Welcome to the World of Rotary!
Here is a video to help with new member orientation to our Rotary Club. It is about :50 long. Feel free to view over multiple sessions at your own pace!
(117) Multi-District Membership Monday - Welcome to the World of Rotary - YouTube
(117) Multi-District Membership Monday - Welcome to the World of Rotary - YouTube
Meetings
Our club meets on Tuesdays at Noon in the Rotary Room at the Clifton Springs Hospital at 2 Coulter Rd.. (Take the stairs or the elevator from the West Entrance Lobby to the second floor. The Rotary Room is across the hallway from the cafeteria.) The meeting is a hybrid In-Person/Zoom meeting. See the current The Sulphur Smell newsletter for more information on the next meeting.
The Board of Directors meets monthly on the second Tuesday at 7:30am in the Community Bank (Main St.) conference room, also hybrid via Zoom.
The Board of Directors meets monthly on the second Tuesday at 7:30am in the Community Bank (Main St.) conference room, also hybrid via Zoom.
2022-2023 Club Officers
Officers serve from July 1 to June 30 for the year they are elected.
President
David Hamilton |
President Elect
Mary DePorter |
Vice President
Susan Schemerhorn |
Secretary
Theresa Dorgan |
Treasurer
Hugh Kane |
Immediate Past President
Tracy Crosby |
Club History
Paul Harris
HIGHLIGHTS OF ROTARY IN CLIFTON SPRINGS
General Information:
The club name of Rotary was picked because members originally met in rotation at their several places of business.
Rotarians take part in community welfare, foster good citizenship, promote high business and professional standards, improve rural-urban understanding, advance international peace, understanding and good will
1905- Rotary founded in Chicago by Paul Harris
1908- 2nd Rotary Club formed in San Francisco
1910- First International Convention held
1912- First Canadian Club formed
1917- Rotary takes on the name of Rotary International
1932- The 4 way test is instituted
Club-Specific Information:
June 3, 1933 - Rev. Boyd Little of the Clifton Springs Club of Businessmen invites the Rochester Inter-City Rotary Club to meet at the C.S. Sanitarium. Over 500 Rotarians representing 25 Clubs meet and encourage the formation of a Rotary Club here
June 22, 1933 - 25 names are gathered and application is made to headquarters in Chicago for a charter
July 7, 1933 - Word received approving application and first meeting held here. Officers as follows were chosen:
President - Boyd Little
Vice-Pres. - W. Malcolm Griswold;
Treasurer - Carl DeGraw;
Secretary - Adolph Hollander
Directors - Albert Bosshart, A. B. Dusinberre, Frank Gross
Sergeant-at Arms - Frank Tomlinson
July 11, 1933 - First luncheon meeting held at the Sanitarium
October 3, 1933- Charter Night - Largest gathering in the 28th District of Rotary. Some 629 sat down in the 3 dining rooms of the Sanitarium. 37 clubs were represented headed by 102 members from the Rochester Club. Charter members were: Boyd Little, (Minister), Malcolm Griswold, (Telephone Co.), M. H. Stewart, Chester Hovey, (School Principal), Adolph Hollander, Luther Roper (Druggist), Max Lindner (San Treasurer), Richard Devereaux (Book Store Owner), P. Artley Kemp (Newspaper Publisher), David Rolfe (Home Decoration Official), J. A. Banks ( Hardware), Hubert Schoonmaker (San doctor), Lee H. Leland ( Manufacturer & Hardware Owner), Harry J. VanDyne (Sanitarium Officer), James Quigley (Milk Distributor), A. B. Dusinberre (San doctor), Frank Gross (Village Employee), Merwin Knauss (Barber & hair dresser), George A. Durkee (Village Employee), W. H. Holbrook, Arthur Keys (Garage Owner), H. H. Griswold (Telephone Co. President), Adrian S. Taylor (San Doctor), Clifford Newland ( San doctor), R. T. Hoffman and Albert Bosshart, Jr. (Jeweler).
