Chair providing a vital service passion and desire to THOMAS M. THORFINNSON for voter education where Of the nine press end violence and other a void had developed. citations listed in the pressing causes. Eden Prairie Noon, Minn., USA Ongoing participation April issue [“Rotary in from politicians in the Media,” page 61], Dennis Wong Trustees Rotary projects has seven were polio-related, Westport, Conn., USA NOEL A. BAJAT resulted. The recent one addressed maternal Abbeville, La., USA challenger for county health, and the other Frank talk commissioner who won addressed membership. ÖRSÇELIK BALKAN against an incumbent I just reread Frank Istanbul-Karaköy, Turkey contributed a personal To someone not Bures’ first-person entry familiar with all that our on the contributors WILLIAM B. BOYD organization does, it page in the January issue. Pakuranga, New Zealand could appear that Rotary Excellent! Rotary is RON D. BURTON Follow us to get updates, share stories with your networks, and tell us what you think. Norman, Okla., USA The Rotarian WEBSITE therotarian.com twitter.com/rotary MÁRIO CÉSAR MARTINS DE CAMARGO One Rotary Center, 1560 Sherman Ave. EMAIL [email protected] facebook.com/rotary Santo André, Brazil Evanston, IL 60201 USA SUSHIL GUPTA Delhi Midwest, India GARY C.K. HUANG Taipei, Taiwan SEIJI KITA Urawa East, Japan BARRY RASSIN East Nassau, Bahamas KENNETH M. SCHUPPERT JR. Decatur, Ala., USA BRYN STYLES Barrie-Huronia, Ont., Canada YOUNG SUK YOON Hoehyon, Korea General Secretary JOHN HEWKO Kyiv, Ukraine jul16-06-08-letters-v5.indd 7 4/27/16 12:04 PM

letters SERVICE ABOVE SELF a gift to all of us, and so Reboot camp under 35; we now have are you.  18 members under 40. The Object of Rotary In my 11 years of Rotary, Today, 27 percent of our When you happened I have always enjoyed The membership is female, THE OBJECT of Rotary is to encourage and foster to see the Rotary logo Rotarian magazine. I have and that percentage the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise in your travels and especially enjoyed the is growing. and, in particular, to encourage and foster: followed up with the articles that detail stories magazine, you became on how clubs can model We went from no FIRST The development of acquaintance a gift to us readers. other clubs’ great ideas. social media to having a as an opportunity for service; We’ve learned some presence, a website, and a Mr. Bures’ book of our best practices weekly e-newsletter. SECOND High ethical standards in busi- reviews and columns from other clubs. Perhaps ness and professions, the recognition of the are wonderful, and I am other clubs might benefit Our new club social worthiness of all useful occupations, and the finishing the book Friend from hearing about the committee has monthly dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as & Foe thanks to his successful rebuilding club socials planned to an opportunity to serve society; excellent review. of my club. create fellowship for our members. In April we THIRD The application of the ideal of service I was one of the Below are some of went to a Durham Bulls in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and first women to join the highlights of all that game together. community life; the Hollywood, Calif., our club has accom- chapter in the ’80s. I just plished in its rebuild. Last year we had FOURTH The advancement of international finished speaking at the one service project; this understanding, goodwill, and peace through Rotary World Peace We started in July year we have already a world fellowship of business and profes- Conference and inter- 2014 with 18 members had seven service pro- sional persons united in the ideal of service viewed 60 of the speakers. and only six to eight jects, and we have three Peace through conversa- showing up at a meeting. more planned. The Four-Way Test tion is my passion. Because of low member- ship, our club was so Our club went from OF THE THINGS we think, say, or do: Barbara Gaughen-Muller financially challenged somewhat inconsistent Goleta, Calif., USA that we had practically Foundation giving to 1) Is it the TRUTH? depleted our budget every member being a 2) Is it FAIR to all concerned? I write to congratulate and were eating into our Sustaining Member. 3) Will it build GOODWILL and Frank Bures on his savings. Our current numerous excellent president was feeling In October, the BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? articles in The Rotarian. pressured, and we didn’t Research Triangle Park have a president-elect club was the first in our 4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? They never fail to support her. Lastly, district (and I suspect the to be informative and our club barely did entire zone) to have Rotarian Code of Conduct very well-written, a service projects anymore qualified to achieve the joy to read. and we were down to Presidential Citation, and The following code of conduct has been adopted our one signature event. in December, our club for the use of Rotarians: I especially appreciated After 48 years in exis- was the first to qualify to your recent column on tence, our club could achieve the Governor’s AS A ROTARIAN, I will “Frankenwords” [ Janu- have easily folded, Award with Distinction. ary], which not only made but we decided to 1) Act with integrity and high ethical standards me laugh out loud, but reboot instead. Andrew M. Kerr in my personal and professional life also touched upon many Durham, N.C., USA of my own thoughts and Today, we have 44 2) Deal fairly with others and treat them and sentiments when con- members on our roster, The editors welcome comments on their occupations with respect fronted with neo-speak. and we’ve engaged a items published in the magazine former Rotary Ambassa- but reserve the right to edit for 3) Use my professional skills through Rotary to: To stand out among so dorial Scholar. When I style and length. Published letters mentor young people, help those with special many other, top-quality started, I was the only do not necessarily reflect the views needs, and improve people’s quality of life in contributors speaks member in our club of the editors or Rotary International my community and in the world volumes of your talent. leadership, nor do the editors take responsibility for errors of fact that 4) Avoid behavior that reflects adversely on Julius J. Markides may be expressed by the writers. Rotary or other Rotarians Limassol, Cyprus jul16-06-08-letters-v5.indd 8 4/27/16 12:04 PM

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up front Storyteller BRAD RUBINI Rotary Club of Toledo, Ohio When Brad Rubini was reading a bedtime story to his seven-year-old daughter, Claire, she asked him why he was reading the words wrong.“I’m dyslexic, so I thought I was reading the words right,” recalls Rubini, a past president of the Rotary Club of Toledo. After he explained his problem, she began to read to him on most nights instead.“She was a voracious reader and storyteller. She was always telling stories, even when she was a toddler,” he says. ree years later, while Claire was away at summer camp, she died unexpectedly as a result of a heart ailment. Rubini and his wife, Julie, channeled their grief and honored their daughter’s love of reading by creating Claire’s Day, now one of Ohio’s largest children’s book festivals. Since 2001 the event has grown into a weeklong celebration that includes visits by about 15 authors and illustrators to 32 area schools. e week concludes with a book festival on the third Saturday in May, near Claire’s birthday (May 24). Claire’s Day operates with a budget of $60,000, funded through corporate and community donations, including about $5,000 from area Rotary clubs. e 2016 event was expected to reach up to 27,000 children and families.“ e goal of mine has been to have Claire’s Day be in Rotary clubs all throughout the world,” says CJ BENNINGER Rubini, who is now the literacy chairman of District 6600 (Ohio). “It’s not that hard, and the reward of it is so tremendous.” – NIKKI KALLIO J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 11 jul16-upfront-opener-Rubini-v2.indd 11 4/28/16 11:31 AM

