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Waco Rotary member Garland Back passed away on May 31.  A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m., Monday June 9, at Austin Avenue Methodist Church.   Our thoughts and prayers are with Garland's family. 

Garland Back

April 5, 1941-May 31, 2014

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

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Paul Harris Fellow recognition is given in appreciation to anyone who contributes $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, Polio Plus Fund or World Fund.  Multiple Paul Harris Fellows are recognized for each subsequent $1,000 cumulative contribution.

When you receive your Waco Rotary dues invoices in April and October each year, you have the option of contributing $50 each time to the Paul Harris Annual Fund.  That is $100 a year and in 10 years, you too can be a Paul Harris Fellow.  (You may also contribute any amount at any time.  Just ask Katherine for details.)

President K. Paul Holt with our newest Paul Harris Fellows:

K. Paul Holt, Frank Levy, David Hick, John Erwin,Herb Cross, Kent Keathley;  Don Schreiber, and Bruce Mazzare.  (Les Neugebauer escaped before I could get his photo!)

Thank you all for you service and contributions to Rotary!

Ex-Pat Katherine Logue will return from her six-month sojourn in Scotland. Will she be wearing a kilt or perhaps speaking with a Scottish brogue? You'll want to attend the March 17  Rotary meeting to greet her and find out about her adventures.

The votes are in. Rotarians Roland Goertz, Kay Metz and Elton Stuckly, Jr., have been elected to serve on the Rotary Club of Waco's Board of Directors.

Dr. Roland Goertz

Kay Metz

Dr. Elton Stuckly, Jr.

The Waco Rotary Club recognized its2013 Scholarship Award recipients at the Aug. 19 meeting. Scholarship recipients are juniors or seniors in college, permanent residents or McLennan County and must have resided in McLennan County for at least two consecutive years prior to the scholarship award. All five of our winners have impressive credentials, a number of significant achievements, and are involved in multiple extracurricular activities in the community, at church and with their education institutions.

Kelsey Dodson, Carolyn Hoy, Armando Contreras and Scholarship Committee Chairman Harold Rafuse (not pictured: Sarah Frazier and Katherine Goodnight)

Rotary Global Grant recipient Stephanie Allen, a May 2013 Baylor graduate, was asked to speak to the Class of 2017 at Baylor Line Camp. Read her words of wisdom.

 

Waco Rotary will hold a social from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at the BSR Cable Park Bar & Grill.

  
The Waco Rotary Club provided a $4,500 DAP grant for music education supplies to the Talitha Koum Institute to help its therapeutic mental health programs for young children. Pictured are Leonard Englander, Jim Newkham (chairman), Talitha Koum executive director Jan Wengler, Howard Gruetzner, James Karney, Evan Klaras, K. Paul Holt (representing the Waco Rotary Board). Not pictured Ken Krause.

 

Waco Rotary welcomes Megan Henderson, executive director of the Waco Downtown Development Corporation, to its membership.

Recent Baylor University graduate Stephanie Allen of Lake Jackson, Texas, and current graduate student Austin Cook-Lindsay of San Angelo, Texas, have been named 2013-2014 Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholars, a new program that provides $30,000 scholarships to support students' graduate-level academic studies in areas that relate to Rotary's areas of focus around the world.

Waco Rotary welcomes new members Randy Riggs, Jennifer Richie, Peggy Rush, Sterling Woody and Jessica Attas Xolalpa.

Rotary International commended the Waco Rotary club for 100 years of service and growth.

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