There will be a Santa Monica Rotary Boys & Girls Club Center at John Adams Middle School due to the philanthropy of the Rotary Foundation and Santa Monica Rotary Club. These two entities donated a total of $50,000 to build a recreation center to improve the lives of our young citizens. Bill Crookston, Allan Young, and John Deasy get a salute for their vision and perseverance.
Thanks to Marv Levin, $7,500 was raised for Paul Harris Fellowships, allowing deserving young people to partake of academic scholarships;
800 books were collected by Norma Barnes and Shirley Dowling to improve literacy and enhance the Read By Nine Program. An additional $2,000 went to the John Muir Elementary School’s reading program. And the impoverished citizens of Swaziland got $1,600 for its literacy crusade.
Three additional Immunization Clinics were organized by Jim Reidy, bringing to 6,500 the number of children Rotary has immunized since 1990;
Spyros Dellaportas made sure the Santa Monica Police Department personnel were treated to a gourmet Thanksgiving meal, compliments of Klaus Mennekes. And $1,290 went to Food on Foot for the homeless.
The Salvation Army was $4,758 better off due to the effective bell ringing of Rotarians. Credit Frank Lavac with keeping the energy high.