Welcome to Portland Pearl Rotary
 The Portland Pearl Rotary
Welcome to the Portland Pearl Rotary. Please join us at our frolicking, fun, and informative breakfast meetings.
You'll find us at the Ecotrust Building in the beautiful Pearl District of Portland, Oregon on Tuesday mornings at 7:30am.
See you there!
Download the Portland Pearl Rotary Brochure for more information...
For the latest NEWS and UPDATES, as well as a complete calendar of events, please visit our NEWS SITE at:
www.clubrunner.ca/portlandpearl
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Pearl Rotary marks third year of Lincoln connections
The words came in several ways--speeches, debate, music. But the message was the same: The three-year-old service to youth by Portland Pearl Rotarians is celebrated by both the club and Lincoln High School. At the May 19 regular meeting, the program was shared in five ways--four offerings from students at LHS, and the final by Vice Principal Macaree Traynham. |
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PPRC donates $3,000 to signature project
Portland Pearl Rotary has chosen Open Meadow Schools for its signature community service project. At the March 31 meeting, President Don Barney presented a check for $3,000 to Michelle Taylor, community partnerships manager. Looking on is Stan Swan, community service director for Pearl Rotarians. The contribution will be used to fund three at-risk students to the Open Meadow Step Up summer camp. Monies were raised at last September's Bet on the Pearl fundraiser, a joint effort of Pearl Rotary and Portland Center Stage. The second annual event is planned for Sept., 11, 2009.
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Exchange student's mother visits
It was a heartwarming Rotary scene at Portland Pearl's March 24 meeting when the mother of Jonathan Sun Wu-Yen, our Taiwanese youth exchange student, visited. Joy Huang is the past president of the Taiwan club that sponsored Jonathan's year. He has been hosted by PPRC, attends LincolnHigh School, has become a energetic Trailblazers' fan, and is a regular attendee at Tuesday morning meetings. Joy and President Don Barney exchanged banners...and Joy, after verbally expressing her gratitude for hosting her son, handed out pens and shared a basket of Taiwan noodles.
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Highlights of District 5100 Conference in May
District 5100 Conference in Salem May 1-3 will feature the Youth Exchange Talent Show prepared and presented by the youth exchange class of 2008-09, the Governor's Banquet with comedian Frank King as keynote speaker, a pre-conference round of golf on April 30 at Oak Knoll Golf Course, and an appearance by Past District Governor Fabio Carballo Perez of San Jose, Costa Rica. |
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Retired justice tells life story of achievement
"I had been told 'No' many times in my life..."
But Betty Roberts, retired Oregon supreme court justice, was not one to take "No" for an answer.
On March 24, Roberts shared her life story with Pearl Rotarians. It's a success saga of rising above barriers facing women in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. For her that even meant pursuing a Ph.D. at age 39--after she was turned down for a program at an Oregon university. She became a lawyer, served in the legislature and in her judiciary life, rose to the state's supreme court.
"If you want to achieve," she said, "first be prepared...and then recognize the opportunity."
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Club's Board Approves Focus on "Step Up" Program
"Step Up" - Open Meadow School's premier program that supports eighth and ninth grade students academically at risk of dropping out - will be the focus of Pearl Rotary's partnership with the school in the coming year, the club's Board decided at its February 12 meeting.
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Welcome to Portland Pearl Rotary Club
Rotary International was founded in February 1905 in Chicago, Illinois by Paul Harris. Portland Pearl Rotary (PPR), one of some 31,000 local Rotary Clubs established since then, was founded initially in 1975 as Portland Industrial Rotary Club to serve the industrial area of Northwest Portland. Over the years the character of Northwest Portland has changed greatly as has our club.
To reflect these changes, in 2005 Portland Industrial Rotary changed its name to Portland Pearl Rotary and moved from Northwest Portland to the center of the Pearl District.
Our Programs
What does PPR do besides listen to great programs over breakfast?
- Fellowship is a Cornerstone: We build Club fellowship though
our weekly meetings, frequent social events (holiday dinner, summer
picnic, monthly social hours after work) and by working on community
service projects and serving on Club committees.
- Community Service: Programs serving our community are at the core of PPR's commitment
- to "Service Above Self." Examples include delivering Meals on
Wheels every Friday, leaning up our parks, and participating in
special projects for local nonprofit organizations.
- International Projects: We have participated in funding
micro banks in Guatemala and in the development of a school water
system in Honduras. We are currently helping fund a Women's Health
project in Fiji. And we are exploring ways to partner with Portland's
Fire Bureau to expand its training and equipment assistance to
firefighters in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- Youth Exchange: Every year we host an incoming Rotary Youth
Exchange high school student from another country and also sponsor an
outgoing exchange student from Portland to attend school for a year
overseas.
- Local Organizations: We extend financial support to selected
non-profits which serve the local area such as: Albertina Kerr Centers,
Friendly House, Boy Scouts, Multnomah County Library Foundation, and
Loaves and Fishes.
Club Interaction
We enjoy activities that inform our members about each other.
Tuesday morning "Rotarian of the Day" talks fill members in on fellow
members' lives and professions. "Brag for aBuck" is a fun way to learn
about the good things happening in members' lives and businesses.
What we expect of our members
"Service Above Self" does involve Club expectations:
Attendance. PPR members are expected to attend a minimum of
60% of our weekly meetings (Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. in the Ecotrust Bldg.
in the Pearl), or to make up at other Rotary Clubs in the area. Certain
Club functions (committee meetings, service projects) also count as
attendance. Each PPR member is expected to be active on one or more
committees to carry
out service projects.
Contributions. PPR's dues structure and fund raising participation:
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Initiation (one-time, new members only) |
$150 | |
Annual Club dues (payable in July) |
$200 | |
Annual fund raiser (member participation) |
$100 | |
Brag for a Buck (Participation over the year) |
$25 | |
Rotarian of the Day |
$25 |
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