Please join us on Fri Dec 2 @12n...Leigh Wai Doo who is a polio survivor will be our speaker from Wesley Fong.
Leigh's Subject: The Polio Life of Leigh Wai Doo-Adapting.
A Resume of Leigh Wai Doo -adapting to a life of Poliomyelitis, post-polio, and family fulfillment.Thank you Rotary International for quashing polio worldwide, the first disease to be eradicated – almost. You Rotarians made a superb difference on saving millions of children and adults from the effects of polio myelitis . I greatly Mahalo you. Please keep it up. IMUA polio still is alive in small corners of our world and your Rotary international efforts keep that awareness of the world alive.
I relate to and have compassion for people with polio, as I have had throughout my life. Here is my story. From March of Dimes poster polio child to National March of Dimes board member which raised $76 million annually to save babies.
From Hawaiian teenage surfer to Punahou student body president, from Columbia College protester'68 to Harvard Law School Juris Doctor '71 to bread baker in the Poor People's Campaign organized by Dr. Martin Luther King for the summer of 1968 in Washington DC. From the founding Assistant Dean and Director starting the University of Hawaii's first and only law school to a Honolulu City Council member keeping the country, starting the second city Kapolei and creating sister cities with the People's Republic of China to build peace in our world. From marrying 5' '3" Iowa farmer's daughter with blonde hair from the Midwest to raising together three healthy beautiful kindly contributing children now good adult citizens. And feeling fulfilled.
Leigh Wai Doo now 76 is a fourth-generation, Kamaaina whose ancestors on both sides chose to be naturalized Citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Doo Waising and Young Ahin. Leigh-Wai Was born normal, a big baby who started to talk and stand early at nine months of age. Then he came down with a high fever, as he was told later, and couldn't move from his neck down. Well, his story goes on and on and it is a story of evolving, adapting, and choosing values, priorities, and goals.
You can hear him personally and directly on December 2, 2022, at high noon via zoom of the Rotary International-Hawaii chapter meeting.
Ask him questions. He welcomes you with Aloha from Leigh-Wai DOO
Meeting ID: 817 8451 0005
Passcode: 253649