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Monday, June 25, 2001
Gary's fond adieu
Gary reviewed the club activities for his year and the challenges facing the new executive.
He spoke of the changeover in Management of the local Easter Seals organization and the implications for our club in terms of
finances, club mandate and office structure.
Pictures from the President's Night at Beach Grove in the Mess Hall on Thursday June 14
Monday, June 18, 2001
Randy Groundwater - The Science of Astronomy
Randy Groundwater has been an amateur astronomer since 1968, when a neighbour chanced to show him the moon through a
small telescope. He subsequently became a member of The Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada - Windsor Centre, and through the years has served the organization in many capacities,
including President during the years 1978 - 1982, 1988, and once again for 2001.
Over the years Randy has also devoted much time to popularizing the science of
astronomy, through innumerable lectures, presentations, courses and workshops.
He continues to write a popular astronomy column in The Windsor Star, which
appears the first Saturday of each month.
Randy was born in Chatham, and raised and educated in Windsor, graduating from
the University of Windsor in 1979. He is employed by The Royal Canadian Legion - Ontario Command as a Provincial Service
Officer, and travels extensively in Southern Ontario representing veterans before Veterans Affairs Canada as well as the
Veterans Review and Appeal Board.
Randy has been married for 18 years and he and his wife Anita have two sons, John and David.
Regular meetings of the Windsor Centre are open to the general public. They are held at St. Stephen's Church located on Howard
road, 1.3 kms south of the Hwy# 3 intersection.
Meetings are normally held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December, July and August) beginning at 8:00 p.m. Our
next meeting will be held on June 19th, 2001 and everyone is welcome! For this meeting the topic will be Variable Stars.
A typical meeting consists of brief reports by centre council members, information on the night sky by our Director of Observing
plus a feature presentation by a guest speaker, along with shorter presentations by club members.
References
- Welcome to Your
Monthly Astronomy Lessons
- The Nine Planets
- Great Lakes Association of Astronomy Clubs
- QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group
- Bad Astronomy
- Cooled CCD Imaging Advanced technology allows
spectacular astronomical images to be taken.
- Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- Canadian Astronomy Links
- Introduction to Cosmology NASA
Cosmology is the study of
the origin, current state, and future of our Universe
- A Cosmic Voyage"
- Good Cosmology Sites
Monday, June 11, 2001
Dr. Bhandari, Consul General of India
India is the world's largest democracy. It has had over 50 years of democratic rule since receiving its independence. Although it is
still heavily illiterate, it has voter turnout regularly of over 65 per cent. It is already one of the world's largest economies with a
middle class population estimated at 200 million but it also has 500 million people under the poverty level. Its information
technology economy is at the cutting edge of world developments but it has an enormous task ahead in developing that poverty
group. How it ends poverty, will have an immense impact on the prospects for world energy use, climate change, the global
environment, and the future of public health issues like polio and AIDS. (see NEW DIRECTIONS IN INDO-U.S. RELATIONS)
Dr. Bhandari characterized India as a developing free market economy as he touched on a number of topics important to India's
relations with other world powers:
- Role of Nuclear Weapons - both India and Pakistan have these weapons - a ban on nuclear weapons testing leading to
disarmament is critical
- Directions in Indo-U.S. Relations
- India's Economic Prospects - the nation is now more realistic and pragmatic in regards to changes that must be made to its
economic institutions
- Canada and India have restored Diplomatic Relations - this will facilitate the building of business relations
- The Changing World Order & India's Strategic Response
- Telecommunications Developments
- India - Pakistan Negotiations - we need the right steps in the right direction - we need to stop the ethnic cleansing
The Consul General listed a number of Rotary projects currently being undertaken in India and gave thanks for the help supplied
in their recent earthquake disaster.
Monday, June 4, 2001
Barbara Pastorius, Junior Achievement
Awards for Windsor and Essex County
Barb Pastorius, president and chief executive officer of JA, has been with JA for 15 years.
Junior Achievement programs teach students to understand and appreciate free enterprise. In the process, JA programs promote
entrepreneurism and economic self-determination while giving young people the skills they need to play an active role in our
global economy.
Since its founding in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, president of Strathmore Paper Company (Springfield, Mass.), Junior Achievement
has contributed to the business and economics education of young people in 3,300 communities in the United States and other
countries.
