Jeffry Cadorette-Our RI Director-A video of him Zooming with 7980

Jeffry Cadorette Video on Zoom with 7980

Jeffry Cadorette

Director 2018-20 
Rotary Club of Media 
Pennsylvania, USA 

Jeffry Cadorette had a 25-year career as a physical therapist in private practice as president and CEO of Physical Therapy Associates of Delaware County in Pennsylvania until merging his practice with Riddle Memorial Hospital to form the Riddle Rehabilitation Institute and Riddle Sports Medicine. He is now associate broker and executive vice president at Media Real Estate Co., where he is active in all phases of commercial real estate sales and leasing, tenant representation, and new project development.

Working with Other Groups-Toastmasters, BNI, Young Professionals, Chamber of Commerce

Working with Other Groups

In your Community there are many other groups who want to encourage Service in your Community

Some of your Potential Partners

Toastmasters with whom Rotary has a partnership Blog on Toastmasters and Rotary

Young Professionals

BNI

Chamber of Commerce

You should seek these groups out and work with them.

May 28 Town hall on working with Toastmasters, BNI, ....

At the District Town Hall on Thursday, May 28 at 7 PM You will discuss working with these Groups

Here's a picture from BNI

Judy Welsh-Volunteer Doctor in NYC during worst of pandemic-At Danbury RC June 10 on Zoom

Our Danbury Rotary Club Noon speaker for June 10th is Dr. Judith T.
Welsh. The Zoom address is: 621-257-872

-She is the Medical Director of the Lakewood E.R. branch of the
Cleveland Clinic.

-She obtained her B.S. degree from Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, MD

-She obtained her M.D. from the University of Buffalo, in Buffalo, N.Y.

-She recently was appointed the Cleveland Clinic Associate Chief
Experience Officer.

-Her talk will be on her experience coming to NYC, with a contingent of
her colleagues as a volunteer in the pandemic battle. A photo of her
kissing her husband (my Dr. Son, Todd) at the airport went viral.

-Please try to attend, and tell your friends. This should be an
inspirational presentation.

Ralph S. Welsh, Rotary Club of Danbury

District 7980 Happy Hour Speaker Series

Friday Night Speaker Series 

Every Friday at 5 PM on Zoom

The link
Happy Hour Speaker Series Friday at 5 PM


May 29 Marty Peak Helman
Marti helped start a virtual Rotary Club of past RYLA participants. She was one of my trainers and is a great speaker.

Martha Peak Helman has been a member of The Rotary Foundation’s Rotary Peace Centers/Major Gifts Initiative Committee for the past two years; this year she serves as vice chair of The Foundation’s Peace/Major Gifts Initiative.

Marty has been selected to be a Training Leader at the 2018 International Assembly; she served as Trainer for the Governors-nominee at the Zone 24-32 Institute (2013 and 2017), for the Zone Rotary Future Leaders (2016), as well as for D-7780 Governors-elect (2015-16 and 2019-20). She has been a President’s representative (2016); she frequently facilitates at the Rotary Leadership Institute (since 2009) and Northeast PETS (since 2013). She started and continues to edit the Zone 24-32 monthly newsletter (2013-present). Marty currently serves as District 7780’s Foundation Chair (2015-18); she was a “Peace Through Service” District Governor in 2012-13.

She and her husband Frank are multiple Major Donors and Bequest Society members, and through the corporate support of the Otto and Fran Walter Foundation, they are Arch Klumph Society members. Marty and Frank are members of the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club in District 7780, which they joined in 2003.

Marty graduated from Connecticut College cum laude and holds her master’s in teaching (secondary) from Pace University. In her professional career, she has been both a writer and an editor; she has put that experience to good stead in her Rotary work, authoring “Rewriting the Future,” about a literacy support organization in Guatemala, and most recently, editing “String of Pearls,” a book about and fundraiser for the Rotary Peace Centers. 
Her blog
Marty's Blog on Travel
May 22 Jeffry Cadorette-Rotary Director
Fabulous Speaker see  Jeffry Cadorette-A Rotary Prescription

The Link
Zoom link

Zoom Conversation with Jeffry Cadorette and District 7980

Director 2018-20 
Rotary Club of Media 
Pennsylvania, USA 

Jeffry Cadorette had a 25-year career as a physical therapist in private practice as president and CEO of Physical Therapy Associates of Delaware County in Pennsylvania until merging his practice with Riddle Memorial Hospital to form the Riddle Rehabilitation Institute and Riddle Sports Medicine. He is now associate broker and executive vice president at Media Real Estate Co., where he is active in all phases of commercial real estate sales and leasing, tenant representation, and new project development.

