1. health and fitness
2. dental care

One Small Club, One Huge Impact
www.Cherrycreekrotary.org
Mission Statement of CCRC 1988
“The primary focus of CCRC is to
further the camaraderie, friendship
and fellowship of the members and to
promote greater understanding,
cohesiveness, and effectiveness as a
Rotary Club”
The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club,
sponsored by The Denver Rotary Club,
was provisional on November 5, 1987
and chartered on December 7, 1987.
Club formation was spearheaded by Bill
Rima and George Becker. The first
president was Mick Stefan who turned
the club over to David Walker in July
1988.
 One hundred and ten people witnessed
Charter night, at the Metropolitan Club in
Englewood on January 26, 1988.
Representatives from all over Colorado came
including 15 Denver Rotarians plus 9
members from other clubs. Past District
Governors Bill Reeves, Bob Sears, George
Mendenhall, Grant Wilkins and Charlie
Peterson all attended.
39 Charter Members
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Charles Hegarty
Brooks Waldman
Andy Kenny
Thomas Carr
John Simmons
William Chrismer
Jerre Hause
Ronald Lubbers
Ted Switzer
David Irvine
Jeffrey Maen
Margaret Dickerson
Jim Mayhew (deceased)
Rose Panico
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Carol Marshall
Karol Shupe
William Bissell
Debra Johnson
Jerry York
Jim Vandapoll
Karen Buss
David Walker
Mick Stefan, Jr.
Holly Hoting
Bonny Brust
Carl Wells
Joel Blanchard
Carol Gill
Charter Members Cont.
Curtis Roberts
John Serini
William Robb (deceased)
Daniel Brotzman
Richard Sharkey
Judith Sussman
LaVone Adams
Stan Washburn
Robert Best (deceased)
John Reynolds
Richard Smookler
Wolcott Rice
Robert Mintz
Cherry Creek Rotary Club Full of Firsts
The first breakfast club chartered in District 5450
The first club in the district to be chartered with women
(20%)
The first club to be chartered without even one Rotarian?
The first club in the district to have a female president
LaVonne Adams
Two “Rotary Service Above Self Awards” have been awarded
to Scott Johnson DDS 2003 and Robert Mintz, 2004
Two District 5450 Rotarian of the Year Awards: Jim
Mayhew 1997 and James Hoops 2010
The First Board of the Cherry Creek Rotary
Charter Board members were:
Mick Stefan, President
David Walker, President elect
Rose Panico, Vice president
Jeff Maen, Vice president
Karol Shupe, Secretary
Ted Switzer, Treasurer
Lavone Adams, Sergeant at Arms
Charter directors were:
Carol Marshall, Community Service
Rick Smookler, Club Service
John Serini, International service
Meetings were, and still are, Tuesdays at
7:00 AM.
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The Cherry Creek Inn, Colorado & Cherry Creek Dr.
The Holiday Inn on Colorado Blvd.
The Denver Country Club
The Canyon Café, Cherry Creek Shopping Center
The Sheraton Hotel later named the Wyndham Hotel (same
location as the Holiday Inn).
The Private Reserve in Cherry Creek (they closed without
notice so we held the last meeting there in the parking lot. Had
breakfast brought in. Everybody brought chairs and we had a
great final meeting).
The Welshire Inn, Colorado Blvd.
The Macaroni Grill, Cherry Creek
The Inn at Cherry Creek
Presidents of CCRC
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Mick Stefan
David Walker
Bob Best
Lavone Adams
Jeff Maen
Alan Marter
Gary Williams
Karol Shupe
Steve Rickles
Robert Mintz
Jody Braverman
Dan Brotzman
Bob James
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-00
 Bob Atherton
 Tom Carr
 Sarah Werner
 Nora Olson
 David Trachtenberg
 Mary Verity
 Tom Hooyman
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Jim Hoops
Debi Bush
Dick Hayes
Terry McCullough
Joel Russman Esq.
Bill Bissell DDS
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
Jim Mayhew Rotarian of the Year
Awards
 1992-1993 Jim Mayhew
 1993-1994 Thomas
Marshall,D.D.S.