Since 1956, Windsor's Junior Achievement (JA) has taught thousands of youth as young as 10, about the workings of a free
enterprise system and about economics in general - how to run a business. Windsor’s branch was the second nationally to open,
with the aid of the Windsor Rotary Club and other local organizations and individuals.
- Junior Achievement In-Business Article
- Junior Achievement International Website
- Junior Achievement USA
- Frequently Asked Questions about Junior Achievement
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Monday, May 28, 2001
Children's Advocacy Day - Dan Offord
10:00AM - Stakeholders' Session
12:00PM - Luncheon Meeting
The Children's Development Committee set May 28th as Children's Advocacy Day. Our speaker was Dan Offord, a child psychiatrist whose landmark
research on children emphasizes the importance of parent-focused and child-focused activities for optimum development in the
early years of life.
Dr. Offord is the Atkinson Fellow in CIAR's Program in Human
Development Head, based at The Canadian Centre for Studies of
Children at
Risk, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation.
The Luncheon meeting hosted many guests from the Childrens' Services community as well as other interested parties.
From President Gary:
The Children's Development Committee of Windsor Rotary (1918) has spent over seven years looking at the needs of children
and working with our community in many ways to seek solutions and be of some assistance. Now, in co-operation with the Mayor,
Area Politicians, Unions, School Boards and all other stake holders of our community, a special day has been planned for
Monday, May 28th.
Dr. Dan Offord talked to stakeholders from Windsor area organizations working with children, first at 10:00 a.m., and then again at
noon to Rotarians and a gathering of individuals interested in children. The title of Dr. Dan Offords talk was "Our Children: Our First
Priority".
References:
- Profile for Dan Offord
- Knowing Kid's Needs
Victoria
Day
Monday, May 21, 2001
Victoria Day - No Meeting
- Queen
Victoria's World
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A Gallery of Portraits of the Victorian Era
- The
Victorian WEB
- Victorianism
- Victoria
- The Victorian Era
Monday, May 14, 2001
Mr. Bob Gallagher
The Rotary Journey
Bob talked about his plans as Incoming Governor (2002-2003) for District 6400 and the
new Technological Climate for Rotary that was brought in by Rotary International President Frank Devlyn.
Mr Gallagher is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland. During his fifteen years in Rotary he has been fortunate
to have travelled on behalf of Rotary to the Philippines, Brazil, Honduras and Ghana. His photographs and videos have brought
the international meaning of Rotary home to many people in both Canada and the United States. Bob has served in various
capacities in District 6400, including Conference Chairperson and Foundation Programs Chairperson. In 1998 he received the
Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service. Currently, he is the Zone Coordinator of Rotary International’s Technology
Task Force and is the District’s Webmaster.
Bob and his wife Mary Jean are Founding Members of the Rotary Foundation Bequest Society. Bob, Mary Jean and their
daughter Michelle spent this past August volunteering in the Amazon region of Brazil. They are all Paul Harris Fellows. The family
has hosted seven exchange students and members from eight GSE teams.
Bob teaches Communication Studies at the University of Windsor and is owner of Bob Gallagher Communications.
Technology Today
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"Our motto is this: Where scientists, engineers and artists concur, that is the territory of imagination"
National Science
Foundation
- Solar System Simulator
NASA
- The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing
Compaq
Corporation
- The Technology Task Force Online Learning Center
Rotary
International
- "... supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by around 2020. By
2030, it will take a village of human brains (around a thousand) to match $1,000 of computing. By 2050, $1,000 of computing will
equal the processing power of all human brains on Earth."
Exponential Growth of Computing
National Medal of
Technology recipient Ray Kurzweil's analysis
- Competing in Emerging Technologies
the Wharton Emerging
Technologies Management Research Program
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
Wired Magazine
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The Visible Human Project It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the
normal male and female human bodies
U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive
psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics.
MIT Media Lab and MIT AI Lab
Monday, May 7, 2001
Student Volunteer Awards Luncheon
(Click on pictures to enlarge)
Our Club relies on volunteer help from many corners of our community in order to complete our annual fund raising projects. Our
local students and our exchange students represent an important part of our Rotary team. This was our opportunity to show these
students that we fully recognize and appreciate their community volunteer efforts.
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The Windsor Rotary Club (1918) was the first receipient of the new District 6400 Devlyn Award presented at the May District
Conferemce 2001. The annual award is given to the district club judged to have exhibited exemplary public relations for taking
action and creating awareness in the current Rotary year.
