In 1911, He Profits Most Who Serves Best was approved as the Rotary motto at the second convention of the National Association of Rotary Clubs of America, in Portland, Oregon. The Portland convention also inspired the motto Service, Not Self.
At the 1950 RI Convention in Detroit, slightly modified versions of the two slogans were formally approved as the official mottoes of Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and Service Above Self.
The 1989 Council on Legislation established Service Above Self as the principal motto of Rotary, because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service.
He Profits Most Who Serves Best was modified by the 2004 Council to They Profit Most Who Serve Best and by the 2010 Council to its current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves Best.[1]
[1] Taken from https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/history-rotarys-mottoes website.
Pledge and Invocation:
President-Elect Mike Markovitz brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Tom Kukuchka reciting the 4-Way Test and leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Lou Divis giving the Invocation.
Guests:
Club News:
Tree planting – Ron Furman
Everyone who volunteered did great work and all 50 white pine trees got planted quickly. After the tree planting they all went to Ron’s cabin to eat and relax. Photos are on our website in the Tree planting album.
Founders Day – George Gay
Founder’s Day is Sat, June 23. George needs 2 people to sign up to man our booth for each of the 3 shifts. We will be in same spot in front of former Beads and Baubles, will be giving out info on the Harvest & Wine Festival and selling the first tickets to the Festival.
Fireworks – Harry Sharpe
Harry reported the everything is under control. He does need some volunteers to walk around for security and collect any monetary donations. Senior class will do the food stand. Since they ran out of food last year, Don Davis will talk to them to make sure they have enough food this year.
Club Outing – Tom Kukuchka
There will be an Aug 12 outing to Ron’s cabin for a cookout. The menu and, thus, cost is still to be determined. More info will be forthcoming but save the date!
Harvest & Wine Festival – Ron Furman
The next Festival planning meeting is June 4 at 6 PM at the Tunkhannock Public Library.
District 7410 Jamboree- Norm Kelly
Our Rotary District 7410 will hold a jamboree on July 14 (3 PM)-15 at George Hock Park in Falls. It will be a cookout with blue grass music. $12.95/pp.
DG-elect Roger Mattes intends to bring a lot of District activities into our area of NEPA during his Rotary year as District Governor (July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019).
Exchange Students – Anne Sehne
Nico will be gone in June and traveling to Texas.
Vitto will be here in July.
We have 2 inbound exchange students for the upcoming school year. A boy from Brazil (John) and a boy from Poland (Andrew). They will arrive in the middle of Aug.
2 students going out: a boy to Brazil and girl to Germany.
We have 2 short-term outbounds this summer. A short term to Ecuador and Galapagos since host is a pilot. A Girl is going to Italy and will visit the Sica family after her exchange.
Our next Meeting will be Thursday, June 7. Our guest speakers will be TAHS HOBY Awardees.
President-Elect Mike Markovitz adjourned the meeting at 1:30 PM.
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Michael Coyer
Opioid Crisis
Dr. Coyer is a graduate of the University of Scranton and Rutgers Univ. He has been a forensic chemist for 27 years for Lackawanna County.
Dr. Coyer’s began by praising our Drug Take Back Outreach Program for taking lots of drugs off the street (over 1 ton).
Many overdoses (OD) are due to prescription drugs, although cocaine is coming back since new regulations are impacting doctors giving chronic pain medications. So some people are self-medicating for depression and other reasons with street drugs. Or they are getting drugs from doctors to treat their pain. For a root canal, they will give you a prescription for 20 Vicodin. Pain management is its own business now.
For shoulder surgery, you can be prescribed 60 oxycodone. But some people crush it, heat it up and inject themselves. People can die from it. It is now suggested to mix with draino and other things to destroy the drugs.
Fentanyl patch are used for chronic pain and terminal diseases. It is 100 times stronger than heroin. People are now taking the patches and they are smoked and chewed.
The opioid overdose statistics have changed over the years. In the 1990s, there were ODs 1-3 times a month but now once every 3 days.
Fentanyl varieties are being made in China and they ship it to the US in the mail. People are dying with the needles still in their arms.
Different people metabolize drugs differently and that is contributing to the deaths due to genetic differences between people at same drug dosages.
Marijuana has some benefits, but also has draw-backs. Spice/K2 was synthetic marijuana that people were buying in some gas stations and smoking. It can have serious health consequences for those using it, including mental issues, heart issues and can be deadly if abused.
Marijuana is currently legal in 9 states recreationally and will become legal everywhere eventually. The legal system has to figure out how to deal with DUI with marijuana.
Dr. Coyer urged everyone to get and understand the information on the drugs that you are taking. He also urged everyone to learn what is being done to combat the opioid crises in our area and the nation.
The newest craze is “huffing”. Cans of aerosol duster contains light molecules that get across blood brain barrier quickly. Inhalants include chemicals found in such household products as aerosol sprays, cleaning fluids, glue, paint, paint thinner, nail polish remover, amyl nitrite1 and lighter fuel. Huffing these can give you a rush or high and can be deadly. Although it is currently rare to overdose by huffing, it does depend on the amount they huff.
Dr. Michael Coyer
