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

District 6440 Histories 2005
in Coatepeque, Guatemala. To get the ball rolling, we donated $250 and our club budgeted $1,500.
District 6440 matched our donation and so did Rotary International. All together, the project cost was
$7,000. Our president elect, Russell King is a civil engineer that designs septic systems in northern
Illinois. He and his daughter went down to Guatemala on two occasions to inspect work and visit. Our
club sees this as a real hands-on project. There are probably 500 schools in that area that need the same
thing. We see this area as being something that we’ll probably do additional projects for.
Other local community donations go to Home of the Sparrow; McHenry County PADS; RYLA; and
PolioPlus.
June of last year, we donated a rotary park bench to the city of Crystal Lake at the intersection of
Woodstock and Williams streets to coincide with the Centennial. The club worked extensively with
centennial convention, many of our members attended and stayed overnight. We were in the Centenniel
parade and we did the different functions with the Convention. The main one at the field museum we
entertained from 6 to 8 p.m. Thomas McDermott a rotary member and in The Sinful Saints, a Dixieland
jazz band entertained at the house of friendship at McCormack place.
Vocational - We had two scholarships to McHenry County College, which is something we do every
year. We’ve taken in two new members since June. We are working to develop new fundraising ideas
that don’t include raffles or gambling. Something innovative. We had a first-ever Dixieland brunch and
had former district governors that went over really well.
Youth Exchange Activity:
1967-68 - Inbound student was Chris Levinson, Australia
1968-69 - Outbound student was Chris Piper, Australia. Inbound was Mari Haeger, Sweden.
1971-72 - Outbound students were Linda Church, Bolivia and Kim Berringer, France. Inbound was
Sonia Rodriguez, Bolivia.
1972-73 - Outbound student was Nancy Harms, Brazil. Inbound was Cathy Guillaud, France.
1973-74 - Outbound student was Kathy Blaul, France. Inbound was Carlos Andrade, Mexico.
1975-76 - Outbound student was Bill Blaul, Australia. Inbound was Jose Abregu, Argentina
1976-77 - Outbound student was Rick Blue, Australia. Inbound was Cheryl Ritchie, Nova Scotia.
1978-79 - Outbound student was Lori McCall, Japan. Inbound was Harumi Sato, Japan.
1980-81 - Outbound student was Teresa Duffy, Sweden. Inbound was Per Olov Anderson, Sweden.
1981-82 - Outbound students were Mary Ann Fuhler, Japan and Lisa Johnson, Germany. Inbound was
Omar Rivero, Bolivia.
1982-83 - Outbound student was John McCall, Finland. Inbound was Patrick Oetterli, Switzerland.
1983-84 - Inbound student was Harri Rehnberg, Finland.
1984-85 - Inbound student was Sabine Boumgart, Germany.
1985-86 - Outbound student was Craig Bengston, Norway. Inbound was Siri Bergsmo, Norway.
1986-87 - Outbound students were Heather Gilmer, Finland and Sherri Tibetts, Australia. Inbound was
Folker Wergin, Germany.
1987-88 - Outbound students were Katie Caldwell, Brazil and Carrie Cudworth, Brazil. Inbound student
was Sylvie Lehouck, Belgium.
1988-89 - Outbound students were Mary Ann Hansen, Finland and Amy Christensen, Germany.
Inbound was Rhoda Tongko, Phillippines.
1989-90 - Inbound student was Rene Corrales, Mexico.
1990-91 - Inbound student was Jacob Fonss, Denmark.
1991-92 - Outbound student was Bob Wolfe, Switzerland. Inbound was Ilton Queiroz, Brazil.
1992-93 - Outbound student was Ann Prentice, France. Inbound was Waka Yamato, Japan.
1993-94- Outbound student was Casey Wolfe, Brazil. Inbound was Laetitia Grammatico, France.
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