Jan 11, 2018 12:15 PM
Dr. Jim Cole, Rotary Club of Englewood
End Polio Now

Dr. James R. Cole, an orthopedic surgeon and a member of the Englewood Rotary Club, will speak at the Jersey City Rotary Club’s afternoon meeting this week, at Rita & Joe’s Italian Restaurant.. Jim will speak on Rotary International’s 30-year effort to rid the world of polio, a campaign in which he himself has participated, administering an oral polio vaccine to children in 2013 in the west African nation of Togo. Jim began his 40-year career in orthopedic surgery at Col-Les Orthopedic Surgery in 1973, and in 1981, began a 31-year career of service at Englewood Orthopedics, having retired in March, 2013. In June, 2014, Jim received RI’s highest honor – the Service Above Self Award, which can be presented to no more that 150 Rotarians throughout the world in any one year, even though Rotary has more than 1.2-million members.