A Rotarian since 1977, Cadorette has served RI as a committee member, Council on Legislation delegate, international training leader, seminar trainer, and president’s representative. He was worldwide coordinator of Rotary Foundation alumni coordinators from 2010-11.

Cadorette is a Foundation Benefactor and Major Donor and has received the Citation for Meritorious Service, the Distinguished Service Award, and RI’s Service Above Self Award.

Jeffry Cadorette-A Rotary Prescription

May 15 Marilyn Lowney of the Haitian Health Foundation-District 7980 has a long history of helping the HHF. 

For nearly three decades, HHF has been providing exceptional health care to people of all ages, backgrounds, and life circumstances. Under HHF’s comprehensive services, members in the Jérémie community can access primary and preventive health care, dental services and mental health treatment provided in a compassionate, respectful, and professional manner.


May 8 Nikki Mederos

Public Image

Nikki Mederos-Public Image Coordinator for Zone 32 and great storyteller.

Niurka “Nikki” Mederos District Governor

North Hudson Rotary Club

401 Gorge Road, Cliffside Park, NJ 07010

Mobile: 201-956-1667 Email: nikkimederos7490@gmail.com

A lifelong resident of Hudson and Bergen counties, Niurka “Nikki” Mederos is the Director of the External Affairs/Outreach Community at Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, NJ. During her 35-year tenure at the medical facility, Ms. Mederos has worked within local communities to promote the hospital’s services, build community partnerships and provide healthcare outreach programs to local residents. Additionally, she has organized dozens of community health fairs and health screenings to connect with thousands of members from the community.

May 1 Mike McGovern

And Mike will award the Rotary Polio Service Award to Robert Herber of the Ridgefield Rotary club

Speaker Mike McGovern-RI Polio Plus chair and former VP of RI

Michael K. McGovern

PolioPlus Committee
Chair, Rotary International

Michael K. McGovern is current Chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee and Past Vice President of Rotary International in 2007-08.

Mike joined Rotary in 1986 as a member of the Rotary Club of South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA. He has served as club president, district  governor, district foundation chair, Rotarian Action Group chair, international training leader, RI committee member and chair, director of Rotary International and vice  president of Rotary. He has served in numerous other positions at the district, zone and international levels and has attended numerous councils on legislation in various roles.

Mike holds the Rotary classification of “Town Government” as the full-time appointed town manager of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He was previously president of the Maine Municipal Association and has served on regional boards for the United Way and the American Red Cross. Mike is a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation and a recipient of the Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service.

April 24 RYLA Directors
Our speakers will be the RYLA directors. High school students who didn't get to run the RYLA this year.
They will tell us about themselves and about RYLA and what it means to the students.

Kate Nelson April 17

Kate Nelson | Rotary Foundation Global Scholar

We had the pleasure of welcoming Kate Nelson to our 5 March 2019 meeting. Kate talked about her experience as a Global Scholar while studying Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Global Scholars in London 2018-9

Name : Kate Nelson EMail : scholar.kate@rotaryinlondon.org Home District & Club : 7980 Westport Connecticut USA Sponsoring Club : Westminster International Counsellor : Maria Novella Vitucci Interests : Running & Photography/Design Studying : Epidemiology at LSHTM

April 3, 4:15 PM Our Speaker spoke at the Rotary International convention in Toronto

Anja Nikolova

2015-17 Rotary global grant scholar, Yale University
Anja Nikolova, a Rotary global grant scholar, graduated in 2017 with a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Raised in five countries (and fluent in as many languages), she studied biology in Italy and Switzerland and is a National Merit Scholar. Nikolova manages sustainable products at L'Oreal. She interned at the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition — an initiative to accelerate action on climate change — and attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris as a member of the Macedonian delegation.

April 10, 5 PM Alex Epstein

Alex Epstein

MPhil student

Alex studied Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale, where he also worked in the Pollard lab. Alex joined our group as an MPhil student in October 2018. He worked on in vitro aggregation of tau. Alex went on to do a PhD at the Rockefeller in New York.

Alexander Epstein

Alexander Epstein

Alexander Epstein is majoring in molecular, cellular and developmental biology and chemistry. He has been awarded both the Paul Mellon Fellowship and the Rotary Global Grant Scholarship for study at Cambridge.

