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• Member Spotlight: The book on Brad Rubini
  From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian 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, Ohio. 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. Three years later, while Claire was away at summer camp, she died unexpectedly as a result of a…

  

• Health: Survival of the Fitbittest
  From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian In the seven days from 7 through 13 March, I took precisely 84,250 steps. This amounted to 39.85 miles. I also climbed 288 floors and burned 22,055 calories. I’m fairly certain that you, gentle readers, could not care less about those statistics. Unless, of course, you’re one of the millions of gentle readers who have joined America’s fitness self-surveillance movement by strapping a tracking device to your wrist. In which case, you are probably pretty darned impressed by my stats. I should therefore add a few crucial caveats. Caveat No. 1: That week…

  

• John Germ: Champion of Chattanooga
  From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian Just before John Germ dropped by, Rick Youngblood took a deep breath. “You want to match his energy,” he says, “but he makes it hard to keep up.” Youngblood is the president and CEO of Blood Assurance, a regional blood bank in Chattanooga, Tenn., that Germ helped found in 1972. After his visit with Youngblood, Germ strode between mountains of empty bottles and cans at Chattanooga’s John F. Germ Recycling Center at Orange Grove, which he designed, before he drove to a construction site and popped a cork to dedicate a Miracle League field where special…

  

• Cynthia Salim: Former Rotary Scholar makes clothing with a conscience
  From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian The way Cynthia Salim sees it, the fashion industry doesn’t have much to offer a young, socially conscious woman like her when it comes to work clothes. “The fashion industry often does ‘sexy’ or ‘fun’ or ‘hip,’ and things that encourage frequent purchases,” the 29-year-old says. “It’s very rare that the design community will design something that will make a young woman look credible and influential as well as timeless.” Add “and is ethically made” to that list, and it becomes a tall order that Salim became increasingly frustrated trying to fill when…

  

• Member Interview: Susan Davis uses social entrepreneurship to fight poverty
  From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian Susan Davis has devoted the past three decades to using social entrepreneurship and microfinance to address extreme poverty, particularly in Bangladesh. A Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship in the early 1980s allowed her to study international relations at the University of Oxford. A decade ago, she co-founded BRAC USA (previously the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee) to help the world’s poor through self-empowerment. She is co-author, with journalist David Bornstein, of the book Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to…

  

ROTARY VOICES

• Building my kizuna with Rotary and Japan
  By Mark Flanigan, Program Director, Japan ICU Foundation, and a 2010-12 Rotary Peace Fellow at ICU, Tokyo When I arrived at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo as a new Rotary Peace Fellow in the summer of 2010, I had no … Continue reading →

  

• Bringing digital X-ray technology to those in need
  By Carlos Frum, past governor of District 6440 and a member of the Rotary Club of Northbrook, Illinois, USA The line went around the block and people were still coming! It was 2003 and my first trip to Guatemala as … Continue reading →

  

• The key to a successful multi-generational Rotary club
  By Emmanuel Rey, a member of the Rotary Club of Villa Devoto, Argentina In 20 years as a member of the Rotary family, I have learned much. I began my Rotary journey as a member of Interact when I was … Continue reading→

  

• How to get a free website for your Rotary club
  By Jermaine Ee, Rotary Club of Los Angeles Mitty Chang and I, founders of Candeavor, met in the lobby of a budget hotel in Sydney, Australia, while attending the International Rotary Youth Leadership Awards at the 2014 Rotary Convention.  Although we … Continue reading →

  

• My UNESCO-IHE scholarship has defined my career
  By Bernice Asamoah When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I marveled at how clean everything was and how neatly water was channeled through town. It was very different from my homeland of Ghana, and I was struck by the … Continue reading →