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Rotary Club of Park Cities
Awarded by District 5810  Club of the Year  2020-2021
 
Want to know more about the Rotary Club of Park Cities?
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Next Meeting
December 3
11:45 am
at the Salvation Army.
Please register and see a map on the RCPC website here 
Pay at the door or donate $20 (or MORE) here
All donations (including for Lunch) go to the Salvation Army
Please be GENEROUS!
 
Our December 10 Meeting will be at the Park City Club.
Please register for this meeting on the RCPC website here
Details below or in The Hub.

(or watch on our YouTube channel here)

NO prior registration is needed for regular meetings at Maggianos.

Just come on and join us!

 

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 likeness on RCPC and related websites, social media, streaming video, emails, newsletters and similar methods.

This Week's Speaker
It's Chili Day at the Salvation Army!
[42nd (+?) Annual]
 
 
Lt. Colonel William Mockabee
The Salvation Army
will speak on 
"Salvation Army Chili Day"
 
All donations for lunch go to the Salvation Army
Please be Generous!
 
See The Hub for more on our Program and our speakers' professional biographies and accomplishments.
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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 Notice!
Congratulations to our 2022-23 Officers and Board Members!!
Elected unanimously! Their term will begin in July, 2022.
 
President (2022-23): Jeff McNaughton
President Elect (2022-23): Jeff Sheehan
Vice President (2022-23): Nolan Duck
Director (2022-24): Marcia Zidle
Director (2022-24): John Brown
Director (2022-24): Jen Hammond
Director (2022-24): Mark Neace
Director at Large (2022-23): Paul Pirok
Secretary (2022-24): Pat Martin
Treasurer (2022-2024): Mark Kashar
Sergeant at Arms (2022-23): Kathy Wall
Parliamentarian (2022-23): Ley Waggoner
Continuing Officers and Directors
Director (2nd year of term): Sarah Oliai
Director (2nd year of term): Valerie Pelan
Director (2nd year of term): Kyle Marmillion
Immediate Past President: Happy Franklin
 
More News!  The RCPC Office has a new address: 8350 N. Central Expwy, Ste. 1900, Dallas 75206

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People of Action!
Have you always wanted to be in a Marathon,
but just didn't have the right shoes?
Now is your chance.
 
Volunteer for Scottish Rite Hospital at the Dallas Marathon!!!
Dallas Marathon water station
near the two-mile race marker near 7-11 at 2340 N. Houston
Sunday, Dec 12 from 6:30 am to 10:00 am
6 to 8 Park Cities Rotary volunteers are needed to join additional volunteers
and staff at this hydration station
More details will be available near the date to those who sign up here!!!
 
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It's the most wonderful time of the year!
 
The Snider Plaza Tree Lighting was a great success!
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
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For a year into boxes they'd been stuffed,
but with the help of RCPC,
now the trees are beautiful and fluffed.
 
  
 
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See MORE of the holiday opportunities for service below!
Sign up!
Sign up, Take Action!
•  Friday Afternoons, 3:00 to 5:00 pm at Bonton Farms
   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.
 
•  The Salvation Army needs Red Kettle volunteers
   Flexible times and various locations to choose from!  
   If this is something that rings your bell, sign up here!
 
• Friday and Saturday, December 3 & 4
  Angel Tree at the Galleria
  Two shifts each day: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm and 2:30 to 6:00 pm
  Sign up here!
 
•  Friday, December 3, 2021, Regular RCPC Noon Meeting 
    at the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center, 5554 Harry Hines, Dallas 75235  
   Program and Speaker:  TBA by the Salvation Army
   Cost:  $20 (or more) cash or check made payable to the Salvation Army
 
•  Have You Paid Your Dues??  Don't forget!
   (Only if you chose to pay RCPC Dues in two parts)
 
•  Saturday, December 4, 2021, 1:00 - 3:00 pm at Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center, 
   9216 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75235
   RCPC Volunteers at the Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center!
   Help sort gifts for children for the holidays!
   Register early to secure your spot! There are only 30 volunteer spots!
   Click here to register with the Salvation Army!
   Click here to register, so RCPC knows your're attending!
   Deadline to register: November 24th                     
 