up front CONVENTION DISPATCHES Car-free Atlanta Saving Jackson’s antler arches Just one mile from Jackson, Wyo., is the National Elk Refuge, a winter habitat for 5,000 to W ith a sprawling metro 7,000 elk that migrate from the mountains every year in search of food. Male (bull) elk shed area, Atlanta gets a bad their antlers during the spring, and those antlers form the four iconic archways around Jack- rap for its traffic. But the son’s town square. Each year, tens of thousands of tourists passing through on their way to Yel- city’s downtown is home to a variety of pedestrian-friendly lowstone or Grand Teton national park pose in front of the arches in Jackson, which is in the attractions, so when you’re in town from 10 to 14 June for Jackson Hole valley. the 2017 Rotary International Convention, a little curiosity is Local Boy Scouts gather up the accumulated shed antlers, but in the late 1950s, there were more all the fuel you’ll need. antlers than there was demand. The Rotary Club of Jackson Hole helped construct the first Walk out front of the Geor- gia World Congress Center elk antler arch with the surplus in 1958, and three more were added in the 1970s. (above), the convention’s home base, and you’ll practically Over the years, the antlers aged and started to crumble. Around 2000, the three Jackson Hole stumble into CNN Center, the birthplace of 24-hour TV news. Rotary clubs started a Help Save the Arches project. The clubs raised the money to buy more ant- CNN studio tours last about 50 minutes and offer a behind-the- lers, which are illegal for the public to collect from the elk refuge, and turned them over to the town scenes look into broadcasting. for construction. Across the street, soak up some sun at Centennial “We asked for donations from the citizens of Jackson, we did a ‘guess the number of antlers’ Olympic Park. Once the central gathering place for the 1996 contest, we had donations from the town of Jackson and the Teton County government, and lots Olympic Games, the park is now a great place to check of Rotarians donated, too,” says Peter Karns, chair of the Help Save the Arches committee. out a free water show at the Fountain of Rings, one of the The first antler arch was rebuilt in 2006 with 12,000 pounds of antlers, and the final was com- most photographed landmarks in Georgia. Nearby is the World pleted in 2015. With antler prices doubling to $15 per pound, Rotarians ended up raising $418,000 of Coca-Cola, where you can sample more than 100 drinks to complete the project. from around the world, and the Center for Civil and Human “The arches are known worldwide and probably next to the Grand Teton (mountain range), Rights, where you can view the personal effects of Ameri- they’re the most photographed site in the valley,” Karns says.“They’re icons that identify Jackson can civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Hole – that’s why we wanted to save them.” – ANNE STEIN For sports fans, a short 46,900 48 miles 15,000 stroll down Marietta Street will Length take you to the College Football Pounds of antlers of Pounds of antlers Hall of Fame, where you can used to construct Jackson Hole used in the view helmets and trophies of the four arches largest arch your favorite college teams and take in exhibits like the Game Day Theater, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at game day through the perspectives of former players and coaches. – DEBLINA CHAKRABORTY Register for the 2017 Rotary Convention in Atlanta at www.riconvention.org. 12 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 jul16-upfront-A-v4.indd 12 5/11/16 3:49 PM

THE TALENT AROUND THE TABLE up front Using social entrepreneurship to fight poverty who would feed their family grass or make mud cakes to Susan Davis has devoted the past three decades to using social entrepreneurship and microfi- fill their bellies – it’s extremely nance to address extreme poverty, particularly in Bangladesh. A Rotary Foundation Ambas- urgent. Microfinance as a solu- tion, because it’s potentially sadorial Scholarship in the early 1980s allowed her to study international relations at the sustainable, became a pas- sion of mine. It empowers peo- University of Oxford. A decade ago, she co-founded BRAC USA (previously the Bangladesh ple to change their lives and their communities. Rehabilitation Assistance Committee) to help the world’s poor through self-empowerment. She TR: Last year you left your post as president and chief executive is co-author, with journalist David Bornstein, of the book Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone officer at BRAC USA, and pre- Needs to Know, and has served on numerous boards, including the United Nations Fund for viously you served on the Gra- International Partnerships and the Grameen Foundation. At the Rotary International Convention meen board, where you were chair when Muhammad Yunus in May, Davis, who is a member of the Rotary E-Club of District 7210, received the 2015-16 and Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. What Rotary Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award. are you focusing your attention on now? MONICA GARWOOD THE ROTARIAN: How did your would have done. It was the first Ford Foundation, was also life- DAVIS: I will turn 60 in No- Rotary Foundation Ambassa- time I had lived outside the changing. What did you see vember, so I decided it was im- dorial Scholarship influence country, and it helped to shape there and how did it affect your portant to see what it feels like your career? my deep sense of commitment approach to addressing poverty? to pull back and reflect. I’ll DAVIS: Getting a chance to study to being a good global citizen DAVIS: Microfinance and social continue to try to be of service, at Oxford through the great gift and being of service. And I’m entrepreneurship were the best and support young people of the Rotary scholarship was so touched to be honored strategies I saw to respond to especially, through my work eye-opening. It’s one of the old- by Rotary when I feel that it the daily question from women with New York University and est universities in the world and has already given me so much of, “How do I feed my family Columbia coaching and teach- a tremendous place to get per- through the scholarship. today?” I had never met people ing social entrepreneurship. spective on international rela- TR: Your time in Bangladesh, who hadn’t eaten something for I’m also studying racism, look- tions and politics. Without that specifically when you first days, so when I was confronted ing into other social justice scholarship, who knows what I went in the mid-1980s for the with extreme poverty – women movements, and thinking about gender liberation. I still serve on several boards, in- cluding a start-up board called Learn With All, which is a technology company focused on the joy of learning. I’m still working to end extreme pov- erty and am involved in the Rotarian Action Group for Microfinance and Community Development. If I hadn’t had these experiences of seeing women slowly starving per- haps I wouldn’t feel as strongly, but I know we are rich enough and smart enough to end ex- treme poverty and hunger. It’s just a matter of political will. –ANNE STEIN J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 13 jul16-upfront-A-v4.indd 13 5/11/16 3:49 PM

up front World Roundup Rotary projects around the globe 1 ] NETHERLANDS 2 There are more than 3,000 Dutch Rotarians are using petal Jan Hol, a past governor of District varieties, and 150 power to benefit End Polio Now. What 1550 and the owner of a company that species, of tulips. began as the purchase of the rights produces cardboard packaging and to name and sell a new variety of promotional materials, created fliers 4/28/16 11:48 AM tulip during a charity auction in late and displays to generate interest. 2013 has blossomed into a continuing fundraiser involving all seven Rotary The Dutch clubs have sold the tulip districts in the Netherlands. bulbs to members and the public, and purchased them to be planted in parks. A delegation of Dutch district Clubs in nearby countries, including governors bid about $15,000 for the France and Germany, have also been rights to the flower during a televised enlisted to proffer the bulbs in a fund drive for the victims of Typhoon campaign with perennial possibilities. Haiyan in the Philippines. In the first two years of the initiative, more than 7,500 boxes of 25 End Polio Now Tulips – which match the red and yellow of the End Polio Now logo – were sold, generating about $75,000 to fight polio. by BRAD WEBBER 14 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 jul16-map-v2.indd 14

