Mission Statement
It is the purpose of the Sertoma Club of Mesa To:
Promote acquaintanceship, friendship and fellowship as an opportunity for service.
Encourage and foster the idea of service and to provide opportunity for its members to be of service to youth, to the less fortunate and to the community.
Create higher business and civic principles and to promote cooperation in all business and civic affairs.
Provide recognition of all worthy classifications of business, professions and other fields of endeavor as dignified occupations worthy of serving mankind.
Provide through its club meetings, opportunities for full and free discussion of matters of public interest.
Promote, in every way, the freedom of individuals and the maintenance of the principles of free enterprise, to encourage good government and good citizenship, and to further mutual tolerance and understanding among all people.
THE SERTOMA CLUB OF MESA
(Affiliate of Sertoma International)
FOUNDED AND SERVING MESA SINCE OCTOBER 1954
Sponsor the Declaration of Independence Heritage Program, which is presented to all eighth-grade classes in the city each year during the fall semester since 1960.
Sponsor July 4th Independence Day Celebration Program (Show and Fireworks) since 1960.
Sponsor Sertoma International Speech and Hearing Foundation. This program is international in scope.
Cosponsor Mesa Foundation for Educational Excellence.
Cosponsor National Special Olympics Committee.
Sponsors of Junior Achievement free enterprise training.
Sponsors of Mesa Lutheran Hospital Department of Audiology as an affiliate of the Sertoma International Speech and Hearing Foundation.
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Partial List of Sponsorships and Activities
Weekly club luncheon meeting, Wednesdays, 12:15 pm at the Mi Amigos Restaurant, SW Corner of Gilbert and Southern in Mesa. Great friends and informative programs.
Cosponsor Constitution Week in conjunction with the Mesa Constitution Celebration Committee since 1986.
Cosponsor the Constitution Celebration Essay Contest in conjunction with the Mesa Schools. Cash scholarships are awarded by the club.
Cosponsor the "Turkey Trot" 10k Run, each Thanksgiving Day, in conjunction with the City of Mesa.
Cosponsor CHAP – (Community Hearing Aid Program) which provides hearing aids for indigent people.
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Forty-fifth Legislature
Second Regular Session 2002
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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2034
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
RECOGNIZING THE UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING CHILDREN.
Whereas, deafness involves the most basic of human needs, the ability to communicate with others. Many deaf and hard-of-hearing children use an appropriate communication mode, sign language, which may be their primary language, while others express and receive language orally and aurally, with or without visual signs or clues. Still others, typically young deaf and hard-of-hearing children, lack any significant language skills; and
Whereas, it is essential for the well-being and growth of deaf and hard-of-hearing children that educational programs recognize the unique nature of deafness and ensure that all deaf and hard-of-hearing children have appropriate, ongoing and fully accessible educational opportunities; and
Whereas, it is essential that deaf and hard-of-hearing children, like all children, have an education in which their unique communication mode is respected, utilized and developed to an appropriate level of proficiency; and
Whereas, it is essential that deaf and hard-of-hearing children have an education in which teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, psychologists, speech therapists, assessors, administrators and other special education personnel understand the unique nature of deafness and are specifically trained to work with deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils. It is essential that teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children are proficient in the primary language mode of those children; and
Whereas, it is essential that deaf and hard-of-hearing children, like all children, have an education with a sufficient number of language mode peers with whom they can communicate directly and who are of the same, or approximately the same, age and ability level; and
Whereas, it is essential that deaf and hard-of-hearing children have an education in which their parents and, if appropriate, other deaf and hard-of-hearing people are involved in determining the extent, content and purpose of programs. Deaf and hard-of-hearing children would benefit from an education in which they are exposed to deaf and hard-of-hearing role models; and
Whereas, it is essential that deaf and hard-of-hearing children, like all children, have programs in which they have direct and appropriate access to all components of the educational process, including recess, lunch and extracurricular social and athletic activities; and
Whereas, it is essential that deaf and hard-of-hearing children have programs in which their unique vocational needs are provided for, including appropriate research, curricula, programs, staff and outreach; and
Whereas, each deaf and hard-of-hearing child should have a determination of the least restrictive environment that takes into consideration these factors. Given their unique communication needs, deaf and hard-of-hearing children would benefit from the development and implementation of state and regional programs for children with low-incidence disabilities.
Therefore...Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring:
That the Members of the Legislature recognize the unique needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and encourage the appropriate groups and individuals to support the basic premise that deaf and hard-of-hearing children in this state receive appropriate, ongoing and fully accessible educational opportunities.
PASSED BY THE HOUSE MAY 16, 2002.
PASSED BY THE SENATE APRIL 30, 2002.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 16, 2002.NOTICE