Fellow Club 29 Rotarians

As we approach the beginning of the 2025-2026 Rotary year, please take a moment to consider signing up to participate in one or more of our club’s 40 committees.  Participation by our members in the work of our club committees is vitally important to the functioning of our club.  Consider how smoothly our Tuesday meeting, our Thursday breakfast meetings, and our Rotary After Hours gatherings, and our special events run, all because of the efforts of our club members serving on committees.  Think about our impact in the community through donations, ringing bells for Salvation Army, participating in community projects, recognizing teachers, fostering literacy, and helping to alleviate the impact of disasters in our community, our country, and the world – it happens only because our members, who have taken the time to sign up for and participate in our committees, make it happen.  Or reflect upon our role as the second largest Rotary club out of more than 33,000 Rotary clubs in the world.   That prestige and prominence comes with responsibilities, and we meet them through the work of our committees.

Service on most of our committees does not take much time.  Many hands make light work, as the old saying goes.  Some involve no more than agreeing to help out in some manner at a couple of lunch meetings a year.  Others might involve two or three committee meetings in the course of a year.  Still others may involve a little more time and effort, but I promise you the rewards of participating are substantial, developing and fostering relationships with other club members, helping to wield the significant influence a club like ours can have in the community and the world, and generally serving as a reminder of how a little bit of time and effort can accomplish great things through the power of our club and Rotary International.

You can make a difference.  You can help our club be even more than it is now.  And along the way, you might even have a little bit of fun.  I hope you do.  Please sign up today.

Ross Plourde
2025-2026  President
Rotary Club of Oklahoma City

=>25-26 Committee Selection Form