I was so pleased by the
support the Sertoma membership provided for the November, 2004 Texas Mission of
Mercy event at the Dell Diamond. Many of our members showed up for setup on
Thursday as well as performing a number of roles during the actual event. Mayor
Nyle Maxwell opened the Thursday orientation with a welcome to all volunteers
and asked for service for those in need of care and we certainly answered the
call!
I want to thank Vicki Johnson for being the Round Rock representative for the
hearing testing, Charlie Culpepper for being the chairperson for supply,
procurement, and distribution, and Tino Hernandez and Rufus Honeycutt for being
the co-chairpersons for the translators. Also, thanks to all our members who
volunteered as ambassadors to help patients find their way around the facility
and those computer savvy folks who helped us keep up with recording and
charting.
The Dell Diamond made a huge donation with the use of a great facility and much
help during the months of preparation. Our club and several businesses donated
more than $30,000 to provide the funds needed to put on this event. I can't
imagine what we would have done without all this help. We saw 900 dental
patients in the two day event and provided over $300,000 in dental care. Since
2001, when the first Texas Mission of Mercy was held in Tyler, Texas, the
organization has provided more than $2,000,000 in free dental care to about
6,000 Texans in need. We have been privileged to host two TMOM's in Williamson
County - Georgetown and Round Rock. Next year's event will be held October 21st
& 22nd in the Burnet - Marble Falls area. If you can make it, you will also
feel the warmth and well being from being a volunteer for those who need the
most.
Kent Macaulay
Chairman
Letter from Our Russian Zoi
Serteens
(contributed by Norm Nofzinger,
Round Rock Sertoma Club Serteen Coordinator)
Dear Norm,
Glad to hear from you. In the beginning I would like inform you that my city is
on the big river, but the thing is it is rather shallow. As far as mountains is
concerned the Ural mountains are rather low here and practically there are no
high rocks, my city located not far from Samara or Ufa. I can say that my city
is not rather big by Russian standards, the population is about 600 000 people.
Nowadays the city is rapidly changing. Our city is a very multinational. People
of different nationalities live in our city.
Our lyceum has got a lot of different traditions. Now the students are getting
ready for the scientific conference. The students make scientific researches and
reports and they try to present them. The conference will be attended by many
guests from different universities.
As for my graduation, I do not worry, because my post will be taken by a very
good person, the are a lot of good people in our lyceum.
Dear Norm, in Russia all boys past school try enter in university, otherwise they go serve in army.
How old is you? I am 16. In what class
you study?
I am going to send you some photos. They were taken during the holiday (The
meeting of the commune members).
In photo #1 you can
see the flag holders group with banner of the lyceum.
In photo #2 you can see haw we light the fire of the commune
meeting.
In photo #3 you can see my class in circle of friendship.
Sincerely
yours,
Sergey
Note: Pictures posted at the new Zoi Ora Filos website.