2015-2016 OFFICERSVice PresidentRoger SmithPresident ElectWayne ClarkSecretaryMichelle MaynorTreasurerBill WrightTreasurer ElectTammy RandolphPast PresidentMichael PollenSgt. at ArmsKate Ripley & Brenda Riley

CLUB SERVICEStructureBill SatterbergOperationsJohn Ringstad Fun & RecognitionEmily Drygas & Travis LewisCommunity ServiceDan WhiteVocational ServiceTim JonesInternational ServiceTom GrossNew GenerationsSteve Heckman

Rotary Club of FairbanksMeetings: Thursday at NoonWestmark Hotel813 Noble Street, FairbanksPO BOX 72114Fairbanks Alaska 99707fairbanksrotary.orgfairbanksrotary@gmail.comrotarctic@gmail.com

THERE IS NOTHING SO SACRED IN ROTARY THAT IT CANNOT BE SET ASIDE

IN FAVOR OF THINGS BETTER. Paul Harris

2015-2016 PresidentAisha Tinker Bray at Chitna

with daughter Ashlyn

THE CANDY BOMBERS OF BERLINPRESENTED BY INNOVATION CONSULTING, INC.

MERRITT HELFFERICH

ROTARCTIC VOLUME 16ISSUE 6 - AUGUST 6, 2015

FOR MORE INFORMATION:HTTP://WIGGLYWINGS.WEEBLY.COM

MERRITT HELFFERICH has had a varied career including serving as UA Associate Vice President for Human Resources, UAF Assistant to the Chancellor and Associate Director of the Geophysical Institute. He worked as ballistic meteorologist and assistant supervisor at the Poker Flat Research Range. He is CEO of Innovation Consulting, Inc. as a consultant and project evaluator on public policy, grant funding issues and tribally-controlled education. He graduated from the University of Alaska with a BA and earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard. He has traveled in South and Central America, Asia and Europe hiking the Coast-to-Coast trail in England and on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. He bicycled 550 miles from Prague to Vienna to Bratislava and finally to Budapest, worked on the first commercial transit of the Northwest passage, sailed a 25-foot sloop from Vancouver, BC to Valdez, Alaska and captained a hot air balloon for the farthest North flight in the USA in Barrow. He studied goldsmithy in Denmark and has a glacier named

for him in Antarctica. He collects and maintains a large library of polar exploration and history books.

Merritt will be presenting about his visit to Berlin and discovery of the Candy Bombers’ history, World War II bombing of Germany, destruction of Berlin and status at the end of the war. The 1948 Russian closure of all road, railroad and water access to Berlin plus removal of electricity generation, and the decision by Truman to supply Berlin’s two million people for food, fuel etc. by Air. The story of the year-long Berlin Airlift and the advent of the Candy Bombers .

Photos: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/zTqT3cQP1at-Qg/candy-bombers

LEFT: Gail Halvorson, The Candy Man! Gail was the first one to start dropping candies to Berlin. He had hand-made parachutes that he used. The children called him Uncle Wiggly Wings, because he would wiggle the aircraft before dropping the candy.

UPCOMING EVENTS

ROTARCTIC CORNERDo you have things you’d like to share? IE: Rotary Articles, Photos of President Aisha, Upcoming events, etc.? Send them to Michelle Maynor atrotarctic@gmail.com

August 6The Candy Bombers of BerlinMerritt Helfferich RAVEN LANDINGPeggy Pollen’s Birthday August 7-16Tanana Valley State FairAugust 7-8Mission of Mercy (dental care), Carlson Center, akmom.org or see Jessica WollerAugust 8Betty Everts’s BirthdayAugust 10Merritt Helfferich’s Birthday August 13Chancellor Rogers PresentingKathryn Dodge’s Birthday Jonathan Shambare’s BirthdayAugust 17Ed Randolph’s Birthday August Shelter Box PresentationAugust 21Board Meeting, Westmark, noonAugust 23Kristin Well’s Birthday August 25Roger Brunner’s BirthdayTom Scarborough’s Birthday August 27Alaska Energy Authority August 29Leisa Boswood’s Birthday August 31Cheryl Kilgore’s BirthdaySeptember 3New Member/Opera FairbanksSeptember 5Lloyd Huskey’s Birthday Travis Lewis’ BirthdaySierra Barton’s BirthdaySeptember 8Emily Drygas’ Birthday September 10Fairbanks RollergirlsSeptember 12Premiere Opera Ball, Westmark - 6:30pmSeptember 1775th Anniversary CelebrationSeptember 18Board MeetingSeptember 24United Way Presentation

MEET PAULA MORENO - OUR 2015/2016ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENT!Our Fairbanks Downtown Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) Student for this year is Paula Hervas Moreno. Paula has been in Fairbanks for about three weeks and will be in here approximately a year. Paula is from Jaca, Spain. Jaca is in northeastern Spain approximately a 30-minute drive to the border with France, in the midst of the Pyrenees. The population of Jaca is approximately 13,400. Lowest winter tempature is around 34 °F and highest summer temperature is around 80 °F.

Currently, her host family is Rotarian Jennifer Imus and husband Bryan Imus. The other future host families for Paula this year will be Rotarian Suellen Nelles, and Jerry and Tamara Pollen.

Paula will be attending West Valley High School. She speaks English and Spanish. If you need to improve your Spanish language skills or just curious on how Spanish sounds please talk to Paula. She enjoys hockey, skiing, movies, music, hiking, travelling and is avid novel reader. She is looking forward to experience Alaska. Please take the time to take her out for an activity or family outing.

In Spain, her father is an Army Officer at Regiment Galicia 64 and her mother is a lawyer.

Here is how to reach Paula: Paula’s cell phone (donated by GCI): (907) 385-7279 (Cell) or paulasjaca83@gmail.com. We hope our Rotarians will invite Paula in Fairbanks and family activities so that they can have an exciting year in Fairbanks!!

Any questions or scheduling an appoint with Paula please contact Jennifer Imus or any member of the RYE Committee Nicole Stewart, Tracy Vanairsdale or Jonathan Shambare. Also let us know if you interested in hosting and Exchange Student now in the future. It is only an approximately a 3 months exciting commitment.

Above: Paula’s arrival in Fairbanks. Below: Paula enjoying some lake time courtesy Rotarian Barbara Schuhmann