Alice's Corner June 5

As usual yours truly is very tardy with this article.

In May we had a number of great presentations.

The first one, that I did not attend, but had trusty spies tell me that it was great.

The presentation was from our members who traveled to Brazil.  They saw our money at work.  Their presence there was very much appreciated by the recipients of Rotary's monies.

We had a presentation by Bob Chasen.  He is the admissions director of Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He shared with us how Western medicine and Eastern medicine can work hand in hand.  He shared the art of acupuncture.

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Our own Randy Brooks gave us an inside look of his life.  He literary came from a very poor and troubled life.  He lived in the streets from the age of 15.  With the help of some of his teachers he was able to graduate.  This was despite his 1.2 gpa.  He was told by his counselor not to have any high expectations.  He would be lucky to hold any kind of position.

At the age of 18 he joined the Navy.  He became a psychiatric nurse.  His first year was with the Marines.  He was a medical corpsman in Vietnam.

He feels very fortunate in breaking the cycle of poverty.  He feels very fortunate for who he is and has become.  He is thankful for all of the opportunities that came his way.

Today he is an equal partner in Jorgenson and Brooks.  But his hardest assignment has been as Governor for Rotary.  He will be happy as well as sad in some ways to see his term come to an end.

We know there are many more challenges in Randy's life.  We love you Randy and are very proud of you.