Armando Alcazar Magana, a member of the Corvallis Morning Rotary Club will be answering this question on Friday at our noon meeting. Armando is doing his Post Doc work at OSU on DNA indicators for diseases. See you at the Corvallis Country Club for another FUN Rotary meeting.
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Role Model Thomas Lindner
“Teaching math was not the most important thing I did, but being a role model for the kids was.” So says Thomas Lindner, Corvallis resident and Hewlett Packard physicist, about his experience with youth in Lesotho, South Africa. Lindner spent two years in the Peace Corp, formally as a math instructor. His experience, however, led him to realize how important being a role model was for Lesotho’s children.
Lesotho is very far south in Africa. A community of two million, 200,000 are orphans and 24 percent have HIV. Living conditions are “harsh,” Lindner said describing his 12 by 75 square-foot home with no running water in a dry, cold climate. He explained that the citizens are poorly nourished and that Peace Corp volunteers bring “hope.”
While Lindner was hired to teach basic math to ninth through 12th graders, he also taught life skills and helped the community start GLOW — Girls Leading Our World.
Get Your Golden Chocolate Bar Now and Win
1,000 chocolate bars with possible golden tickets inside good for cash prizes up to $500 are on sale in preparation for the third annual Rotary Movie Night showing of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on Thursday, August 17, at Avery Park.
The chocolate bars are currently for sale for two dollars each at Burst’s Candy, Schroff Tudor Farmers Insurance and Town & Country Realty in downtown Corvallis. Ninth Street locations include Washington Federal and Stover Neyhart and Company. They are also available through Judy Corwin at The Corvallis Clinic. Five of the Wonka chocolates include golden tickets playing off a theme of the movie and each of those tickets can be redeemed at the Movie Night for prizes ranging from $50 to $500. Other locations may be added prior to the chocolate sales on Movie Night.
Following successful annual August events featuring classics like E.T. and the Wizard of Oz, the Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis has selected the 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) as he receives a Golden Ticket and visits Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with four other children from around the world.
Rotary’s Willie Wonka will be seen throughout Corvallis between now and August 17 to promote the bars and movie. All funds raised through Rotary Movie Night are dedicated used to support Rotary’s local and international efforts.
“Our Rotary club members always strive to provide a classic that can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages and Willy Wonka not only fits that bill, but also enables us to have some great community fun with the story line,” said club president Mark Kalmar. “Our two successful Rotary Movie Nights to date have drawn more than 1,500 people each August to Avery Park. We are proud to make this one an equally special evening and night for all.”
For more information, call 541-760-4742 or visit: www.rotarygreatercorvallis.org.
Want to change the world? Come to Movie Night August 17
For the third straight year, Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis will host Movie Night, Thursday, August 17 at Avery Park. The event is free and open to the public. The movie is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There is nothing to “changing the world,” quotes Willy Wonka. Chocolate bars are being sold throughout the community. Five of the bars have tickets for special prizes. Don’t miss this year’s event.
Stolen Art: an issue of awareness
Lynne McKee may currently serve as the director of the Benton County Fairgrounds, but her previous work as an FBI agent involved with investigations of stolen art is fascinating. McKee shared her interesting story with the Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis at its Friday, May 26 meeting at the Corvallis Country Club.
As an FBI employee stationed in Washington, D.C., she confessed to having touched “Thomas Jefferson’s underwear” at a museum where the third U.S. president’s clothing is on display.
On the issues of stolen art, McKee confessed that the issue is a global problem more prominent worldwide than in the United States. She spoke about such stories as the Lord of Sipan Grave Goods were stolen from an underground Peruvian grave site and attempted to bring them into the United States.
While McKee enjoyed her position with the FBI, she is delighted to be in Corvallis, Oregon, enjoying the environment and community.
San Lucas Mission was international service for Myhre’s
Andrea Myhre wanted an international service experience for herself and her two children. They chose a mission in San Lucas, Guatemala. The mission is a small, low-income village near Antigua and Guatemalla City. A hostile there sports four to 40 volunteers at any one time, helping the villagers with building, farming and taking care of youth.
Myhre and her two children spent two weeks there to learn about the culture and help. They did food prep, dishes and helped mix concrete for building.
Myhre, a former peace corp volunteer, felt it was an excellent opportunity for her children to learn about other parts of the world. Although there was a language barrier at times, she and her children learned a great deal and made lasting friends.
Myhre will be the Director of International Services for the Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis starting July 1, 2017.