IN JUST ABOUT AN HOUR .... ROTARY MEETS ....
Today’s speaker is Neela Pushparaj presenting Vocations and Avocations …. A motivational conversation. This is the program that was “snowed out” on January 6th.
Neela is number 7 among 9 siblings. All her brothers and sisters were really high achievers. She graduated med school and arrived in Baltimore for her internship and met Gus in 1964.
Neels’as bio continues “As he was working in Detroit, I moved there for my training in pathology. After two years we moved to New Jersey. My next 2 years were spent in Muhlenberg Hospital. Following that I worked in Medical schools and hospitals were I en ountered varying degrees of prejudice and finally ended up in St. Francis hospital I. Poughkeepsie. When I was working in lower Manhattan, I had a resident who was almost suicidal and I decided to intervene. We were walking along the East Village when we saw a palmist. We decided to let him read our palms.
When he looked at my palms, he immediately said that I had tremendous aesthetic ability which I had not tapped into.
I was joking about it with Gus and he remembered that. Come my next birthday he gave me a gift certificate for watercolor classes. The rest is now history.”
CONGRATULATIONS TO MORT O’SHEA ON his election as President for the upcoming year! Serving with Mort will be Past President David Dietze, VP Peter Bolton, Treasurer Jim Fleischmann and Secretary Joe Steiner. There are still some board vacancies. If you would like to help guide the club into the future, please volunteer.
THE RAFFLE is starting. Every member will be getting a book of tickets to sell. We’ve got some time, and it has the potential to make us funding for at least one, if not two scholarships. Please start selling when you get your tickets.
