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  • City of Acworth hosts an MLK Day of Service on Martin Luther King Day
  • Forever Fed August 2025
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  • Lucky Dog Walk
  • McKenna Farms - Therapeutic Play Area Closet Refresh
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  • Men's Extension Dinner January
  • Men's Extension Dinner July 2025
  • Men's Extension Dinner March 2026
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  • The Adult Spelling Bee
  • Volunteer: Road Trip Home Animal Transport
  • Women's Extension Dinner February
  • Women's Extension Dinner October 2025

New Generations

  • Achievers Home Renovation-Painting Service Project
  • Acworth Achievers - Furniture Building and Room Setup Day
  • BBQ with the Blue
  • Celebration: POPP "Protect the Dream"
  • KSU Cares Pantry Restock December 2025
  • KSU PopUp Shops
  • Mountain Top Boys Home
  • Tommy Nobis Center Volunteer Service Opportunity
  • Volunteer: Camp Hope (Week 1)

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  • North Cobb Celebrates the Holidays by Walking the Kennesaw Parade in Style | Kennesaw Holiday Parade, 12/6/25

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  • Cobb County Diaper Collection
  • Forever Fed October 2025
  • KSU Cares Pantry Restock September 2025
  • Men's Extension Dinner September 2025

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  • Kennesaw Park and Recreation Senior Lunch Series - March 2026
  • Kennesaw Senior Bingo and Lunch - November 2025
  • Kennesaw Senior Bingo and Lunch - October 2025
  • Kennesaw Senior Bingo and Lunch - September 2025

Peace Pole Installation

  • Peace Pole Installation at Swift Cantrell Park

Engagement Event

  • Devereux Fall Festival
  • Disaster - The Musical fun & service event

Impactful Service

  • Foster Friendly presents Third Annual Acworth Cares
  • Helping Students
  • Ronald McDonald House Families
  • The Dance at Kennesaw Mountain High School
  • Tour the Ronald McDonald House
  • Women's Extension Dinner August 2025
  • Women's Extension Dinner Decmeber 2025

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  • Acworth Police Department - Supply Support
  • Acworth Police Department - Supply Support March 2026
  • Christmas Gifts for Georgia National Guard Families | District Grant for Service Heroes
  • Kennesaw Veterans Day Luncheon
  • Project Mail Call
  • Thanksgiving Meals for Police Officers

Upcoming Meetings

  • 4/9 : Mayor Tommy Allegood - Update on the City of Acworth
  • 4/23 : Ada Wakina - Serbian Friends - PDG Hamsa Thota
  • 5/7 : Dave Schwickerath - Smoke on the Lake Prep Meeting
  • 5/7 : Smoke on the Lake - Final Prep Meeting
  • 5/21 : TBD - No Social

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  • 4/8 : Women's Extension Dinner
  • 4/14 : Smith Gilbert Gardens Peace Pole Installation
  • 4/14 : Staple Party for Smoke on the Lake
  • 4/16 : Social
  • 4/23 : Staple Party for Smoke on the Lake

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  • Daniel Hicks - Leadership Training
  • KSU CARES Pantry Restock Day
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  • Staple Party for Smoke on the Lake
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May 17, 2022


Meetings

May is Youth Service Month

5/19 Laws of Life
5/26 Memorial Day Program
6/2 Jim Thomas
6/9 Speaker Hal Coleman
6/16 Rotary International Conference Update
6/23 Rotary Awards
6/30 No Meeting. Come join is as we celebrate a new Rotary Year!
7/7 Past Presidents - The Game

Events

5/30 Memorial Day Ceremony at City Hall
6/14 Past Presidents Dinner
6/30 John's Installation Party!
7/4 4th of July Celebration
7/5 No Meeting - After Hours Club
7/10 Cops N' Cars
7/19 RR After Hours Club
7/21 NFCC School Supply Drive final collection

Our Rotary Family
BIRTHDAYS

5/1 Bill Kolbrener
5/3 Danny Broadway, II
5/4 FRANK Brown
5/4 Jerry Orlans
5/8 Casey Weldon
5/9 Asch Aschenbach
5/11 Edward Klaas, II
5/14 Donald Howard
5/15 Marc Kittrell
5/15 Theresa Johnson
5/16 R. Canata
5/17 Leslie Bassett
5/19 Lee Dodson
5/20 John Gordon
5/21 James Rains
5/22 Gabriel Prado
5/24 John Carruth
5/24 Elwyn Gaissert, II
5/25 Taylor Schmidt

