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

District 6440 Histories 2005
access to as many books. Two other District 57schools held “Bookworm Angels” drives before the
holidays and made similar contributions.
We hold an annual student luncheon that highlights the top middle school students in Mount Prospect
called the Leadership Luncheon. We highlight the top ten students nominated from all graduating junior
high/middle schools in Mount Prospect. We also worked on a joint project with the Mount Prospect
Lion’s club called Operation Roar, where we collected material to aid Hurricane Katrina victims. This
material was later transferred on-site in Mississippi. We also provide our high school students a number
of $2,000 scholarships, as we do every year, totaling approximately $8 to 12 thousand to give them a leg
up for college tuition. Other things we have coming up this year: an event for visiting students from our
sister city in Sevres, France. We’re working with the Sunrise Rotary Club to host a breakfast for the
students in April.
Also, a GSE (Group Study Exchange) team from Japan will be coming to Mount Prospect in May. We’ll
present to them the environment of Mount Prospect, including some fun things and provide an evening
dinner for them as well.
We will be working with our morning club on an international project to assist a nutrition center in
Guatemala. The money is already budgeted for it, and we’re hoping to have the project begun within the
next couple of months.
Finally, we will work with the Mount Prospect Morning Club and the Park Ridge Club to continue our
annual citrus sale to benefit the community. We continue to make progress in our goal of having all club
members gain the distinction of being Paul Harris Fellows. Several club members received this
distinction with the start of the new fiscal year in July.
We’re a very active club that strives to not only help the local community but the international
community as well by providing as much service as possible!
Youth Exchange Activity:
Has hosted many Youth Exchange students including 1977-student from Mexico and 1978-student from
Philippines.
1976-77 - Sponsored Exchange Student from Mexico.
1978-79 - Sponsored Exchange Student from the Philippines.
1988-95 - Sponsored Exchange Student Franklin Cueto from the Philippines and also a short term
youth in summer from France. Sponsored Exchange Student from Philippine Islands.
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Mount Prospect Sunrise Rotary Club Chartered April 10, 1991
Established in 1990, has raised more than $150,000 for a variety of community and international service
projects such as vocational scholarships, donations and food for local needy families, the Community
Family Health Center, support for a drug treatment program in Brazil, a “Gears” program to provide a
unique educational opportunity for elementary school children, support for local drug awareness and
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