In his spare time, he enjoys teaching math and science to elementary school students, and exploring his hometown of New York City. Epstein will be pursuing an M.Phil. at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, studying the structure of the clumps of protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease. After his time at Cambridge, he plans to obtain a Ph.D. in the biological sciences and to build a career studying the biology of human aging.

RYLA Ted Talks and Fireside Chat

Saturday, May 9 at 6 PM on Zoom

RYLA Firesdie Chat zoom link

It's not this

But it does have this enthusiasm

The Student Directors are all very excited for tomorrow's event! It will be taking place at 6 PM and the Zoom link to join can be found right here (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83114637023?pwd=WXRnc1o0cnlGZXkrenFpTFNYeVpTUT09).

Our seven speakers and their topics are outlined below:

1) Lizabeth Bamgboye- Power to the Period- a menstrual take on intersectionality

2) Carley Kurtz- Live in the Moment- how being present can lead to finding your genuine passion

3) Natalie Meder- Leadership Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

4) Ranease Brown- Code Switching- cracking the code

5) Nick Chiu- Unfolding Life- origami's lessons

6) John Aslanian- Hiking- the journey of the walk

7) Vanessa Horan- Advocating for Acting

Thanks again for all of the support that you have given us throughout the year! We hope you can make the call tomorrow!

District 7980 RYLA- Spring 2018

RYLA Spring 2018 was a wonderful experience for about 71 students. They spend Friday through Sunday and are learning leadership skills the entire time

Here's the registration desk for the start of RYLA.
 It is quite well organized so we don't waste valuable time on details

This is an exercise called chairs. The participants start sitting on chairs and
end up with a self supporting structure of just the students. They learn
to rely on each other.

Here are some participants working on a project during RYLA

RYLA is student led. These are the 2018 Student Directors.
There are 16 facilitators who work with the participants very closely

All the participants participate in the RYLA Challenge. They develop a service project
which they present to Rotary Judges. The Judges provide some funding and recommend
paths forward for the teams. Each participant speaks during the presentation
This team proposed providing computers to students who do not have them

Donation of Masks by Ted Rossi to Connecticut Organizations

Ted Rossi of East Hampton donated a large number of masks that various Rotary Clubs in District 7980 brought to organizations in southern Connecticut.
To Care  Homes, EMS/Fire and Police, People distributing Food, Visiting Nurse Associations, Funeral Homes and others.

Ted Rossi is in the lumber business and decided to help with the shortage of masks in Connecticut

The masks in Newtown went to the Police, Fire and EMS. Recieving their masks with social distancing

So here is a partial list of the Organizations which received masks donated by Ted Rossi through Rotary Clubs in Southern Connecticut.

Recipients of masks donated by Ted Rossi

Care Homes   12

              Elara Caring in Derby Shelton

              Aaron Manor in Chester

              Chesterfields in Chester

              Bridgeport Rescue Mission

              Continuum of Care in Trumbull

              Lord Chamberlain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Stratford

              Wheeler Clinic(Foster Care)

              Ronald McDonalds House

              Orange Health Care

              Shady Knoll Health Center in Seymour

              Parents Foundation for Transitional Living

              Marbridge Nursing Senior Facility in Cheshire

EMS, Fire, First Responders  11

              Clinton Fire Department

              Cheshire Firefighters

              First Responders in New Canaan

              Colchester Fire Department

              Newtown First Responders, police, fire

              Madison ambulance, fire and police

              Darien EMS

              Stamford EMS

              Guilford Police and Fire

              Durham Fire Department

              Ansonia Rescue ARMS

Food Distributors   4

              Delivering food to people in Branford

              Delivering food to people in West Haven

              Norwalk Food Service Workers
              Walter Stewart's Market

Visiting Nurse Associations 3

              Stratford Visiting Nurse Association

              Ridgefield VNA

              Guilford VNA

Funeral Homes   5

              Byles Memorial Home in New London

              Lesko Funeral Home in Fairfield

              Fairfield Funeral Directors Association

              Riverview Funeral Home Shelton

              Edward F. Adzima Funeral Home Derby

Government and Other Service 5

              Cheshire/Proscott/Wolcott Health District

              Norwalk Transportation Department

              Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants

              Connecticut Hospice

              Regional Hospice in Westport

Hospitals  6

This was the back of a full sized van delivering the masks to the organizaitions and Rotary Clubs

The van was full of masks.

And here is the list of recipients from the second batch of donated masks.

