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Meeting Speakers Schedule:
 
JANUARY 2023 – Vocational Service
 
Jan 18 - San Mateo HS Musical – Something Rotten
             Meeting location (SAN MATEO HIGH SCHOOL)
 
Jan 25 - Louise Rogers San Mateo County Government
             “Lessons from the Pandemic”
              Location: BJ's Restaurant
 
FEBRUARY 2023 – Peace & Conflict Resolution
 
Feb 1 - PDG Danielle Lallement 
           Being D5150 District Governor During Covid
 
Feb 8 -   Club Members to Inagi – PART II 
             Location BJ's Restaurant
 
Feb 15 - OPEN
 
Feb 22 – NO ROTARY MEETING (Club Social on 2/23)

 
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January Student of the Month - Rebecca Buss
January Employee of the Month - Sara Cowey
Rotary, My Story - Craig Courtin

(The following narrative is a continuation of a series of how a member was introduced to Rotary and subsequent memories. If you would like Rotary to be part of your life's story, please contact Alison Proctor at alisonproctor@gmail.com.) 

 

Craig Courtin

Joined Rotary May 26, 1999

January, 2023


After moving to Foster City with my family in 1996 I wanted to get more involved in the community both personally and professionally. Then Rotarian, FCPD Captain Bruce Tognetti, invited me to a meeting. I was impressed with the friendly atmosphere and the ambitious community service agenda of the club. I joined and over the years have had the opportunity to be deeply involved in the club’s activities as well as building great friendships along the way.

I served on the Club Board for 8 ½ years, including two as Vocational Chair, 3 ½ as Community Service Chair, President Elect, President in 2013/14 and Past President. I also served on the Foundation Board for two years. Along the way I’ve been involved as the Scholarship Coordinator for several years and annual application evaluator, annual rose pruner and Ryan Park planting and City tree planting projects coordinator among others. I was the Cooking Crew coordinator for 6 ½ years and coordinator/cook for many of the cooking events during that time. Speaking of the Cooking Crew: a big thanks to Greg Kuhl, Larry Lowenthal, Rick Wykoff and Paul Williams for introducing me to what has become my post-retirement passion, fly fishing.

I also served at the District level for three years as its first Child Safety Officer after the District established its child safety protocol program.

International trips were both fun and enlightening. As President Elect, my wife Jeanette and I had the chance to attend the International Conference in Lisbon, Portugal in 2013. We also joined other club members and Interacters on two trips to Mazatlan to distribute wheelchairs and school supplies as well as re-painting a school.

But perhaps my most memorable Rotary moment came in a 5-day trip I took in 2002 with Paul Williams and then club president Larry Zanatta. We visited Paul’s mother at the short-term orphanage/care facility she established in Santa Barbara, Hondurus. A more inspirational, generous and compassionate person, I have never met. We distributed wheelchairs and donated medical supplies around the poverty stricken countryside and we worked with and were hosted by local Rotarians. But it was the spirit of the Honduran people that I found so uplifting: from the farmer living in an earthen shack with no visible posessions of any value, who nonetheless, with great pride was busy planting flowers in front of his home; to the young school girl who ran with delight to show her mother the second-hand dress she had just picked out of those we had brought; to the emaciated looking mother outside a children’s hospital who I watched hand a stranger’s hungry child her only half a sandwich; to the adorable abandoned infant at Paul’s mother’s house who lite up the room with her smile, albeit through a cleft palate, every time you’d peer into her crib.

Those memories are still personally very profound to me, but I’ve also come to realize these types of acts of service constitute the essence of what Rotary does.

Join Us
 
 
Do you enjoy volunteering, helping families and children, helping people abroad?  If so, you have come to the right place.
 
Members have an opportunity to volunteer for our community service projects as well as international projects. Through our weekly programs and service opportunities, members are able to make new and lasting friendships through service and fellowship.
 
The Rotary Club of Foster City was chartered in 1977 and is a member of Rotary International, a worldwide service organization headquartered in Chicago. Rotary International has over 35,000 Rotary Clubs and 1.2 million members in over 200 countries and geographic locations. The Rotary Club of Foster City is part of Rotary District 5150, encompassing Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties with a total of 44 Clubs.
 
We would be pleased to have you attend one of our weekly meetings (now on Zoom) to host you as a guest.  
For further information, contact Alison Proctor at alisonproctor@gmail.com.
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