On behalf of the leadership team this year, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our club. We strive to put others first, to make meaningful and positive changes in our community, our world, and in ourselves, and to have fun doing it!
Leadership
Charles Hartford – President-‐2019-2020
Charles Marsh-Secretary
Susan Rutan – Treasurer
Dirk Harris – President-‐Elect 2020-2021
Kevin Quinn- Past President 2018-2019
Pat Stouffer – Sergeant At Arms
– Club Relations
Diane Salusbury – Communications
Avenues of Service
The Object of Rotary is to “encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.” Rotary is a service organization. Since 1910, the Rotary Motto has been “Service Above Self.”
Rotary strives to achieve it’s objective of “Service Above Self” through activities in four primary areas. These are often referred to as Avenues of Service.
Club Service – Femie Cupit
This “Avenue” promotes the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. It involves the activities necessary to make the Club function successfully and achieve its goals.
Vocational Service – Rich Velasquez
This area represents the opportunity that each Rotarian has to represent the dignity and utility of one’s vocation as an opportunity to serve society. Rotarians promote and foster high ethical standards in business and professions and promote the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations.
Community Service Projects – Laurnie Durisoe
This “Avenue” relates to the activities that Rotarians undertake to improve the quality of life in their community. Particular emphasis is given to helping children, needy families, the aged, the handicapped, and those most in need of assistance. Rotarians strive to promote the ideal of service in their personal, business, and community lives.
International Service – Shabnam Miglani
In this area, Rotarians strive for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. International Service Projects are designed to meet the humanitarian needs of people in many lands, with particular emphasis on the most underprivileged children and families in developing countries.
Youth Services – Craig Schniepp
Youth Service promotes and supports the club’s youth education and leadership programs. The centerpiece of our effort is the Interact Club at La Jolla High school, a community service club open to all students. The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program, coordinated with the district’s annual conference, sends promising students to a weekend camp at Idyllwild. Other activities include support for Rotary Youth International Exchange, enlistment of youth into many of our Club Service activities and an active committed relationship with La Jolla area schools. Click Here for More info on Youth Services
Membership Service – Peter Nguyen
Membership Service is responsible for maintaining a strong and healthy club. Every new Rotarian brings a range of personal and professional resources and knowledge that can greatly strengthen our Club’s ability to serve throughout the community and the world. The continuation of Rotary International depends on continued membership growth and development efforts. Club 24 is composed of new members inducted within the last 24 months.
International Foundation Service (Paul Harris Foundation) – Will Creekmur
International Foundation Services serves as our representative to the Rotary International Foundation, which promotes and supports humanitarian and educational projects throughout the world. Our Rotary Foundation committee encourages each Rotarian to directly participate in and/or provide financial support to one or more many worthwhile projects. The committee helps acknowledge that real reward comes through the personal satisfaction gained by helping to fulfill the mission of Rotary.
FLORENCE RIFORD LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FUND
In 1989, Rotary Club of La Jolla established Florence Riford Community Fund in honor of Florence S. Riford, the first woman member of the Club. The purpose of this fund is to further worthwhile activities, other than scholarships, in the La Jolla Community. The assets of the fund are administered by San Diego Community Foundation. Grants are made from the earnings of the fund under the direction of a committee.
LA JOLLA ROTARY FOUNDATION
TRUSTEES
- Ted Rutter, Foundation President
La Jolla Rotary Foundation is a charitable organization created by Rotary Club of La Jolla. Contributions to La Jolla Rotary Foundation support the Club’s Community Service, Vocational Service, Youth Service and International Service activities. Annual donations to the Foundation come from Club members. In addition, La Jolla Rotary Foundation administers an endowment that provides income to fund Riford Scholarships and La Jolla Rotary Scholarships. La Jolla Foundation Board consists of the current officers of Rotary Club of La Jolla, the Club President, President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and immediate Past President. There are four additional trustess who are selected by the board of the Club.
