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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, August 9, 2024
11:50 am
at
Maggiano's.
at NorthPark
 
No reservation needed at Maggiano's.
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
Dr. Mike Rockwood
Superintendent
will speak on
"The Highland Park Independent School District"
 
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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Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee! 
Provide a ride to and from meetings for members unable to drive.
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Please fill out this short membership questionnaire
and return to Siobhan Abraham here.

Please take a few moments to thoughtfully consider how we can strengthen our membership. Your feedback and ideas are invaluable, thank you for taking the time to complete this.  If you haven't already done so, you can paste these questions in an email to Siobhan, with your responses.

  1. What do you most value and enjoy about being a part of our Club? 
  2. What do you think the Club is doing well in terms of attracting, engaging, and retaining members? 
  3. How can the Club improve efforts to attract, engage, and retain members? 
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Congratulations to our RCPC Award Winner!
 
Susan Harris
Cleveland G. Clinton Collaborative Award
 
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It's time to choose your RCPC Teams for this Rotary Year!
There is something to interest everybody!
Click this link today to make your choices:
 
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The RCPC Dues for 2024-25 are OVER due!
One payment for the full year of $420.00 or the 1st of two split payments of $230.00 are due by 5/31/2024.
A late fee of $25.00 will be added to any payment received on or after 6/1/2024.
or mail your check to Laurie Aldredge at the Club's office address - 8350 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 1900, Dallas, TX 75206.
Dues payments are non-refundable.
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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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District 5810
 Saturday, August 10 - District Roundtable, Networking at 9:30am, Meeting at 10:00am, Service Project at 11:00am-12 Noon 
at Dallas College-Brookhaven Campus, Building H Room 125, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, TX 75244
Meeting ID: 896 4606 1440, Passcode: 028740
Please invite and bring your family members and/or a friend to share in our service project for the children of Costa Maya. Also bring your donations (used books, tennis shoes or sandals, deflated sporting equipment and school supplies).
 
 Monday, August 13 - 5:00 to 7:30 pm. District 5810 Rotary Means Business Social.
at 12 Cuts Brazilian Steakhouse, 18010 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75287
Dress: Business Casual,  Please Click Here To RSVP
 
Saturday, August 17, 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
Join us for the Rotary District 5810 Awards Dinner for the Rotary year 2023-24, at the Plano Event Center, 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano , TX 75074.  This event honors outstanding contributions and achievements within our Rotary community.
Tickets are $60/per person. Sponsorships available! Register Today!
 
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People of Action!
It Was a Fabulous Parade!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Huge Thank You to Our Festival and Parade Sponsors
 
 Allie Beth Allman Sewell Origin Bank Anne Oliver/Allie Beth Allman 
Frost Bank  Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International The Rhodes Group
 
Burger House Culwell & Son Dave Perry-Miller Hayne Boone  
Kathy L. Wall State Farm Insurance The Preston of Park Cities
Methodist Hospital Pegasus Bank Public Service Plumbers PC Short Stop
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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.
 
NOW is the time to choose your RCPC Teams for this Rotary Year!
Click this link today to make your choices: RCPC Volunteer Opportunities July 2024 - June 2025form.jotform.com
 
 Saturday, August 10 - District Roundtable, Networking at 9:30am, Meeting at 10:00am, Service Project at 11:00am-12 Noon
at Dallas College-Brookhaven Campus, Building H Room 125, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, TX 75244
Meeting ID: 896 4606 1440, Passcode: 028740
Please invite and bring your family members and/or a friend to share in our service project for the children of Costa Maya. Also bring your donations (used books, tennis shoes or sandals, deflated sporting equipment and school supplies).
 
Monday, August 13 - 5:00 to 7:30 pm. District 5810 Rotary Means Business Social.
at 12 Cuts Brazilian Steakhouse, 18010 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75287
Dress: Business Casual,  Please Click Here To RSVP
 
 Monday, August 19 - 4:00 to 6:45pm. Your help is needed on Monday, July 15th
Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St., Dallas. 75235
Join the team to prepare, cook and serve to the families staying at Ronald McDonald House. The resident families are there receiving hospital care for their seriously sick children. You will have fun and warm your heart.
You can sign up directly on The Rotary Club of Park Cities website bclicking here.
Questions?  Ask Kathleen Klaviter.
 
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ICYMI
Chris Poinsatte
Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer
spoke on
"DFW Airport"
 
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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.  
Purchase your ad on the RCPC website! 
Our Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
Could Be YOU!
 
David Goodson
Stuart Markissen 
and 
RLG
Consulting Engineers
where visions meet solutions
 
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EREY Rotary International Foundation Giving
 
 
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.
RickAmsberry  PDG PHS
FredBrown EREY
DeanChance EREY
ChrisClausen EREY
CleveClinton EREY
C.C.Collie PDG PHS
NolanDuck PHS
NolanDuck RCPC Pres & PHS
KarenFarris PHS
HappyFranklin PHS
DougGill PHS
RichardGillman PDG PHS
RozelleGillman PHS
BobGrossman EREY
EricHarrison PHS
BarbJeffries PHS
ScottMcLaughlin EREY
JodieRay  EREY
JeffSheehan PHS
RichardStanford PHS
LeyWaggoner 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.
Wright, Stan
 
 
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
August Theme - Membership & Club Development
Aug. 01, 2024 – Aug. 31, 2024
 
Rotary Means Business Social
12 Cuts Brazilian Steakhouse
Aug. 13, 2024
5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
 
September Theme - Basic Education & Literacy
Sep. 01, 2024 – Sep. 30, 2024
 
October Theme - Economic & Community Development
Oct. 01, 2024 – Oct. 31, 2024
 
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