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Weekly Update
This Thursday, August 27, 2015, President Bob and Nan Fuhrman are graciously hosting a social and dinner at their home.  Please address your RSVP to Bob by email at bob_fuhrman@msn.com or leave a phone message at 301-770-9400 (Bob's office no.) or at 301-648-8159 (his cell phone) by Wednesday evening. 
 
Next week Rotary District Governor Ken Solow will make his official club visit. 
 
Dr. Allen Barwick spoke about Cosmology and the origins of the universe at the Rotary Club meeting on August 20, 2015.
[Above]  President Bob Fuhrman gave his high school teacher a Rotary cookbook for his presentation on "Cosmology." 
[Below]  Welcome Steve Naron and Jerry Gross.
 
 
The August 6, 2015, Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club meeting featured Tausi Suedi, Co-founder and Country Team Leader of Childbirth Survival International (CSI). CSI’s work focuses on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in hard-to-reach areas. Tausi holds an MPH from George Washington University (2005), speaks four languages, and is passionate about the health and well-being of women, newborns, children under five years old, adolescents/youth, and the elderly especially in marginalized communities. Special guests included District Governor Nominee Greg Wims, Potomac Rotary Club Past Presidents Janis Brose and Rev. Anne Benefield.  [Below] Rotary Club President Bob Fuhrman presented Tausi with a Rotary Cookbook.
 
 
 
 
 
 
At the Rotary Club meeting on July 16, 2015 the topic was "Surplus Food Distribution to Needy Families in Montgomery County" with guests Brett Meyers (Founder, Nourish Now) and Jack Bell. 
 
 
Bruce Fowler is a Rotarian from the North Bethesda Rotary Club who presented an innovative approach to providing transportation for disabled individuals to get to jobs and job interviews where public transit is not readily available. His Rotary Club has partnered with Barwood Taxi and Cornerstone Montgomery and is already reporting very successful results. President Bob Fuhrman thanked Bruce for his presentation with a Rotary Cookbook.
 
Here is a very easy way to help us with fundraising.  If you are an Amazon shopper please bookmark this link http://pbrotary.org/Page/amazon in your browser and ask your friends and family to do the same.  Whenever you start your Amazon shopping from this page the club gets a percentage.  See the link above for details.  You can also get to it from our website banner at http://pbrotary.org.
 
We now have a page which serves as a launching point to our club’s Foundation.  Check it out at http://pbrotary.org/Page/our-foundation.  You can get to it in three ways from our home page (www.pbrotary.org) : Look for “Foundation” located on the banner or under the menu choices “About Us” or “Services/Projects”. Besides evolving content and links to internal and external resources, on that page we can now accept online donations for everything we do. 
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If you shop at Amazon through this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-1264058, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases (millions of products) to the charitable foundation of our club. Thank You!
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