再聯繫 通訊 （心繫扶輪）2009年11月發行

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被扶輪勾住了

Hooked on Rotary

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By Diana Schoberg

國際扶輪新聞—2009.11.11

Rotary International News -- 11 November 2009

3520地區2004-2005 學年度文化大使獎學生簡秀芬Mimi(Chien Hsiu-Fen)譯

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hahn為了他所屬的扶輪社計劃至宏都拉斯數次，包括協助友誼之家孤兒鞋計畫。

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Hahn has made several trips to Honduras for projects through his Rotary club, including a partnering effort with Friends United and Shoes for Orphan Souls. Photo courtesy Frederick Hahn

在他的扶輪生涯36年當中，國際扶輪理事Frederick Hahn Jr.曾經空運藥物配送至俄國及印度，開啟了第一次在美國密蘇里州的扶輪青年領袖營，為衣索比亞的孩童提供小兒麻痺疫苗，並在扶輪根除小兒麻痺計畫中擔任領導人物。經過這些努力，他獲得了與泰瑞莎修女、，口服小兒麻痺疫苗的發明者亞伯特•沙賓及比爾蓋茲會面的機會。

In his 36 years as a Rotarian, RI Director Frederick Hahn Jr. has distributed medicine airlifted to Russia and India, started the first Rotary Youth Leadership Awards in Missouri, USA, given drops of polio vaccine to children in Ethiopia, and served in leadership roles in Rotary’s PolioPlus program. Through these efforts, he has had the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa, oral polio vaccine inventor Albert Sabin, and Bill Gates.

當被問及哪一段經歷可說是他人生中最精采的部份，他說扶輪就很像旅行：「我對人生的定義是，不論我在哪裡，都是我最喜愛的。對於扶輪工作也一樣。」

When asked which experience he’d consider his personal highlight, he says Rotary is a lot like traveling: “My take on life is that wherever I am, that is my favorite. The same is true with my Rotary work.”

Hahn的足跡曾到過七大洲，超過75個國家。南極洲是第七個洲，他與太太Marge共同在那裡慶祝他們的50周年結婚紀念日。

Hahn has visited more than 75 countries on all seven continents. Antarctica was the seventh, where he and his wife, Marge, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

同為前受獎人的一員，Hahn曾在2000年時率領團體研究交換團前往土耳其。雖然他在1973年就獲邀加入扶輪社，他說他在1985年在密蘇里州的堪薩斯城參加國際扶輪年會時遇到了沙賓先生才真正成為扶輪社員。Hahn當時是Independence扶輪社社長當選人

A Rotary Foundation alumnus, Hahn led a Group Study Exchange team to Turkey in 2000. Although his invitation into Rotary came in 1973, he says he truly became a Rotarian in 1985, when he met Sabin during the RI Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Hahn was president-elect of the Rotary Club of Independence at the time.

「我有機會與他握手並了解到他對於小兒麻痺的感受。身為一個醫生，這對我來說特別有意義，」他說，「這讓我被扶輪勾住了。」

“I had the opportunity to shake hands with him and visit with him about his feeling concerning polio. My being a physician made this particularly meaningful to me,” he says. “This opportunity hooked me on Rotary.”

在與沙賓先生見面後，Hahn變成了一個積極的根除小兒麻痺募款者，擔任小兒麻痺地帶協調人多年，並一度擔任美西地區的副主席。他的興趣在一個主要獻給扶輪的禮物中到達最高點，他與夫人Marge獲得阿吉•柯蘭夫獎 (該獎彰表貢獻超過25萬美金至扶輪基金會的扶輪社社員。)

After meeting Sabin, Hahn became an active contributor and fundraiser for polio eradication, serving for years as a zone coordinator for PolioPlus Partners and at one time as vice chair for the western United States. His interest culminated in a major gift to The Rotary Foundation, qualifying him and Marge as members of the Arch C. Klumph Society (which honors those who contribute at least $250,000 to the Foundation).

在1997年，Hahn一家人義務服務於衣索比亞的全國免疫日，他們參加在阿地斯阿貝巴舉行的社長和平會議，讓他們有緣與Catherine Hamlin博士會面，她終生致力於年輕婦女的襔管重建。其後一年，她獲得國際扶輪為她的成就頒發服務獎。Hahn說與Hamlin博士相識是他們夫婦永難忘懷的事。

While volunteering during National Immunization Days in Ethiopia in 1997, the Hahns attended a Presidential Peace Conference in Addis Ababa that led to an opportunity to meet Dr. Catherine Hamlin, a physician whose life’s work was fistula repair in young women and girls. The following year, she received an international service award from Rotary in recognition of her work. Hahn says meeting Hamlin was an experience the couple will never forget.

在1992-93年擔任地區總監時，Hahn在國際心連協會工作，該協會獲得了配合獎助金提供藥物援助俄國聖彼得堡。兩年後，他聯合主持了一個計畫將藥物補給空運至印度加爾各答泰瑞莎修女的機構。在接下來的扶輪年度，他將踏上它的第七次宏都拉斯的旅程，參與他的扶輪社與友誼之家合作的師資識字計劃。這兩項工作皆獲得配合獎助金的支援。

As district governor in 1992-93, Hahn worked with Heart to Heart International in obtaining a Foundation Matching Grant to provide medical supplies to St. Petersburg, Russia. Two years later, he cochaired a project that airlifted medical supplies to Mother Teresa’s facilities in Kolkata, India. Later this Rotary year, he will be making his seventh trip to Honduras as part of a Teachers Teaching Teachers literacy program, where his Rotary club partners with Friends United. These two efforts also received Matching Grant support.

在耳鼻喉專科工作了35年之後，Hahn在2005年退休。他是密蘇里州藥物協會的前會長。他也擔任其他服務相關機構的董事。

Hahn retired in 2005 after 35 years of practice as an ear, nose, and throat specialist. He is past president of the Missouri State Medical Association and continues as president of the Missouri State Medical Foundation. He also serves on several other service-related boards.

「我真的相信國際扶輪的座右銘－超我服務，以及扶輪基金會的－行善全世界，」他說。

“I really believe RI’s motto of Service Above Self and The Rotary Foundation’s motto of Doing Good in the World,” he says.

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