ART CONTEST Committee Members

Chair: Denise Wadsworth; Contact Info: Denise.WadsworthSLP@gmail.com. Cell: (626) 434-6646

The Rotary Club of San Marino sponsors an annual art competition open to all public and private school students in the greater San Marino area.  Annual award amounts vary.  The competition includes four ages: KG-2; 3-5; 6-8; and 9-12.  Art is publicly displayed for two weeks at the Crowell Public Library.  Awardees receive ribbons and cash awards in multiple areas.  

BARTH SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE Committee Members

Each year, the Charities arm of the Rotary Club of San Marino allocates the amount of money to be given as scholarships, this number depends on the growth on our endowment.  In the 2023-2024 year the amount is $6,000.  The committee has to decide if they want to give 6 $1000 scholarships or if they want to give 3 $2K scholarships.

Committee typically meets in November/December to evaluate and update the form that will be be disseminated to the San Marino High School Principal and Superintendents office at SMHS and Southwestern Academy.  The applicants are high school seniors at the 2 schools.  Each year the committee chairs ask members if they want to continue on the committee and if they want others to join.  

Deadlines are set typically end of January.  

Once applicants apply, the committee sends out the applications for all to review and rank.  Ranking sheets are obtained from the Chairs of the Committee.  Upon review of ranking the committee rules out candidates who did not follow directions or did not furnish us what we required and only call the applicants who are highly ranked to the interview.  Interviews take place on zoom and post all interviews an evaluation and discussion follows with the committee members to discuss final ranking and choices are made for the candidates

Letters are sent to chosen candidates.  The candidates who were not selected also receive a letter.

The students are asked to come back to the club to receive the check and then a year later to showcase what they've done with the money.
 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Committee Members

Public Image Committee Members

The objective is to publicize the upcoming and to be or completed activities of the Club, in the San Marino Tribune. 
 Activities include:

A.    Submittals sent weekly to the Tribune listing the next two months of meeting programs (speaker, affiliation, topic)
B.    A Year-End Summary in the form of a half-page advertisement in the Tribune is submitted generally in August, that includes the non-profits that have been the beneficiaries of Foundation funding for the past year, Club officers for the new year, and newest members, since the last ad ran.  Budget, $700.
C.    Ads for the high school Booster football and basketball programs, and on a banner on the left field Majors fence. Budget, $2,500.
D.   Submittals to the Tribune for a particular event, i.e announcement of the most recent Global Grants Scholar awardee; Barth Scholarship; Art Contest winners; and of the upcoming high school Music Competition
 
 

BUSINESS COMPETITION Committee Members

COMMUNITY GRANTS Committee Members

DAN STOVER MUSIC CONTEST Committee Members

FOUNDATION Committee Members

Global Grants Scholarship Program Committee Members

 Global Grant Peace and Scholars

The objective is to identify at least one qualified scholar (or peace) candidate each Rotary year.

A.     Personal letters are written to 30 to 35 seniors in college, who demonstrated high grades, a plethora of activities, and an outgoing personality (drama, speech, debate, etc.) while in high school, advising each of this $31,000 opportunity.

B.    Would-be candidates respond, and a meeting is arranged to explain the scholarship process and to assess a candidate’s qualifications.

C.    Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; guidance is given to facilitate the entire process.

D.   Returning scholars are the keynote speaker at the annual Foundation Luncheon at the Huntington usually held in the Spring.

Meetings of the Club Foundation Committee are members of the Global Grants Scholar interview panel, and meet when a candidate’s paperwork is complete.
 

INTERNATIONAL Committee Members

Collaborate with other Rotary clubs through The Rotary Foundation (TRF) Global Grants process and direct grants to local NGOs. Select and manage international humanitarian projects that have a positive and sustainable impact on communities in need.

Paul Harris Fellow Luncheon Committee Members

Foundation Luncheon

The objective is to host an annual Luncheon at the Huntington, to award an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow, and to hear a debrief from a returning Global Grants (or Peace) scholar. 

A.     Guest lists are assembled for each

B.     Table assignments are made

C.    Previous Fellows and Scholars are invited; former Scholars are asked to financially support the Club Foundation ($4,750 raised last year).

D.   District leadership is invited; some are comped
 
Meetings are held, monthly, by the Foundation Committee, to do the planning for this luncheon, held after a regular Club luncheon meeting, at Community Church.
 

GEORGE HENSEL 4 WAY SPEECH CONTEST Committee Members

INTERACT CLUB AT SMHS Committee Members

Advisor: SM Rotarian Denise Wadsworth, denise.wadsworthSLP@gmail.com. Cell: (626) 434-6646

The San Marino High School Rotary Interact Club is the most active club on our campus.  Currently, 50-60 students meet for "Hour of Service" each Friday after school from 3:45-4:45 PM in the high school library.  Our San Marino Rotary Interactors complete multiple campus projects and volunteer locally to support our school district and Rotary Club.  Our 23-24 international service project is Rise Against Hunger.  Annual local volunteering for our students, school district, and city includes the following:

August: San Marino Motor Classic, Club Rush Fundraiser
September: Pinwheels for Peace to celebrate World Peace Day
October: Valentine Elementary Fall Fair, Hauntington Breakfast, Homecoming, End Polio Now Walk, Trunk or City of San Marino Trunk or Treat in Lacy Park 
November: San Marino Art Fair - a new fine art and craft event held on campus and soon to be the finest in the San Gabriel Valley
December: Rise Against Hunger: 10,000 Meal Packaging Event with San Marino Rotarians
January: Club Rush - Spring Semester
February: Valentine Sale on Campus
March/April: Carver Carnival, City of San Marino Easter Egg Hunt in Lacy Park

Throughout the year our club is also actively involved in collecting unwanted food for the Pasadena City College Lancer Food Pantry and has initiated additional recycling in collaboration with our San Marino Green Club.  Our SM Rotary Interact students are truly humanitarians and our future's leaders!

