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Rotary Club of Park Cities
Awarded by District 5810  Club of the Year  2020-2021
Awarded by District 5810 Club Service, Community Service, Spirit of Cooperation AND
Most Fun Club Awards 2022-23
 
Want to know more about the Rotary Club of Park Cities?
Watch This!
 
Next Meeting
Friday, June 6, 2025
11:45 am
at
Maggiano's at NorthPark
 
 
(You can watch most meetings later on our YouTube channel here)

Join us! We'd like to meet you!

Please note that RCPC meetings and other events are public events where photos and video are customarily taken. By attending you are consenting to free use of your liken ess on RCPC and related websites, social media, streaming video, emails, newsletters and similar methods.
This Week's Program
Jim Whorton
Grand Marshal of the 
RCPC Fourth of July Parade
Luncheon
with the former Grand Marshals
 
 
See The Hub for more on our program.
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You can access all of our recent meetings on this link to RCPC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Park+cities+rotary
 
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Important Club Announcements  
   RCPC Office Phone Number:  469-242-9448
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The Theme for the 2025 RCPC Fourth of July Parade is "America the Beautiful."
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Club merchandise!
 
Hats are Back!
As a New member, you get an RCPC hat free.  Let Laurie know if you don't already have one.
If you are an existing member, you can buy a new one online.

This is only for second shirts and hats! The first shirt and hat new members receive for free as part of their blue badge requisites (during their visit to the Club office).

Buy a second RCPC club cap with club logo. Click here to purchase. ($20/cap) 
Buy a second RCPC blue shirt with club logo. Click here to purchase ($40/shirt - no price difference between men’s or women's)
Contact Laurie to pick up the shirt and/or hat once you pay for it. 
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District 5810
Dear Fellow Rotarians Under 40 and those of us over 40 who know a great Rotarian Under 40,
We’re thrilled to share an exciting and exclusive opportunity designed just for those under 40!
Registration is only $200 – and includes powerful sessions, networking, fun, and cultural experiences you won’t want to miss!
For payments from outside Mexico, debit or credit card payments can be made via this linkhttps://bit.ly/foroyoungprofessionals_pago.
After payment, please register using the form at: http://bit.ly/foroyoungprofessionals.
• The Under 40 Forum is taking place in beautiful Ensenada, Mexico on June 13–14, and it's more than just a gathering—it’s a movement to empower the next generation of Rotary leaders across borders.
 
 Disrict 5810 invites all of you to attend the District 5810 Leadership Installation Banquet on Thursday, June 12, 2025.  For those of you that have attended this event in the past, you will notice a few things are different.  We hope that you will take advantage of the relaxed dress code and wear your jeans!  
We have some neat, local entertainment as well as two amazing speakers, Dan Johnson, former City Manager of the City of Richardson, as well as Suzi Howe, Aide to RI President Elect Mario Cesar Martins deCamargo.  Suzi will install all of the incoming District Officers as well as the Club Presidents.
For those of you who have not attended before, this is a great way to meet some of your District 5810 leaders as well as officers from other Rotary Clubs in our District.  You may even meet a Past District Governor or two!  And - what a great way to start off your year of service with some inspiring words from our speakers and lots of FUN!  
Tickets are $75/per person or $600/per table of 8
After all, There's No Place Like Rotary!  Click to Register
Hope to see you and your club there!  
If you have already registered, fantastic!
YIR,
Mary
Mary Bedosky
Rotary 5810 District Governor 2025-26
2025 Rotary Leadership Institute Graduate
Richardson East Rotary Club
972-768-0226
 
 
• CONGRATULATIONS to Dawn Gulley who has been chosen District Governor Nominee Designate. She is a member of the Dallas Uptown Club, and currently serves as an Assistant Governor.  She previously held many positions of responsibility at the club level and in the District.   If confirmed by Rotary International, she will follow Mike Callahan as District Governor for Rotary year 2027-2028. 
 
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People of Action!
Rotary Night at Roughriders Baseball, May 24, 2025
 
 
  
 
 
Rotarians waving the flag during the National Anthem.
 
