Rotary File - December 10, 2013
Guests and Visiting Rotarians: Jackson Cameron, guest of Jack Cameron. David Johnsen, Iowa City Noon.
Announcements
Dave Parsons made a valiant effort to teach “Smile” in three-quarter time and hopes that we will have it down by the time we meet for our 25th Anniversary.
We celebrated the transfer of Karin Franklin from IC Noon to AM Rotary. Karen has been a participant in the MOST missions six times. She is the retired Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Iowa City.
We voted on next year’s officers. Myrene Hoover was voted the incoming president-elect. Thank you to both Myrene and Scott Enyart for agreeing to be nominated. The new members of the Board of Directors are Ron Logsden and Nenu Piragine (7/1/14 - 6/30/17). Sue Cronin (alternate) will complete Myrene Hoover's remaining term from 7/1/14 - 6/30/15. The new bylaws changes were approved by acclamation.
Myrene talked about the message from RI President, Ron Burton in honor of Nelson Mandela. Mandela was committed to those in need and was given Rotary’s highest award for his service to humanity. He donated his $100,000 prize to his children’s foundation.
Thanks were expressed to Peggy Doerge to hosting our December Month Opener again, and for all the participants in the corn bread cook-off. It was a dead heat on who won the title of best corn bread maker.
If you have not sent in your reservation for the 25th Anniversary on January 14, do so ASAP. Nenu suggested that if you are going to Australia to the RI convention you have to the end of the month to get a better price. Refer to an article in the October Rotarian about the Sydney RI convention.
Brian Adamec announced that all the nuts are sold thanks to a generous buy by Liz Loeb.
Roger Christian indicated that there are some dishwashing slots open in January and February. See Roger to sign up.
Program
Dr. Dan Caplan spoke about outreach efforts of the Department of Preventative and Community Dentistry at the UI Dental School.
There are several components to outreach within the School of Dentistry:
1. Extramural Program which sends dental students throughout the community, state, and world. Included in this effort is the Geriatric Dental Clinic.
There is some UI dental outreach in almost all counties of Iowa. The 2 major goals of the extramural program are to help students gain a broad understanding of the kinds of dental issues they will find in practice, and to meet the special needs of those who don’t have resources. All 4th year dental students are now rotated into extramural activities for 10 of their 40 weeks of training. In Iowa there are 12 sites. There are 5 sites nationally and 3 sites internationally (Denmark, Netherlands and UK). There are also some non-traditional outreach opportunities in India and Cambodia. The European outreach opportunities send 3 dental students to these countries and 3 from Denmark, Netherlands and the UK come to the UI Dental School in exchange.
Within Iowa the dental students go to community health centers and private practices in small communities throughout the state.
2. Special care clinic. There are 2 units within the dental school itself: Geriatric and Special Needs Clinic is within the walls of the Dental School, and then there is a Geriatric Mobile Dental Van which goes out to nursing homes. Currently the van serves 10 nursing homes in eastern Iowa.
3. Project SEALED—Service, Engagement, and Life Career Education in Dentistry. Goals of the SEALED Program: oral healthcare for underserved kids; service learning for dental students; to spark interest in dental careers in young people throughout Iowa. Allamakee County has three locations where the SEALED program is in place within the school setting. This program is a partnership between the County and the Dental School. The dental students work hard to create an environment to make a child’s first experience with a dental exam a good one.
The Dental School has also participated in Rotary’s Xicotepec Project. For 3 years dental student, Julie Reynolds, volunteered to go to Xicotepec with the District 6000 project
Dr. Caplan plugged the UI dental program to attract new patients for the student and faculty clinics. There are multiple levels of pricing and payment plans available. Right now the School can especially use denture patients and patients with missing teeth so students can get experience working with these special conditions.
Scribe,
Liz Nichols