1994-1995 Sally Payne-Janover
1995-1996 Karol Shupe
1996-1997 Gary Williams
1997-1998 Gary Williams
1998-1999 James King
1999-2000 Jeff Maen
2000-2001 Nora Olson
2001-2002 Jeff Maen
2002-2003 Lee Trachtenberg
2003-2004 Robert James
 2004-2005 Rob Brown
 2005-2006 Midge Nelson &
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Sarah Werner DDS
2006-2007 Joel Russman Esq.
2007-2008 Gary Williams
2008-2009 Jim Hoops
2009-2010 Bob Lucero
2010-2011 Debi Bush
2011-2012 Peter Vandevanter
Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club
Honors
 1989 The Ed Bemis Award for “Best Club Bulletin”
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published by Karen Buxton.
1992 Vocational Service Award by Norwest Bank for the
“Women’s Bean Project”.
1992 Scott Metcalf Award for Outstanding Club Project
“Dentists to Guatemala”.
1996 Best Club Growth Award
1997 Rotarian of the Year Award by the district “Jim
Mayhew”
2000, 2nd Place, Bemis Award for Best Newsletter.
Editor, Tom Carr
Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club
Honors
 Multiple presidential awards
 2009 Public Service Award for promoting Rotary in
the District
 2010 World Community Service Award for providing
free dental services around Latin America since 1991.
Also received the Presidential Award.
 2010 District 5450 Rotarian of the Year Award to
Jim Hoops
District 5450 Rotarian of the Year
 Jim Mayhew 1997: Prior to Rotary Jim started wheel
chair curbs in Colorado. Helped build the lookout on
Wilderness on Wheels 1994-95 in honor of his
wife Ruby. Jim also started the Gift of Life to do
open heart surgery on young children from other
countries. We supported one surgery at Children’s
Hospital and 2 at Presbyterian/St. Luke's
Medical Center
District 5450 Rotarian
of the Year
Jim Hoops was named Rotary District 5450 Rotarian of the Year for
2009-10. He was recognized for his service and devotion to thousands of
kids, improving and building their lives as a middle and high school
teacher for 38 years. He has served as President of Rocky Mountain
RYLA and was an original founder and counselor for YRYLA. He
spearheaded the sponsoring of Five Points Cultural District in 2009.
Other areas of involvement include: Greenlee K-8 School in Denver;
Family Quest to coach single parent families and organize a leadership
and character development program at Cherry Creek High School; A two
year commitment as a writing coach with College Summit; Helped to
develop mentoring programs at East High and Smiley Middle Schools;
Tutors students at Denver School of Science and Technology; Obtains
guest speakers for the AVID classes at EHS. We are very proud to have
Jim Hoops as a member and past president of our club.
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 Six Paul Harris Fellows
 Four PH + 1 or 2
 Eight PH +3 to 9
 One major donor and one bequest society member
 Our Club has given The Rotary Foundation $151,143 over our 25 years
which is an average of over $6,000 a year. We are perennially in the top
10 in District 5450 in giving to TRF on a per capita basis and actually
were the number one Club in the 2003/2004 year in the District.
In 1991 we donated $9000 to FINCA’s Village Banking
and in just that year it tripled to $27,000 and has
continually tripled yearly lending over $1,000,000.
Hosted foreign exchange students 10 out of 25 years
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 4. 2003 Sponsored a Temple Buell Rotary Scholar in
Australia
 5. 2004 Sponsored a Rotary Scholar in England
 6. In the past have sent two outbound exchange high
school students
 7. Have sent at least two students to RYLA each year
and two to Junior RYLA. In 2012 seven students
went to RYLA or Young RYLA. In total we have sent
over 60 children to this leadership camp. A wonderfull accomplishment. $18,000
We are proud to have four remaining charter members of
the club: Jeff Maen DC, Dan Brotzman Esq, Bill Bissell
DDS, and Tom Carr Architech
The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
 During the time that the Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation has been able to give grants to worthy
organizations and those important groups that our
members have wanted to help. We have given more
than $400,000 away in grants.
