Our Club

Welcome from the President

Ross Plourde, President 2025-26

Greetings Fellow Club 29 Rotarians

It is a tremendous honor to serve as president of this great club for the 2025-2026 Rotary year and I am grateful for chance to do so. The past 115 presidents have set a very high standard of club leadership and my goal is to live up to that standard.

Club 29 has always been an opportunity for the leaders of our community to come together for friendship and fellowship, to share their professional successes and challenges, to learn about advances in medicine, technology, and industry, to hear about the good work of nonprofit organizations in our community and state, and to be inspired by the personal stories of our fellow community members. I believe we will continue that tradition this year with programs and events that educate, entertain, inspire, and motivate our members to live the Rotary motto “Service Above Self.”

The theme of Rotary International this year is “Unite For Good.” That is a theme that Rotary Club 29 has lived for 115 years. Numerous testaments to our Club’s history of uniting for good are on display in the form public improvements such as Rotary Point in the Riversport District, the entrance to the Zoo, the statue outside the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, the arrows at the airport, and improvements and additions to nonprofit facilities too numerous to mention. Throughout the many years of its existence, this Club has always managed to come together for the good of our city, our state, our nation, and our world, and I am confident we will continue to do so this year.

Of course, one of the challenges to “Unite For Good” is for our members to be engaged and active. Club 29 provides a wealth of opportunities to do so. Tuesday lunch programs regularly attract twenty to thirty percent of our Thursday breakfast meetings, to Rotary After Hour events, to meetings of our approximately forty committees, to holiday parties and other special events, to projects like bell ringing and service Saturdays, there is no reason why any member of Club 29 should feel left out. And if we are missing an opportunity to foster participation, please help me to identify and evaluate it.

We are one of the very largest clubs in the Rotary family of more than 46,000 clubs. But our goal has always been to be the very best, and I believe we have never failed to achieve it. Together we will continue to fulfill that destiny. And while we are at it, let’s have some fun, make some new friends, and maybe even help to make the world a better place to live.

Ross Plourde
President

Rotary Club of OKC History

With almost 600 members, Club 29 is one of the largest clubs in Rotary International, and it is also one of the friendliest. We welcome guests and visiting Rotarians from all over the world at our weekly luncheon meetings.

Visiting Our Club

Downtown Meeting:

The Rotary Club of Oklahoma City has two weekly meetings: The 11:45am, Tuesday meeting at the Christian Life Center (CLC) at St. Luke’s Methodist Church, and the 7:00am Thursday morning meeting currently held at Quail Creek Golf & Country Club.

Parking Information:

Please park in either the South, West, or Southwest Parking Lots, and enter the CLC at the 14th Street entrance between Harvey and Robinson

Club 29 Foundation

The mission of the Rotary Club 29 Foundation is: “To Support the Philanthropic Activities of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City.” The foundation is independent from the club, but it does not solicit or accept funding requests other than from the club, and the foundation board ultimately makes funding decisions.

Volunteer Opportunities

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 fourth 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.

Ross Plourde
President 2025-2026

Committee Selection + Forms

Please use the form in the link below to sign up for a committee of your choice.

Committee Sign Up Form