Club President Jonna Buck welcomed participants and Cliff's wife Janet as a guest to our meeting!
 
Our speaker this week was Nancy Koplowitz, a polio survivor. 
 
To read more about the meeting and presentation, click on the gold-colored Recap word above.
 
To watch the recorded meeting, click on this link: October 20, 2020 Meeting
 
 
 
Several members had Happy Dollars this week to celebrate time with family, friends, the community, and a Arkansas Razorback football victory! Sooie Lewis!  Special shout out and hugs to Club Secretary Linda Holt who lost her 18-year-old dog family member this week. 

Our Program

Nancy Koplowitz was our speaker. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, retired teacher, life-long learner, traveler, avid reader and volunteer, who has an inspiring life story after contracting polio at the age of six weeks in 1952. The polio virus can affect people in mild or devastating ways. Nancy experiences lasting effects on her left leg and right arm and has had five surgeries to attempt to correct muscle and bone problems associated with polio that affect her balance and walking.
 
Nancy credits many assets in her life for helping her on her life journey with polio, including a strong healthcare system in Canada, modern medicine and a family that respected women and encouraged her to follow all of her dreams. 
Nancy Koplowitz traveled to the Great Wall of China, prior to COVID-19 pandemic. She also had a great trip to Egypt and has plans to travel again when a COVID-19 vaccine is available.
 
On her wish list are Eastern Europe, France, and South America. 
 
Several members noted when they were growing up they had family members or neighbors who suffered from polio. Others know of the effects of polio because they learned in school about the inventor of the polio vaccine Jonas Salk. 
 
Dr. Jack Beller shared his knowledge and experience helping those affected by polio, medical procedures to try to counteract the debilitating post effects of the disease.
 
Thank you Nancy for continuing to share your story with all of us--but especially taking time to share with our younger generations who have lived when polio is out of sight--isolated to just a few countries--Pakistan and Afghanistan today.
 
Thanks to all who continue to give to the Rotary Polio Plus campaign begun in 1985 to eradicate polio worldwide!