•  Sunday, December 5, 2021, 2:00 pm at Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre: Potter Rose Performance Hall
   RCPC Goes to see A Christmas Carol.  Brimming with joyful songs, magical spirits and holiday cheer, Dallas Theater Center’s A Christmas Carol boldly reimagines Dickens’ classic tale of joy,redemption and the spirit of Christmas.
   • Call the Box Office to Receive the Discount and Purchase Your Tickets: 214-522-8499  Tickets are selling quickly! Buy your tickets soon to secure your seats!
   • Discount Code: ACCRCPC (20% off adult single tickets in any section) (Youth tickets are 50% off adult single tickets)
   • Click Here to Register So We Know Who Is Attending!
 
• Thursday, December 9th, 6:30 – 8:30pm, Holiday Party!
  Tom and Suzy Rhodes’ Home, 3517 Drexel Drive, Dallas, Texas 75205
  Click here to register.  Click here to pay.  $50/person
 
•  Friday, December 10, 2021, Regular RCPC Noon Meeting (Please arrive by 11:45am)  
   at the Park City Club, 5956 Sherry Lane, Suite 1700, Dallas 75225
   Program and Speaker:  Rick Williams, Certified Master Gardener,
   will speak on Dallas Arboretum Trees 
   Cost:  $37/person
   Lunch: Full Park City Club Lunch Buffet including salad bar, entrees, breads, soups, iced tea and water
 
•  Sunday, December 10, 2021, 6:30 - 10:00 am Volunteer at the Dallas Marathon benefitting Scottish Rite Hospital
   at the Water Station near the two-mile race marker near 7-11 at 2340 N. Houston
   6 to 8 volunteers needed to join other volunteers and staff at this hydration station.
   Please register by Dec. 6 here
 
•  January, 2022  Join Readers 2 Leaders for Second Semester
   Flexible hours, various locations.  You will need a Dallas ISD background check, available on the DISD website.
 
•  Wednesday, February 23, 2022
    Rotary International's 115th Birthday!
 
•  Save the Date! June 4-8, 2022
   RI Convention in Houston
 
ICYMI
Our program on November 19
 
Leonor Marquez, CEO
Los Barrios Unidos Community Clinic
spoke on 
"The LBU Clinic"
See it on YouTube here
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This was the tenth year for Dentistry With a Heart, the fifth at Agape Clinic.
The team of with private practice dentists, students from Texas A&M Dental School, Agape clinic staffing and Park Cities Rotary members provided $27,600 worth of dentistry to twenty-four patients!
  
  
 
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Member Spotlight
   
 
Name:  Evan Altemus
Classification:  Real Estate - Commercial
Birthday (mo/day):   December 16
Favorite Restaurant:   Del Frisco's
Favorite Hobby:   Golf
Favorite Travel Spot:  Anywhere I can relax, somewhere peaceful
Favorite Rotary Moment:  Becoming a New Member
Why did you join Rotary: To make a difference in my community and be a part of a great group of people
Interesting personal fact:  My hometown in Western Pennsylvania has no red lights and only a few stop signs, less than 2,000 people
#ParkCitiesRotary   #RotarianToKNow
   
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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!
 
                                Click here ! 
 
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Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
To advertise your business as an RCPC Marketplace Advertiser,
Contact Mark Kashar at mkashar@yahoo.com or
call him on his cel 214-766-1792. 
The cost is $350 a year but the benefits are priceless.   
 
