Our eyecare team was fabulous!! I appreciated working with Dr. Bob McClenathan from Lancaster and Dr. Amy Spotts from York who had previously worked on eye missions with Rotary. I learned alot from the ol' seasoned veterans. I also enjoyed working with our 4 colleagues from Denmark - Jesper, Henrik, Suzann, and Lise.
Kaye McClenathan did a fabulous job as "gate-keeper" in the clinic and she was the one that performed auto-refractions on most of the children - a fairly difficult job with young people who have a hard time fixing their gaze on one spot for the necessary time period. Connie Spark and Mark Warchol were busy fitting and dispensing glasses.
Mark was previously at Rotarian in York and now is a Rotarian in Texas. He also lives part-time in Russia. He is a metallurgist and engineer who works mainly with aviation materials. He is truly a MacGyver -able to fix anything. I understand on one previous Rotary mission he completely dis-assembled a surgical microscope overnight and rebuilt it. He has legendary stature in Rotary mission work.
Bob Elser and Pete Lutz from York East Rotary and Nigel Foundling from North Lebanon and Mary Anne Eckert from Boulder, Colorado were our visual acuity screening team. They worked closely with our local volunteer/translators, most of who were local university students and Rotaract members.
