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ROTARY

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders, providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards in all vocations, and helping build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

Rotary Club of Sarasota

a non-religious non-governmental organization of business and professional leaders (men and women) of every race, culture, and creed united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
See, Rotary in Profile (Copyright 1995, Rotary International)

Rotary Club of Sarasota Facts

Our club, the Rotary Club of Sarasota, was the first Rotary club in Sarasota and is now in its 79th year. We sponsored the founding of the second club, the Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay. There are 8 clubs in Sarasota, 7 clubs in Manatee and 2 clubs in Venice.


Paul Harris Fellows

Our area is in Rotary International District 6960, which stretches along the coast from Naples/Marco Island to Bradenton and includes Arcadia and Immokalee.

Rotary Club of Sarasota is unusually active in international projects. In recent years we have sponsored a couple of large projects and several smaller ones. Some of these projects don’t even reach our attention but are accomplished quietly by dedicated members who work hard to get things done. Former District Governor and Rotary Club of Sarasota member Bob Perkins called this "creating pockets of peace" in the world.

Our club has its own foundation, the Sarasota Rotary Foundation. The Foundation’s purpose is to aid youth and other projects in the community. You can contribute to Sarasota Rotary Foundation at any time and especially on your birthday - it is a tradition in the club to contribute the amount of years you have attained. Some members are Sarasota

Rotary Fellows (have given $1000 or over) and some are Sarasota Rotary Sustainers (giving $100 per year). You can ask the Treasurer to add your contribution to your Rotary bill. Sarasota Rotary Foundation is a 501(c)3, whereas RC of Sarasota is not. Rotary Club of Sarasota supports most of the projects of Rotary International. We are sponsoring a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, a Rotary Exchange Student, and a Group Study Exchange team member this year, as we do most years. We also host in our homes some of the Group Study Exchange team members, this year from Argentina.

Many members are Paul Harris Fellows, having supported The Rotary Foundation to the tune of $1000 or more. Rotary Club of Sarasota sponsors an Interact Club, a high school service club modeled on Rotary, at Cardinal Mooney High School. Over 100 members do volunteer work and raise money for local projects under the leadership of Beverly Halstead, honorary member of the club. Interacters also help with Pioneer Day and other club projects.  Another project we enthusiastically support is a multi-district project called Seminar for Tomorrow’s Leaders (S4TL). For the sum of $425.00 per attendee, we send up to four high school junior to a week-long workshop in Lakeland to teach them leadership skills. The students are usually Student Council leaders or Interact officers.

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You can be glad to be a member of the Rotary Club of Sarasota!

 

OBJECT OF ROTARY

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

First. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

Second. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

Third. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;

Fourth. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
• A global network just over 1.2 million members •
• Now over 32,000 clubs In over •
• 168 countries and 34 geographical regions •
Rotary members dedicate their time, skills, expertise and other resources toward improving the human condition both in their own communities and throughout the world.

Motto - " Service Above Self "
Quote - "If I could place a Rotary club in every town in the world, I could underwrite the peace of the world."
Calvin Coolidge

Contact Information

Contact Jayne Cory
PHONE 941-302-1567
Electronic Mail lcjc@comcast.net

ROTARY CLUB OF SARASOTA
Member District 6960
P.O. Box 2766
Sarasota, Florida  34230-2766

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