Past Accomplishments

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Rotary Club of Springfield Southeast, MO

2010-2011 Accomplishments

·  Received the Rotary International Presidential Citation Award.

·  Introduced fourteen new members, ending the year with 215.

·  Increased the number of Paul Harris Fellows by 20 to a total of 366.

·  Gave $41,887.00 to the Rotary Foundation.  Total giving to the Rotary Foundation, since the club’s inception, is over  $571,000.00.

·  We had a total of 68 Benefactors.

·  Member John Horton became a member of the Rotary Foundation Bequest Society.

·  Donated $5282.01 to the worldwide PolioPlus campaign.

·  Provided leadership for the 12th Annual Rock’n Ribs BBQ Festival, which benefits the children of the Ozarks. In this twelfth year, the amount raised with exceed one million dollars.

·  Co-sponsored the 24nd Annual Rotary Basketball Tournament and raised $11,722.66 for Special Olympics.

·  Participated in the Rotary International Youth Exchange Program by hosting Timothe Ribiere  from France and sponsored out-bound student, Savanna Myers to Switzerland.

·  Worked with the Joplin Rotary clubs on a joint project to feed volunteers at the tornado disaster area.

· $1795.23 Grant for the Springfield Public Schools Foundation Study Middle School for 6^th grade literacy program.

·  $5000.00 Grant for the “Don’t Meth with Us”, Southeast’s drug education project for 5th graders.

·  $2000.00 Grant for the RSVP for Reading Buddy program.  

·  $1000.00 Grant for the Sequiota Elementary for a backpack program.

·  $204.77 Grant for Honor Flight.

·  $1000.00 District Simplified Grant to match Southeast’s project with the Good Samaritan Boys Ranch.

·  Members participated in the 16th Annual “Miracle of Giving” blood drive competition among local Rotary clubs in December.

·  Shared the 4 Way Test at an Ethics Forum with the Leadership Springfield Academy.

·  Annual vocational service awards recognized the Springfield Teacher of the Year, and outstanding law enforcement and public safety personnel from the Springfield Police Department, Springfield Fire Department, and Greene County Sheriff’s Office. 

·  Sponsored a high school student to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) event at William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri.

·  Presented Lend-A-Hand Awards to Sam Clifton and Judy Bilyeu.

·  Donated $1680.00for laptops to a school in Tlaquepaque. a joint project with the Club Rotario Tlaquepaque El Refugio in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico.

·  Donated $1200.00  to the Rotary Club of Ste. Genevieve, Mo to be applied toward the wells being built in Niger Africa in conjunction with the clubs of O’Fallen, Perryville, Overland, St. Francois County, Lambert Airport and Sullivan MO.

·  Donated $2090.00 to Project Hope, a local organization working in Nicaragua.  The money shall be divided with $1200  to drill an additional well and with the balance helping to build the halfway house and technical school for homeless young men.

·  Donated $1200.00 to help build latrines in Tanzania.

·  Donated $5000.00  to purchase text books and additional needs for the Mwaya Secondary School in the village of Tenende in rural Tanzania. 

·  Collected $1017.13 in donations from the sale of lunches to St. John’s staff to benefit K-Park.

·  Co-sponsored, along with the other Springfield Rotary Clubs, a Joint Luncheon on May 17. Admiral Vern Clark spoke.

·  Held a table mixer during a luncheon, sponsored by the Family of Rotary Committee, to encourage members to get to know one another better.

·  Held the Annual Holiday event at the Hickory Hills Country Club.

·  Held the Annual Golf Tournament at “Millwood Golf and Racquet Club”.

·  Held the Annual Float Trip on the Beaver Creek.

·  Hosted a family friendly luncheon where our families were entertained by members from the Springfield Opera.

·  Held three Get Your Makeup events, an evening fellowship event to encourage attendance and fellowship.