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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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Pay Your Dues! RCPC Dues are due by May 31!
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from Greg Pape:
Rotary Contributions to The Ukraine
In response to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, The Rotary Foundation has created an official channel for donors around the world to contribute funds to support the relief efforts underway by Rotary districts and has designated its Disaster Response Fund [https://my.rotary.org/en/disaster-response-fund] as the main avenue for contributions.
To this end, The Rotary Foundation has approved:
Now through 30 June 2022, designated Rotary districts that border Ukraine and the Rotary district in Ukraine may apply for grants of up to $50,000 each from the Disaster Response Fund. These expedited disaster response grants can be used to provide relief to refugees or other victims of the crisis including items such as water, food, shelter, medicine and clothing.
During this same period, other impacted Rotary districts that wish to offer support to refugees or other victims of the crisis in their district can apply for $25,000 grants from the Disaster Response Fund. To read the entire notice, clickhere.
Additional ways to contribute:
IF you wish to donate to help the Ukrainian people, these are three organizations you could contribute to,
• Buy our new RCPC club cap with club logo for wearing to the RCPC parade, club events/service projects/socials, and around town. This cap will replace the club straw hat. The cap is made with moisture wicking material, so it is a higher end baseball cap. Click here to purchase. ($20/cap) • Buy a blue and white Santa hat to wear at any November/December RCPC service project, social, and RCPC Snider Plaza Tree Lighting event. Click here to purchase. ($7/cap). The Santa hats is available! • Buy a RCPC Tumbler to enjoy your favorite beverage.Click here to purchase. ($20/tumbler) • Click here to buy all three for $47.The club has very limited storage, so items will be ready to be distributed as soon as they arrive to those who have prepaid for them.
Prepaying for your items helps ensure you receive the items at the first club meeting upon delivery of the items.
For the first time since the COVID shutdown RMH is allowing volunteers back in the House on a limited basis. They have been hesitant to do so because of the children at high-risk who stay in the House.
RCPC Volunteers are Holly Hollenbeck, Phillip Bankhead, Patsy Watson. Ley Waggoner and Kathleen Klaviter.
Rebecca Thompson has taught fourth grade at University Park Elementary school for the past 15 years. This year was her milestone twenty-fifth year of teaching. Before joining the UP staff, Rebecca taught sixth grade English/Language Arts for one year in Irving ISD and nine years teaching sixth grade in Richardson ISD at Greenwood Hills Elementary School. She grew up in North Dallas and graduated from Richardson High School before attending Texas A&M University where she earned a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. Rebecca completed a master's degree in Educational Technology Leadership at Lamar University in 2013. Her teaching passion includes learning through purposeful technology and hands-on experiences. She thinks Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I LEARN.”
Katie Mellus has been teaching and coaching at Highland Park High School since 2011 and currently serves as the HPHS Social Studies Department Chair. She has taught Psychology, AP Psychology, Brain Science and Health, and Forensic Psychology and has coached both girls basketball and soccer. Katie’s path to teaching included outreach programs, cognitive research, professional coaching and academic advising. Her goal as an educator is to be innovative with technology while keeping lessons meaning. Kathie also strives to challenge students to think about their outside world in a new way by understanding the human experience.
•Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee! Give a ride to and from the meeting to members who are unable to drive.
•May 6 thru the 31stThe Million Meal Challenge!
in May to benefit the North Texas Food Bank. Donate at the meetings or on the NTFB website athttps://ntfb.org/rcpcjuly4
Update from Sarah Oliai:
Thanks to everyone who has donated online or during Happy Bucks! Last week's meeting was really a lot of fun. As of last Friday's donations, the meal count is now 885,090 meals. If you wish to make a donation during Happy Bucks and want to write a check, please make it payable to the "North Texas Food Bank."
We have some big donations that have been pledged and will arrive over the next couple of weeks. We can do this!!
If you would rather donate online - here is thelink
Thank you everyone!
•May thru July!
It is time to sign up to help out with the RCPC Fourth of July Parade. There are numerous opportunities before, during and after the Parade. There is something for everyone!
Volunteer or find out more by contacting Sarah Oliaihere. It is NOT too early to sign up! This is an ALL club activity!
•Accessories ONLY Drive: May 13, May 20, May 27for Attitudes & Attire®
The Wish List: Belts, Jewelry, Purses, Scarves, Shoes suitable for the workplace.
•Volunteer for the Attitudes & Attire Speakers' Bureau. Instruct the women in skills they need for success in life and in the workplace.
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•Saturday, May 21,May District Roundtable at MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church, 8001 Mustang Drive, Irving, TX 75063
This will be a hybrid meeting both in-person and on Zoom. Open to all Rotarians! Networking begins at 9:30AM & meeting at 10AM.
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 6:30 – 9:30 pm and Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
•Sunday, May 29 or Monday. May 30. The military veterans group is inviting all Park Cities Rotary members to participate in the Dallas Memorial March where anyone can walk with a team in support of fallen military members who died in military duty. Our team will meet at the Reverchon Recreation Center at 3505 Maple Ave. Call my cell phone if you can't find us, 832-819-8859.
There are two times to participate, either 12pm - 2pm on Sunday May 29th (when event kicks off) or 8am - 10am on Monday May 30th, or both.
•June 4-8, 2022
RI Convention in Houston. If you will be at the Convention, check these out!
• Sunday June 5th, No formal plans but if you want to meet for a get together in the evening, contact DG Max atmduplant@gmail.com
• Monday June 6th the Greenville Rotary Club will be hosting cocktail parties from 6:00-7:00 pm, 7:30-8:30 pm and 9:00-10:00 pm. At this time you will also have the opportunity to meet Isaac Uribe, Past President and current International Service Director and Alioth Alvarez, Youth Exchange Officer and Incoming Secretary of the Rotary Club of Cozumel, Mexico to discuss upcoming projects for the Day of Service in Cozumel on April 28, 2023.
• Tuesday June 7th the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary Club will be hosting cocktail parties from 6:00-7:00 pm, 7:30-8:30 pm and 9:00-10:00 pm. Present that evening will be Christtel Caceres, President Elect and District International Service team member, and Mike Wittry, Past President and International Service Chair of District 4250 of the Rotary Club of Roatan, Honduras, and Regina Edwards, International Service Director of CFB Rotary and International Service Chair of District 5810.
Due to the size of the room, only 10 people may attend each party besides the presenters and hosts.
•June 15 and 29, Rotary Institute Leadership (RLI) Virtual Training Spring & Summer, Part III Take your leadership skills to the next level!
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 6:30 – 9:30 pm and Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
•June 23 You are invited to join District 5810 as they launch into the Rotary Year with a festive celebration at the Hall of State at Fair Park on Thursday, June 23 at 5:30PM. Tickets are $70 each - includes a meal with a cash bar.Register. They will install the incoming 2022-2023 DG Howard Templin, District Leadership, and all Rotary Club Presidents of District 5810. We invite you to join all Rotarians as we celebrate the annual changeover of Rotary leaders and our collective power in service to the community.
• June 24The RCPC Installation and Awards Luncheon at the Ozona Grill.
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. 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 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