up front 2 ] MEXICO 3 ] UNITED Building on their relationship with Live Different, a charity that oversees scores of small KINGDOM construction projects in the developing world, 15 participants from the Rotary Club of Parksville AM, B.C., spent a week raising a 34-by-20-foot kindergarten classroom and office/storage space Scotland’s three Rotary districts have long made near Vicente Guerrero, Mexico. The participants paid for their own flights and a fee of about strides with their support of athletic events. The $1,500 to the Canadian nonprofit to cover meals, accommodation, local transportation, and the indoor track championship they sponsored in building materials used during the February outing. Since participants raised their own funds, February was notable for a personal connection to the club could spend its fundraising dollars on other initiatives, in a two-pronged approach to Rotary International’s history: Among the 1,400 international projects. It was the second build the club undertook with Live Different. athletes from 200 schools was Madeleine Silcock, a great-great-niece of Rotary founder Paul Harris. 3 Only 2% of the Silcock sprinted to a fifth-place finish in the 1 land in Jordan, 60-meter dash in the event, held at the Emirates which is slightly Arena in Glasgow. “When we walked into the sta- smaller than the dium and saw that it was bedecked in Rotary ban- state of Indiana, ners and Maddy’s race number even had the is arable. Rotary logo on it, we immediately thought of our family link,” says Silcock’s father, Donald. (The 4 teen’s great-great-grandmother was the sister of Harris’ wife, Jean.) “It was a great experience.” 5 5 ] JORDAN 4 ] KYRGYZSTAN The 22 members of the Rotaract Club of The Rotaract Club of Bishkek organized a soc- Amman West and nine more volunteers cer tournament for 30 orphan children, ages hoisted soil, bricks, and other materials to 10 to 14, with a goal of instilling habits of install gardens atop two apartment buildings exercise, good sportsmanship, and a healthy in the kingdom’s capital in November. The lifestyle. Four orphanages vied for the Friend- club’s Green Roof project not only beautifies a ship Cup title, which included medals and blighted neighborhood but also provides the trophies. The tournament “excited the children residents of the buildings with plots to grow who were not only happy with this event, but vegetables, says Lara Hajjara, immediate past also with the opportunity to play [against the president of the club. The project cost of about other] orphanages,” says Akim Yucel, the $1,400 per rooftop oasis was covered by club club’s immediate past president. Rotaractors fundraisers and sponsors, including the local provided transportation to the field, meals, municipality, which donated money and mate- and soccer gear, including footwear. Among rials, says Hajjara. Rotaractors weren’t ones the sponsors were six local pharmaceutical to shirk the heavy lifting – they also cleaned companies, which kicked in $1,000. the roofs and laid down and painted the bricks, and they plan to maintain the gardens. J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 15 jul16-map-v2.indd 15 4/28/16 11:49 AM

up front Former Rotary Scholar makes clothing with a conscience The way Cynthia Salim sees it, the fashion indus- to fill when she needed clothes brand of the socially con- It became a central focus of MONIKA LOZINSKA / ROTARY INTERNATIONAL try doesn’t have much to for her job in international scious, empowered woman.” her life when she won a Rotary offer a young, socially con- affairs in Geneva and later as Ambassadorial Scholarship to scious woman like her when a management consultant. So When Salim talks about pursue a master’s degree in it comes to work clothes. she decided to do something how she did it, it’s clear that human values and contempo- about it. starting her own company was rary global ethics at King’s “The fashion industry often more than just a way to make College London. does ‘sexy’ or ‘fun’ or ‘hip,’ Salim started a company to money.“I’ve always been really and things that encourage produce high-quality, classic interested in social change,” “I was so grateful to have frequent purchases, ” the women’s wear constructed of she says,“and this was such an hadthatopportunity,tohaveRo- 29-year-old says.“It’s very rare socially responsible materials interesting and unique way to tary put their trust in me and that the design community and made by fairly paid work- create change from a sector in that program, which doesn’t will design something that will ers in environmentally friendly and industry that doesn’t have have a clear career path,” Salim make a young woman look factories. It took more than as much social change work says. “But the time I had was credible and influential as well two years to source the right going on.” really valuable in helping me as timeless.” suppliers and track down part- see that there are so many ways ners who met her high stan- It’s an interest she nurtured to make change, everyone has Add“and is ethically made” dards, but in April 2015, during her undergraduate a role whether it’s in policy or to that list, and it becomes a Salim launched Citizen’s years at Loyola Marymount advocacy or business.” tall order that Salim became Mark, an online retailer that University in Los Angeles, a increasingly frustrated trying bills itself as “the lifestyle Jesuit school with a strong tra- At Loyola, Salim met Fred dition of social responsibility. Kiesner, a 52-year veteran of 16 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 jul16-upfront-b-v4.indd 16 4/28/16 9:35 AM

up front Rotary and the school’s chair OPPOSITE: Cynthia Salim founded Citizen’s Mark to produce professional clothing for socially conscious women. of entrepreneurship (now THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Salim studied human values and contemporary global ethics as a Rotary Scholar retired). Kiesner, who became in 2009-10; Salim helps a customer fit a blazer; Citizen’s Mark works with an Italian mill with high environmental standards. Salim’s mentor, remembers her COURTESY OF CYNTHIA SALIM as “probably the most ethical Biella, Italy, where she toured brands. “The cost to produce But not everyone has been and socially responsible young mills and interviewed owners something well and responsi- so encouraging. “I’ve already person I’ve ever met.” about “their track record in bly does not necessarily mean heard pressure from the indus- social and environmental a luxury markup,” she says.“In try to market Citizen’s Mark “A lot of Ambassadorial responsibility. ” When she fact, [we’re] underpriced com- as something more fun and Scholars do it for the learning found a mill that purified the pared to the competition, hip,” Salim says. Her response and the fun of living in a for- water it uses in the dyeing because the competition that’s is that she’s catering to a new eign country, which are not process before returning it to using this [same] level of fab- type of customer – a socially bad reasons,” Kiesner says. the stream, she signed up. ric and construction tends to responsible working woman “Cynthia did it because she Then it was on to Portugal, be in the luxury space, where “who loves what she does, does knew it was giving her the home of some of the world’s markups are 8, 10, 12 times” it well, and gets to wear cool, foundation and knowledge best pattern makers and suit the cost of production. (In fact, chic clothes.” upon which she would build a manufacturers, where she a check of women’s wool blaz- powerful and impactful life of found a factory that runs on ers at luxury brand Hugo Kiesner says Salim knows giving and contributing.” 30 percent solar power and Boss shows they start upwards exactly what she’s doing. “For provides living wages and of $535.) Cynthia, her company is just a Salim realized there was a full health care coverage for continuation of her values, eth- market for high-end, ethically its employees. Sales are growing steadily, ics, and social responsibility,” he made work clothes after meet- Salim says, and customer feed- says.“I taught entrepreneurship ing“all these incredibly commit- That all sounds great, but back has been positive. She says for 45 years, and we talk about ted, smart women who were expensive. So it’s surprising to an industry insider told her a social responsibility a lot in my socially conscious about all areas hear Salim say that Citizen’s few months after launch that field – an entrepreneur who cre- of their lives, whether it was the Mark’s prices, which range the brand“really resonates with ates a business that also does impact they had at work or from $425 to $475, are“incred- a message that’s clear and sharp good in the world. She is the through their purchases.” ibly competitive” with similar and strong and timely.” epitome of that.” – HEATHER MAHER Tragedies at poorly built, shoddily maintained factories – such as the Rana Plaza facil- ity in Bangladesh, which col- lapsed in 2013, killing 1,137 people – have raised consumer awareness of the garment industry’s ugly side. Workers at the factory made as little as 12 cents an hour and worked 90 to 100 hours a week, with just two days off a month. Citizen’s Mark will eventu- ally carry a full line of clothes, but for now it has just one item: a blazer available in four styles and three colors that Salim designed herself and calls the quintessential “go to” piece that every professional woman needs. Salim’s search for the high- est quality fabric took her to the historic wool mill city of J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 17 jul16-upfront-b-v4.indd 17 4/28/16 9:35 AM