 We continue to raise money in order to support our
foundation and our community whether at home or
in other countries.
Projects completed, continuing, or in
which the Club participated include:
One of the first grants by
CCRC was donating a
triple sink to the Women’s
Bean Project so they could
open their doors and help
scores of women return
from poverty to begin a
better life.
Projects continued
Village Banking began in 1991 with a donation of
$9000. That first year the money tripled to $27,000
and each year it multiplied again and again. During
the last 21 years growing to over $1,000,000.
Managed by FINCA all these years.
This also began the Dental Missions that followed
several of the Micro banking communities we served.
Projects continued
Urban Peak Shelter for
teenage runaways. For
several years we gave some
of our early grants to this
organization that has been
in Denver for over 15 years.
We also cooked and served
several meals to the
teenagers.
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Open Heart Surgery on 3 Children
The Gift of Life, open heart surgery for children
from the Dominican Republic and Peru. Spear headed
by Jim Mayhew and Gary Williams
Projects continued
The building of a lookout for handicapped people in the
mountains at Wilderness on Wheels on Guanella Pass
1994-95 In honor of Ruby Mayhew
Hands on projects:
 For two years we manned Annie’s Second Hand
Store for Children’s Hospital, selling second hand
clothes on weekends.
 Clean up along the Cherry Creek Trail
 Landscaping for schools, Bonfil’s Blood Bank and
churches.
 For more then ten years we manned the Pepsi booth
at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival raising money for
the early Dental Missions.
Hands on Projects continued
 Peoples Fair selling popcorn, lemonade and Lowry’s
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Beef Jerky. Surviving a lightening bolt strike a foot
away.
Shampoo Testing: Paid for every individual who
signed up for this research project
Blood Testing at National Jewish Hospital: Paid for
every member that was able to give blood monthly
9 HealthFair since 1989, way before Cindy Belz
joined our club.
Packing and shipping medical supplies to Mexico
following the devastating earthquake. Rotary for
Mexico
Projects continued
We provided a grant for the building of a
prenatal clinic in Ecuador.
This was followed by another Dental Mission.
Dental Missions
September 1991 was our 1st Dental Mission to Guatemala (Robert
Mintz, Dr. Tom Marshall & Scott Johnson DDS. 19 total missions to
10 different Latin American countries.
Dental Missions:
Guatemala (3 trips)
Costa Rica (2 trips)
Dominican Republic (2 trips)
Peru (1 trip)
Honduras (2 trips)
Ecuador (3 trips)
Mexico (1 trip)
Argentina (2 trips)
Chile (2 trips)
Panama (1 trip)
Dental Missions
 Continuing for 19 years
the Cherry Creek Dental
Mission has travelled to
third world countries
providing over
$2,500,000 in free
dental services to
children.
Dental Mission
Argentina
International Dental Mission
 19 consecutive years
 Over $2.5 Million free
dental care to
thousands in seven
different Latin
American countries!
 Led by Dr. Scott
Johnson
Dental Missions
Scott Johnson DDS
Scott Johnson DDS
 Special memory of Jim
 Receiving Rotary
Mayhew joining us on
our 7th mission trip
which was to La Vega,
Dominican Republic,
the hometown of Raul
Lambert who was our
second “Gift of Life”
heart surgery recipient
International’s “Service
Above Self” award at
the President’s dinner
in January of 2003
Climbing Wall at Greenlee Elementary School.
Here they learn while they climb.
Rotarians at work painting a house for the
elderly. Fellowship!!!
Leadership Weekend
Greenlee Elementary
Bicycles Thailand
Over 1 billion dollars given by Rotarians and the Gates
Foundation to end Polio. Since 1985 there has been a 97%
reduction in polio throughout the world.