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Based in Evanston, Illionois, this was established in 1917 as an endowment fund and named Rotary Foundation in 1928. It is devoted exclusively to furthering understanding and friendly relations between people of different nations through humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs. The fund is supported by annual giving from Rotarians around the world. Paul Harris Fellowships are awarded to individual Rotarians contributing $1,000 or more. Of the many important programs supported by the Rotary Foundation, the following are noteworthy:
|
|
Walter Dewhurst Award
Walter Dewhurst (1915 – 2004) served more than a half-‐century in the Rotary Club of La Jolla. A memorial in his honor was established in 2005. This award assures that the loyal, selfless, steady service epitomized by Walter Dewhurst will not be forgotten.
In order to qualify for this award, the recipient:
- Has been a member in good standing of the Rotary Club of La Jolla for minimum of ten years.
- In a number of specifically identified ways, contributed in personal service above and beyond normal expectation to the purpose, objectives and principals of Rotary.
- Has made significant and unique contributions in personal service to the local community measured from the standpoint of personal time, effort and actual accomplishment.
- Among peers, is recognized as a leader, a doer and accomplisher with special abilities.
- Has personal attributes and characteristics identifying the recipient as a truly outstanding individual.
- The Award Committee shall be past Walter Dewhurst Awardees and Past Presidents. The Award will be given in June of the end of the current President’s term unless there are conflicts in dates. It will be moved to May if that meets the Awardee’s schedule.
- The recommendation of the Award Committee must be approved by the President.
- In the event there is no fully qualified candidate, the Award Committee and President are under no obligation to make this Award.
Walter Dewhurst Award Recipients
2019 Pat Stouffer
2018 David Shaw
2017 Russ King
2016 Chuck Dick
2015 Cal Mann
2014 Laurnie Durisoe
2013 David Weston
2012 Marc Lanci
2010 Kaye Woltman
2009 Geoff and Maureen Schwartz
2008 Gordon “Zeke” Knight
2007 Ed Danenhauer
2006 Richard Woltman
2005 John Vaughan (1921 – 2006)
Past Presidents
2019 Kevin Quinn
2018 John Trifiletti
2017 Ken King
2016 Lora Fisher
2015 Russ King
2014 Pat Stouffer
2013 Kate Adams
2012 Ron Jones
2011 Mark Leinenweber
2010 Bill Burch
2009 Ted Rutter
2008 Davis Cracroft
2007 Kay Woltman
2006 Lee Vida
2005 Marc Lanci
2004 Blair Blum
2003 Robert Teaff
2002 Richard Woltman
2001 David B. Goodell
2000 John Brown
1999 Sonja Gietz-Kijora
1998 Robert Fehlman
1997 Ed Danenhouer
1996 Melitta Fleck
1995 David B. Gillig
1994 Gordon Knight
1993 Clair E. Berry
1992 David Weston
1991 James G Tapp
1990 Charles H. Dick, Jr.
1989 James Kendrick
1988 Charles D. Burges
1987 Roy M. Drew
1986 Alan R. Toffler
1985 Peter D. Speyer
1984 J. Berk Walters
1983 W. Ian Anderson
1982 Robert H. Cleary
1981 James S. Tiiolo
1980 Garet B. Clark
1979 Roy I. Madsen
1978 Donald R. Fox
1977 James Moir
1976 William E. Veamer
1975 J Virgil Watters
1974 Percy T Allen
1973 Clifford L. Graves
1972 Paul Bremner
1971 Raymond W. Howard
1970 Robert M. Stader
1969 Everett Stunz
1968 Tom Watson
1967 M. Robert Herrick
1966 Charles O. Robinson
1965 Karl M. ZoBell
1964 Marion S. Karrh
1963 Athos E. Sada
1962 Charles W. Tischoff
1961 D. Careron McDonald
1960 Robert M. Boughton
1959 Gene R. Schniepp
1958 Fred C. Knight
1957 Robert Y. Hand
1956 Walter A. Dewhurst
1955 Robert H. Brantley
1954 Hugh P. Waldman
1953 Howard M. Rowe
1952 Paul D. Spillane
1951 Emery W. Armacost
1950 Kenneth R Rearwin
1949 Kenneth A. Glazebrook
1948 Otto J. Bradshaw
1947 Gordon L. Gray
Directories
Member Area