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Tom von Berg - Paul Harris Fellow
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Tom von Berg and Greg Maciolek
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Tom von Berg became the club's 16th Paul Harris Fellow in a presentation made at the club's regular meeting on August 18th by club president, Greg Maciolek.
Tom has been a member of the Knoxville Breakfast Club for 7 years and is the immediate past president. Tom now serves as the publicity chair.
The Paul Harris Fellowship is name for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary with three business associates in Chicago in 1905. The Fellowship was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for a contribution of $1,000 to the humanitarian and educational programs of The Rotary Foundation. Those programs include an array of projects that save and invigorate the lives of people around the world and enhance international friendship and understanding. Foundation programs provide educational opportunities, food, potable water, health care, immunizations, and shelter for millions of people. These activites are funded, implemented and managed by Rotarians and Rotary clubs around the world.
Congratulations to Tom on this honor and for his generous contribution to The Rotary Foundation.
End Polio Now Bears for Sale
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End Polio Now Bear
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The Knoxville Breakfast Rotary Club is selling End Polio Now Bears for $20 each to raise money to continue to battle against polio.
A brief history of PolioPlus
Since PolioPlus began in 1985, Rotary’s vast network of 1.2 million members has contributed money, volunteer time, and networking expertise to the polio eradication effort.
Rotary’s financial contributions to the global polio eradication effort will reach nearly US$1.2 billion by the time the world is certified polio-free.
Rotary’s leadership, beginning in 1985, inspired the World Health Assembly to pass a resolution to eradicate polio, which paved the way for the formation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988.
Thousands of Rotarians around the world have volunteered during National Immunization Days to immunize children.
The PolioPlus program helps Rotary fund operational costs, such as transportation, vaccine delivery, social mobilization, and training of health workers, and support surveillance activities. Read more about what happens before, during, and after a National Immunization Day (NID).
Rotarians work to encourage both donor and polio-affected governments to commit the political and financial resources needed to eradicate polio.
You can order yoru End Polio Now Bear from any club member or contact us at rotary@imrtn.com to arrange for the purchase. All proceeds goes directly to the PolioPlus fund to End Polio Now.
Membership Update:
Current Membership: 24
Membership Goal: 35
New Members This Year: 0
Delta: -11