Sailors on USS Roosevelt
USS Mesa Verde
Books sent to Sailors
Sailors are videotaped
reading the books
Book and videotape sent
to their children
stateside
Sewall Child Development
Center
Rotary International
1.2 Million Members
32,0000 Clubs World
Wide
Oldest U.S. Service
Organization—est. 1905
Over US$ 1 Billion for
Polio Eradication
www.rotary.org
Computer Labs Zaruma
Ecuador
Shelter Box
Emergency Shelters
sent all over the world
The Walter Hailey seminar
was the Clubs first effort.
The seminar was entitled
“The Power of
Persuasion”. It was very
successful with over 400
in attendance and net
proceeds of $16,000, all
of which went to the
Clubs foundation.
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The “Cherry Creek
Shriek” was a Rocky
Mountain News
worthy Halloween
costume party with
live music and a
silent auction raising
about $5000.
Similar fundraisers
continued in this
fashion for three
years.
Brien and Cindy Foster, Bill Adams and the unknown bird people
dressed up for this costume party.
Jeffrey Maen
Loy Dickenson & Karol
Shupe
For ten years our
club manned the
Pepsi booth at the
Cherry Creek Arts
Festival to raise
money for our early
Dental Missions.
Hundreds of man
hours were supplied
by the members of
the Cherry Creek
Rotary Club
Tom Carr:
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now your going
to Hawaii.
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Raffle for travel to
fabulous
destinations were
run for two years
also raising about
$5000 each year
Someone won
second place and
went skiing
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The Club is now in its
16th year of the Cherry
Creek Rotary Open Golf
Tournament for the
benefit of the Cherry
Creek Rotary Foundation.
Last year $26,000 was
raised for the Clubs
foundation, which is the
source of the Clubs
grants. Totals raised
over $234,000
Our number one
fundraiser
Jeff Maen has run the
open for 14 years.
Cherry Creek Rotary Open 16 Years
 Arrowhead Golf Club w
Dick Hayes, Jim Hoops
and Bob James
Bear Dance Golf Club Cherry Creek
Rotary Open
 A beautiful place to
play golf in the hills of
Larkspur, Co.
Tom Hooyman
and Midge
Nelson did a
great deal of the
work on the three
shows with the
Capitol Steps.
Raising nearly
$50,000 in three
years.
Grants Given 2002-06 $$$$
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Gift of Life
Glendale Resource Center
Paint a thons
Airline tickets for travel of children with health issues
Gilliam School for GED’s and publication of poetry books
Polio eradication RI
Corona Street Residence for handicapped
RYLA
Urban Peak Shelter
Young RYLA
Dental Missions
The Cheley Burn Camp
Education Media Center
Grants given 2002-06 continued
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Rotavision (supplies for eye surgery).
Patterson Dental (purchase of dental equipment for dental missions.
Mizel Museum.
Pencils for peace.
Africa today (scholarship).
Denver Kids
Donations to the Ronald McDonald House.
Denver Architectural forum for high school students.
Lend a Hand and Pencils for peace.
Sarah Werner DDS started a project with the Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore
Roosevelt to video service men reading books to be sent home to their children
International Rotary Foundation
Amigos Ministries, Inc.