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Legacy of Leadership Alumni Social, June 2, 2025
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
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Volunteer Day at the North Texas Food Bank
 
 
  
 
  
 
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Sign up, Take Action!
 Monday, June 164:00pm. Help make dinner for the families at Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St Dallas, TX  75235
We are short a few volunteers for this month's dinner service at RMH. Consider joining in the fun to prepare, serve and clean-up dinner for the families at RMH this month.
Wear long pants, comfy shoes and long hair tied back
Need your license to enter building 
Come join the team and warm your heart,
Click on Sign Up to view available slots and book yourself directly online.
 
Save The Date!  June 27 at Ozona Grill.  Installation and Awards Luncheon!
 
 Friday, July 4, 2025.  The RCPC Fourth of July PARADE!!  Planning has started.
Volunteers are needed for a variety of jobs. Sign up now and learn more about the Parade!
Contact Jill Jordan or Alan Winn to volunteer or for questions.
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ICYMI
Last Week's Meeting: 
Chip Waggoner
spoke on
"When Plans Are Turned Upside Down"
 
Listen to this presentation on the
Park Cities Rotary YouTube Channel!
 
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 Breakfast social in May at the Flying Fish, Preston Center. 
 
 
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Celebration of Reading at Jack Lowe Sr. Elementary School
 
  
 
 
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RCPC Members Attended the Grand Opening
of the Bonton Farms Wellness Center
on March 29, 2025
RCPC has made a significant grant from the RCPC. Foundation 
to outfit a dental suite so dental services can be provided.
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The RMH team chopped and chopped and chopped
to make Chicken and Sausage Gumbo over white rice
with a salad and rolls/crackers for 60 this month.
A chopping good time was had by all!
 
 
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The Hub for this week
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   CLICK HERE to read this week's Hub.   

 You can read all archived editions of The HUB at the Park Cities Newsletter-"The Hub".

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Happy Birthday!
 
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Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
To advertise your business as an RCPC Marketplace Advertiser,
contact Mark Neace at mark@synclabmedia.com
The cost is $425 a year but will be prorated.
Purchase your ad on the RCPC website! 
Our Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
Could Be YOU!
 
Lynn Surls
and
Richardson Timbers, LLC
 
 
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Every Rotarian Every Year contributors to the Rotary International Foundation
 
 
Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most. 
EREY: Every Rotarian Every Year contribute $100 or more to THE Rotary Foundation
Checks payable to the Rotary Foundation
 
Contribution levels include EREY, Paul Harris Fellow, Paul Harris Society, Major Donor
 
Contributions may be earmarked to SHARE Annual Fund, Polio, Disaster Relief Fund
 
The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Over 46,000+ clubs that work together to provide 7 areas of focus:
  • Promote peace
  • Fight disease (including but not limited to the Global Eradication of Polio Initiative)
  • Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
  • Save mothers and children
  • Support education
  • Grow local economies
  • Protecting the Environment
POLIO: Rotary has reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988. ONLY(2) countries remain endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan
 
Service Above Self is the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service
 
To donate contact Greg Pape (gregpape@att.net
or donate online at https://www.rotary.org/en/donate and email Greg Pape so he can give you club credit.
RuthAlhilali PHF DRF  MD
RickAmsberry  PDG PHS
CubAmos EREY
PhillipBankhead PHF
CharlieBond PHS
FredBrown EREY
JohnBrown PHF
PamCarvey EREY
DeanChance EREY
CleveClinton EREY
C.C.Collie PDG PHS
CindyCummings PHF
TrishCunningham EREY
DanielDrabinski EREY
NolanDuck RCPC Pres & PHS & MD
BryanDunklin EREY
KarenFarris PHS
ShawnFoster PHF
HappyFranklin PHS
RogerFreidline EREY
AliceFreidline EREY
LarryGebhardt EREY
DougGill PHS
RichardGilman PDG PHS POLIO
RozelleGilman PHS POLIO
JohnGlancy PHS
TracyGomes PHS MD
BobGrossman EREY
HerbHammond PHS POLIO
MaryllynHargrave EREY
EricHarrison PHS
BarbJeffries PHS
RichardJodry EREY
ScurryJohnson EREY
MarkKashar EREY
KathleenKlaviter EREY
ScottMcLaughlin EREY
JeffMcNaughton PHF
PatMartin EREY
DougMeans PHS POLIO
HollyMcKasson EREY
BudNaifeh EREY
SarahOliai PHS
VanOliver PHS
GregPape PHS POLIO
BobPatton EREY
PaulPirok EREY
JodieRay  EREY
OrvilleSalmon EREY
PattiSchaub PHF
TomSwift PHS
JeffSheehan PHS
RichardStanford PHS MD
LynnSurls PHS
LindaTunnell EREY
KarlVonBieberstein EREY
LeyWaggoner PHF PHS
JamesWeichel EREY
HerbZiev EREY
 