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up front RECOMMENDED READING It takes more than creativity to be an original Originality is a slippery them to discover that one com- Originals generate ideas in huge thing. Is it a skill or a qual- pany controlled more than 80 ity? Something we use or percent of the market.They de- volume, including many bad achieve? Adam Grant, who cided they could do better sell- teaches psychology at the Uni- ing eyeglasses online. Warby ones alongside their good ones. versity of Pennsylvania, says it Parker was born. starts with creating something Scientists with an artistic hobby both novel and useful, followed Grant had a chance to invest by taking action to make the in the company but passed it up are many times more likely to idea a reality. Grant’s new because these kids didn’t fit his book, Originals: How Non- notion of what entrepreneurs win a Nobel Prize. And, sur- Conformists Move the World, is were like. They were too cau- about the people who create tious, too risk-averse. But after prisingly, the kind of internet those novel and useful things they went on to be wildly suc- as well as the science of origi- cessful, Grant began to question browser you use can tell you nality and how we might apply his assumptions and to research it to our lives. the real-world roots of original- how original you are. ity. This led him to a number of One key to originality is realizations: Successful entre- On the one hand, Originals what Grant calls vuja de, which preneurs are often more risk- is the opposite of déjà vu. It averse than the average person. may seem like a highly readable means to see something famil- grab bag of counterintuitive in- iar with a fresh perspective. This, in turn, allows us to sights. But Grant also boils his imagine solutions to a problem we may not have seen before. lessons down to an actionable Such was the case with some list at the back of the book. As of Grant’s students who started to wonder why eyeglasses were such, it reads as part business, so expensive. This question led part science, and part life hack. But from start to finish, it is novel and useful. Which is to say: original. –FRANK BURES StompingTBD Out Burglary, One Home at a Time ½ h - 7\" × 4.4375\" How One Engineer Changed Home Security Forever After his friends were viciously robbed, Chad Yale, he designed an advanced home security Laurans discovered a serious problem in the system. He called it SimpliSafe. home security industry. His friends wanted to feel safe at home again. But every alarm Now it’s the fastest growing home security company charged $45 a month and locked company in the nation. SimpliSafe won’t them in a 3-year contract. These demands lock you in a contract and 24/7 professional were just too high. monitoring is only $14.99 a month. So Chad Built Something New. Relying on his degrees from Harvard and ZULEMA WILLIAMS 10 Chad Laurans, founder and CEO of SimpliSafe, invented a smarter way to protect your home SimpliSafe.com/TAKE10 J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 19 11:44 AM JjuUl1L61-6up-fRroontta-rCia-vn3M.inadind Co1n9former_v0.indd 19 5/194//1268/176:1311P:4M4CADMT

WHERE IN THE WORLD 4/28/16 10:44 AM Del Rio, Texas Everything’s bigger in Texas. That includes the Rotary Club of Del Rio’s Independence Day Rodeo, the club’s biggest fundraiser of the year (photo- graphed here by EMILE G. ABBOTT, a member of the club). The day kicks off with a children’s stick horse race and includes rodeo events such as bareback and saddle bronc riding, team roping, and barrel racing. Color guards from the U.S. Border Patrol and the local Air Force base participate in the opening ceremonies, and bull riding ends the day. The event, which began in 2004, nets the club about $30,000 annually. jul16-Upfront-panoramic-v3.indd 20

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up front July 1st 10th GOOD TO BE 100 GET ON YOUR BIKE AND RIIIIDE EVENT: Centennial Celebration EVENT: Bike-A-Thon Ride for Hearing HOST: Rotary Club of Albuquerque, N.M. HOST: Rotary Club of Vancouver, B.C. WHAT IT BENEFITS: Explora, a hands-on science center WHAT IT BENEFITS: Charities that benefit the deaf and hard of hearing WHAT IT IS: The Rotary Club of Albuquerque was founded 100 years ago – a mere four years after New in British Columbia Mexico became the 47th state. Join the club for WHAT IT IS: For the 32nd year, cyclists will take on 120K between the grand finale celebration of its yearlong centennial project, a new exhibit area at Explora Vancouver and Harrison Hot Springs Resort. At the end called Working Together to Build a Village. of the ride, participants can soak weary muscles in the resort pool and enjoy access to the spa followed 3LACE UP rd by a post-race celebration. The event has raised CA$2.8 million over the past 31 years. THOSE SHOES EVENT: The Black Country Road Run HOST: Rotary Club of Halesowen & Rowley Regis, England 25t-h 30th WHAT IT BENEFITS: Local charities CLIMB EVERY WHAT IT IS: Whether you’re revved and ready to take on a 10K, MOUNTAIN or a 5K “fun run” is more your speed, you won’t want to miss the festivities as more than 1,000 runners hit the streets of Halesowen. The run kicks off the Black Country Festival, a series of independently EVENT: The Climb to End Polio Now organized events throughout July celebrating the HOST: Rotary District 7680 (North Carolina) culture of the Black Country region. WHERE: Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania WHAT IT BENEFITS: End Polio Now WHAT IT IS: A group from District 7680 will climb Mount Kilimanjaro 4th over five days, each raising at least $3,000 in donations HAPPY BIRTHDAY, USA above their trip costs. The climbers will be joined by Charlotte-South Rotary member Macon Dunnagan, who EVENT: Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza has summited Kilimanjaro an impressive 36 times. HOST: Rotary Club of Simi Valley, Calif. WHAT IT BENEFITS: Local charities WHAT IT IS: For the 47th year, Simi Valley Rotary teams up with the City of Simi Valley to host a free day of games, entertainment, live music, food, and, of course, a brilliant fireworks display to cap it off. Tell us about your club’s event. RACHEL WALLIS Write to [email protected] with “calendar” in the subject line. 4/28/16 11:38 AM 22 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 jul16-calendar-v3.indd 22

