Meeting - January 25, 2024

John Ockenfels and Peter Teahen's Flight to End Polio took three months to circumnavigate the globe. Getting their single engine Cessna 210 off the ground took three years.  On 5 May in Cedar Rapids, Teahen and Ockenfels announced that, with matching funds from the Gates Foundation, they had already raised US$1 million to help eradicate polio. And then the two men climbed into the Cessna - designated N732WP - lifted into the air, and headed east on their crazy, improbable journey. "John turned 71 on this trip, and I turned 70," says Teahen. "We're old, but we're still wild."