Foundation Chair Alicia Churaman recognized members for their selfless contribution and expressed sincere gratitude for the club’s commitment to the St. Croix West Foundation initiatives. Members, guests and fellow Rotarians in Jamaica were in attendance.
“Service Above Self” and “One Profits Most Who Serves Best,” are Rotary’s official mottos, which can be traced back to the early days of the organization. In 1911, the second Rotary convention, in Portland, Oregon, approved “He Profits Most Who Serves Best” as the Rotary motto.
https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/rotary-foundation
Polio Plus (https://www.endpolio.org/)
Coins for Rotary
Thanks to the following Rotarians for donating coins, food and time: Lauchland Tonge, Tyrone Seales, Rupert Ross, Cheru Ross, Cheryl Ross, Claire Roker, Dorothy McIntosh, Deborah Johnson, Juliet John-Hope, Ophelia Jackson, Deborah Howell, Whelimina Cooke, Warrington Chapman, Jennell Bryan and Marie Adams.
Raffle Donations
Family of Rotary fruit basket
50/50
Lauchland Tonge, Tyrone Seales, Rupert Ross, Cheru Ross, Cheryl Ross, Warrington Chapman, Marie Adams and John Abramson.
https://www.rotary.org/en/donate/recognition
Donor Recognition
Donors’ generous contributions to The Rotary Foundation are essential to securing and growing Rotary programs throughout the world. Rotary recognizes donors to express its gratitude for their commitment, offering individual and club recognition as well as naming opportunities that enable donors to honor a friend or family member with a named or endowed gift.
Individual Recognition
Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member: When a donor gives $100 or more per year to the annual fund.
2020 Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member
Rotarians
John Abramson
George Cannon
Aston Wayne Harty
Wilhelmina Cooke
Rupert Ross Jr.
Jennell Bryan
Deborah Howell
Alicia Churaman
Paul Harris Fellow
When a donor gives $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, PolioPlus or an approved Foundation grant. To recognize someone else as a Paul Harris Fellow, a donor can give that amount in that person’s name.
Club History
Jennell Bryan PHF
Lauchland Tonge. PHF
Cheru Ross. PHF
Gaynell Meyers PHF
John Abramson PHF
Ophelia Jackson PHF
Multiple Paul Harris Fellow
When a donor gives additional gifts of $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund such as PolioPlus, or an approved Foundation grant.
James Sealey. PHF+1
Etheldred Christopher PHF+1
Wilhelmina Cooke PHF+2
Dorothy McIntosh PHF+3
George Cannon PHF+3
Alicia Churaman PHF+4
Tyrone Seales PHF+3 Beverly Seales PHF
Lloyd Daniel Sr. PHF+4 Celia Daniel PHF
Aston Wayne Harty PHF+4 Sandra Harty PHF
Edgar Isles PHF+8
Major Donor
When a donor’s cumulative donations reach $10,000, recognition items commemorate giving at these levels:
Level 1: $10,000 to $24,999
Level 2: $25,000 to $49,999
Level 3: $50,000 to $99,999
Level 4: $100,000 to $249,999
Deborah Howell. PHF+8; Dennis Howell PHF/ Leslee Howell PHF
Rupert Ross, Jr. PHF+8; Cheryl Ross. PHF+4
Benefactor
When someone includes the Endowment Fund as a beneficiary of $1,000 or more in an estate plan or donates $1,000 or more to the fund outright.
Aston Wayne Harty PHF+4
Deborah Howell. PHF+8
Funds are used for
The most successful and sustainable Rotary service tends to fall within one of the following six areas:
Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development
Locally
Whim Gardens Christmas Party
Back to school supplies
Boys’ and girls’ fun day computers school supplies
Rotary has heart feed children
My brother’s table feeding
World Food Day
Whim Museum come back to St. Croix
$40,000 to the V.I. Cardiac Center and each member $1000 to the charity of their choice
Wheelchair ramps
Hand sanitizer distribution project
Scholarships
Christmas lights
Disaster relief supplies
Christmas lights
Conflict resolution workshop
Rotary Club of St. Croix West meets at 6 p.m., every Tuesday, at the Rotary West Community Center in Frederiksted.
For more information on the club’s initiatives or to join the Rotary Club of St. Croix West, visit www.rotarystcroixwest.org or like it on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rotaryclubstcroixwest.