1936 - Club makes our first donation to the Rotary Foundation
1938 - Clifton Springs Rotary hosts Rotary District Assembly
1939 -Inter-City dinner held at the Sanitarium with Walter D. Head, President of Rotary International as guest speaker. New members officially received at that meeting were William Spencer (Education), Wilford Down (Banking), Harold Button (Coach), G. Edward Walters (Retailing), William “Doc” Salisbury (Veterinary Medicine) and Paul Newland, MD (Medicine)
1941 - November 11 - Founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, visits local Sanitarium for treatment and takes part in an inter-city meeting here on that date
1945 - Forty-nine Rotarians draft United Nations Charter
1947 - Founder Paul Harris dies
1949 - Clifton Springs Rotary hosts Rotary District Assembly
Early 1950’s – Began supporting the foreign student program
1953-54 - Jack Loveless serves as District Governor
Fall of 1954 - Jack Loveless appointed District Treasurer
1956-57 -Under the presidency of John Fabrizi the club received an award for promoting the best project centered on the 4-way test. It held a Four Way Test Week involving the local churches, schools and businesses
1961 - We instituted a high school scholarship award based on need and merit to promote continued education following graduation
1962- First inter-act club organized nationally
1968 - Phelps & Clifton Rotary Clubs were hosts at the District Conference held at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills
1970 -72 - Pledged $10,000 towards the new hospital by raising a thousand dollars a year for ten years
1973 - Clifton Springs Rotary celebrates its 40th Anniversary
1st club Paul Harris Fellowship awarded to Jack Loveless. Since then, Clifton Springs Rotary Club has named 91 Paul Harris Fellows, each representing a $1000 donation to the Rotary Foundation
1977-78 - Howard Smith serves as District Governor
1985 - Polio-Plus drive begins nationally to eradicate polio world-wide
1989 - Rotary International invites women to membership - Locally Jean Day became our first woman member and female president (1994-1995)
1990 - First Rotary Club formed in Moscow
1995 - Completed the new bandstand in Clifton Springs Village Park at a cost of between $35,000 and $40,000 dollars. Park renamed in honor of Malcolm Griswold
1998 - Celebrated clubs 65th birthday and Mal Griswold’s 95th year
1999 - International Study for Peace formed
2001 - The 30,000th Rotary Club was chartered
Lower park re-named in honor of John Brown
2004 - Our last Charter Member, Malcolm Griswold, passed at the age of 100
2005 - Rotary’s 100th year is celebrated. Clifton Springs Rotary Club gathers locally on February 23, 2005 to commemorate the event
2009-Today - Largest fundraisers have been a food booth at the annual NY State Pageant of Steam and the biannual John Deere Days
2014-15 - Scott MacDonell serves as District Governor. We host the annual District 7120 conference at the Hyatt Regency in Buffalo
2014-Today - Assist the Seneca Falls Rotary Club in supporting an irrigation, education, and health care project at the Malawi Children’s Village
2018-22 - Pledged $10,000 towards the hospital's Medical Village project
List of a few of our major area projects over the years:
During World War II, provided funds to send the Clifton Springs Press, our weekly newspaper, to all service men and women
Sponsored a Boy Scout troop and helped raise a cabin for meetings
Began an annual Christmas Basket project for the needy
Provided staff yearly for hot dog stand at local carnivals for club and YMCA support
With other clubs, we contribute to Camp Onsewaya for handicapped children
Every year numerous requests are received from local civic and other institutions for financial support of special projects. The value of these gifts of support run from a few hundred dollars to several thousand
