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Dedicated Carpentry is Iowa Park Rotary's business of the year.  

Matt Benson owner and Matt Mayo Foreman

The students of the month from Iowa Park High School for April 2026 are Jordyn Noble and Stephen Saylor

Unfortunately, no pictures available. 

Our May 2025 students of the month are: Lukas Walker and Alexis Bamon

2025 scholarship awards

 

Mary Hardin was officially welcomed to the Iowa Park Rotary Club!

This month, the Rotary club honored. Keeley Coin and Nathan Pacete. Unfortunately, Nathan could not attend. 

Cole Beitenheimer is the winner of our Four-way speech contest. congratulations!

Hunter Britt and Trinitey Sousa  were our students of the month for February 2025.  It is always a joy to meet these great young people.

From Feb 24 to Feb 27, Jim Goodwin and Larry Petrash attended the Lone Star PETS or President Elect Training Session.  We got to meet follow Rotarians from around the state and receive some great training.  Come join us at the First Methodist Church on Wednesdays at noon here in Iowa Park for some food, great fellowship and an enjoyable speaker!

 

	Corporate membership and new membership types Are you interested in offering new membership types in your club? Robert Fisher, of the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, recently described his experience with corporate memberships. Learn how his club applied this new flexibility to increase membership. Here’s what clubs need to know about corporate memberships and other new membership types: • Clubs are free to offer alternative memberships of any kind. For corporate memberships, clubs count individuals as members, not the corporations that sponsor them.  • If corporate members pay RI dues, they will be included in their club’s official membership count and receive all the benefits that other active, dues-paying members enjoy.  • Clubs can have special policies for these members’ other financial obligations (club and district dues, meal costs, etc.), attendance requirements, or service expectations, as long as the club bylaws reflect these policies. Learn more about new options for club flexibility.

Rotary’s strategic plan identifies three strategic priorities supported by 16 goals. They represent what Rotarians have asked to be done to ensure a strong and vibrant Rotary going into the future.

SUPPORT AND STRENGTHEN CLUBS

• Foster club innovation and flexibility
• Encourage clubs to participate in a variety of service activities
• Promote membership diversity
• Improve member recruitment and retention
• Develop leaders
• Start new, dynamic clubs
• Encourage strategic planning at club and district levels

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

• FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
• SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
• THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
• FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Canadian Joel Dzuba credits his Rotary Youth Exchange year in Lower Saxony, Germany, with inspiring him to pursue a career in International Affairs and Policy. Says Dzuba, “my exchange year played a fundamental role in forming and shaping the person I am today.”