Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 200 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 Rotary clubs.
 
Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

 The main objective of Rotary is service, in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Benefits Of Membership

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South Hill Club Receives International P. R. Award

Rotary Poem
By: Rotarian Lisa Clary

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FOUR WAY TEST WINNERS
(2009)

(Essays to be posted to national site-TBA)

(Pictured L-R)
Click on the winner's name and read their essay (.pdf files)
First Place    Matthew Jenkins
Second Place    Chelsey Tanner
Third Place    Alyssa Drohan

Students and the Rotary Committee L-R (Rear)
Committee Chailman Dan Poteralski, Susie Bract, Barbara Nanney, Frank Nanney and Lisa Clary, (Not Pictured Mickey Smith)

Students and Faculty L-R (Rear)
Jason Winter, Alison Van Dyke, Vanessa Rudd

Students and their families (L-R)
Steven and Teresa Jenkins, Stoney and Angie Tanner, Thomas and Julie Drohan

Awards Day At Park View Middle

3 Honorable Mention Awards

 
(L-R Brittany Whitby, Laura Baird)

Laura Baird
Cameron Hawkins
Brittany Whitby

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FOUR WAY TEST WINNERS
(Our pilot year 2008)

Local Essays Posted to National Site
Click on the link to see this posting

 
1st Place    Alyx Powers
2nd Place    Jackie Johnson
3rd Place    Steven Swank
Click on the winner's name and read their essay (.pdf files)
Pictured above L-R
Alyx Powers, Jackie Johnson, Tommy Zincone (Club President), Steven Swank, Dan Poteralski and Lisa Clary.

Alyx Powers with grandparents Carol and Graham Powers
Jackie Johnson with her mother Katie Flowers
Steven Swank with his mother Keli Swank

 
(Rotary Club Essay Committee:
Dan Poteralski, Pat Poteralski, Lisa Clary and Tom Smith)

School staff assisting in the program:
Principal Michelle Mateka.
Counselor Vanessa Rudd
Teachers:
Jason Winter
Allison Van Dyke
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LOCAL ROTARY PROJECTS

Community Projects

2008-2009 PROJECTS

The Club has decided on the following projects for this Rotary Year:

1- The Book/Dictionary Project. The club will provide one reading book to every student at South Hill Elementary School and a personal dictionary (approved by the school) to each student grades 3-5. Also, Picture Dictionaries will be provided to each classroom for students pre-k to 2nd grade.

"Dictionary Day"

"Labeling Day"

"Book Day"

2- The Information Notebook Project. The club has created a notebook containing information about South Hill including a list of Service Clubs with meeting times and locations, local Churches, local shopping and restaurants, local attractions and contact information. All are provided with phone numbers and/or addresses. These are provided to all the local hotel/motels, the Chamber of Commerce, the airport office and to the I-85 Welcome Center.

3- The South Hill Rotary Club reshuffled the deck at the Oct.16th meeting and decided to reschedule the "Rotary Casino Night" that had been planned for November 1st to sometime in the spring. The consensus of the club members was that due to the state of the economy and slow ticket sales, it would better serve the club, the businesses who donated the wonderful prizes and potential guests to wait until things improved. Hopefully that will be in the near future and that spring time will bring with it a renewed economy and a renewed spirit for the people in the area and in the country.  The club appreciates those who have donated major prizes (Karobway Furniture, Aaron’s Rentals, Amerigas, Freedom Life Fitness, Lorene Building Supply, Fairfield Inn and Dr. Dance), financial donations from Glen Barbour, Vulcan Materials and Dr. Graham Powers and the many businesses that donated door prizes. The club plans to hold on to all the prizes until the event is rescheduled. The Casino Night proceeds will benefit the Rotary Scholarship Fund. The club will roll the dice for a rescheduled evening that will bring up winning numbers for guests, the club, and the students who will benefit in June 2010 as they continue their education.  Watch you local newspapers for the future information on Rotary Casino Night in the fall of 2009.  

