“Service Above Self”

Serving individuals, our community and our world through Rotary International’s Four Avenues of Service: Club Service, Community Service, Vocational Service and International Service

The following is a just a sample of the projects that were successfully undertaken by the Rotary Club of East Longmeadow, an affiliate of Rotary International, the first world-wide service organization.

Community Service Projects:

· East Longmeadow Rotary Summer Concert Series

· Annual CHIPS Child Identification Program

· Co-sponsor East Longmeadow Fourth of July Parade

· Co-sponsor “National Night Out”

· Annual Intergenerational Easter Party

· Annual Food Drive

· Volunteer Team Goodwill Bingo

· Valley Radio Reading Service

· Whispering Horse Therapeutic Riding Center

· Shriner’s Hospital Gold Wall Contributor

· Ronald McDonald House, Springfield, MA

· “Keep East Longmeadow Clean” Day

· Dictionaries for all 3rd graders in East Longmeadow Public Schools

· Salvation Army Bell Ringers

· East Longmeadow Senior Center Programs

Vocational Projects:

· Rotary Youth Leadership Award Program

· East Longmeadow Rotary Memorial Scholarship Foundation—Over $200,000 in scholarships awarded.

· East Longmeadow Rotary Club Scholarships—Over $20,000 in scholarships awarded.

· East Longmeadow Rotary Club Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award

International Projects:

· Polio Eradication

· Tsunami Relief

· September 11 (9/11) Relief

· Hurricane Katrina Relief

· Water Purification Projects

· Building Houses in India

· “Shelter Box” Program

· Water Projects for Third World Countries

Contacts And Upcoming Events

Dictionaries for all 3rd graders in East Longmeadow Public Schools 2008

Rotary Club of East Longmeadow 2008 Scholarship Luncheon

Pictured at the July 24 Rotary Club of East Longmeadow Annual Scholarship Luncheon Meeting at Café Lebanon are (left to right}Tammy Bordeaux, President of the East Longmeadow Rotary Memorial Scholarship Foundation; Shirley Herrick, Scholarship Committee Chairman; 2008 Scholarship Recipients: Kimberly Smith, Patrick Witz, Lauren Litscher, Nicholas Ahmed, Rebecca Morissette, Kathleen Sullivan, Adam Morini, Maria Jaroszewicz, Catherine Lowell; Dan Burack, Scholarship Foundation Director; and Patricia Munson, 2008-2009 President of the Rotary Club of East Longmeadow.