One of the newest members of the Rotary Club of Marshall and District 5830, is not a new Rotarian at all. As a matter of fact, Dr. Dee Rea was active in Rotary long before most of us even knew about Rotary, because as a very young Periodontist in Longview, he joined the Longview South club, where he, along with two other Rotarians, Dr.Troy Jolly from the Marshall Rotary Club and  Dr. David Nichols from the Tyler Rotary club, established a makeshift dental clinic in Belize to treat the indigenous indians in a remote village. There they treated thousands of patients and eventually succeeded in securing a site for a more permanent clinic, equipped it with a Dental Chair and autoclave so that they could do more than extract abscessed teeth. 
    Unknown to Dr. Rea at the time, he was teaching another new member of the Rotary Club of Marshall that real happiness comes from helping others and the idea of service to others is what being a true Rotarian really means.  Inspired by this young Periodontist's example he also became a real Rotarian, eventually became president of the Marshall club and then District Governor 1992-93, even traveling to another country in support of a medical mission in Orani, Baatan himself.
    Now coming full circle, Dr. Rea has been sponsored back into Rotary again, now in the Rotary Club of Marshall, by that same New, but now Old, Marshall Rotarian, PDG Jim Fitzgerald.