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Favorite Rotary Moment: Receiving the Life-time Achievement Award from the Rotary Club of Park Cities
Why did you join Rotary: To serve others
Interesting personal fact: In one year and four months, I will be 100. During WWII, I served as an officer on a Destroyer with the Fast Carrier Task Forced was awarded seven battle stars
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Name: Chris McNeill
Classification: Member
Birthday (mo/day): July 25
Favorite Restaurant: Hudson House
Favorite Hobby: Fishing
Favorite Travel Spot: Turks & Caicos
Favorite Rotary Moment: Every year's Salvation Army Christmas luncheon
Why did you join Rotary: I joined Rotary to try to network and meet new people in the community, but what I found was a family of people I truly love seeing every week.
Interesting personal fact: Graduated high school in Nairobi, Kenya
Congratulations to Chris and Amanda McNeill on their home being featured and listed in D Magazine in "The 100 Most Charming Homes in Dallas" list/article!
They spent two years renovating their home, so we're glad their hard work is being recognized!
Volunteers are needed to help sort and pack Meal Bags. If you can help any Friday, please text or email our fellow PCR member Stephanie Bohan: stephanie@bontonfarms.org or 214-989-3513. Bonton Farms, 6915 Bexar Street.
$50/person if we have 20 people attend. $55/person if we have 10-19 people attend. You will be updated on ticket cost, so you can pay for your ticket in the online club store.
We will be seated in the right field area in either section 316 or 317. Our section is the All You Can Eat Section. We have access to the All You Can Eat Restaurant, which has an all you can eat buffet of burgers, grilled chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, nachos, sodas, and water! They are great seats!
The roof will be closed and the a/c will be on!
Once the tickets are purchased, you will be sent the link for buying a parking pass. Parking passes are $18. That rate is eligible in Lots D, M, N, and V. Lot V is closest to our section.
•Thursday August 5 at 6:30 pm
District Awards Celebration Event
at the Edison Event Center, 1724 Cockrell Ave. Dallas, Texas, 75215.
The event includes a plated meal with a cash bar.
Ticket price is $35 per person. Table purchase available (seats 8).
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
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. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
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
Service Above Self is the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service
From Jeff McNaughton, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2021-22
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 grant request approved at our May 2021 meeting includes:
• $4000 grant for scholarships for Hillcrest High School graduating seniors
The Executive Team denied the following two grant requests:
Children First
Family Compass
The Executive Team voted to roll over the remaining $7,152.81 available grant monies until the 2021-22 fiscal year, which starts on July 1, 2021.
According to the Fund’s Policies and Procedures dated November 8, 2011, Section 11. Tenure; Removal Non-Ex Officio members of the Executive Committee serve four year terms. The Executive Team recommended to the RCPC Board that Daniel Drabinski replace Cleve Clinton as a Non-Ex Officio member of the Executive Committee. The RCPC Board unanimously approved his nomination. His term will be held from 2021-2025.
The fund balance as of May 11, 2021 was $1,847,218.00 (almost $400K higher than this time last year). The Communities Foundation of Texas has done an incredible job managing the 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 Kyle Marmillion, reported that the RCPC Foundation fund donations thru 4-30-21 totals $62,822.10 from 89 donors!
To the Foundation Fund: $6,422.10 from 37 donors
To the Bonton Clinic: $56,400.00 from 52 donors
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
