Rotations - May 19,  2015

 

President-Elect Sally Hartman welcomed the club for another performance on the stage of the Chrysler.  With no one in the audience our Rotary Club, under Sally’s direction, performed admirably.

 

The school of the week was Lindenwood Elementary School.

 

Pam Tubbs led the singing activity with “If you Are Happy, and You Know it . . .” which we seemed to survive, followed by God Bless America with Frank at the ‘better than average’ piano.   Ed Lilly reported no visitation report, and Cy Grandy reported only one visitor.

 

We were all reminded of the Golf Outing on Saturday, May 30, contact Adam Kahrl at Akahrl@ymcashr.org   or 757 962 5520.  We were also reminded about our volunteer upcoming opportunity at the zoo. 

 

President-Elect Sally reminded us of EREY, Every Rotarian Every Year, and about the importance of our support of the Rotary Foundation.  She invited Angus Hines to come forward and receive his Paul Harris plus 4 pin.  We are grateful to Angus for this substantial support to the Foundation. 

 

Under fines: Win Lewis rose and announced he would pay a fine for several items of accomplishment, including one for his wife.  The Power List as printed in Inside Business was responsible for a few others in our club, Lisa Chandler, Shep Miller.   Edna Kolovani paid for her letter in the VPilot about TCC.  Rick Coradi got a promotion which came to us from a Richmond paper.  Shep rose to share a surprise Mothers Day event. It seems his four children all arrived for what Shep and Gigi had expected would be a day without any company.  Harry McCoy was quoted in the magazine Distinction recently because of the legal work he had done for E.K.Sloane, the benefactor who donated Steinway Pianos to local non-profit organizations.

 

Our speaker for the day was Dr, Richard Homan.  Laurie Harrison rose to introduce the President and Provost of Eastern Virginia Medical School and Dean of the School of Medicine.  He joined EVMS three years ago after holding key senior leadership positions at a number of institutions.  He is a graduate of Brown, SUNY Buffalo, and completed residency at Penn State. He also served at Texas Tech and Drexel University.  He and his wife have three children. 

 

Dr. Homan moved quickly into the ever increasing roles of EVMS noting that ours is truly a community school, not connected with any university as is more common.  EVMS serves the community as many local medical personnel are trained here.  They receive about 7,000 applicants a year for 150 spaces; the school does take diversity into consideration with acceptances.  Part of the instruction includes interviewing patients with problems and how to give bad news to a patient, they do use actors.  As the student progresses, more of the activity is an apprenticeship.  Achieving an MD is not enough to practice medicine, prospect must do a residency which may go for another 3 to as many as seven years.  Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners are also educated at EVMS, there were 85 accepted out of 1700 applications.  In addition there are Masters, and PhD degrees.   The medical school also has been able to develop special interests in diabetes with the Strelitz Clinic and Reproductive medical help, including considerable work with HIV (Aids) prevention.   The school is working with data provided by Sentara about pre-term labor and a variety of other problems.  EVMS works with William and Mary and ODU on fitness and public health programs. 

 

Dr Homan noted that the school does not necessarily limit the number of MDs it graduates, but another restriction comes with finding residencies for the graduates to complete their certification.  He also told about the Spanish Language program which strives to make medical Spanish part of the rising MDs.  A curious sidelight was the concerns in certain areas, in Seattle many people have had CPR, not so in that area there are fewer cardio-vascular problems.  As a final note he mentioned that a W&M partnership was not going to happen. 

 

Sally then presented him with the book donated in his name that will be placed in the Lindenwood Elementary School. 

 

There was no raffle today, so the meeting was adjourned and we dismounted from the stage.