The above photos show PDG Charles Laine and Windsor
(1918) President Gary Wintermute holding the award with the Windsor contingent in the background and a closeup picture of the
award.
Monday, April 30, 2001
Dr. Ivan Linjacke, Ontario Food Protection Association
Spoke about food safety and
the recent onslaught of the Hoof and Mouth diseases.
Foot-and-mouth
disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease of wild and domesticated cloven-hoofed animals. A combination of wide
host range, low infectious dose susceptibility and the capacity for airborne spread, especially in areas of high livestock density in
temperate climates, are factors which predispose to explosive epidemics of FMD. Such outbreaks can have a devastating effect
upon the agricultural economies of developed, and particularly FMD-free countries, due to the cost of disease control measures
and trade embargos. FMD-free countries, whose livestock are highly susceptible to FMD, have contingency plans to deal rapidly
with confirmed FMD outbreaks. In the first instance a ‘stamping out’ (by slaughter) policy would be instigated, together with
associated zoosanitory measures including the imposition of movement restrictions.
English Rotarians are joined in a fight against Hoof and Mouth disease. The Rotary International News Basket 701 4 April 2001, contains
an article about that battle.
OFPA Objectives
Monday, April 23, 2001
Recognition Night
This was an Evening Meeting
At the Caboto Club
We asked all Rotarians to invite their mates and/or a friend to this meeting
The partners of the Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)
also received invitations
We celebrated "national volunteers week" by honouring some of our long time
Rotary members who have quietly assisted our Club in its charitable work both monitarily and through direct volunteering.
There are 42 members in our Club who have 25 or more years of rotary service.
Year 2001 is the International Year of Volunteers. International Year of Volunteers, which is sponsored by the United Nations, has
the theme of "The Year that Changes the World."
Monday, April 16, 2001
This is your Life
This was another in the popular series that allows us to better know our newer club members. Our Rotarians who entertained us in
this session were:
Mina Grossman-Ianni and Saad Jasim
Mina is a lady who
has mastered a number of languages. She has travelled extensively, is a writer, broadcaster and manager. She is fighting an
arthritic condition by continuing to stay active. She talked of the influence that people had in her development and especially of the
encouragement and learning environment provided by her late husband, Dr. Ron Ianni, who served as President of the University
of Windsor.
Saad was born and raised in Iraq and even served for 2 1/2 years in the Iraq army. He has studied in England, worked in Saudi
Arabia and in taught at the University of Windsor in Canada. He now has a job as Superintendant of Windsor's Water Works
System. His main interest at the moment is in overseeing the water works changeover to an Ozone water purification system.
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Originally from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Dr. Strasser has a Master of Science from Pennsylvania State University and a
Doctorate in Metallurgical Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, as well as an Associate Degree in Business
from LaSalle University.
Former President and majority shareholder of The Paladin Group Inc., which specializes in business management, international
marketing and plant processes, Dr. Strasser is a previous president of Sydney Steel Corporation and has extensive experience
as a senior business executive, technical manager, research scientist and university lecturer.
Two young St Clair Students kicked off our meeting by demonstrating their fine voices as they sang our National Anthem as a
duet.
Dr. Strasser hosted a lively celebration of the growth of St. Clair College with illustrations of the school's activities including their
interior design and nursing programs and demonstrations of the students' graphics arts and CAD/CAM prowess.
He asked the Caboto waitresses to bring out a selection of delicious deserts prepared for the audience by the Culinary students
at St. Clair.
Dr. Strasser talked about recent and upcoming additions to the St. Clair complex including their new Centre for Excellence in
Design and an under construction 605 bed residence.
St. Clair students presented a video they prepared designed to highlight the features of the College's programs.
This entertaining and informative meeting concluded with a question period.
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ROTARY AMBASSADORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
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A graduate of the University of Western Medical School, Dr. Schumacher has practiced as a family physician in Windsor since
1983. Dr. Schumacher is proud of his community and has been actively involved in not only health care issues but also many
matters of concern to the people of Windsor.
Dr. Schumacher's topic today was "The current and future state of Health Care in Ontario". His recommendation is for an overhaul of the current health care system which he says is in crisis.
An overflow audience took ample advantage of the question period.
Our 20th Annual CPR Day will be held on Saturday April 28th
at St. Clair
College
To Register, call the Heart and Stroke Foundation office at 254-4345.
Last Revised: June 25, 2001
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