YEARS OF SERVICE

5/4 George Polatty, Jr. (44)
5/4 Mary Trapp (2)
8 years in Rotary
5/8 Michael Schoppenhorst (8)
5/12 Ralph Rowland, Jr. (11)
5/23 Bruce Smith (26)
5/31 Michael Curling (4)

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Thursdays, 12:15 pm
Roswell Area Park
Bill Johnson Community Activity Building
10495 Woodstock Road
Roswell, GA 30075


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LEADERSHIP

President Terry Taylor
President-Elect John Carruth
Immediate PP Lynne Lindsay
Treasurer Nancy Alterman
Secretary Alex Kaufman
Past President Becky Stone

PAST DISTRICT GOVERNORS

  • Cheryl Greenway 2012-13
  • Bob Hagan 2015-16

FAMILY OF ROTARY

Our membership cares deeply about the needs and concerns of our members. We don’t want to miss an opportunity to reach out in friendship when such concerns arise. The chairperson of this committee is Lynn Dunn and all news should be directed to her at lynn.dunn@rmcpa.com

President's Message



Roswell Rotary Gives

Last week's meeting was a demonstration of how charitable our organization really is. We celebrated four new Roswell Rotary major donors. Congratulations to Sid Disher, Alex Kaufman, Adele Hamilton and Karen Schwank. Through Rotary, you truly are making a difference in our community and the world.

We also recognized this year's Elwyn Gaissert Sr. Service Above Self award winner, Cheryl Greenway. Congratulations to all!

Laws of Life
May 19 Topic- Laws of Life Scholarship Presentations

Join us Thursday to honor four outstanding future leaders. The group of applicants continues to get larger and more competitive every year. Many thanks to Vivian Bankston (Laws of Life) and William Lindsey (Scholarships) for their hard work on this project. 

The 2022 scholarship recipients will be honored at our May 19th meeting. Hope you can be there to congratulate them!
•    Alexandra Cabrera-  Power of One, Blessed Trinity
•    Jemma Nelson - Stan Moses, Roswell High 
•    Riley Davis - Tom Zachary, Roswell High
•    Lilly Frank - Tom Zachary, Roswell High

These scholarships have a special meaning to RRC as you can see below: 

The Tom Zachary Scholarship: The Roswell Rotary Club awards two $1,500 scholarship to a deserving member of the 2022 high school senior class who exemplifies Roswell Rotary’s sense of community spirit by his/her contribution of service and participation in the local community.

Power of One: The Roswell Rotary Club awards a $1,500 scholarship to a deserving member of the high school 2022 senior class who demonstrates the “power of one” in his/her life to make a positive difference in the world. This scholarship honors Roswell Rotary Past President Dave McCleary, whose desire to raise awareness of human trafficking led to the formation of the End Human Trafficking Now campaign, a worldwide network of organizations and individuals addressing this serious community crisis on the local, national, and international levels. End Human Trafficking Now emphasizes the “Power of One” because one person can make a difference and contribute to growing the effort.

Stan Moses Community Scholarship: The Roswell Rotary Club awards one $1,500 scholarship to a deserving member of the 2022 high school senior class who exemplifies Roswell Rotary's sense of community spirit by his/her contribution of service and participation in the local community. 








If you can't be 'in person' for lunch
Zoomit, Maskit or Live - Join Us Thursday from Where Ever You Are


We now have multiple “zoom cameras”, so you won’t miss a minute of the action. Join us from where ever you are!

There are times that travel or business obligations challenge your ability to attend our lunch meetings. And you don't want to miss our speakers’ messages, Terry’s stories and messages, event updates, announcements and awards, Happy Dollars and Hal’s raffle comments.  

It’s not that you have to attend all of our meetings. It’s that you want to. And now you can.

Enjoy everything about our meetings except for the fried chicken.  Attend all meetings virtually thanks to Bob Clarkson and team who provide the camera work and audio so that you can connect via Zoom for some or all of the week’s meeting.

