Sponsor: Allysen Clancy

2011-12 Student Officers:

President: Shana Shuman 

Vice President: Rachel Schwandt

Secretary: Josh Liske

Treasurer:Lauren Hamelink

Historian:Vion Shoenia and Maryann Robbins

Sergeant at Arms: Greg Onderbeke

Fundraiser to benefit Heifer International

Interact members will be collecting loose change and selling buttons to adopt a llama for the third time.

For more information or to make a donation contact
Mrs. Clancy at LHS: clancya@lamphere.k12.mi.us

September: Ice cream social to welcome new students

October: Sweetest Day flower sale in HS, Firends of the Orphans/NPH Mexican Orphanage (make donation for Alma and Gaudencio)

November: Thanksgiving baskets for families in Madison Heights

December: Rotary Club visit, Spaghetti dinner

January: Heifer international (purchase llama for family in South America, colony of bees for family in Africa)

February: Valentine's Day flower sale in HS

March: MCREST homeless shelter in Sterling Heights

April: Rotary Club, Polio Plus

May: Teacher appreciation BBQ luncheon

Throughout the year: volunteer at Cappuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit

Working together with students from Page Middle School, our Interact members recently lent a helping hand to those in need.

Click here to read more.

On December 2nd the Interact Club attended a luncheon with the Rotary Club to learn about the effects of Polio.

Polio, or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. It enters the body orally, infecting the intestinal wall. It may then proceed to the blood stream and into the central nervous system causing muscle weakness and often paralysis. Polio spreads through human-to-human contact, usually entering the body through the mouth due to fecally contaminated water or food. The virus invades the nervous system, and the onset of paralysis can occur in a matter of hours. Polio can spread widely before physicians detect the first signs of a polio outbreak. Surprisingly, most people infected with the poliovirus have no symptoms or outward signs of the illness and are thus never aware they have been infected.The three strains of poliovirus result in non-paralytic polio, paralytic polio, and bulbar polio. In all forms of polio, the early symptoms of infection are fatigue, fever, vomiting, headache and pain in the neck and extremities.

2005 Polio Cases

489 Nigeria (endemic)
472 Yemen (importation)
264 Indonesia (importation)

Eradication Efforts