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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
November 10, 2023
11:50 am
at
Maggiano's
at NorthPark
 
No reservation needed.
Just come on and join us!
 
(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
Gene Pugh,
U.S. Marine Corp (Ret.)
will speak on
Special Operations in Vietnam
 
See The Hub for more on our Speaker.
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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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RCPC Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Board Members will be Friday, December 1, 2023 at the regular meeting.
The Proposed Slate of Officers and Board Members for the 2024-25 Rotary Year:
President (2024-25): PE Nolan Duck shall succeed to the Presidency without further balloting after serving one year as President Elect.
President Elect (2024-25): Sarah Oliai
Vice President (2024-25): Mark Kashar
Director (2024-26): Siobhan Abraham
Director (2024-26): Susan Harris 
Director (2024-26): Van Oliver
PI Director (2024-26): Mark Neace
Director (2nd year of term): Holly Hollenbeck  
Director  (2nd  yearyear  of term): Tammy Cowser
Director (2nd year of term): Kristin Tesmer 
Dir. at Large (2024-25): Barb Jeffries
Treasurer (2024-26): Leo Avila
Secretary (2024-25): Pat Martin
Sgt-at-Arms (2024-25): Herb Hammond
Parliamentarian (2024-25): Richard Gilman
Immediate Past President: Jeff Sheehan
 
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Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee!
Provide a ride to and from meetings for members unable to drive.
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Club merchandise!

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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People of Action!
ADL Walk Against Hate
Sunday, October 29
 
Our Rotary Team raised a total of $1,221 for the Anti-Defamation League.  
PDG Richard Gilman and his wife walked as well. 
 
 
Over 1500 people participated in the Walk Against Hate
in Clyde Warren Park on October 29, 2023.
The Walk raise a total of $275,707 for the Anti-Defamation League.
 
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PCR Connect
Thursday, October 26 at Sevy's Grill
 
Join them in November!
 
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Sign up, Take Action!
Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee! Give a ride to and from the meeting to members who are unable to drive.
 
Volunteers Needed!  Interact is back at Hillcrest H.S.!!  If you like to work with highschoolers, consider signing up for the 2023-24 school year.
Questions? Ask Tracy Gomes or Ley Waggoner.
 
Saturday, Nov. 11, District Roundtable, will cover Foundation.
9:30 am Socializing, 10:00-Noon Meeting.
In person at Scottish Rite Hospital in Frisco, 5700 Dallas Pkwy, Frisco 75034.
Also on Zoom. Join via District website or here
Meeting ID: 846 3778 6941. Passcode: 726500
 
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 5:00 – 7:30 pm, Rotary Means Business Social
at 12 Cuts Brazilian Steakhouse, 18010 Dallas Pkwy, 75287
Dress: Business Casual
A Cash Bar will be available to take orders.
 
Monday, November 20, 4:30 to 6:45pm. Volunteers Needed! 
Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St., Dallas. 75235. A few more Volunteers are needed! Join the team as we prepare and serve dinner to the families. Various jobs available. Bring your driver's license for entry. Wear long pants, closed-toed shoes, with long hair pulled back while we have lots of fun
Sign Up Questions?  Ask Kathleen Klaviter.
 
Monday, November 27th, 5:30pm - 7 pm, Legacy of Leadership Alumni Social Event
at Lounge 31 Dallas at 87 Highland Park Village, Suite 200
Alumni & current Legacy of Leadership participants may bring a guest.
We are limited to 40 total attendees, so register/pay early!
The cost is $25 per person, including appetizers and a drink (as you might guess a Rotarian is subsidizing a part of the cost at this upscale venue).
Looking forward to the chance for alumni and their friends to get together and celebrate the work of our RCPC Legacy of Leadership. Cheers!
Pay on the website or Click here to pay!
 
Wednesday, Nov. 29, Popcorn Packing at Scottish Rite Hospital!
5:30 pm-a light meal will be provided, 6:00 to 8:30 pm - popcorn packing!

30 Volunteers needed - Sign up on the website or here
 
 Friday, December 1, RCPC Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Board Members for 2024-25.
The Annual Meeting will take place at the Regular Meeting.
 
 Sunday, December 3, 3:00 to 7:00 pm. Tree Lighting in Snider Plaza!
Volunteers Needed! City of UP's Tree Lighting at Snider Plaza
benefitting the North Texas Food Bank and the Salvation Army.
Presented by RCPC and the City of UP.
Free parking in Hilltop parking garage at the south end of the plaza
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ICYMI
Marc Liebman
spoke on
US China Relations
 
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Volunteer Day at the North Texas Food Bank
Saturday, October 14
 
Volunteers
 
   
 
 
 
 
13,343 pounds of food were sorted. That will provide 11,119 meals.
 
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The Hub for this week

   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!
 
 
Our Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
 
Kyle Marmillion
 
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EREY Rotarians contributing $100 or more to Rotary International Foundation $16,575
 
 
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 DRF
ElaineAllen EREY
RichardAmsberry PDG EREY
CubAmos EREY
FredBrown EREY
PamCarvey EREY
DeanChance EREY
C.C. Collie PDG PHS
KarenFarris PHS
ShawnFoster EREY
HappyFranklin PHS
RichardGilman PDG PHS
RozelleGilman PHS
BobGrossman EREY
EricHarrison PHS
BarbJeffries PHS
JillJordan EREY
ScottLaughlin EREY
PatMartin EREY
DougMeans EREY POLIO
BobPatton EREY
GregPape  PHS POLIO
JodieRay EREY
TomRhodes EREY
Jeff Sheehan EREY Pres. RCPC 
RichardStanford PHS
WilliamTaylor EREY
LeyWaggoner EREY
AlanWinn  PHS POLIO
 
*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
CED Community Economic Development
PDG: Past District Governor
MD: Major Donor
 
Read more...
The RCPC Foundation
 
From Nolan Duck, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2023-24
 
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 Van Oliver, 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.
Wright, Stan
 
 
Bonton Medical Clinic:
Anonymous
 
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RCPC Market Place Advertisers

To place an ad, contact Michelle Brown at mbrown@advanceer.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
November Theme - Rotary Foundation Month
Nov 01, 2023 – Nov 30, 2023
 
RCPC Pop Open a Party! Sparkling Wine Tasting!
Total Wine
Nov 09, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
RCPC Legacy of Leadership Alumni Social Event
Lounge 31
Nov 27, 2023
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
 
Scottish Rite Hospital Popcorn Packing
Scottish Rite Hospital
Nov 29, 2023
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
December theme - Disease Prevention & Treatment Mo
Dec 01, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023
 
RCPC & City of UP Annual Tree Lighting
Snider Plaza
Dec 03, 2023
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
 
January Theme: Vocational Service Month
Jan 01, 2024 – Jan 31, 2024
 
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