 4- The Teddy Bear Project. The South Hill Rotary Club is spearheading the Operation Teddy Bear Program for Gleaning for the World this year and Girl Scout Troop 3263 in South Hill will be helping them collect the Teddy Bears that will be shipped in time for orphaned children in other countries such as Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador and Nigeria to have a Christmas gift on Christmas morning. Rotarian Tom Leggett has been heading this program for several years and has requested the club take on the project annually. Local churches and their members are also involved.

5- International Project. A committee has been assigned the task of advising the club of a suitable international project which will help reduce child mortality.

These projects will be added to our already sizeable list of projects such as the "Lunch Buddies", "Accelerated Reader", "4-Way Test Contest" and "Scholarship Auctions".

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WORLDWIDE ROTARY PROJECTS

POLIO PLUS

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program will have contributed US $500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

ROTARIANS AGAINST HUNGER

Another association for Rotarians is the "RAH" (Rotarians Against Hunger) partnership with "Stop Hunger Now". The goal of the partnership as with the ending of polio worldwide is to end hunger on a global scale. "RAH" was formed by Rotarian Ray Buchanan, also President of Stop Hunger Now, and Rotarian Hal Smith. Ray is a Rotarian in the Raleigh Rotary Club and Hal is a Rotarian with the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club both in North Carolina. It has grown in their District 7710 clubs and is expanding to other districts and clubs worldwide. The links below provide more information about how everyone can be involved in this worthy endeavor.

Rotarian Lee Warren, a member of the South Hill Club since 2006, is the Virginia Director for "Stop Hunger Now". Below are links to articles and videos about Lee and the "SHN" organization as well as a video shot in Haiti where current projects are underway. Our club has been involved with some local  "food packaging" events in South Hill and also one held at the District Conference shown below.

Lee Warren Article

Stop Hunger Now.org

Stop Hunger Now Haiti Video

When Stop Hunger Now sends containers of meals, there is always extra room at the top of the container to send such requested items as computers, cloth for clothes and school supplies. Rotarians shown here donated numerous composition books, note books and elementary school writing tablets to help Rotarian Lee Warren with this project. (08/14/2008)to

  South Hill Rotarian Lee Warren addresses the 2008-2009 Rotary District Conference 10/03-05/2008 in Portsmouth Virginia.

  First, a demonstration of procedures is given to Rotarians that volunteered to package the 10,000 meals purchased by several clubs in attendance at the conference.

  ....and 1 hour later all the meals were packaged, boxed and ready to ship to places in the world in need of this life saving food. Many South Hill Club members assisted as well District Governor Bill Pollard (in the silly hat, can you pick him out?) and the G. S. E. team (in the green shirts) from the British Virgin Islands.

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MORE LOCAL PROJECTS

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"THE BREAD BOX"

The South Hill Club also supports a local organization that provides food to those in need within our local community. Rotarian Tom Leggett, as head of this worthwhile project, accepts a donation from the club as one of 2 annual donations. (01/25/2007)

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JAMESTOWN 400 PROJECT
MARCH 30, 2007

The South Hill Rotary Club is participating in the Jamestown 2007 Beautification Program by having crepe myrtle trees planted along West Atlantic Street across from the SHPD building. Wayside Nursery in South Hill  agreed to do the plantings and the project is officially underway with the Nursery Crew, Rotarians, and Police Chief Norman Hudson all on hand. Rotarian Steven Stanley is heading the Rotary's Jamestown 2007 Committee. The project is listed as one of many projects underway around the state as the celebration approaches. See our link page for a link to the official Jamestown 2007site. (03/30/2007)

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Find out more about Rotary by visiting:

 Rotary International web site.

 For more information click on these links:

 About Rotary    RI Programs 

Rotary Theme for 2008-2009

Dong Kurn Lee - President, Rotary International
William D. Pollard, Jr. - District Governor, District 7600
R. Bruce Settle III - Assistant Governor District 7600
Herbert L. Farrar - President, South Hill  Rotary Club
 Charles C. Wright - President-Elect, South Hill Rotary Club

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Sites for the next Three (3) R. I. Conventions announced:
Birmingham England 06/21-24/2009
Montreal Canada 06/20-23/2010
New Orleans Louisiana 05/22-25/2011

For more information, please contact:
Randy Cash (randy@southhillrotaryclub.org)