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

District 6440 Histories 2005
holiday winner and Christmas gifts to homeless; donated $3,000+ toward purchase of drug-sniffing
trained canine for Evanston Police department. Member contributed time, labor, and lumber/equipment
for construction of Penny Park in Evanston for kids. Sent textbooks to India, Mozambique and Sri
Lanka. Club completed its three-year $10,000 to $11,000 pledge to PolioPlus with a third and final
donation of $4,000+.
1990-91 - 4th of July fundraiser nets $900 and Poinsettia sales netted $2,200. College scholarship
contributions to high school kids. DARE program tee-shirts donation which police department gives to
school kids. Co-hosting “Rotary Ecology Day”; shipment of textbooks to Native American Educational
Services in Chicago; $600 to Evanston Salvation Army’s Christmas dinner for homeless; funded/planted
trees at Penny Park on Arbor Day; $300 to Evanston HS bi-lingual program; $250 to Amigos de las
Americas; contributed to Plainfield Tornado Disaster Fund, Lighthouse Preservation, and Evanston
Women’s Club Halloween Fund House for the Handicapped.
Sent 300 textbooks to Mozambique with additional shipments to Turkey and Ecuador. Four big bundles
to North Gujarat University, India.
1994-95 - Poinsettia sales netted $2,500. Provided continued support of scholarships through Co-Pops
for lower income children to junior college. Provided soccer equipment for Tahuichi Bolivia soccer
club, with matching funds from Rotary reached $40,000. Other contributions to Evanston Summer
Youth programs, Family Focus, Mothers Against Gangs, and Y.O.U.
Exchange Students:
1988-89 - Hosted Noriko Yoshida of Kyoto, Japan.
1989-90 - Sent Janet Carr to England
1990-91 - Sent Robin Joy to Australia
1995-2005 - We were founded in 1985 as the first breakfast club in the district. We have kept an
emphasis on giving to youth organizations in Evanston, and our support has gone in recent years to a
wide variety of Evanston organizations, including but not limited to Child Care Network, New
Beginnings for Young Families, Evanston Community Development Organization, Project Red Flag,
Kingsley Summer Reading, SOAR (One on one mentoring), Grandparents raising Children, Strength in
numbers, and YOU (the Youth Organization Umbrella.)
Our biggest fundraiser, Christmas sales of flowers, fruit, and Hams had sales of over $60,000 this year;
and we need the money, as our Centennial Project, replacing a Fitness Trail on the lakefront, will require
over $30,000. This also fits our goal of helping youth in Evanston, working to combat obesity.
In the international sphere, we will be making ten large wells in Togo, we are developing a Brazilian
Pediatric Clinic, and will be working with Global Medicine to do tropical disease research in Ghana.
What works particularly well in our Club? We are one of the few clubs in the district, which loves to get
together outside meetings with fellow members and spouses and friends. We are going up to Milwaukee
again this year to see the Cubs, we go annually to the Evanston Women’s Club show with a dinner
before, and we often have other dinners for members and companions at unusual restaurants. We
sponsor the clean up of a section of Golf Road, and the sign on the road proclaims our interest to
everyone driving by. Christmas in April joins us with the older Evanston club in rehabbing the home of
a needy family.
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