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SOUTHEAST PORTLAND ROTARY FUNDS A VARIETY OF NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN INNER SOUTHEAST PORTLAND -- USING FUNDS RAISED IN OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT: THE WREATH SALE AND AUCTION. WREATHS WILL BE ON SALE AT OUR MEETINGPLACE DECEMBER 1-23, NOON TILL 8 PM SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. TREES AVAILABLE -- AND YOUR PURCHASE OF A FRESH PLAIN OR DECORATED WREATH, AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES, HELPS US HELP OTHERS IN THIS PART OF TOWN!
CONSIDER SPONSORING ONE OF THESE WREATHS -- PART OF OUR FUNDRAISING EFFORT! -- AND YOU WILL RECEIVE RECOGNITION FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN AN AD IN "THE BEE"!
WANT TO KNOW MORE? CLICK ON THE FIRST ICON AT RIGHT FOR THE DETAILS, AND ON THE SECOND TO SEE AND PRINT OUT THE FORM TO RETURN WITH YOUR CHECK! THANK YOU!
Interested in DONATING an item for our December 5th evening Silent Auction or Oral Auction? Click on the button at right for YOUR form! And our thanks to you for your charitable donation!
26-year-old Brad Hoffa of Portland, sponsored by Southeast Portland Rotary to the 2009 RYLA week at Menucha, returned on August 3rd to tell the club what a life-changing experience in leadership development it was. Young adults 29 or under are qualified for this annual leadership developmen week, with their costs underwritten by a local Rotary Club. For details, contact a member of Southeast Portland Rotary!
Even from halfway around the world, traveling Rotarians visit other Rotary Clubs to promote international understanding. Here, during the Southeast Portland Rotary meeting of September 21st, Commander S.K. Jana presents the banner of his club, the Rotary Club of Deonar, Mumbai, India, to local club President Eric Norberg, and receives the Southeast club's banner in return.
District Governor Kristi Halvorson visited Southeast Portland Rotary on October 5th -- just one of 72 area Rotary Clubs she is responsible for in the 2009-2010 Rotary year!
Lynne Chowning, who heads the Loaves and Fishes "Meals On Wheels" program for the Thelma Skelton Center at S.E. Milwaukie Avenue and Center Street accepts a check for $696.95 from Club President Eric Norberg -- the total proceeds of the Southeast Portland Rotary Club afternoon of scooping ice cream at Sellwood's "Sundae In The Park" on August 2nd! The presentation took place at a special meeting of the club at "The Woods" on Milwaukie Avenue in Westmoreland.
Southeast Portland Rotary's Kathy Stromvig (center) and her husband Jim (left) participated with other Southeast Portland volunteers and Moreland Presbyterian Church in traveling to the village of Santa Clara in El Salvador to drill a well and bring fresh water to the community for the first time. They are shown here with the pump of the finished project in early 2009.
Southeast Portland Rotary partnered with other local Rotary Clubs to deliver dictionaries to third grade students in neighborhood Portland Public Schools. We got some awesome thank you's from a few of the students at Grout Elementary School after they received their dictionaries! Click on the icon at right to see them!
Club background and history
Each Southeast Portland Rotary Club meeting lasts about an hour -- and, amid a convivial, friendly atmosphere, presents a buffet lunch, a little fundraising among members (but not among the guests!) to benefit community causes, and a speaker or other program of significance to the community.
Each new Rotary Year starts on July 1, and as with all Rotary Clubs, new officers are installed and awards to members given at the annual Installation and Awards Banquet at the end of June. Photos at right are from this year's banquet! Special honors are given to a member chosen as the club's "Rotarian of the Year", and for "perfect attendance". You don't have to attend every meeting to be a Rotarian, but Rotary honors those who do. If you are on vacation or out of town, you can maintain perfect attendance by attending the meeting of any other Rotary Club anywhere -- which is fun to do in any event! And the "makeup" can be done + 13 days, so it's really not hard to maintain (and be honored for!) perfect attendance. In addition to Joe Amato's exceptional 35 years of perfect attendance, seven other members were honored for it at the banquet -- ranging from 1 year to 28 years' duration.
For a look at upcoming programs at our meetings, and a list of our members, CLICK HERE!
To learn more about all the Rotary Clubs in District 5100, and when and where all their meetings are held, CLICK HERE! (Although for Rotarians, visiting other clubs to "make up" missing their own club meeting is part of the fun -- when it's difficult to do, it now is entirely accepted to "make up" attendance by visiting a "virtual" Rotary Club -- online! CLICK HERE to visit the first and best-known of these -- "Rotary Club One".)
You don't need an invitation to visit one of our meetings -- if you're interested in the program that day, curious about Rotary (the ORIGINAL service club, now worldwide), or considering joining our club and just would like to see what it's like -- drop in any Monday! We'll look forward to meeting you, and hope you'll enjoy your visit and will come visit us again -- or will consider joining us!
President Claudia Stewart passes the "crown of club presidency" (which she obtained from a hamburger restaurant at no charge) to her successor, 2009-10 President Eric Norberg.
Joel Fields, left, was honored for his first year of "perfect attendance" at the 2009 Awards Banquet; while longtime member and Past President Joe Amato (right) was honored for his club-leading 35 years of "perfect attendance"!
A highlight of the club's "Awards and Installation Banquet" on June 30, 2009, at Portland Golf Club was the presentation to past club President Kathy Stromvig of the "Rotarian of the Year" award; Kathy (left) received the award from Assistant District Governor Deneil Banks (right).
A happy 48th anniversary for Southeast Portland Rotary!
On Monday, November 10, 2008, Southeast Portland Rotary observed its 48th anniversary, with a cake, and an assemblage of club presidents past and present. Conducting the special commemorative program was Ed Atiyeh, the only charter member remaining in the club and its first President. He also went on to serve as District Governor, but he still regularly attends the weekly meetings of Southeast Portland Rotary!
To conclude the 48th anniversary meeting, past and present club presidents posed in the meeting room at Country Bill's in Woodstock. Standing, from left, are Stan Boquist, the irrepressible Alex Jones, Joe Amato (the first club president to serve twice), Brian Marantette, Juanita Powell, John Normandin, Ed Atiyeh, Chuck Dimon, Bruce Poinsette, Doug Foley, and Sharon Gitt (who was the club's first woman president). In front, from left, Bill Pederson, Claudia Stewart (the 2008-09 Club President), and Art Johnstone.
For over 100 years, ROTARY has meant fellowship, benefiting the community, and "Service Above Self"!
