April, 2006 My Fellow Rotarians - Rotary's Global History Fellowship

District 6440 Histories 2005
1978 - $160 International Rotary Foundation Scholarship; $125 B.G.R.A. sponsorship of little league
team; $25 District 214 Service award to B.G.H.S. basketball coach; $85 Christmas donations to needy
family; $50 Omni House; $80 A Friend of Rotary; $100 Paul Harris Sustaining member towards Dr. C.
Miller; judging of Halloween costumes at Kohl’s Foods; $125 Club’s first exchange student sent to the
‘79 Conference; sent president-elect Lee Rishall to the ‘78 Conference; Rotary Ball to raise money for
the Buffalo Grove Community.
1979 - $100 to Northwest Special Recreation Association; $200 Omni House; $125 Buffalo Grove Little
League; $75 Patrick Zedendahl exchange student; $25 Rotary Club of Lake Zurich start-up gift; $24
Archdiocese of Chicago Papal Visit; $104.71 to exchange student and $140 Christmas donation to needy
families.
1980 - $100 to Katy Murphy Leukemia Fund; $125 Buffalo Grove Jr. baseball team; $100 Shelter Foster
Home; $50 Northwest Suburban Council Boy Scouts; $210 exchange student; $895.50 to purchase
Resusci-Annie for Buffalo Grove Disaster Assoc.; $200 for doctors equipment Exuma Island Project;
$25 start-up gift for Elgin Rotary; $77 participation in Buffalo Grove Days; $250 aid to fire victim; $210
to send Buffalo Grove resident to Arizona due to respiratory illness; $21 toward Rose Bowl float; $50
for Christmas basket to needy family.
1981 - $25 Rotary Club of Carol Stream start-up gift; $19.02 book for South African library; $125
Buffalo Grove Recreation Assn. team sponsorship; $300 Kim Koch Vocational scholarship; $100
Community Christmas Basket.
1982 - $140 Buffalo Grove Recreational Assn.; $100 American Cancer Society; $300 Kim Koch
Vocational Scholarship; $100 community fireworks; $100 American Cancer society; $200 Omni House
Youth Service Bureau; $175 CEDA Northwest family support.
1983 - $100 Vahhalla Color Guard; $100 community fireworks; $210 American Cancer Society; $300
Colin Morgan Scholarship; $300 Joe Miller Scholarship; $3,000 International Project, Mike Maxey to
Samagai, Java; $400 Christmas baskets.
1987-88 - $500 vocational scholarship for student, $500 Omni Youth Service, $1,000 Wheeling food
basket purchase and delivery in conjunction with Wheeling High school and Wheeling Rotary; $500
Lekotek toys, $500 Kids Line, $150 sponsoring little league team, $300 co-sponsored Concert in Park,
$550 Say No to Drugs Concert, invested $2,000 CD toward handicapped accessible playground, $100
Wheeling Calcutta ticket, $500 Northwest Community Services and $500 and manpower to Area 24
Special Olympics bowling tournament. Two major fundraisers - Pancake breakfast at Buffalo Grove
Days and annual silent auction.
1988–89 - $500 to Northwest Community Services for Christmas toys and baskets for needy, $100 cosponsored
Bicycle Rodeo with Buffalo Grove Police Department, $300 co-sponsored Concert in the
Park with Buffalo Grove Park District, $500 plus manpower to Special Olympics Area 24 bowling
tournament, sponsored police officer to participate in torch run to benefit Special Olympics; $500
vocational scholarship, $1,040 sponsored International Service Project in Pantan, India for blood bank,
$300 to Children’s Community Conference to support Children’s Substance Abuse Program, invested
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