PAST PRESIDENT LORI'S LAST ROUNDUPHello my Rotary family-
We are 201 club members as of today. Our membership is growing despite losing two members to their moving out of state, seven to their decision to leave Rotary and four Rotarians transferred to other clubs. I have taken on being the Rotary District 5440 Membership Chair so please let me know if you would like to have coffee to visit about attaining, engaging and retaining members. I have some great tips and I am happy to share.
Our club made several donations in our community over the past Rotary Club year so please know your membership is appreciated and helps us do good in the name of Rotary. We supported $5,000 to Habitat for Humanity, over $17,000 to the Adaptive Bike Project, over $7,000 to Community Action of Laramie County, $3,000 to Safehouse, $6,000 to the STARBASE Foundation Drone Project, just over $8,000 to the LCCC Foundation for STEM, $9,000 to Raising Readers in WY, $2,800 for the VA Veteran Trolley Ride Project and $10,000 to our Cheyenne Rotary Foundation. Our next project will be to support the Safehouse Literacy Room Project. I am so proud of all the good our club continues to do in our community through our association with Rooted In Cheyenne, the Rotary Park and Crow Creek Clean-Up days and our upcoming All Service Clubs Community Food Drive set for Saturday, August 24th. Please look for information to help with the food drive. Please also try to help with our club fundraisers; Palisades Peach orders are due by July 7th and our Smoked Oaked and Stoked to End Polio Now fundraiser will be held on Saturday, October 5th.
All big THANK YOU to all that have helped with our club service as a Club Officer, Board of Director, Committee Chair and or a committee member. I could not have had such a successful year without ALL of your help and the support of my husband Tom.
Thank you to club member Ryan Whitehead for his musical talent on Wednesday for my last club meeting as President. What fun!
The goals that I had for my Presidency were all met and I could not be more proud to be a member of the Rotary Club of Cheyenne. From Poet- Maya Angelou, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel.” I hope I have made you feel welcomed, included and valued within our club.
I am looking forward to sitting among my Rotary family of friends again as a Past President. All the best to President Beth in the year ahead.
