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Video: Rotarians answer the question, "Why join Rotary?"

Rotary, the world's first service club was founded in Chicago in 1905.

The Rotary Foundation each year provides some $60 million (in U.S. Dollars) for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the Gates Foundation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide. At a glance:

• Video: After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.
• Three countries remain: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan
• 25 years of operation
• 200 countries involved
• 20 million volunteers
• 2.5 billion children immunized
• Majority of children that contract the disease are under five years old
• >$1 billion (in U.S. Dollars) invested by Rotary
• >$8.2 billion international investment
• Estimated $40 to $50 billion to be saved over the next 20 years
• Learn More: http://www.endpolio.org/

Humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs: Rotary plans and carries-out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our work community.

• Video of Desmond Tutu Rotary World Peace Symposium

Membership: Rotary is a membership-by-invitation organization, and is based upon vocational classification. Attendance at meetings is a basic obligation and a member may make up a meeting at any Rotary Club in the world.

Governance: Rotary International is governed by a board of directors composed of 17 zone directors, a president-elect and an international president. Each zone is broken up into geographic districts. District governors provide leadership, motivation, and guidance to their Rotary clubs.

• 2013-2014 Rotary International President - Ron D. Burton (Rotary Club of Norman, Oklahoma)



• 2013-2014 Rotary District 5870 Governor - Rich Kaye (Rotary Club of Killeen Heights)

Meeting Info:

Every Tuesday
12:00pm-1:00pm

Fuse Restaurant Boardroom
in the Doubletree Hotel
MLK and IH 35
Austin, TX 78702

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2013-2014 Officers:

RI President: Ron D. Burton

District 5870 Governor: Rich Kaye

Club President: John-Michael Cortez
President Elect: John-Michael Cortez
Secretary: Robert Noland
Treasurer: Margarine Beaman
Programs: John-Michael Cortez
Foundation Chair: Lisa Garcia
Membership Chair: John-Michael Cortez
Public Relations:
Community Service Tyra Duncan-Hall
International Service: Margarine Beaman
New Generations Service:
Web Master: Robert Noland

Past Presidents:

Sandy Wilder | 2012-13
Lisa Garcia | 2011-12
Betty Jean Bell | 2010-11
Carrie Bruce | 2009-10
David Gonzalez | 2008-09
Juanita Mendez | 2007-08
Tyra Duncan-Hall | 2006-07
Donetta Goodall | 2005-06
Tammy Stewart | 2004-05
Margarine Beaman | 2003-04
Marcia Kneip | 2002-03
Avis Wallace | 2001-02
Jerry Shepperd | 2000-01
Gil Ferrer | 1999-2000
Clyde Prestwood | 1998-99
Sandy Wilder | 1997-98
Nora Comstock | 1996-1997
Margarine Beaman | 1995-96
Mark Curry | 1994-95
Ed Peña | 1992-94