column C U L T U R E Open to interpretation Pick up a book, and borders fall away by FRANK BURES DAVE CUTLER W henever I arrive in a new day – titles like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s One Life- between Two Covers: Reading the country, one of the first time Is Not Enough and Shirley MacLaine’s Globe, writer Ann Morgan notes places I go is a book- Going Within.Their pages were then bound that the University Library at Cam- store. I do this for several reasons. into massive bales that went on to be reborn bridge adds roughly 500 books to Having spent much of my life and its collection every day – one every income in them, I always find as other things (with luck, more books). 2.88 minutes. them to be comforting spaces. And they often stock more spe- Most recently, I wrote a book myself. In 2009, 500,000 English- cific maps and guides than you can language books were published get outside the country. That may be why I’ve never put much worldwide. But very few non- English books are translated into But the real reason I love these stock in the technophiles and futurists our language. In 2008 in the UK places is that by scanning the titles and Ireland, only 4.37 percent of for sale – just gazing down the who’ve been predicting the end of printed the literary works published were spines – I can get a glimpse of how translations, according to Morgan. people in that country see them- books since the dawn of the internet. To- She began to wonder about all the selves. What stories do they tell? books and stories that she was What stories do they read? What day, the end of books seems further away missing, and she decided to take books do they print? And what do on a methodical and audacious they import from abroad? And though this than ever: Total printed book sales rose project: to spend a year reading a book is harder in countries where I don’t speak from every country on the planet. the language, I go anyway. Sometimes you 2.4 percent in 2014 and 2.8 percent in This presented several problems. First, can tell what genres are selling – what that how many countries are there? This might country’s readers want to know and what 2015. In her own new book, The World seem like a simple matter, but it’s not. The they aspire to be. number usually cited is 196, including Tai- wan. But as Morgan points out in her I’ve experienced almost every corner of book, some 270 national flags are flying the book industry: I have bought and read around the world, and 280 country-code and loved books, of course. I have sorted internet domains are recognized by and sold them at one of the world’s largest ICANN, the authority on such things. bookstores. I’ve scouted them at rummage There are places such as Western Sahara, sales to sell myself. For a few months I Gibraltar, and Palestine – places whose worked in a book recycling factory, where residents feel they live in their own country, we chopped up 30,000 pounds of books a J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 23 jul16-23-26-column-culture-v3.indd 23 4/18/16 9:54 AM

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WHERE CAN YOU⅔T Bv D\"× \" column C U L T U R E LEARN TO BE A MORE EFFECTIVE ROTARIAN? Many of the books that I love – Kenyan writer Ngu~g~ı wa Thiong’o’s Mati- THE LEARNING gari, Nigerian author Chris Abani’s Grace- CENTER PUTS THE Land, Ugandan writer Doreen Baingana’s TRAINING YOU WANT Tropical Fish – are fun for me because I’ve AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. spent time in those places. I can remem- ber the sounds and the voices. Reading GET STARTED AT ROTARY.ORG/MYROTARY those books is like going back for a visit. I have been to the bookshops there 26 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 and pulled the books off the shelf myself, JjuUl1L61-623--R26o-tcaorilaunmMn-aciunltCuoren-fvo3r.minedrd_v02.6indd 26 then walked out into the streets they de- scribe. I can recall the sounds and voices surrounding the stories that unfold in their pages. Every book is a kind of journey. And just as when we board a plane for a coun- try we’ve never been to, a book from a new place contains the thrill of not knowing what you will find when you arrive.“Page by page,” Morgan writes,“these regions … became living, breathing entities, as if their stories had made them real.” That is what books do: They make our stories real, physical. They turn our ideas into tangible things. They are like rafts where we put the things we believe in and hope for. Then we push them out to sea. Perhaps that’s why, when Morgan an- nounced her project, people from around the world rushed to offer suggestions and help with translations. Some even sent her books from their local shops, in the hope that their stories could cross over into the larger world. In his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury imagined a world where books were so powerful the government sent its “firemen” to burn them because they threatened the world it wanted to exist. One character, looking back, recalls: “Books were … where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” n Frank Bures is a frequent contributor to The Rotarian. His book, The Geography of Madness, was published in April. 5/19/41/618/71:6149P:5M4CADMT rotaria

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column H E A L T H Survival of the Fitbittest You know you’re getting healthier. So does everyone else by STEVE ALMOND I n the seven days from 7 through The problem began with Week 2. I My friend Tom posted: “The DAVE CUTLER 13 March, I took precisely would rather not get specific about my stats, dudes at my office have thrown 84,250 steps. This amounted to but let us say that they fell significantly be- down a department-wide challenge. 39.85 miles. I also climbed 288 low projections. Part of the reason for this Whoever puts up the most steps floors and burned 22,055 calories. was my wife, who forbade me from lending during the week gets free drinks at my Fitbit to our children. But I suppose if happy hour on Friday.” I’m fairly certain that you, gentle I’m honest about it, I deserve some of the readers, could not care less about blame. It turns out to be quite hard to rack I can understand the appeal of those statistics. Unless, of course, up steps while lying on a couch. this uniquely American arrange- you’re one of the millions of gentle ment, in which heart-healthy be- readers who have joined America’s For tech nerds and gym rats alike, wear- havior is rewarded with free fitness self-surveillance movement able fitness trackers are old news. They’ve alcohol. The problem is, I don’t by strapping a tracking device to become a multibillion-dollar industry. An work in an office. I work at home. your wrist. In which case, you are alarming number of my friends use them. I don’t have office dudes who throw probably pretty darned impressed My Facebook friends, anyway. down department-wide challenges. by my stats. I have little kids who hurl half- eaten cereal bars at my door. I should therefore add a few cru- cial caveats. But I am also nearing 50 years old, and the men in my family have Caveat No. 1: That week was my a long tradition of celebrating their 75th first wearing a Fitbit. birthdays by having heart attacks. So I re- cently purchased a Fitbit that monitors Caveat No. 2: I have three small children, heart rate and sleep quality. including a toddler who has been described After wearing the sucker for six weeks by her physician, charitably, as“high energy.” solid, my fitness level did improve. My stress level about my fitness level also skyrocketed. Caveat No. 3: I did, from time to time, I now find myself doing all kinds of ridicu- allow the children to borrow my Fitbit. I lous things, such as jogging to the super- also encouraged them to take quick jogs market to pick up grapes and volunteering around the block. to take our neighbor’s incontinent dog for his morning constitutional. So perhaps those figures were a bit Toward the end of a recent date night, I inflated. consulted my Fitbit and muttered the fol- Nonetheless, I emerged from my first week with a kind of turbocharged confi- dence in my capacity to improve my fitness. I was pretty sure I was going to live forever. 28 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 jun16-28-31-column-v3.indd 28 4/18/16 10:12 AM