Click HERE to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86497139508?pwd=QTBETGdwdjVrUjlCejBabWJ4eG55QT09

Should you detect a technical issue, you can text or call Bob Clarkson at 404.201.1292 or Becky Nelson at 404.406.6121.

After Hours Update
After Hours Club: We're celebrating Memorial Day early at our next meeting!

Tuesday's meeting will be an extra special one. In honor of Memorial Day, we will have two veterans join us to speak! One will be our very own AH member and Army vet, Allison Ziants!! The other will be Alfonso Rogers from the Veterans Empowerment Organization. He will share ways our club can give back to the veteran communities in Roswell.

And mark your calendars for our June 7 meeting as well. Author Chris Tuff will be speaking and we want to pack the house! Same time, same place.

RHS Interact Raises Donation for Ukraine

Roswell High School Interact Club is making a generous donation in support of Ukraine. So proud of these students and their compassion and "do something" attitude! Go Roswell High Interact! And thank you to Regan Pierce!

Don't Miss a Thing!
RRC Switches From Text Marks to Simple Texting

RRC has switched to Simple Texting for club reminders. 

How does this effect me?

If you are a member with a cell phone number on record with the club, you are already set up! You will get a compliance message when we send the first text on the new service.

If you did not give a cell number to the club and want text reminders, just text RRC to 833-456-2829 and this will get you signed up! Easy! 

What changes if I already get club texts?

Just the number that the message will come from. So if you see the number 833-456-2829 in your text messages, that's the RRC notification.

Any questions? Tori Nielson, our awesome Club Administrator will help you! 

Awesome Weather & People
Alive in Roswell Thursday May 19

RRC is at Alive in Roswell Thursday, May 19th, at 5:30pm! 

Where?  Hagan Corner (Norcross St & Canton St).

What? Grilled Hotdogs & coolers full of beverages.  A great night for guests.

After Hours Club Update
RRAH Welcomes New Members


After Hours is on a roll! They met on Tuesday and inducted three new members. Congrats, Lindsay, John and Belle! We also revealed our event schedule for the next three months. Some event highlights include a percentage night at Lucky's Burger & Brew, a Drake House project and "Shoot the 'Hooch" social. Also on Tuesday, Ian Mari was present to take our headshots. Thank you, Ian! 

Our next meeting is Tuesday, May 17 at 6:30 at our usual spot. In the spirit of Memorial Day, we will have Army veteran and After Hours member Allison Ziants as our featured speaker!

Can you say SOLD OUT?????
Magnolia Ball May 21, 2022 Friends of Bulloch Hall

Yes, the Magnolia Ball has sold out again! Thank you all! Hope you got your ticket and will be joining us at this outstanding and highly coveted Roswell social event on May 21, 2022, at the beautiful Atlanta Country Club.  Excited to recognize Roswell Mayor Kurt & First Lady Stacey Wilson as Honorary Chairs of the Magnolia Ball.  Join us for a fun night with a hosted bar, fine dining, dancing to the music of the Fly Betty Band, auctions, and shopping.  Do not miss a truly fun night! For more info

New location for Tue, May 17: Business Networking Rotary-Style continues
Smarter Biz Dev because it's with Fellow Rotarians (District Event)

This is an opportunity for you or someone on your staff who needs to network and generate revenue, or someone you are interested in recruiting to Roswell Rotary that needs to network with Rotarians:

This is networking with people who have the integrity of the 4 Way Test!  This is why Paul Harris formed Rotary for 1905. Professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas, form meaningful, lifelong friendships, and conduct business together. 

Our last gathering again drew a crowd from the Atlanta Metro, Dunwoody, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs and Tucker clubs.

While Rotary is about "Service Above Self," there is a growing place for networking in Rotary, particularly for those responsible for generating revenue.

Location:     King & Queen Buildings

Courtside Grille at Concourse Athletic Club

8 Concourse Parkway

Sandy Springs , GA 30328

Plenty of free parking

Please plan to join us on Tue, Jun 21 at 6:30pm.

For more information, please contact Hal Schlenger HSchlenger@GreatSouthBenefits.com | (770-335-0077), or Johnathan Clark of the Tucker Club (johnathanmclark@gmail.com | 404.512.6058).

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