Rotary Club of Albion

1928-2016

88 Years of Service

John Williams

Jim Seidl

Rotary International

• Our 1.2 million-member organization

started by Paul P. Harris February 1905

• Rotary is a place where professionals

with diverse backgrounds can exchange

ideas and form meaningful, lifelong

friendships

• Rotary’s name came from the group’s

early practice of rotating meetings

among the offices of each member

Avenues of Service

• Club Service - Club Committees

• Vocational Service - Community

Boards

• Community Service - Flower Planting

• International Service - Polio Plus &

Water

• Youth Service – RYLA, Boy & Girl

Scouts

The Four-Way Test

• Is it the TRUTH?

• Is it FAIR to all concerned?

• Will it build GOODWILL and

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all

concerned?

Charter NightApril 12, 1928

What Does the Club Do?

• Holds weekly meetings designed to:

– Inform members of community,

regional, national, & international issues

– Promote fellowship

– Promote the idea of service in each

Rotarian’s personal, business, and

community life

What Does the Club Do?

• Raises Funds for Community Projects

• Donates Funds to Worthwhile Projects

• Gives Volunteer Service

Where Has the Money For Service

Projects Come From?

Community

• Whitefish Dinner

• Pancake Meals

• Mike Turner Basketball Tournament

• Las Vegas Night

• Broom Sales

Fund-

raising

Projects

Club Members

• Christmas Silent Auction

• Weekly 50/50 drawing

• Fines and Happy Bucks

• Passing a donation basket

Rotary Charitable Fund

• Started in 2001 and has distributed over

$52,000 to 37 local and international non-

profits

• Kalamazoo River Trail ($10,000 Rotary

District Grant)

• Sister City Committee

• Swinging at the Shell

• Victory For Kids Playground

Past Service Projects

• Stoplight to help children cross the street to and from school

• Aiding crippled children and adults (polio rehabilitation)

• Wolverine Boy’s State and Rotary Leadership Camp

• Skating Shelter at Reiger Park in 1955

• Albion-Homer Midway Airport

• Furniture for children’s room at the library

• Glasses for needy children

• Student scholarships

• Campfire girls camping trip

• Sending two boys to Wolverine Boys State

• Salvation Army Bell Ringing

• Luminaria at the Festival of the Forks

• Victory for Kids Playground

• GED materials

Current Service Projects

$8,000 per year • Donate to over 25 groups per year such as:

• Community Healthy Babies Day

• Dolly Parton Imagination Library

• Albion July 4th Fireworks

• Walk for Warmth

• United Way

• School Opening Celebration

• SAFE Place

The club continues to plant flowers with the Citizens to

Beautify Albion

• The Polio Plus Campaign started in 1988. Over $1 billion has been raised world-wide to immunize 240 million children in more than 40 developing countries

• Projects around the world

Bio-sand filters

Shelter boxes

Bio-sand Filter

Shelter Box