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J ust before John Germ dropped by, Rick don’t see it as a problem. I don’t believe in problems Previous pages: Chatta- Youngblood took a deep breath. “You – I believe in opportunities.” nooga, Tenn., nicknamed want to match his energy,” he says,“but the Scenic City, as seen he makes it hard to keep up.” Young- The son of a stonemason, who built the family from John Germ’s down- blood is the president and CEO of home with his own hands, excavating its foundation town office. Clockwise with a shovel and a wheelbarrow, Germ developed from top left: Reminders Blood Assurance, a regional blood bank in Chat- his work ethic early in life. Nothing came easily. of Germ’s many causes tanooga, Tenn., that Germ helped found in 1972. Other schoolboys made fun of his name – “they hang in framed photos After his visit with Youngblood, Germ strode be- called me ‘Bacteria’ ” – and his parents couldn’t af- on the walls at his office; Germ with Rick Young- tween mountains of empty bottles and cans at ford college tuition. After a stint in vocational blood, CEO of Blood As- Chattanooga’s John F. Germ Recycling Center at school, he paid his way through the University of surance, the blood bank Orange Grove, which he designed, before he drove Tennessee at Knoxville by working in a machine Germ helped found; with architect Vance Travis to a construction site and popped a cork to dedicate shop and serving food in a dorm cafeteria. After at the city’s new Miracle a Miracle League field where special needs children graduating, he joined the U.S. Air Force. Soon pro- League field, where will play baseball – all before zipping to the airport moted to captain, he was navigator on a 50-ton children with special needs will play baseball; for a flight to Chicago and a cab ride to Rotary In- Douglas C-124, ferrying troops and tanks to Viet- Blood Assurance supplies more than 100,000 units ternational World Headquarters, where he takes nam. “Unfortunately,” he says, “we flew home with of blood per year. office as president of RI this month. soldiers’ bodies.” In 1965 Germ’s C-124 carried the Why the breakneck pace?“I don’t have hobbies,” Gemini IV space capsule to Cape Kennedy. On an- he says. “Civic work is my recreation.” other mission, the giant plane lost two engines and Not long ago Germ, 77, spent a raucous evening skimmed the ocean, shaking like a bumper car all at the Chattanooga Convention Center, enjoying the way back to base. “When we landed, we found jokes at his expense.“John is a very influential per- seaweed hanging off the fuselage,” he says. “That’s son,” his friend Harry Fields announced from the how close we came to a watery grave.” podium.“I can’t tell you how many people emulate When Germ’s military service ended, he joined him … at Halloween. I mean, he’s the epitome of engineering firm Campbell & Associates in his tall, dark, and handsome. When it’s dark, he’s hometown. His boss, George Campbell, liked the handsome! ” Nobody laughed harder than the young flier’s can-do attitude. “Within 10 years,” guest of honor at the celebration of his contribu- Germ told him, “I’ll either own some of this com- tions, which was referred to as the “roast of John pany or I’ll be your biggest competitor.” He wasn’t Germ.” The dinner raised more than $75,000 for wrong. He eventually became chairman and CEO Chattanooga State Community College. In closing, of the firm, which went on to serve Chattanooga’s Fields noted Germ’s contribution to his commu- airport, its most prominent hospital, several down- nity and the world: “100 percent of himself – and town high-rises, and the Convention Center. One everyone else he can shake down!” “A legendary fundraiser, Germ led Rotary’s We’ve got a service-minded generation $200 Million Challenge, an effort sparked by a challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates coming up. We’ve got to get our message Foundation. Rotarians ultimately exceeded that number, raising $228.7 million to fight polio. He ”out to them, and we’d better do it fast. has already served Rotary as vice president and director, and The Rotary Foundation as vice of his challenges was a new cineplex, where the chair and trustee. His contributions to the fight to owner gave him a warning that puzzled him at first: eradicate polio led to his selection as one of 12 “Don’t make the air conditioning too good.” U.S. Rotarians honored at the White House in Germ asked,“Why not?” 2013 as a “Champion of Change ” – someone “Because the customers need to smell the who has improved communities around the world. popcorn; we make most of our money at the conces- As president, Germ chose three simple, no- sion stand.” nonsense words to be the theme of his year: Rotary As president, Germ wants to “find the popcorn smell that’ll bring people to Rotary. And what is Serving Humanity. “Rotary has kept its light under a bushel for too that? Service. We’ve got a service-minded generation long,” he says. “We need to do a better job of pro- coming up. We’ve got to get our message out to moting our cause. That’s the challenge ahead, but I them, and we’d better do it fast.” J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 35 JohnGerm_8pgs-v6.indd 35 5/10/16 8:54 AM

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Part of that message, he says, is that polio hasn’t While preparing for his presidential term, he Opposite: Germ at been eradicated yet. We may be “this close,” but stayed in touch with friends and allies – often from the recycling center he there were still 74 cases worldwide last year (all in the nerve center of his world, a maroon leather La- designed, a repurposed Pakistan and Afghanistan). His own father was Z-Boy recliner in his comfortable home on the dairy plant. Above: With struck with the disease as an adult. “We were on a Tennessee River. He designed the house himself. Orange Grove Center fishing trip when my brother said, ‘Daddy can’t He hangs corncobs on the poplars out back to feed Executive Director Kyle walk,’ ” Germ recalls. “We carried him back to the the squirrels that run around his porch. His desk Hauth, whose clients car. Doctors said he’d never stand up again, but he holds a photo of Germ dressed as Elvis Presley, en- work at the facility. Germ did exercises. He tied an iron weight to his leg and tertaining at a district conference, and a plaque his inspects the recycling tried to lift it. Little by little he got to where he could wife brought home from the local Hobby Lobby. center from time to time lift that weight and wave it around. He walked with The plaque reads,“Integrity is doing the right thing as workers sort recycla- a limp after that, but he walked.” Germ thinks he when no one else is watching.”“It made me think of bles into mountains of inherited a little of his father’s stubbornness.“I don’t John,” says Judy Germ. bottles and cans. give up easily either,” he says. Since her husband of 57 years became president- He’s certainly not giving up on supporting polio elect last fall,“Rotary has consumed our lives,” she eradication – and he’s calling on Rotarians to follow says.“In a good way.” his lead by urging every Rotary club to give at least $2,650 to fight polio during his term, which is also His presidency marks the apex of a life devoted The Rotary Foundation’s centennial year. The to service. Previously active in the Jaycees, Germ number commemorates the first donation – of joined the Rotary Club of Chattanooga in 1976. $26.50, made by the Rotary Club of Kansas City, A natural leader and inveterate schmoozer, he has Mo., in 1917 – to the Foundation. During the 2017 set fundraising records for Rotary and other orga- Rotary International Convention, a birthday cele- nizations. The Blood Assurance program grew bration is also planned for Arch Klumph with from a single blood draw into a regional network tickets costing $26.50. If that all sounds a little that supplies over 70 health centers in the South- gimmicky, fine. “If we can get people to pay atten- east with more than 100,000 units a year. It began tion,” Germ says, “they’ll see that Rotary is doing when the United Way sent three doctors to the great things in the world.” Chattanooga Jaycees to seek help with a blood shortage, recalls Germ’s friend and co-founder of J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 37 JohnGerm_8pgs-v6.indd 37 5/10/16 8:55 AM