Masks donated week of May 11 by Ted Rossi and Rossi Family Foundation

Care Homes and senior centers 13

              Beacon Brook skilled nursing facility, Naugatuck

              Lord Chamberlain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Stratford

              Spooner House in Shelton

              Middlebury Convalescent home

              Middlebury senior center

              Southbury senior center

              Woodbury senior center

              Wilton nursing homes

              Messina Drive and Woodview senior centers in East Haven

              Stoneridge retirement community in Mystic

              Hall Neighborhood House in Trumbull

              Nursing Home in Trumbull

              Senior housing in North Haven

Child Care 3

              Earthplace

              Southbury Training school

              Early Childhood Education Center-Norwalk

EMS, Fire, First Responders  12

              Police, Fire and EMS of Naugatuck

              Police departments in Waterbury, Wolcott, Prospect

              Stratford EMS

              Wolcott fire and ambulance

              Prescott fire and ambulance

              Orange police, fire and EMS

              Heritage village ambulance

              Middlebury fire department

              Southbury ambulance association

              Southbury fire department

              Woodbury volunteer fire department

              Trumbull first responders

             

Food Distributors 9

              Five Valley Food pantries-Seymour Oxford

              Memorial Food bank in Ansonia

              Seymour Oxford food bank

              Meals on wheels drivers in Seymour Oxford

              Middlebury Food bank

              Southbury Food bank

              Woodbury Food bank

              Shoreline food pantry

              Bridgeport food pantry

Churches 9

              Milford, First Baptist Church

              Norwalk, Calvary Baptist Church

              Stamford, Bethel AME Church

              Norwalk, Grace Baptist Church

              Stamford, Faith Tabernacle

              Milford, Cornerstone Christian Center

              St. Vincent De Paul Society in Derby

              North Haven and Cheshire Communities

              St. Andrew Presbyterian Church

Visiting Nurse Associations 3

              Stratford VNA

              Orange VNA

              Waterford VNA

Funeral Homes  and cemetery  2

              Byles Memorial Home

              Hillside cemetery

Government and Other Service 11

              Norwalk Health Community Center

              Liberty Community Services, Stratford

              United Way of Meriden and Wallingford

              Case Memorial Library

              Salvation Army in Ansonia

              Naugatuck Valley health district

              Woodbridge town for people protection

              Pomperaug health district

              Chesprocott Health Organization in Cheshire

               Grassroots Tennis Center

              Waterford Youth and Family Services

Masks donated early June  by Ted Rossi and Rossi Family Foundation

Care Homes and senior centers 20

               Homes for the Brave in Bridgeport

              McGivney and Cardinal Sheehan Center, Bridgeport

              Isahiah House in Bridgeport

              Golden Hill Home

              Wilton Meadows/Greens

              Aaron Manor Nursing Home

              Brian House

              Chesterfields

              Fairview Odd Fellows Home

              Groton Regency Center

              Columbus House

              Arden House

              The Meriden Center-Nursing Home

              The Baptist House-Nursing Home

              The Bradley Home-Nursing Home
              Carriage Green
             Watertown Convalrium
             Apple Rehab
             Towers in New Haven
             Cook-Willow Nursing Home

            
Medical

            Orange Rehabilitation Associates

            Milford Body Therapy

Child Care

              Childrens Center of Hamden          

              New Haven Inner City Enrichment Center

              Childrens Center of Hamden

EMS, Fire, First Responders  11

              Westport EMT

              Wilton CERT and volunteer ambulance corps

              Chester fire department

              Norwalk EMS

              Hunters Ambulance Services
              Watertwon Police Department
              Watertown Fire Department
               New Haven Police Department
               Thomaston Ambulance Corp
               Thomaston Fire Department
               Waterford Fire Department

            
Food Distributors

              Center Food Pantry Bridgeport

              Homes with Hope

              Gillepsie Food Pantry, Westport
              Watertown Food Bank

             
Churches 7

              Milford, First Baptist Church

              Norwalk, Calvary Baptist Church

              Stamford, Bethel AME Church

              Norwalk, Grace Baptist Church

              Stamford, Faith Tabernacle

              Milford, Cornerstone Christian Center

              St. Andrew Presbyterian

Visiting Nurse Associations 4

              Ridgefield VNA

              VNA of Eastern Connecticut

              CT Hospice in Branford

              Chester VNA

             

Government and Other Service

              Housatonic Council BSA

              Milford BSA

              Salvation Army in Bridgeport

              Milford Health Center

              West Haven Library

              Mystic Health Care

              Families in Mystic
              Watertown Social Services
              Thomaston Public Services

              Waterford Town Employees