The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.

 
 

During the past 100 years, the Foundation has spent over $3 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. With your help, we can make lives better in your community and around the world.

 

Why should I donate to The Rotary Foundation?

Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most. More than 90 percent of donations go directly to supporting our service projects around the world.

How does The Rotary Foundation use donations?
Our 35,000 clubs carry out sustainable service projects that support our six causes. With donations like yours, we’ve wiped out 99.9 percent of all polio cases. Your donation also trains future peacemakers, supports clean water, and strengthens local economies.
 
How does The Rotary Foundation use donations?
Our 35,000 clubs carry out sustainable service projects that support our six causes. With donations like yours, we’ve wiped out 99.9 percent of all polio cases. Your donation also trains future peacemakers, supports clean water, and strengthens local economies.
 

What impact can one donation have?

It can save a life. A child can be protected from polio with as little as 60 cents. Our partners make your donation go even further. For every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $2.

 

 
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KETTERING ROTARY CLUB PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS
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The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of US$1,000 to The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.

It was established in 1957 to show appreciation for and encourage substantial contributions to what was then the Foundation’s only program, Rotary Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Study, the precursor to Ambassadorial Scholarships. 

The first Paul Harris Fellows include 1937-38 RI Director Allison G. Brush and longtime RI Treasurer Rufus F. Chapin, both for donations made in 1946. Mrs. Adan Vargas was the first woman to receive the recognition, for a gift made in 1953. Mrs. Harry L. Jones was the second, and one of only five people recognized for contributions made in 1957. 

Early Paul Harris Fellows received a certificate of recognition. In 1969, the Foundation unveiled the first Paul Harris Fellow medallion at the RI Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Japanese metal artist Fiju Tsuda created the piece under the direction of then-past Foundation Trustee Kyozo Yuasa. Today, Paul Harris Fellows receive a certificate and pin. They are also eligible to purchase a Paul Harris Fellow medallion. 

Rotarians have a tradition of supporting the Foundation by honoring others. Ida LeTulle Taylor became a Paul Harris Fellow in 1978 when her husband, then-District Governor Vann Taylor, made a donation in her name in honor of their 34th wedding anniversary. The gift also made her the 25,000th Paul Harris Fellow. 

At the International Assembly in 1979, then-RI President-elect James Bomar challenged each Rotary club to make one non-Rotarian a Paul Harris Fellow. The Rotary Club of Pikesville, Maryland, USA, responded by making a donation in the name of Mother Teresa in 1980. The entertainer Pearl Bailey also became a Paul Harris Fellow through a joint effort of the Rotary clubs in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  

Many other notable figures have been named as 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 Jonas Salk.  

The number of Paul Harris Fellows reached the one million mark in 2006.  

 

Kettering Rotary has a high percentage of members with this honorable distinction.

Through 2022 KRC Paul Harris Fellows
Ricia M. Ballas
Anthony J. Ballman 
Robert I. Barrar
Winton H Beaven
Robert L Berry
Eugene W. Betz  
Don Boyer 
Glenn W Bylsma (+4)
Anthony Cali
Marcedas B Cass
Robert A. Cass 
Vincent J. Chalecki
Dale A Chandler
William E. Chifala
Donald M. Compton (+3)
Martha L. Compton
Jeffrey A Cutlip
James C. Deuer
Joan H. Ditonto
Charles G Dudis
Mark B. Ely
Howard L. Flatter
Patricia Silas Fortner
Anthony R Furst
James E. Ghory, Jr.
Marc Gilbert
John M Goff
Emily Gould
Willis W. Gould
Ethel S Hadley
Judith G. Hadley (Benefactor)
Kendra Hadley
Laura Hadley
Robert Hadley (Benefactor)
Scott Hadley
Stephen Hadley
Mel Haines
Norman Lloyd Hayes
Herschel K Headley
Robert R Henderschedt
Robert Hensley, III
Virgil A Hetzel
Donald E Hibbs
Martha A Hibbs
Earl F. Hintz
Larry Hodapp (+5)
Susan Hodapp
Lynda Hoffman
Paul Holcomb
Stephen Hopkins
Theodore R Huter
Patrick H Irelan
John W Judge (+2)
R Jean Judge
Todd A. Judge 
Bruce Jump (Society Member +8)
Joanne W Jump
Joan Semple Jump
Alex Kaye
Marie A Kilroy
Marijane Kitchen 
Virgil Clay Kitchen
Clair D. Kohr
Barbara Krueger
David L. Krueger 
William E Lamar
Jean M. Lamb
Winthrop D Lane
 
 
 
Tim Leist
Robert W Lelan
William Lindahl
Beth Ling
Roy M Lively
Arnold Lohmann
Peter H. Luther
Timothy E. McCrate
Alan F. Meckstroth
Louise Meckstroth 
J Richard Miller
Thomas C. Minnich (+2)
Vic G. Nurrenbrock
Karen Ochs
Lawrence V. O'Neal
Ruth A O'Neal
Gerald D Palmer
Robert T. Perry
Kathleen C Ponziani
Theodore R Pope
Arthur B. Price
Cynthia C. Ragan, Jr.
Martha M. Ragan
Diana K Ragan Paulson
Ted Rameriz (+1)
Robert L Redman
Robert W Reid
Edward C. Robbins
Barbara J Roland
Dottie Roush 
Lisa C. Routsong
Marilynne Saliwanchik
Arnold K. Sandager 
William H Schuerholz
Nancy Silas Shin
Elizabeth Jane Silas
Marvin Sparks
Brenda J. Stansfield
Daniel W. Stevens
Jeffrey Stevenson (Benefactor)
Woody Stroud
Charles Sutherland
Randy Templeton
James S. Thornton
Melanie Silas
William Silas (+4)
Max R Van Winkle
Marla M Vichich
Anthony Vivio 
Don A. Walls
Don C. Whipp
Richard F Willis
Kenneth W. Younkman
Richard O. Ziegler
Michael J. Balsom
Peter Bath
Sydney Gross
Robert H Lamb
John T Lucas
Louis F Ponziani
Chester A. Roush 
Andrew H. Scholes
Mark W. Schwieterman
Kerrie Smith
William M. Vichich