Rotary District 6000 First Quarter Iowa USA (July-August- Tom Narak, Governor September 2018) District 6000 News ROTARY'S GIFT TO THE WORLD Bronze statue at Blank Children's Hospital will tell the story of polio eradication to future generations 2 District 6000 News, First Quarter 2018-19 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL A Global Network of Community Volunteers One Rotary Center Polio statue inspires! If Rotary doesn't tell our story big and bold within five years of 1560 Sherman Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 the eradication of polio, we will have failed from a public relations Phone: (847) 866-3000 standpoint. – Ed Futa, General Secretary Fax: (847) 328-8554 Rotary International, 2008 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Dear Rotarians and Friends of Rotary, Barry Rassin, Nassau, Bahamas These words of our general secretary to the members of the RI Public Image Resource Group 10 years ago stuck with me and DISTRICT 6000 • Iowa USA should be taken to heart by all who have shared www.rotary6000.org our vision of a polio-free world. Now that Rotary and our partners are "this close" to eradication – DISTRICT GOVERNOR which when completed will be the world's great- Tom Narak est service project – they must be taken seriously. 5700 Aspen Drive Polio is barely on the radar screen of our West Des Moines, IA 50266 younger members, and when this once-feared (515) 229-9846 disease is gone, who will remember that in 1985
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