Greenlee School (climbing wall)
Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center
Weinberg Food Pantry
2002
thru
2006
Airplane Tickets
Polio Eradication
Cheley Burn
Camp $10,000
International Dental Missions
w/Dr. Scott Johnson DDS
Corona St. Residence
serving lunches and
garden furniture
Climbing Wall at Greenlee
Elementary School
Weinberg Food Bank
w/ Jewish Family Services
Grants given
2002 thru 2006
USS Roosevelt sending
books recorded by
sailors then sent home
to there kids on a DVD
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Rebuilding Together grant $3000
Greenlee School K1-8 donating
library books and grant for the
building of a climbing wall for the
student to use in the gymnasium
$5000
Rotary International Matching
Grants $7000
Cheley Burn Camp $2000
Corona Street Residence serving
meals $500
Rotary Youth Leadership Award
camp for four students $1500
Dental Mission $8000
HIV Zimbabwe – Matching grant
with Denver Mile High Rotary $500
Jewish Family Services $3000
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Peace Jam $400
Matamoros Club in Mexico –
equipment for visually
impaired $1500
Shelter Box $900
Adelante Foundation – micro
loans in Honduras (village
banking) $5000
Gates Camp Boys and Girls
club $2000
Steel Street Elementary School
$1500
Joshua Station (family
temporary shelter) - $1500
Patty Kelly (surgical
instruments to Africa) - $2000
Grants
in
2007
Shelter Box
Boys
and
Girls
Club
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Jim Mayhew Memorial - $5000
Regis University (international
literacy) - $5000
Denver Architectural Foundation
- $900
Computer Lab in Ecuador $5000
Camp Colorado (youth diabetes
camp) - $1100
Alta Vista Autism Center - $1000
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Greenlee Elementary K-8 - $5000
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District 4 Way Test Committee $500
Cheley Children's Hospital Burn
Camp - $2000
Jewish Family Services - $2500
U.S.S. Mesa Verde (literacy) $500
Friendship Bridge in Guatemala $1000
RYLA - $825
Rotary Youth Study Exchange $1500
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Grants in 2008
International Literacy
In Guatemala
Computer Lab In Ecuador
U.S.S. Mesa Verde (literacy)
Bought, delivered and
installed storage shed
to Alta Vista Autism
School in Denver
Cheley
Burn
Camp
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Al Imtiaz Academy
$1000
The Adoption Exchange
$6799
Cheley Burn Camp $2000
Denver Cherry Creek
Dental Mission $4214
East High School Angel
Foundation $2000
Gates Boys & Girls Camp
$2000
Glendale YMCA $500
Greenlee K1-8 Books
$123
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Interact Club GW $116
Joshua Station $1193
Literacy Program – US
Navy $828
RI Foundation Matching
Funds $1940
Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards $1500
East High School
Basketball “With Love
Inc.” $2000
Rotary Youth Exchange
Program $2245
Literacy Program – US
Navy
Al Imtiaz Academy
The Glendale YMCA
Literacy after school
Program at Greenlee
Elementary School
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Cheley Burn Camp $2000
Denver Cherry Creek Dental
Mission $7276
Five Points Rotary Club $823
Haiti-Shelter Boxes $4515
Polio Eradication $3100
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
$1500
Washington Park Cares $1500
Kenya Water Project $1000
Bonfils Blood Center LowryLandscaping Project $1000
The Denver Cherry
Creek Rotary Club
sponsored the Rotary
Club of Five Points
with the help of Jeff
Maen, Joel Russman,
James Hoops and
Peter McMillan.
Receiving an
Honorary
Membership
DCCRC chartered the Rotary
Club of Five points in 2010
Shelter boxes for
Haiti
Burn Camp
Washington Park Cares
A nonprofit membership
organization that empowers adults
in South Central Denver to live in
their homes as they age and
promotes an intergenerational
community of neighbors helping
neighbors
Landscaping
project
For Bonfils Blood
Center
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9 Health Fair $1,000
A Dinner of Unconditional
Love $500
Autism Society of CO
$1,000
Cheley Burn Camp $2,000
East High Angel
Foundation $2,000
Fort Lewis – EWB $3,000
Greenlee Book Program
$781.89
Open Door Youth Gang
$ 500
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Outbound Scholars $
502.90
Paint-a-thon $ 386.80
RYLA $2,000
Smiley Elementary Grant
$3,000
Street Kidz $5,000
Cherry Creek Rotary
Dental Mission $8,000
Engineers Without Borders
Rotarians at
work
$3000
literacy
grant for
reading
Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Dental
Mission
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9 Health Fair $1500
BrainWise $500
Bush Italy $600
Dental Mission $4000
Nook Program $7000
Greenlee Book Program $600
RYLA $3600
Street Kidz $3000
Member
visiting
Rotary
Clubs in
Italy
Greenlee Elementary
School building the
library for the school
with books donated
by the CCRC weekly
Denver Cherry Creek
Rotary Dental Mission go
to South America
Project Greer Street
Formally
Globeville
Recreation
Center for
Youth
We have donated over 100
Nooks to six schools and have
helped students on average
raise reading levels two years.