Blood Assurance, Dan Johnson. “John was the hearing his mom and dad cheer when he plays?” Jaycees president and I was treasurer, so I got to Another of his causes, the First in the Family watch him in action,” Johnson says.“When he goes program at Chattanooga State, provides scholar- to work, he never looks back. From nothing, we ships for students who couldn’t attend college grew to our current budget of $29 million.” With otherwise. Flora Tydings, the school’s president, help from Germ, Johnson, and others, Blood calls Germ “an excellent role model to many of our Assurance got its message out: Donating a pint students who, like him, are the first in their family of blood is a painless way to spend 30 minutes to attend college.” and save three lives. Today his schedule changes daily – sometimes “My question isn’t ‘How many meetings hourly – as he keeps up with the duties of his new office. On his agenda, he says he would like to see Rotary operate more like a business. “We’ve been did you make?’ It’s ‘How are you making getting leaner, and I’d like to speed that up. In Janu- ary, for instance, we’re going to hold our Board ”a difference in your community?’ meeting in Chicago instead of San Diego. That means we won’t have to fly a couple dozen staff “We owe much of our success to John Germ,” members to San Diego and put them up there. It’s says Youngblood. “To me, he epitomizes three as- just common sense.” He wants to shorten Board pects of leadership: He’s a gentleman at all times, meetings, shrink some RI committees, and save he’s compassionate to all people, and he’s an achiever. money on committee meetings to make Rotary If John can’t get something done, it probably can’t more cost-effective. be done.” Half a century after landing his last C-124, Germ According to Fields, Germ’s success as a fund- sees himself as Rotary’s navigator, plotting a course raiser comes from his out-of-the-box thinking.“Go toward a bright future. “It’s going to be a team ef- back to the ’90s, when he was district governor. fort,” he says. His main target after polio will be People thought of him as Mr. Chattanooga. We Rotary’s static membership. On that issue, he says, bought a barrel of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in honor “The fault is with us, the current Rotarians.” He of [well-known Tennessee Rotarian] Bill Sergeant. wants members to “step up their outreach. I really A barrel is 266 bottles’ worth, so we gave one bottle think one of our main problems is that we don’t ask from that barrel to anyone who donated $1,000, and enough people to join. Why? For fear of rejection. we raised $250,000.” The two men have often We need to get over that – to get out there and bring tended bar for charity, wearing matching aprons in new members we’ll be proud of.” marked “Bar” and “Tender.”“My friend John is my To appeal to younger members, he supports a greatest hero,” says Fields. new move (approved at the Council on Legislation At the recycling plant Germ converted from a in April) that allows membership in Rotaract and run-down dairy in 1989, adults with developmental Rotary at the same time. “I’m all in favor of that,” disabilities sort tons of recyclables into great stacks he says. of bottles and cans.“He has been involved in every It doesn’t stop there. Germ supports flexibility in Clockwise from top left: bit of what happens here, from engineering the many Rotary matters.“Our clubs have always been Germ and his wife, Judy, at their riverside home building to helping us negotiate contracts with the organized around a meal. Lunch and dinner were in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., city,” says Tera Roberts, director of adult services part of our dues, and that system served us well. But which he designed; Judy for the center. Few of the employees would have a society has changed,” he says. Rotary International with their wedding job if not for the recycling center, and they can keep is catching up by allowing clubs more leeway in portrait and John’s Uni- anything interesting they come across. One worker when and how they meet. “How do we accommo- versity of Tennessee grad- found a crumpled $100 bill. date the 30-year-old businessperson raising a uation photo; the Germs’ luggage – John is known To finance the city’s new Miracle League field, family? Well, for one thing, we could pay less atten- to keep a bag packed – as one of the best-equipped in the country, Germ tion to attendance,” he adds. “My question isn’t they prepare to head to enlisted co-sponsors including Berkshire Hatha- ‘How many meetings did you make?’ It’s ‘How are the airport; with Judy way, BlueCross BlueShield, and his own Rotary you making a difference in your community?’ ” n in the den, John sits in a recliner he refers to as his Club of Chattanooga.“Every kid should be able to Kevin Cook’s latest book is The Dad Report: Fathers, headquarters, staying in play sports,” he says.“It’s not just for the child, but Sons, and Baseball Families. touch with the wider Ro- the whole family. What’s better than a child tary world on his laptop. 38 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 JohnGerm_8pgs-v6.indd 38 5/10/16 8:55 AM

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A HISTORY OF THE  ROTARY FOUNDATION as reported in the pages of The Rotarian This month, The Rotary Foundation kicks off the celebration of its centennial year. Founded only a few years after organizations such as the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, our Foundation was the brainchild of Arch C. Klumph, Rotary’s president in 1916-17. At the 1917 convention in Atlanta, he proposed establishing an endowment “for the purpose of doing good in the world.” Since then, The Rotarian magazine has reported on the Foundation’s milestones, covered projects it has funded, and featured the people who have benefited from its scholarship, exchange, and training programs. Take a look back at the past 100 years. The August 1917 issue carried In April 1929, Klumph wrote an essay for the magazine, Klumph’s words to all Rotarians. noting: “Primarily the endowment fund is established to provide a way by which Rotarians who have a true vision of the great possibilities of Rotary in the future, and being possessed of surplus funds, may have the privilege and satisfaction of leaving something, which will assist in carrying the ideals of Rotary on, in perpetuity.” In December 1944, with the world at war, many Rotarians made donations in the form of war bonds payable to The Rotary Foundation. 40 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 5/12/16 2:32 PM Foundation_14.indd 40

Klumph’s death the previous month was reported in the July 1951 issue. His memorial in the August 1951 issue read in part: “It comes seldom to any man within his lifetime to experience so abun- dantly the fulfillment of his hopes and his dreams.” In the February 1947 issue, an article titled In November 1956, Rotarians observed the first Foundation Week “Young Leaders in the Making” announced (which became Foundation Month in 1983). The magazine’s editors the Foundation’s plans for its first program: suggested celebrating by having a Rotary Fellow (as scholars were scholarships for international graduate study. then known) speak at a club meeting; publicizing Foundation Week on radio and television; making sure 100 percent of your club mem- bers have donated; and writing a check to the Foundation yourself. In April 1957, the magazine reported on the Board’s decision to create Paul Harris Fellow recognition for certain donors to the Foundation. Rotary founder Paul Harris died in By November 1950, the In November 1957, Rotarians marked the 40th January 1947. During the next magazine reported, the anniversary of the Foundation. The magazine 18 months, Rotarians contributed Foundation had received showcased creative ways clubs and individual $1.3 million to the Foundation in his $2.5 million in contribu- members were raising and donating funds. memory. In April 1947, the magazine tions. Up to that point, reported on the spontaneous dona- most of the Foundation’s tions that were being made in his work had been related to honor. By February 1949, contribu- war relief, with its Am- tions had reached almost $1.5 million. bassadorial Scholarship program just taking off. J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 41 Foundation_14.indd 41 5/12/16 2:32 PM

The November 1960 issue For its first project fund- In the June 1980 issue, broke the news of a huge ed by the Foundation’s the magazine reported uptick in donations: “Up to new Health, Hunger, and that the 3-H program’s 1947, Rotarians had contrib- Humanity (3-H) grants, polio immunization uted $700,000 to The Rotary Rotary committed to project was expanding Foundation. Since then they a five-year program to to Africa and other con- have contributed nearly 6.5 immunize children in tinents, with the goal of million dollars! In 1959-60, the Philippines against eradicating the disease Rotarians contributed polio. The Rotarian throughout the world. $695,000, about $330,000 dedicated its December of which was used to provide 1979 cover to the story. grants to 126 Fellows.” In January 1965, the magazine reported The Foundation began on the new Group Study Exchange program. awarding scholarships The July 1966 issue highlighted several for vocational and teams’ experiences – including a group from technical training in Connecticut touring an auto plant in Brazil. 1962. In November 1967, “Diary of a Tech 42 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 Trainee” detailed the experiences of Ma- Foundation_14.indd 42 laysian horticulturist Chelliah Veluppillay. Our November 1984 issue reported that the 3-H program was funding immunization projects in 15 countries, along with large projects focused on health care, education, community development, agriculture, and water and sanitation. In 1983-84, the Foundation approved 15 new grants totaling $3.86 million. 5/12/16 2:33 PM

