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Important Dates
May:
May 6 at 12:00: Meeting at La Bella Via; Carol's speaker, Ray Freaney
May 9 at 9:30-12:00: Volunteer at River of Life Food Pantry
Week of May 11: Meals at Home deliveries
May 13 at 12:00: Meeting at Pizza Village Cafe #4; Renee's speaker; April Poretta from PHS
May 13 at 1:45: Board Meeting following our regular meeting
May 16 All Day District Conference: Connect for Good Summit in Somerset
May 20 at 12:00: Meeting at Pizza Village Cafe #4: Laura’s speaker; Bridget Kozelian, Director of Adult and Teen Challenge Women's Program in Lebanon.
May 24 from 7-11:00: Breakfast at the Huntington Firehouse
May 27 at 6:00: Induct new members; Pizza Village Cafe #4
June:
June 3 at 12:00: Meeting at La Bella Via; reflection of this year and planning for next.
Week of June 8: Meals at Home deliveries
June 10 at 12:00: Meeting at La Bella Via; celebrating our Interact Clubs and checks to organizations
June 13 at 9:30-12:00: Volunteer at River of Life Food Pantry
June 16 at 12:00: Board Meeting at Rapaen
June 17 at 12:00: Meeting at La Bella Via; Scholarship luncheon
June 20 from 10:00 A.M.: Ole Towne Festival at Shappell Park
June 24 at 6:00: Installation Dinner at Harker’s
July 1: NO MEETING!
Other important dates:
July 18: Tentative Duck Derby
September 18: Golf Outing at Harkers
September 26: Tuscany Fundraising Trip!
History of Rotary
"Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves. "
Paul Harris
Rotary founder
Paul P. Harris, the founder of Rotary, was a lawyer who established his business in Chicago in 1896. On the evening of February 23, 1905, Paul P. Harris, at the age of thirty-seven, asked three friends to meet with him. He presented a problem that had been on his mind for some time: How might they as a group enlarge their circle of business and professional acquaintance? Would there not be a mutual benefit in sharing fellowship with representatives of other vocations?
Out of the discussion that followed came the idea of a club whose membership would be limited to one representative from each business and profession. Meetings were to be held at each member’s place of business. Since this arrangement meant that meetings would have to be held in rotation, the name ROTARY was suggested and adopted.
Paul Harris was the third president of the Chicago club and the first president of the National Association of Rotary Clubs formed in 1910. He was President Emeritus of Rotary International at the time of his death in 1947. During the time he served as President, he was also prominent in civic and professional work.
Rotary continued to grow and when the first Rotary Convention was held in Chicago in 1910, there were sixteen clubs with 1,500 members. Today, there are 34,216 clubs with 1.2 million Rotarians throughout the world making up Rotary International. Women were first welcomed into the Rotary in 1989. Rotary International just celebrated its 119th Anniversary.