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.
Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee!
Provide a ride to and from meetings for members unable to drive.
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The meeting on December 13 will be at
Dallas Career Institute North
with a tour and a Box Lunch
There will be NO MEETING on Friday, Deceember 20, 2024
Go to the Holiday Party! Enjoy!
You MUST Register and Pay for Dinner
BBQ from Big Al's BBQ
There will be NO MEETINGS on Friday, Deceember 27, 2024
or January 3, 2025
Happy Holidays!
See you back at Maggiano's on January 10!
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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).
• CONGRATULATIONS tot 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.
• Saturday, Dec. 14, December District Roundtable from 9:30 to 10 am, meeting from 10-11 am and service project from 11 am to Noon. We will be making candy bags and packing other items for our District Conference cruise. Please come in person to Dallas College-Brookhaven Campus, Building H Room 125, 3939 Valley View Lane Farmers Branch, TX 75244 or by zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89646061440?pwd=fSu99HyKPVYTsuiTgYmNzU0fBd7H53.1
Since it is the month of December and merriment is in the air please wear your favorite holiday shirt, sweater or costume to Roundtable. Our usual Raffle prizes will be given out to those 6 guests voted “most festive, most creative, and Ugliest sweater” with a female and male winner in each of these 3 categories. We might even break out in song as we pack and wish everyone Happy Holidays.
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
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.
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