Tuesday wasn’t just a regular Rotary meeting for longtime Rotarian Tad McKee. McKee was recognized by Rotary International for his generosity.
Jay Wilson was on hand, representing RI, and presented McKee with a special pin signifying him as a Major Donor.
Rotarians receive what is called a Paul Harris Fellow when they donate $1000 to the Rotary Foundation. McKee is now a ten time Paul Harris Fellow, elevating him to a level that most just think about.
“I appreciate the recognition and I’m honored to contribute. I was born in 1953 and learned about kids who had polio. I also had a roommate that had polio and had to spend time in an iron lung as a child. When I found out the Rotary Foundation’s goal was to eradicate polio, I knew that was something I wanted to support,” McKee said.
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 45 years. Rotary’s first polio project was to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Inspired by that successful vaccination campaign, Rotary went on to become a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, which has reduced polio cases around the world by 99.9 percent. Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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