The Ereader grant from the
CCRC is $6800. The Literacy
committee of CCRC is going
into its third year. It is in
partnership with Barnes &
Noble. Three other Rotary
Clubs Boulder, Conifer and
Aurora Gateway have also
raised money for this project.
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Several years after Scott received his award, Robert Mintz
received the same award for his role as co-founder of the
dental mission and for his commitment to continue the
mission as an annual hands on club funded service project.
It should be noted that very few clubs have been able to
consistently maintain projects of this magnitude for such a
long period of time. Team member Dr. Edward Blender was
also awarded the Service above Self award in recognition of
his contribution to numerous missions. With three service
above self awardees as team members, this program started
by DCCR has achieved the highest level of global recognition
while delivering millions of dollars of free dental care to
more than 4500 of the poorest of the poor.
Scott Johnson DDS received
this award from Rotary
International for starting
the Dental Mission as part
of the Cherry Creek
Rotary Club. Scott
started this project with
Robert Mintz and Tom
Marshall DDS
Scott Johnson DDS
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Robert Mintz
received this award
for starting the
Dental Mission and
later began working
for RI where he also
started the rebate
miles for Rotary’s
credit cards.
Robert Mintz
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Scott Johnson DDS: Taking my daughter Emily to
Temuco, Chile in 2009 and my son Mitchell to
Riobamba, Ecuador in 2011 on Dental Missions.
Receiving the “Service Above Self Award” from RI
Phillip Heath: Member 2000-03 interim treasurer,
and participated on a dental mission to Honduras
in 2000.
Nora Olson: 1996-2012 Memory of CCRC Jim
Mayhew " I’m still vertical, Gary Williams "Tireless
Energy, Tom Hooyman "Mr. Ethics sense of
humor, Sandy Long "Cowboy hat", Lee
Trachtenberg, always willing to help.
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Dick Hayes: 12 years. I especially remember the
years Jim Hoops was district Rotarian of the year
2019-10 and recognized at the district
Conference. Same thoughts of Scott Johnson
Jeffrey Maen: Chartered club with four others
1987, past president 1991, has run the Cherry
Creek Rotary Open for 14 years. Has had perfect
attendance for 25 years.
Karol Shupe: Secretary 87-88, president 1994-95,
GSE Chair 1993-94 and RYLA chair 1989-90
Peter Vandevanter : Started the nooks in schools
for the literacy program
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Jim Hoops: 8 years Each meeting that I attend is a chance to
meet up with important relationships that I have with the
members of the club. Attending the 20th anniversary of our
club was a good memory to me. I remember working with
painting of houses, improving the gardens at schools. Fixing
up the rooms with Gary at Joshua Station and conversations
with Tom. I remember when Young RYLA did a weekend for
kids from Greenlee. Rob Brown and his wife Ruth came to
Balaret to cook for the kids. The social times when we got
together at Tom Haygood’s house were good memories. I
have been the RYLA rep for 5 years and working with the
members of the clubs, doing the interviews for RYLA has
been a great experience working with the members of the
club and meeting the kids. I am proud of the fact that I was
once a recipient of the club’s Rotarian of the Year award and
the District 5450 Rotarian of the Year award. The greatest
memories are of the fabulous people that I have met through
my being a member of this club. I truly respect these people.
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Our first Memorial
Grant is in honor of
Dr. Tom Hooyman. It
was valued at $5000
and was given on
November 17, 2009
for Ethiopian Read
Project for the
building of a new
library. Named in his
honor.
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Our second
Memorial Grant, to
honor Gary
Williams. It totalled
over $6000 and
was donated to
Joshua Station one
of Gary’s favorite
programs and
projects. $1000
went to the Sun
Valley Center.
Jim Mayhew 2007 (I am still vertical Happy $’s)
Dr. Tom Hooyman 2008 (motor scooter accid)
Gary Williams 2009 Plane accident
Lee Trachtenberg MD (did everything we asked)
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Bill Adams
Robert Best
Ron Lubbers
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