Co President Sonny Huntley called the meeting to order
Announcements:
ROCS - Rotarians Offering Community Service - Saturday September 23 - opportunity for community service - Lunch to follow at Jarvis Creek Park.
Mark your calendar for the Social at Rollers - October 5
Speaker:
Dr. Matthew Adams - history professor at Savannah State University was the speaker.
photo credit Suzi Oliver
Dr. Adams program centered on Herbert Hoover's effort to feed millions of Polish and Ukrainian children after World War I. He commented on the fact that much of current Poland and Ukraine were part of Russian territory and much like the current fighting today, fighting has been going on in that region among those people for hundreds of years. He commented on the condition of the people as being much similar to the suffering that they experienced both in the past as well as currently. He discussed the fact that his charity program www.polafund.com is fashioned after the effort organized by Herbert Hoover after WWI because it was so successful. Hoover's program originally discovered that they could not be all things to all people in the conflict so they concentrated on helping feed the children and mothers with children. His charity program does the same thing.
story contribution- Sonny Huntley