*Total Contributions include Annual Fund, PolioPlus, approved Foundation Grants,
Other Giving, and Endowment contributions for the reporting period.
EREY Every Rotarian Every Year $100
PHF Paul Harris Fellow
PHS Paul Harris Society
DRF Disaster Relief Fund
PDG: Past District Governor
MD: Major Donor
 
Read more...
The RCPC Foundation
 
From Sarah Oliai, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2024-25
 
The Rotary Club of Park Cities' Communities Fund was originally sponsored in the 1960’s by the Rotary Club of Park Cities (“RCPC”) for the purpose of providing an enduring legal entity through which members and friends of the Rotary Club of Park Cities might make donations for the good of mankind and the Dallas community. The fund continues to this day to consider internal and external grant requests submitted on the RCPC Foundation online grant portal found on the club website.
 
The following grant requests were approved at our November 2022 meeting: 
 
      • $1,000 grant for scholarships for Hillcrest High School for scholarship to honor RCPC long term member C.C. Collie
      • $5,413.44 grant for Equest
      • $6,000 grant for the Agape Clinic
 
The Executive Team denied the following grant request:
 
      • Addison Midday grant request for Genesis Women's Shelter  
 
The fund balance as of November 30, 2022, was $1,710.729.17.  The Communities Foundation of Texas manages the RCPC Foundation Fund.  The amount available each year for grants is derived from an average over 16 quarters (4 years), then, 4.5% of that amount is the amount available for distribution the following year.  
 
Our Sgt. at Arms Kathy Wall for 2022-2023, reported that the RCPC Foundation Fund donations thru 11-30-2022 totals $9,116.00 from 37 donors!
               
                To the Foundation Fund:                   $9,116.00 from 37 donors
                To the Bonton Clinic:                        $200.00 from 1 donor
 
Your contributions make an incredible difference in the amount we are able to distribute to worthy local organizations.
Please consider making a contribution today. https://portal.cftexas.org/donate-park-cities-rotary
From Our Sergeant-at-Arms
From Herb Hammond, our Sergeant-at-Arms
 
Please make your annual donation
of at least $100 to our RCPC Foundation
 
Current contributors Rotary Calendar year 2022-23 are:
 
RCPC Foundation:
Anonymous
Brown, Fred
Carvey, Pam
Clinton, Cleveland (Cleve) G.
Dallas Jewish Communities Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Foster, Shawn
Freidline, Roger
Gomes, Tracy
Hargrave, Marilyn P.
Johnson, H. Scurry
Levy, Robert H.
Martin, Patricia
McLaughlin, Scott
Means, Douglas A.
Oliai Law Firm
Oliver, Van
Pape, Gregory 
Patten, Robert S.
Pelan, Valerie
Pershing Investment Manager
Pirok, Paul
Ray, Jodie
Rotary Club of the Park Cities
Rhodes, Tom
Schaub, Patricia
Tesmer, Kristin
Von Bieberstein, Karl
Waggoner, Easley B.
 
 
Bonton Medical Clinic:
Anonymous
 
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RCPC Market Place Advertisers

To place an ad, contact Mark Neace at mark@synclabmedia.com

To upgrade your add, please send a digital color or black and white version of your business card to bedawson@swbell.net,
such as an email or web version, a printer's proof or a high resolution scan.
Click here for the requirements for the ad on the website.
 
 
Click here for a more legible or printable copy
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The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test
 
of the things we think, say or do
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
 
scripted by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932
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Rotary Club of Park Cities
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Upcoming Events
May Theme: Youth Services
May 01, 2025 – May 31, 2025
 
RCPC Breakfast Social
Flying Fish at Preston Center
May 14, 2025
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
 
Ronald McDonald House May 2025
Ronald McDonald House - Dallas
May 19, 2025
4:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
 
June Theme: Rotary Fellowships
Jun. 01, 2025 – Jun. 30, 2025
 
RCPC Legacy of Leadership Spring Social Event
Miriam Cocina Latina
Jun. 02, 2025
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
 
July Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Jul. 01, 2025 – Jul. 31, 2025
 
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