Bono praises Rotarians for their World Service and selflessly giving to make a difference in the world. Take a minute to see the video and his praise for our being the first Chapter and the present in eradicating polio from the planet. We are VERY close! Amigos Rotarians have been a part of water projects, medical clinics, nutrition projects, and polio vaccines. See more below on how active Amigos Rotary Club has been!
Service Above Self. Rotary gives us the chance to do more locally and internationally than we could ever do alone.
Rotarians Tre Waldren, Dorothy Krupa & Angela Rester have served in Guatemala Medical Rotary project with Enrique Gandara (Rotarian from Guatemala City now working in agriculture in Madison, Wisconsin).
THIS club, Amigos Rotary Club provided funding for a water project in Baja Tole' Panama in partnership with Rotary Club David Panama. Dorothy and Angie visited the project site prior to approving the project.
Dorothy & Angie also participated in a polio vaccine day in Kerala India with Rotarians from local clubs. Angie has also done polio vaccines in Nigeria, Power Flour projects in Panama, and visited projects in Argentina & Chile. Dorothy is a Founder and active in a micro lending program for women in Haiti.
If you want to get involved come learn more at one of our meetings on Tuesdays at 5:45. First Tuesday is always a social and April will be at La Fuente
Rotary Amigos:
March 21st - Club Assembly
This planning session resulted in a number of actionable items/projects. Duties assigned and planning begun for a community service project with Pan-African Community Association (PACA).
Discussed adding "After-work" to the name of our club since we ARE an "After-Work" club. Everyone was reminded that our club was deliberately chose a time that allowed members to have time to leave work and get to the meeting. It is also convenient for people who are commuters to meet before heading home or passing by downtown Milwaukee on their commute and still have time after the meeting to have dinner with family or friends, or attend an evening class, or head out to the theater or restaurants after the meeting. By not including a meal, the time is shortened and the cost of joining Rotary is not an impediment to joining. It also allows those without flexible work day schedules to participate in Rotary.
It was decided that we will organize a wine tasting event.
March 14th - Leonardo Fernandino:Staff Scientist at Medical College of Wisconsin - BRAIN MAPPING
It was a VERY interesting program and had a lot of "ah-hah" moments.
Leonardo was one of seven authors for
The problem of how word meaning is processed in the brain has been a topic of intense investigation in cognitive neuroscience. While considerable correlational evidence exists for the involvement of sensory- motor systems in conceptual processing, it is still unclear whether they play a causal role. We investi- gated this issue by comparing the performance of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) with that of age-matched controls when processing action and abstract verbs. To examine the effects of task demands, we used tasks in which semantic demands were either implicit (lexical decision and priming) or explicit (semantic similarity judgment). In both tasks, PD patients’ performance was selectively impaired for action verbs (relative to controls), indicating that the motor system plays a more central role in the processing of action verbs than in the processing of abstract verbs. These results argue for a causal role of sensory-motor systems in semantic processing.