Club Membership
Club Membership
If you have an interest in actively assisting the Walnut Rotary Club in its goals of enjoying fun and good fellowship, providing community service, encouraging high vocational standards, and building international goodwill, we would be interested in talking with you about membership in our club. Our club membership chairman, Carl VonHolten, may be contacted at 815 379-2148.
Rotary Clubs have never done much bragging so it may surprise you to learn:
Rotary International participated in the founding of UNESCO in the United Nations and maintains one of two non-member permanent seats in that organization.
Rotary launched the creation of the Easter Seals Society for crippled children.
Rotary gives away more educational scholarship money than any non-governmental organization in the world.
Rotarians organized and contributed nearly $800 million since 1985 to the PolioPlus campaign toward successfully wiping out polio throughout the world.
Rotary has embarked on a worldwide project to supply fresh, clean water to impoverished communities throughout the world.
What may be required of you as a Walnut Rotarian?
Attend a weekly lunch meeting.
Enjoy informational or entertaining speakers each week.
Pay for meals and annual dues.
Participate in the club’s charity social fund raising activities.
Make a lot of new friends in a variety of professions and occupations.
Enjoy seeing fellow members/friends at meetings on a frequent basis.
Visit other Rotary Clubs, even in foreign countries, and always feel welcome!
Enjoy the thought that you are making a real difference in our community.
Please join us at the Walnut Café for one of our luncheon meetings. As a visitor you are under no obligation and we’ll even treat you to a free lunch!
Contact Carl VonHolten at 815 379-2148…