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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).
•Volunteers Neededfor 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.
•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 UpQuestions? 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!
• 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 orhere
• Thursday, Nov. 30th, 5pm-7pm, PCR Connect at Sevy's Grill at 8201, Preston Road, Suite 100, Dallas 75225
•Friday, December 1, RCPC Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Board Members for 2024-25.
This meeting will be at the Salvation Army
•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
•Friday, December 8, RCPC Meeting at Austin Street Center
•Friday, December 15, NO Meeting! Happy Holidays!
•Friday, December 16, 11:00am to1:30pm. Join Us for Our Annual Volunteer Event
at the Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center! Come See Where the Angel Tree Magic Happens!
Place: Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Warehouse, 9216 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas 75235
Register: Register through the Salvation Army link here
1. Click the event that is shown.
2. Click on the Register Button
3. Enter Email and First name.
4. Create Volunteer Profile
If any of your group members have already created a volunteer profile through our database, Cervis, it will recognize them and only have them enter their password. (If they forgot their password or never set one up, there will be a link for "Don't Know Password/Reset Password"
1. If it is their first time registering, it will have them fill out more information to complete their profile.
2. Check the box to register for the time slot shown and Click on Register
Please also register by clickingHERE, so that we will also have a good count and will know you are joining us! Thank you!
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 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.