We are deeply indebted to the Ontario Telephone Co. Inc. of Phelps and Clifton Springs who, from our founding and for many years, published our weekly Rotary bulletin known to most of us as “The Sulphur Smell” since our founding
We also owe a debt of thanks to the Clifton Springs Hospital Administration and staff who have provided this club a meeting place since its inception in 1933 and provided the members of Rotary and their guests with a tasteful luncheon in support of our weekly meetings
(Fred Gifford, Clifton Springs Rotary Historian- January 25, 2005)
Clifton Springs Rotary Club Presidents
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1933-34 Boyd Little
1934-35 W. Malcolm Griswold 1935-36 David Rolfe 1936-37 Hovey H. Griswold 1937-38 Merwin K. Knauss 1938-39 Charles H. Dayton 1939-40 William Peisher 1940-41 Harry J. VanDyne 1941-42 Stanley Stuber & Ralph Reed 1942-43 Max Riegel 1943-44 William C. Eikner 1944-45 John W. Karr 1945-46 Jack Hunter 1946-47 Charles Rolland 1947-48 George Wolfe Jr. 1948-49 Edwin T. Morphy 1949-50 G. Edward Walters 1950-51 John E. Loveless 1951-52 Glen Copeland 1952-53 I. A. Morris Jr. 1953-54 Charles D. Corwin 1954-55 Frank DeMarco 1955-56 Francis Walters 1956-57 John H. Fabrizi 1957-58 James H. Piper 1958-59 I. Robert Wood 1959-60 John L. Brown 1960-61 George H. Doherty 1961-62 Edward S. Gill 1962-63 Wallace B. Sharpe |
1963-64 Maurice J. Comings
1964-65 Bernard J. Meath 1965-66 Felix J. Landschoot 1966-67 C. William Parker 1967-68 David J. Retchless 1968-69 Robert E. Kloepfel 1969-70 John D. Fahy 1970-71 Raymond J. Ganowski 1971-72 Lowell Burke 1972-73 Alan L. Hagerman 1973-74 Howard Smith 1974-75 Paul Cruz & Joe Liss 1975-76 John Griswold 1976-77 John Riley 1977-78 Glen Copeland 1978-79 Milton Walborn 1979-80 Willima Emblidge Jr. 1980-81 John L. Brown 1981-82 Rodney P. Goodman 1982-83 Richard Baldwin & Richard VanHorne 1983-84 Kenneth Maslyn 1984-85 Richard VanHorne 1985-86 Robert Banfield 1986-87 Ovid O. Randall 1987-88 Hugh Kane 1988-89 Donald Polan 1989-90 Russell Williamson 1990-91 William Lindner 1991-92 Dave Riggs 1992-93 Harry Burt |
1993-94 Paul Griswold
1994-95 Jean Day 1995-96 Lyman Warner 1996-97 Robert Woodhouse 1997-98 Michael Finnerty 1998-99 Lori Reals 1999-2000 John Galati 2000-01 Jerry Zehr 2001-02 Ray Weidmann 2002-03 Mark Kowalski 2003-04 Deb Cary 2004-05 Charlotte Wytias 2005-06 William Anderson 2006-07 Scott MacDonell 2007-08 Linda Lindner 2008-09 Gary Carnevale 2009-10 Dick Egan 2010-11 Tina Weller 2011-12 Ethan Fogg 2012-13 Mike Ford 2013-14 Jeff Graff 2014-15 Carole Jensen 2015-16 Jeff Criblear 2016-17 Christa Socha 2017-18 John McCarthy 2018-19 Mary Beer 2019-20 Vivian Ryan 2020-21 Lori Reals, Jeff Criblear, Jeff Graff 2021-22 Tracy Crosby 2022-23 David Hamilton 2022-23 Is our 90th year. |
Paul Harris Fellows
Current Clifton Springs Rotarians |
Non-Rotarians & Former Members |
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Ralph Adams+1
Phil (Nub) Allen Mary Beer Jeff Criblear+1 Jean Day Mary DePorter Theresa Dorgan+1 Jeff Graff+1 David Hamilton Doris Hunter+2 Hugh Kane+1 Scott MacDonell+4 Lori Reals+1 Vivian Ryan+3 Susan Schermerhorn Robert Woodhouse+1 |
Ruth Adams
Tina Bounds Gary Carnavalle+1 Deborah Cary Gail Conners Melissa Correia Barbara Criblear Barbara Delpriore Richard Egan Michael Finnerty John Galati Rodney Goodman William Hunter+1 Gary Husk Carole Jensen Mark Kowalski Linda Lindner William Lindner |
Denise Morphy
George Mueller Mary Lue Mueller Ovid Randall Coby Reals Nancy Reals John Riley Christa Socha Lynn Spence Martin Teller Scott Upchurch Richard Vanhorne Daniel Walborn Russell Williamson Charlotte Wytias Jerry Zehr |
