“My good friend Bob Nielsen had been asking me to join and I wasn’t particularly interested at the time. My first recollection of Rotary was in the central highlands of Vietnam where I saw a boarded-up building with a sign ‘Rotary Meets Here.’ I connected the two and realized there was a LOT more going on with Rotary than meets the eye, and that Rotary was an international organization dedicated to global work.”
Rotary just made sense for a lawyer from a medical family, but who couldn’t pass chemistry. The Borg family has always sought to assist others. Rick is currently writing a book mixing history and his observations of life in Vietnam before, during and after the war.
Rick’s dad treated many polio victims as a physician. Rick has become a personal supporter of the lepers and orphans of Vietnam.
“My concern for these causes and disaster victims is why I joined Rotary International in 1997…and as far as I’m concerned, this is JUST the beginning as I hope to draw attention to the plight of the less-fortunate people of Vietnam and the world.”