This Week's

Lunch Meeting

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023

Time: noon to 1:15 pm

Location: First Christian Church of Atlanta

4532 LaVista Road, Tucker, GA. 30084

Ralph Peeler, MD

Past President,

Rotary Club of North Atlanta

Dr. Ralph Peeler grew up in Memphis Tennessee. He graduated from Harvard College and Vanderbilt Medical School. He is also a graduate of the Columbus Georgia Family Medicine Residency program.

After residency, Dr. Peeler practiced Family Medicine in North Mississippi for 4 years, during this time he delivered almost 400 babies. He returned to Georgia in 1987 to solo practice in Chamblee, GA until 2020. Dr. Peeler reports that sadly, since retirement, his golf handicap has not substantially improved.

Dr. Peeler served as president of the Rotary Club of North Atlanta in 2015-2016 and from 1999-2000 as president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. During his presidency, using that year to unsuccessfully lobby the state legislature to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines.

He has been speaking about and advocating for vaccines for over 20 years. Recently, he has been collaborating with a large group of fellow Rotarians, physicians, and humanitarians to reduce the incidence of spina bifida, an easily prevented severe birth defect still epidemic in many low and middle-income countries of the world.

Below are photos of Rotarians and attendees at this month's Social Thursday hosted at Marlow's Tavern

Hurricane Ian Survivors Still Need Help

Residents and businesses in Fort Myers and the surrounding areas are still recovering from Hurricane Ian and are still in need of assistance. Many fellow Rotarians and their neighbors in District 6960 have completely lost their homes along with other damage in the area. If you would like to financially assist with the clean-up and rebuilding in Florida, you can donate to the Rotary District 6900 Charitable Fund at

https://rotary6900.org/ian or you can send your check payable to Rotary District 6900 Charitable Fund 

and mail it to the attention of Teri White at P. O. Box 55, Coolidge, GA 31738.

Be sure to put Hurricane Ian in the memo field to designate the use of the funds.

If you want to donate directly to the Florida fund go to https://www.rotaryfl.org/

District 6900 Conference 2024

Take Advantage of

Early Registration for Jekyll Island

March 21-24, 2024

By Stephanie Windham

Join us as we Amplify Rotary and feature the Lady with a Song, none other than our District Governor-Elect André Marria. DGE André is a Lady with a Song, and this conference will be filled with music, laughter, fun, and fellowship.  The conference will be at the beautiful Jekyll Island Convention Center March 21-24, 2024. Let’s celebrate all the ways our clubs make Rotary BIGGER, BETTER, AND LOUDER!

To register, login to rotary6900.org and click on “Register for the 2024 District Conference at Jekyll Island.” The registration fee through May 7, 2023, is only $200. The price goes up to $275 on May 8, 2024, so register early to get this special rate. There are also special rates for guests, students, and children under the age of 17. The registration fee will go up again in September ($295), so it pays to register early!

Read more: https://rotary6900.org/story/7123

Rotary Projects around the Globe

By Brad Webber

More than 300 Interact clubs submitted videos, photos, and essays showcasing their accomplishments for the 2022 Interact Awards. This month we feature some of the clubs that entered the contest. See the winners.

Panama

Helping people and protecting the environment go hand in hand for the Interact Club of Penonomé. In January, a dozen club members converged on a beach in Río Hato in their home province of Coclé. Joined by Rotarians and other volunteers, they removed 20 bags of trash. “We decided to hold this project since the coastline is not only a recreation area but the habitat to many animal species that could very well be in danger of extinction,” says Alejandra Rodríguez, the club’s president. In previous projects, the club has provided children with backpacks filled with school supplies and toys and organized a family day at the children’s school.

United States

To address hunger worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Interact Club of Madison, New Jersey, started a no-contact food collection project in July 2020 to stock a food pantry. The Madison High School students created an online survey and a flyer to gauge the interest of potential donors. More than 100 families and businesses volunteered to fill containers with food items and leave them at their doorsteps for pickup. The Interactors, parents, and other volunteers used an app to arrange efficient pickup routes and communicate with those offering donations. The Madison Ends Hunger project has achieved meaningful results: more than 3,500 bags of food and counting, and about $4,500 contributed to another food pantry through a fundraising site. “I give them full credit for their initiative and the push,” says Doug Willis, president of the sponsoring Rotary Club of Madison. “We’ve gone through two senior classes. The families’ generosity doesn’t seem to be ending, and the kids’ willingness to stick with it seems unending” too.

Rotary Magazine - May 2023

Click on the link to read this month's issue of the Rotary Magazine.

https://my.rotary.org/en/news-media/magazines/rotary

Rotary Member Discounts

Below is the link for our member discounts

https://rotary.abenity.com/