My drive to the Osawatomie Rotary Club meandered from Topeka, through Overbrook, skirting Ottawa and a nifty, scenic drive through the rolling hills of Franklin and Miami Counties. Many tidy neat farms, with a hundred pumpjacks rusting idle in the pastures. I was unaware of the oil background of the area. Getting out to other clubs is always a delightful and eye-opening experience.
The Osawatomie Club meets at Noon Tuesday at the Whistle Stop Café. As a traditional smaller club, it was great to hear an invocation, and to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4-Way Test! Osawatomie is making it happen locally with an annual golf tournament fund-raiser supporting their big youth project. I enjoyed doing the Great Rotary Endowment Game Show with the enthusiastic Rotarians with great audience participation! A really fun club.
In addition to their superb local efforts, I challenged them to join in $100+$100+$100 in 2024! That’s $100 to the Rotary International annual fund, $100 to Polio Plus and $100 to the RI endowment. Go to Rotary.org and you can sign up for any amount of gifting in all three funds in about five minutes.
I am still looking for opportunities to speak to your club about endowment and major gifts. Call me at 785-267-8782 (daytime work) or raeschliman@corefirstbank.com (same) to connect and get energized about the Rotary International Foundation.
Rotary International professional Lizzy King (1-847-866-3017 or Elizabeth.King@rotary.org) is also eager to visit with anyone about making a major gift or funding the Rotary endowment.