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Background: The Rotary Club of Carrollton-Farmers Branch,
Texas, was chartered on Wednesday, November 30, 1960. The
current President is Jeanne Hooker, who began her term July
1, 2002. Since its inception, the club has raised more than
$800,000 for scholarships and a variety of community and international
service projects.
The 75 member club is part of Rotary International District
5810, which includes 58 clubs in Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Fannin,
Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman and Rockwall counties of north central
Texas, under the leadership of District Governor Pete Snider
of Southeast Dallas County. The Rotary Club of Carrollton-Farmers
Branch meets at Brookhaven Country Club each Thursday at 11:45
A.M.
Community Service: Each year, the Rotary Club of Carrollton-Farmers Branch
provides at least 5 scholarships to worthy students in Carrollton
and Farmers Branch. In the recent past, the club has provided
substantial seed money to help establish the Police Athletic
League program in Carrollton and a Boys and Girls Club for the
Carrollton-Farmers Branch communities. The club has been successful
in securing the use of a 15-passenger van from Lee Jarman Ford
for Carrollton PAL. The club also sponsors students to the Red
Ribbon Campaign Against Drugs breakfast every year, and has
established and maintained a Speakers Bureau for careers for
high school students.
Service to the Less Fortunate: The Rotary Club of Carrollton-Farmers
Branch regularly contributes both funds and foodstuffs to the
Metrocrest Social Service Center, whose mission is to assist
people in emergency economic situations. Many members of the
club are volunteers for the center, and some assist the center
in additional fund raising.
Service to those with Special Needs: The Rotary Club
of Carrollton-Farmers Branch began, in the spring of 2000, a
multi-year mission to install park and playground equipment
for children in both Carrollton and Farmers Branch with special
needs. The majority of future fund raising will be focussed
on that goal.
Service to the Elderly: The Rotary Club of Carrollton-Farmers
Branch has been a regular contributor to the Senior Adult Services
program (formerly the Office on Aging), and several club members
are also volunteers with that organization.
Service to Youth: The Rotary Club of Carrollton-Farmers
Branch sponsors Interact Clubs at Newman Smith High School and
Mary Grimes Alternative High School in the Carrollton-Farmers
Branch Independent School District, and has previously established,
with Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, a Rotoract Club on
campus.
International Service: One of the two Rotary Volunteers
in District 5810 are members of the club, which has won the
District International Service Award three times. The club regularly
sponsors outbound and inbound Youth Exchange students. Five
years ago, the club collected thousands of dollars of paint,
medical and dental hygiene supplies and school supplies for
the District Conference Service Project at two poor schools
in Puerto Vallarta, and then did the same the next year to build
an addition to the Library in Pottsboro, Texas. We have served
as the Vocational Host club for an inbound Group Study Exchange
team from the Philippines, which visited District 5810 in March,
1997, and have hosted inbound teams from all over the world
in our homes several times in the last ten years.
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