Sylvia Maser and her staff from Global Give a Book spoke to our club on the 13th. They provide award-winning hard cover books to children through the New Mexico Food Pantries. kTo day they have provided books to over 400 children. They sponsor Read-a-Thons through out the state where people read to children and then the children get to take the books home.
RYLA is coming up. Recruiting is open to the third week of April. We are paired with St. Pius High School.
The 2025 Essay content is a go so we will include more information when available.
There will be a Ramps project at the end of February where we will build 4 ramps. More to follow.
Deadline for RDSF grants is the end of February. We have three applicants. We will distribute $55,000 this year.
50 Things Every Rotarian Should Know About Rotary
19A Brief Rotary History
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.
Rotary's popularity spread throughout the United States in the decade that followed; clubs were chartered from San Francisco to New York. By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents, and the organization adopted the name Rotary International a year later.
As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving the professional and social interests of club members.
Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need. The organization's dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its principal motto: Service Above Self. Rotary also later embraced a code of ethics, called The 4-Way Test, that has been translated into hundreds of languages.
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