Service Above Self

The Rotary Club of Summit / New Providence

Contact Us:

The Rotary Club of Summit / New Providence

34 Ridgedale Avenue

Summit, NJ 07901

Phone: 908-598-2532

E-mail: joseph@snprotary.org

Rotary Receives Grant from Hilltop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hilltop Community Bank Chair Richard Wellbrock and President Mort O’Shea present a community grant to Rotary President Gus Pushparaj and Secretary Joe Steiner at the Hilltop Bank 10th Anniversary Party.  The funds will be donated to the District 7510 relief efforts in Haiti.  

 

SCHOLARSHIPS  

The Rotary Club of Summit & New Providence awarded over $20,000 in college scholarships to eight graduating students in 2009

 

Rotary Club scholarships are awarded annually to outstanding graduating seniors from Summit High School and New Providence High School on the basis of scholastic achievement, service to the community and financial need.

 

Summit High School 2009 Rotary Scholars are:

 

Jennifer Butler – will attend Howard University

Brighid Lee-Egan – will attend the Culinary Institute of America

Serena Sondhi  - will attend Georgetown University

Lacie Wolfe – will attend Kean University

 

Serena Sondhi received the Rotary Club’s highest honor, the Walter Eddy Memorial Scholarship.

 

New Providence High School 2009 Rotary Scholars are:

 

Anna E. Gildea – will attend Fordham University in the Fall

Peter Laciano – will attend Hamilton College

Amanda Meier -  will attend Muhlenberg College

Mary Catherine Stoumbos – will attend Emory University

 

The Summit and New Providence Rotary Club is affiliated with Rotary International, an organization with more than 1.2 million business and professional men and women in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training and promote peace under the motto Service Above Self.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotary is Service

 

Over the past 80 plus years the Rotary Club of Summit and New Providence has provided the community with funding for lots of projects.  Our greatest gift has been to the youth of our communities as we provide scholarships  — we anticipate over $20,000 will be awarded in June of this year — and in the past we have provided loans to scholars. 

 

We serve in other ways as well.  Incoming President Gus Pushparaj has been working with the Indian School that he attended in rural India; and coupled with our Rotary Foundation a new auditorium has been completed.  We have worked with the Clean Water for the World group providing a simple filter system — less than $75 — that a family can use for over a year to provide clean water. 

 

Rotary’s greatest achievement is the Polio Plus Program.  Since the mid 80’s funding has been generated by Rotary that has allowed nearly all countries of the world to eradicate—not control, not decrease, but ERADICATE POLIO.  The Gates Foundation has jointed the movement along with our long time partner, the World Health Organization; and we hope that the remaining three or four countries that still have cases of polio remaining will join the long list of those where eradication is complete.   Imagine, a disease eradicated from the earth.   Many are controlled, but few eradicated.

 

We meet weekly, another unusual, but important club tradition.   We invite you to join us, any Monday at 12:15 at the Grand Summit Hotel, located at 570 Springfield Avenue in Summit.