LA CASA HOLIDAY GIVING Committee Members

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Committee Members

The membership Committee is responsible for 3 tasks.

1) Greeting guests at the door - making sure they receive a warm welcome & get their info so follow-up can happen 

2) Follow up with guests to convert them from guest to potential member to member - follow-up includes: Phone follow-up, email follow-up, meeting follow-up and subsequent visits to the club so they are vetted.  Once they become a potential member and submit an application, the application is then taken to the BOD for approval and to the membership.  Once approved, the induction is scheduled and a member is inducted.

3) Upon induction, the new member or yearling is then supported by 2 other people who work with them to get them acclimated to our club projects and take them from yearling to a blue badge

Ideally, there should be 6 people on the committee - 2 that take each task.

We also have ambassadors - ambassadors can be anyone in the club who is passionate about our vision and mission and who shares their Rotary moment in the community and invite potential members.  We can have up to 20 ambassadors per year.  

THURSDAYS AROUND TOWN (TAT) Committee Members

MINI GRANTS COMMITTEE Committee Members

ROSE COURT VISIT & HUNTINGTON GARDENS Committee Members

RYLA Committee Members

Salute to the Academy Appointees Committee Members

Salute to the Academy Appointees

The objective is to duly recognize the appointees of 5 area Congresspersons to the 4 Service Academies, plus the Coast Guard Academy.  There have been 19 of these luncheons since inception.

A.     The date chosen is the first Thursday in June, hopefully before an appointee graduates from high school.

B.     A keynote speaker is chosen, an Academy graduate (hopefully a somewhat recent one), to explain Academy life, the service commitment, and opportunities after service

C.    Generally, Congressional representative Judy Chu attends, and hands out Congressional Citations to each

D.   Flags of the Academies are displayed on stage, along with a head table.  Fellowship Hall is decorated with appropriate patriotic regalia.
 
Correspondence is by email between the two co-chairs (one each for appointee correspondence and to arrange for the keynote speaker).  As such, no meetings are required.
 

SAN MARINO MOTOR CLASSIC Committee Members

SAN MARINO ROTARY CHARITIES Committee Members

The Charities Board and the 501(c) 3 arm of the Rotary Club of San Marino meet quarterly. Times and dates vary.

Our role is disbursement of funds to support the Club's projects.

This includes management of our endowments, management of donations to charity, a yearly budget and approval of  projects. Financial reporting occurs monthly.

Rotary Readers Committee Members

Rotary Readers 2022-2023

1.  Describe the project. What was done, when, and where did project activities take place? If this is a progress report, what remains to be done?

Rotary Readers is a program of the Rotary Club of San Marino (RCSM) to purchase casual reading books for disadvantaged children in the local San Gabriel Valley. The Rotary Readers Committee selected five winners from organizations RCSM members had nominated to receive the Rotary Readers grants of $1,000 credit to order books from Scholastic, a nationally known publisher. Once the orders had been placed with Scholastic, the invoices were sent to RCSM.  The books were delivered to the local high school so the Interact Club could put them on bookplates recognizing each individual book as a part of the Rotary Readers program. Finally, representatives from each organization were invited to a regular Thursday Rotary meeting to collect their books and be introduced to our members.  Each representative had the opportunity to share the mission of their organization and how they would use the books.

2. How many people benefited from this project?

1,000

3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met?

The four organizations that received this grant were The Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena, Families Forward, Beacon Housing, and Villa Esperanza. The books will allow the children to have access to quality books they most likely do not have. The impact will be better reading skills, study habits and increased knowledge that will benefit them through their journey of additional education. "When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community, one by one."

4. How many Rotarians participated in the project?

15

5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project.

Rotarians created the local program. Rotarians chose the organizations that would support the program. The organizations select the books they would like. Rotarians worked with the book publisher to obtain the books.  The interactors placed labels on the front cover of the books.

Five organizations were notified of the awards.  However, one of them, All Souls’ Catholic School, never submitted a book order.  The organizations that did appreciate the books were Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena, Beacon Housing, Villa Esperanza, and Families Forward. 

6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role?
No other cooperating organizations were involved.


Invoices
12/23/22         Vista Print                                                   289.56
1/25/23           Scholastic Invoice 45711777                      1,091.35
1/25/23           Scholastic - Invoice 45717559                       1,094.30
1/28/23             Scholastic - Invoice 45733096                       1,092.18
1/30/23           Scholastic - Invoice 45777480                       981.68
2/26/23             Scholastic – Invoice 46300412                   5.58
TOTAL            $4,554.65         


 

SMHS GRAD NIGHT CASINO Committee Members