Club Assembly
Thursday, June 10 is the annual Club Assembly. This is an opportunity for all members to learn what is going on in your Club. The assembly will be held at Kahn Dees Donovan Kahn, 501 Main Street, in the lower level. The program begins at 4:00 PM. Please contact President Brian Williams or Club Assistant Keely Griggs, if you plan to attend. This meeting will be an opportunity for a make-up, if needed, provided the time frame is appropriate.

Administrative Assistant
Our Club will have a new Administrative Assistant beginning on June 1. Keely Griggs will begin her training with Christy on Thursday, May 27.

Thank You
Thank you to Nancy Koehler for the diverse May programs and her “unofficial” joke at the joke-a-thon.

WNIN
From President Brian Williams: Watch WNIN Channel 9.2 and WNIN cable 12 at 9:00pm on the Tuesday, a week, following our Rotary meeting to hear the speaker in a telecast.  Also at periodic times in the WNIN schedule you can see replays of other Rotary Speakers.

Good News & Bad News on Polio
The good news on polio is that in the first quarter of 2010 there were only 71 new polio cases reported worldwide versus 328 in the same period in 2009. Other good news is that Bill Gates has obtained a pledge of support for the polio eradication efforts from the Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria’s 70 million Muslims. Last year Nigeria had half of the world’s 1,600 polio cases. The bad news is that polio is breaking out in new places. Very recently there was a new polio outbreak in Tajikistan, which had not seen a polio case for 19 years. A new polio front recently opened in Uganda. This was Uganda’s first polio case in 12 years. New polio cases also popped up in Mali, Togo, Ghana, and Kenya. Polio spreads through water contaminated by human feces. Polio paralyzes just one person for every 200 infected. If a few cases of polio are discovered, it means that thousands of additional people have been infected. Accordingly, massive vaccination campaigns are needed to achieve the total eradication of polio. Polio has evaded a two-decade-long, 8.2 billion dollar effort to kill it off. The “vertical” strategy to eliminate polio is now coming into question. The vertical strategy worked with smallpox, but it has not yet worked with polio. Some consideration is now being given to a broader, “horizontal” strategy to treat other diseases as well as polio. The basic idea is that if the child is being treated for polio, it is probably a good idea to give the child a vaccine for diphtheria, hepatitis B, and yellow fever at the same time, and also give attention to sanitation problems. – John Whinrey

Condolences
Sympathy is extended to Christy and Brian Scroggins on the death of Christy’s grandmother on Saturday, May 22 in Union County, Ky. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rotary Foundation of Evansville.

Steve & Sally Jennings Scholarship
Jeff Deig and Randy Miller introduced the Friends of Steve and Sally Jennings Scholarship to the Rotarians present at the March 23 meeting. If you would like a donation card, please see Jeff or Randy. Gifts may also be made on line at: www.evansville.edu/give.

Thoughts and Prayers
Please continue to keep all Rotarians and their families in your thoughts and prayers, especially Ray Arensman and family as his wife Mae recovers from a broken hip. and Bill Spice and his family.