RadioRotary

Medical Response Corps (MRC) Coordinator Cathi Tegtmeier discusses local response to disasters and ways to make our homes and communities safer places. Ms. Tegtmeier describes some of her experiences, including emergency support administered during helicopter rescues.

RadioRotary presents a compilation of on-site interviews with humanitarians from around the world, recorded at Rotary’s United Nations Day. Guests include Hudson Valley Rotarian Bunnee Webb, discussing polio eradication worldwide, and a representative from the ShelterBox response team, a Rotary affiliate. ShelterBox responds instantly to disasters that leave people homeless by delivering raid to those who are most in need.

Debra Bonnerwith, Deputy Commissioner of Dutchess County Social Services, and Donna Robinson, Foster Parent Liaison, discuss how Foster Care Services of Dutchess County improves the lives of children and families. The goal for each child is safe, nurturing temporary care with return to family if possible, or adoption if the family cannot be reunited.

In this fun-filled celebration of RadioRotary's first anniversary on the Hudson Valley Talk Radio network, Co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell along with Station Manager Don Verity and Technical Producer Jay Verzi have a good time, often at each other’s expense. RadioRotary features Rotarians and other humanitarians in the Hudson Valley and beyond who help make the world a better place.

Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum Executive Director Ed Glisson and Rena Hill, Director of Development, discuss the newest attraction at the fabulous museum on the Hudson waterfront. The new exhibit is built around the Hyde Park Mastodon, a fossil skeleton found in Hyde Park. Children are able to learn what life was like in the Hudson Valley during the last Ice Age, 14,000 years ago, when elephant-like mastodons roamed North America.

In a lively interview, sibling teen humanitarians, Gwenn and Roan Gideon from Rhinebeck, discuss their recent projects, which have helped thousands in developing countries. They describe how they organized and implemented fundraisers to raise awareness of human rights abuses around the world and to raise money for humanitarian efforts.

Tansukh Dorawala, Rotary District 7210's District Governor for 2011-12, discusses the world’s water crisis and the way Rotary specifically addresses water filtration in developing countries. Unsanitary water is responsible for about 80 percent of the diseases in developing countries and a huge number of deaths, especially among children.

Helen Reisler, first woman President of the Rotary Club of New York, discusses Rotary’s history and her club’s powerful response to 9/11. Her leadership after 9/11 organized club members to give immediate aid to victims and rescue workers and to effectively coordinate contributions in a 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund, contributions that have assisted victims to this day.

Diego Aviles, Chief Operating Officer of the Hudson Valley Council of Boy Scouts, discusses how the organization helps build character, leadership, and personal responsibility. Mr. Aviles describes the origin of the Boy Scouts in England and in America, age levels of scouting, Merit Badges, and outdoor and indoor life skills that become the tools to succeed.

Professional educators Tom and Sue Mounkhall, volunteers for Teachers across Borders (TAB), discuss the valuable work done by this nonprofit organization.

Volunteers for the Good Dog Foundation bring their trained dogs to health facilities and elsewhere to improve recovery rates though canine uplift. Rachel McPherson, Founder and Executive Director, discusses humanitarian tasks these specially trained dogs do for people.

Recorded at the 2009 U.N. Day in New York City, RadioRotary co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell interview Rotary International President, Scotland’s John Kenny (2009-10) and others.

Highland Rotarian Stephanie King discusses the need for clean water around the world. Explaining that one billion people in the world today are without safe drinking water, Ms. King describes the sand filter water system that saves thousands of lives, especially the lives of children.

Wappingers Rotarian Louise Quartuccio, Director of Social Services at Elant, and Fishkill Rotarian Pat Usifer, Corporate Director of Activities at Elant, discuss Elderact, an important recent humanitarian component of Rotary in local District 7210.

Community Foundations of Dutchess County (CFDC) officers, Andrea L. Reynolds, president and CEO, and Nevill Smythe, vice-president of programs, discuss how the various foundations within CFDC and its affiliates help to enhance the quality of life of individuals and towns in the Hudson Valley.