Welcome to Rotary!
Established in 1922, the Rotary Club of Greenfield has provided more than a century of service to the community. On February 16, 2023 the club became a breakfast club and meets each Thursday (except holidays) for a 6:30 a.m. breakfast at the Catch 22 Sports Pub, followed by a 7:00 a.m. meeting. The Catch 22 Sports Pub is located at 250 Jefferson St., Greenfield, Ohio.
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Nathan Alvarez wins local Four-Way Test speech contest
McClain High School student Nathan Alvarez won first place honors at the Rotary Four-Way Test speech contest on February 27. Nathan faced stiff competition from his twin brother Nicolas Alvarez and Kayden Edenfield in the speech contest that took place in the McClain auditorium. When the scores from three judges were tallied, Nathan took the top prize of $200 while his brother Nicolas received a $100 check for second place and Kayden took home $50 for placing third. The checks were presented by Greenfield Rotary President Dana Daugherty, who invited Nathan to present his winning speech to the Greenfield Rotary Club. Nathan plans to attend a club meeting in the near future. The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say or do is a test used by Rotarians worldwide as a moral code for personal and business relationships. The test can be applied to almost any aspect of life. The Four-Way Test was scripted by Herbert J. Taylor, an American from Chicago, as he set out to save the Club Aluminum Products Distribution Company from bankruptcy. By applying the principles of the Four-Way Test, the company repaid its debts and generously paid its shareholders. In the 1940s, when Taylor was an international director of Rotary, he offered the Four-Way Test to the organization, and it was adopted by Rotary International for its internal and promotional use. Never changed, the 24-word test remains today a central part of the permanent Rotary structure throughout the world, and is held as the standard by which all behavior should be measured. The Greenfield Rotary Club sponsors a Four-Way Test speaking contest annually to help educate and inspire local students while giving them an opportunity to creatively develop organizational and public speaking skills. “There is a lot of wisdom behind the four questions that can help each of us in our personal and business relationships,” said Dana Daugherty. “That is why our club typically opens each meeting by reciting the Four-Way Test.” The Rotary Four-Way Test Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? The Greenfield Rotary Club meets at the Catch 22 Sports Pub at 6:30 a.m. each Thursday (except holidays) for breakfast and a club meeting. Paul Harris Fellowship honors Jennifer Kennedy
for her longtime support of Greenfield Rotary The legacy of community involvement and financial support for a myriad of projects in Greenfield by Lowell and Sandra McNeil has been passed down to their daughter, Jennifer McNeil Kennedy, Rotary’s recipient of this year’s Paul Harris Fellowship. Paul Harris, the founder of Rotary, lived by the credo “Service Above Self” and is the cornerstone of today’s Rotary clubs throughout the world. Greenfield Rotarians Pat Hays and Steve Pearce surprised Kennedy by bringing her a pin and certificate recognizing her as a Paul Harris Fellow. Kennedy, through her business, Sitterle Insurance, has been a faithful supporter of Rotary activities and a longtime buyer of limited edition prints at Rotary auctions. Kennedy is also known as a community leader and supporter of charitable organizations that work to benefit Greenfield and area. Pat Hays, a longtime Rotary leader and community benefactor himself, said of Kennedy, “Jennifer’s participation in our Rotary Auction each and every year has helped the Greenfield club to donate to various school and community requests throughout the area, along with her own philanthropy to numerous organizations.” Steve Pearce echoed Hays’s sentiments and called her “an outstanding community leader and a generous donor to good causes.” In order to bestow a Paul Harris Fellowship, the Greenfield Rotary Club contributes $1,000 in the recipient's name to Rotary International, which uses the funds to fight disease, promote clean water, sanitation and hygiene, help grow economies in impoverished countries, and to promote peace throughout the world. One longtime effort has been to eradicate polio from the face of the earth, a goal that may be achieved in the near future. Many local, regional and internationally recognized figures have been named Paul Harris Fellows, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, U.S. astronaut James Lovell, UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, and polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk. The number of Paul Harris Fellows reached the 1 million mark in 2006, and funds contributed to the Rotary Foundation continue to make a difference while honoring the legacy of Rotary’s founder. The Greenfield Rotary Club meets for a 6:30 a.m. breakfast each Thursday (except holidays) at the Catch 22 Sports Pub. A brief meeting follows, and Rotarians are able to get on with their busy schedules by 7:30 a.m. For more information about the local Rotary club, visit www.greenfieldrotary.org. Zaphod Cooper named Poster Child for
2024 Ernie Blankenship Radio-Telethon Zaphod Cooper, son of Dominique Page of the Leesburg area, has been named the 2024 Highland County Poster Child for the 52nd annual Ernie Blankenship Radio-Telethon scheduled Wednesday, March 27. Zaphod hopes to be in attendance for the telethon events in Greenfield and Hillsboro that evening to raise awareness and support for the Highland County Society for Children and Adults, a unique organization devoted to helping county residents. The radio-telethon, a joint project of the Rotary Clubs of Greenfield and Hillsboro, will benefit the Highland County Society for Children and Adults. Both events will run from 7-9 p.m. that day, the Greenfield event taking place in the McClain vocational building and the Hillsboro telethon at the Orpheum. The events will be broadcast on local access cable television, aired on WSRW 101.5 FM, 1590 AM and WVNU FM 97.5 as well as streamed from www.HiCoSo.org. Donations may be brought in to the respective venues, phoned in, given to local Rotarians, or made online at www.HiCoSo.org Rotarians work concession stand at girls basketball game
In a continuing effort to serve our community, Greenfield Rotarians volunteered to work the concession stand February 7 when the local girls teams hosted Zane Trace. With a little practice, the Rotarians soon were serving up loaded nachos, hot dogs, Chic-fil-A sandwiches, giant dill pickles, soft drinks and all kinds of sweet treats for the fans in attendance. Some of the Rotarians are pictured inside the concession area. Rotary President Dana Daugherty expressed her thanks to everyone who helped and all who supported the concession stand. Go Tigers! Ernie Blankenship Radio-Telethon set
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