In 1988, spurred by Rotary’s fundraising success, the World Health Assembly set a goal of worldwide polio eradication and launched the Global Polio Eradication Ini- tiative (GPEI). The magazine reported on Rotary’s leader- ship role in February 1989. During the first National Immunization Day under PolioPlus, held in Paraguay on 28 September 1985, a total of 468,473 children received the vaccine. In April 1986, the magazine reported: “The PolioPlus program received the enthusiastic support of the entire country. We found everyone … had pulled together for a common cause. Rotarians actively cooperated with nearly every public and private organization in the country. … Rotarians also launched an extensive publicity campaign to explain the importance of the PolioPlus program.” In September 1985, The May 1988 issue The December 1988 issue carried a dra- the magazine reported brought Rotarians a matic announcement made at the Rotary that “because control of report of the first Rotary International Convention in Philadel- polio is only one sector Peace Forum, held in phia: The PolioPlus campaign, which of a broad battlefront to February in Evanston, Ill. had aimed to raise $120 million, had improve child health, raised almost $220 million. (That num- the Polio 2005 program ber was later revised to $247 million.) has acquired a name that reflects its ultimate goal: ‘PolioPlus.’ ” The Board and the Trustees also “have agreed to undertake, with public support, a campaign to raise the necessary funds for the PolioPlus program, with a financial goal of $120 million.” J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 43 Foundation_14.indd 43 5/12/16 2:33 PM

In November 1991, the magazine reported: “The WHO The November 2000 issue featured In 2000, the Western Pacific estimates that the global immunization effort prevented the new Rotary Centers for Interna- region was declared polio-free, and about 445,000 cases of paralytic polio last year” and tional Studies, which past RI Presi- in February 2001, the magazine “In October 1991 … the United Nations celebrated the dent Bill Huntley called “one of the featured the last child in the region achievement of Universal Child Immunization – most important, most far-reaching meaning that 80 percent of the world’s children are initiatives to come from The Rotary to have contracted the virus. being immunized against six childhood diseases: measles, Foundation in a generation.” diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, tuberculosis, and poliomy- elitis.” WHO and UNICEF called this achievement “the greatest public health success story of the past decade.” In 1999, the Trustees created the Bequest Society to recognize those who leave at least $10,000 to The Rotary Foundation. The April 2001 issue reported that modest-living couple Paul and Jean Elder had left $7 million to the Foundation. The September 1993 issue included By December 1994, there was major news: a photo of Kezia Anne Bautista of the Polio was gone from the Western Hemisphere. Philippines, the 500 millionth child to be immunized against polio through the GPEI. 5/12/16 2:33 PM 44 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 Foundation_14.indd 44

In October 2002, more headline news: The European region was polio-free. In the November 2005 issue, Trustee Chair Frank Devlyn told Rotarians about the new Future Vision Committee, “which is addressing the question of what our Foundation will become in the next 10 or 20 years.” In June 2002, The Rotarian reported that The Rotary In January 2008, Rotarians were “up Foundation received the $1 million Gates Award for Global to the challenge” of meeting the $100 Health from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In September 2004, In April 2009, The the magazine high- Rotarian reported that lighted two members Rotary was partnering of the first class of with USAID to launch Rotary Peace Fellows the International H2O working in Bosnia. Collaboration to improve drinking water, sanitation, Foundation_14.indd 45 and hygiene. In July 2004, Trustee In March 2009, the magazine told Chair Carlo Ravizza’s readers that the Gates Foundation was announcement at the 2004 convention in pledging an additional $255 million in Osaka, Japan, of the matching funds for an additional $100 Every Rotarian, Every million from Rotary. The new total would Year initiative inspired be $555 million for polio eradication. Rotarians to contribute to the Annual Fund. J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 45 5/12/16 2:33 PM

In October 2010, the magazine reported that the three-year trial of a new grant model, the Future Vision pilot, had begun. As part of the pilot, districts also began to sponsor vocational training teams and align grant projects with Rotary’s six areas of focus. After the Foundation adopted the new grant model world- wide, the November 2013 issue featured projects funded by the global and district grants. Vocational training teams, funded by district or global grants, were highlighted in April 2013, when the magazine covered a group of California nurses who traveled to Kenya to conduct advanced training. In June 2012, the magazine reported that The October 2012 The August 2014 cover celebrated the South- Rotarians had raised more than $200 million issue celebrated In- east Asia region being declared polio-free. for polio eradication in response to the $355 dia’s removal from the million in grants from the Gates Foundation. list of polio-endemic countries after a year without a new case. 46 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 5/12/16 2:34 PM Foundation_14.indd 46

The Foundation earned a The celebration four-star rating from Char- of the century ity Navigator and moved up 35 spots to rank at No. 85 In 2016-17, Rotary clubs will celebrate The Rotary Foun- on the Chronicle of Philan- dation’s centennial by showcasing its rich history and thropy’s list of the top 400 good work. But what’s the best way to tell your community U.S. nonprofits, the March about the Foundation’s track record of improving life in 2015 issue reported. communities worldwide, about End Polio Now, the Rotary Peace Centers, or your own club’s global grant projects? In November 2015, Tunji Funsho, chair of Nigeria’s Plan a Rotary Day event focused on the Foundation. PolioPlus Committee, spoke Here are some ideas to get your club started – feel free to with the magazine about his adapt them or come up with ideas of your own. Whatever country’s recent milestone – you do, encourage the community to be a part of it. And one year without a case of be sure to prominently display your club name and The the wild poliovirus. Rotary Foundation centennial logo, and share your photos and stories on social media using #TRF100. The October 2015 issue In May 2016, Trustee Chair Ray reported on the World Klinginsmith unveiled plans “The Rotary Foundation supports so many good proj- Polio Day event in New ects,” says John Germ, who is RI president during this York City. This year’s World for the Foundation’s centennial centennial year. “Rotarians often do these good works Polio Day will be held on celebrations, starting at the without much publicity. This year we have the oppor- 24 October at the Centers tunity to create awareness through publicity, especially for Disease Control and convention in Korea and con- through social media, and to attract more members and Prevention in Atlanta. tinuing over the coming year. engage them in projects to build a better future.” • Sponsor a centennial walk, run, or bicycle race • Organize a centennial concert featuring local talent • At a local festival, sponsor a Taste of Rotary booth that features foods from various Rotary countries and provides information about Rotary and its Foundation • Set up a Foundation alumni reunion, inviting past Rotary Scholars and Group Study Exchange and vocational training team members • Organize a seminar with local experts discussing one of Rotary’s six areas of focus • At a community event, distribute bottled water bearing a label promoting Rotary’s water and sanitation efforts • Organize a drive to collect 100 items related to Rotary’s areas of focus – books, water treatment kits, first aid kits – and donate them to local organizations at a centennial event • Plant 100 trees or create a community garden • Hold a 100-hour service marathon • Organize a Rotary Day cleanup in a local park and encourage community volunteers to join in Visit rotary.org/foundation100 for more resources. Order copies of the Foundation centennial book, Doing Good in the World: The Inspiring Story of The Rotary Foundation’s First 100 Years, at shop.rotary.org. J U LY 2 0 1 6 | THE ROTARIAN 47 Foundation_14.indd 47 5/12/16 2:34 PM

IF WE’RE SO CLOSE TO ERADICATING POLIO, WHY DO WE STILL NEED $1.5 BILLION TO FINISH THE JOB? KHAULA JAMIL WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN 48 T H E R O T A R I A N | J U L Y 2 0 1 6 TO END POLIO Poli_ver14.indd 48 by Erin Biba 5/11/16 12:57 PM