 
Our Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
 
 
Sarah E. Oliai,
Attorney at Law,
Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law
 
 
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42 Members contributing $100 or more for fiscal year 2021-22 $14768
 
 
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
 
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
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.
Phillip Bankhead PHF
RuthAlhilali EREY
ElaineAllen EREY 
CubAmos EREY
RickAmsberry PDG PHS
DonnieBerg PHF
CharlieBond PHS
FredBrown EREY
PamCarvey EREY
DeanChance EREY
C.C.Collie PDG PHS
NolanDuck PHF
KarenFarris PHS
LarryGebhardt EREY
DougGill PHS
PaulGorman EREY
BobbieGrossman EREY
MarilynHilberth EREY
TylerHolcom EREY
FredHunter EREY
BarbJeffries EREY
JillJordan EREY
MarkKashar EREY
CharlotteKroeker EREY
PatMartin EREY
ScottMcLaughlin EREY
DougMeans EREY
GregPape PHS
HowardParker EREY
Bob Patton EREY
ValeriePelan EREY
BobbieQuick EREY
JodieRay EREY
TomRhodes EREY
JeffSheehan PHF
RichardStanford PHS
LindaTunnel EREY
LeyWaggoner EREY
PatsyWatson EREY
JamesWeichel EREY
JohnWhaley EREY
StanWright EREY
Read more...
The RCPC Foundation
 
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:
  1. Children First
  2. 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
From Our Sergeant-at-Arms
From Scott McLaughlin, our Sergeant-at-Arms
 
Please make your annual donation
of at least $100 to our RCPC Foundation
 
Current contributors Rotary Calendar year 2020-21 are:
 
RCPC Foundation:
Bankhead, Phillip
Carvey, Pam
Clinton, Cleveland (Cleve) G.
Cowser, Tammy
Farrell, Mark
Farris, Karen
Gomes, Tracy
Harper, Anne H.
Hobbs, Kita 
Jeffries, Barb
Johnson, H. Scurry
Marmillion, Kyle
Means, Douglas A.
Miller, Samuel 
Pape, Gregory 
Pirok, Paul
Carl & Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation
Surls, Lynn
Von Bieberstein, Karl
Weichel, James (Jim) D.
Zidle, Marsha
 
Bonton Medical Clinic:
Allen, Elaine K
Atmos Energy Corporation 
Bohan, Stephanie
Donnenfield, Susan
Drabinski, Daniel
Farrell, Mark
Foster, Shawn
Freidline, Roger
Freidline, Alice
Glancy, W. John J.
Hargrave, Maryllyn P
Heitkamp, Eric
Hilberth, Marilyn L.
Hollenbeck, Helarie (Holly)
Johnson, H. Scurry
Jordan, Jill
Kashar, Mark
Levy, Robert
Marmillion, Kyle
McDaniel, Jina
McNaughton, Jeff
Means, Douglas (Doug)
Patton, Robert S
Pelan, Valerie
Carl & Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation
Ray, Jodie
Sleeper, William
Solemene, William A Charitable Foundation
Stanford Richard
Taylor, William
Tunnell, Linda
Von Bieberstein, Karl
Wilson,  Addison G.
Waggoner, Easley B. "Ley"
Watson, Patsy
 
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RCPC Market Place Advertisers

The Market Place page is being updated.

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 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
Upcoming Events
Dec. Theme: Disease Prevention & Treatment Month
Dec 01, 2021 – Dec 31, 2021
 
Salvation Army Angel Tree Galleria
Galleria Mall
Dec 03, 2021 11:00 AM –
Dec 04, 2021 6:00 PM
 
Dec. 3rd RCPC Club Meeting
Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center
Dec 03, 2021
11:55 AM – 1:00 PM
 
Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center
Dallas Warehouse
Dec 04, 2021
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
 
A Christmas Carol
Dee and Wyly Theatre
Dec 05, 2021
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
 
RCPC Holiday Party!!!
Tom and Suzy Rhodes' Home
Dec 09, 2021
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
 
RCPC Volunteers at the Dallas Marathon!
Near 7 Eleven
Dec 10, 2021
6:30 AM – 10:00 AM
 
Dec 10th RCPC Club Meeting
Park City Club
Dec 10, 2021
11:55 AM – 1:00 PM
 
Board Meeting
Dec 15, 2021 8:00 AM
 
No Meeting - Christmas
Dec 24, 2021
 
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