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DR.
RICHARD W. PASSMORE
I became a
Rotarian some thirty-five years ago for the "usual reasons":
Rotary met at noon, my mentor was a Rotarian, and it would not
hurt to meet other professionals who might become patients in my
dental practice.
I continued
to be a Rotarian of sorts for nearly thirty years: I now am in
my twenty-first year of Perfect attendance and enjoying the
comradery of my fellow Rotarians. However, little did I know
what was ahead when Past President of RI Cliff Dochterman spoke
at District 6460 Convention in June of 2000?
Past
President Cliff spoke to the question, "When did you become a
Rotarian?" He opened my eyes to the "crawlers" of India, so
crippled by Polio that all they can do is literally crawl or
drag their bodies through squalid streets and spoke of the five
thousand people, mostly children, who die every day due
to contaminated water.
It is for
these reasons and a thousand other reasons and the opportunity
to make a difference that I truly became a Rotarian.
Dr. Richard
W. Passmore
District
6460, USA
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