February 9, 2022
WELCOME & TRADITIONS
In unison, all Rotarians at Coltivare and those on Zoom recited the Four-Way Test.
Past President Frank Towner introduced his guest Matthew Smith, a local realtor with Warren Real Estate.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our Dozen Dinner Draw fundraising goal of $25,000 was reached through the generosity of a challenge grant from Backyard Brands (Dennis Gray) on the sale of the last 100 of 300 tickets!
Maricelis Acevedo announced the six winners with the assistance of Juliet Gibbs. Later, Juliet e-mailed the names of the winners and descriptions of their prizes to all club members.
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Jean McPheeters tries to live each day by her personal maxim: “Hear more and speak less.” Adding a dash of humor (a given for Jean), she quoted her mother who was a corporate trainer: “I teach men to be MY boss.”
LAST WEEK’S PRESENTATION
“The Workforce of the Future: The Pandemic Has Changed the Game”
Serenna McCloud introduced John D. Clarke, MD, MBA, MS, FAAFP, who is Director of Occupational Medicine at Cornell University and an occupational medicine consultant.
Dr. Clarke emphasized that “COVID-19 has normalized telehealth” by offering health care remotely through the use of digital information and telecommunication technologies. By transitioning in the direction of telehealth, Dr. Clarke acknowledges that this offers the US healthcare system a chance to reinvent virtual and hybrid virtual/in-person care models with the goal of improving healthcare, access, outcomes, and affordability. Projections for health care of the future may be re-imagined by reviewing the success of telehealth and “looking at the end product and not where it is done.”
Early in the pandemic, Dr. Clarke created a health-hop rap video on YouTube called
Clarke Fam – Stop Corona that was promoted for the prevention of COVID-19.
THANK YOU ROTARIANS
Newsletter Reporter: Gail Lyman
Photographer: Mike Brown
Newsletter Facilitator: Loralyn Light
Set-Up Crew: Joe Giordano, Brad Carruth, Harlin McEwen, Steve Johnson
Club Service Facilitators: Beverly Baker & June Losurdo
