Welcome to Rotary Club of Marin Sunrise!

Service Above Self

We meet Most Every Wednesday Morning - Beginning at 7:00 - 7:15 AM with Fellowship. Please note that due to club community outreach projects & club social events we sometimes substitute for our regularly scheduled meeting. Confirm on our Calendar.
Corte Madera Best Western Inn

56 Madera Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
United States of America

Rotary District 5150

Venue Map

Link to: San Rafael RotaCare and Video by TRF

RotaCare Video on YouTube

The Rotary Club of Marin Sunrise was the first Rotary Club in the Nation to have Women as Chartered Members in 1987.

The Rotary Club of Marin Sunrise is the PROUD SPONSOR of the Redwood High School Interact Club. All the Kids and the annual grant scholarship winners are wonderfully articulate and appreciative of the growth they have experienced as a direct result of participating in Interact and the service projects in the community.

20 Years of Free Medical Service

RotaCare saves $1.2 Mil/Year

Oct 2nd Meeting

GREETER: Past President Wes asked Past Pres Hank to share his favorite poem:

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,–that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Announcements/Reminders Weekly Hands-on Activities:

Helping with fishing for Big Brother Big Sister in Petaluma on Saturday

Helping the food gathering with Extra Food on Sunday at Civic Center Market

GREAT EVENT FOR BOTH DAYS SEE PICTURES BELOW:

CIVIC CENTER FOOD COLLECTION (We will need 5 to 10 volunteers every 1st Sunday of each month from 12:40 to 1:30; three will drive to drop off the food)

GOODTIMES:

Past Pres Hank shared the arrival of 22 grand child/great grand child to the extended family of Barbara and his.

Pas Pres Farhad shared a great trip with biking down the Danube river while sleeping on a boat at nights. The best part was the famous and historical baths in Budapest.

RON BARR:

What a great speaker!!

Ron Barr is a veteran journalist and sports broadcaster. His career began at the Washington Post newspaper in Washington, D.C. Following that opportunity, he became a freelance reporter with ABC Radio Sports.

Barr's first venture in television was in Boston, anchoring the sports segment of the evening newscast. In addition, Barr did New England Patriot pre-season football play-by-play and regular season Boston Celtic games.

Barr's first network assignment was to host pre-game, half time and post-game shows of various NFL games for CBS Sports. Later, he moved to Seattle where he became the Sports Director for KIRO television. While in Seattle, he was the play-by-play announcer for Seattle Sonic NBA basketball and University of Washington football.

Barr then became the sports anchor at KRON Television in San Francisco. Additionally, he broadcast Stanford and Cal football and basketball games. Barr won a prestigious Emmy Award for writing "From San Quentin to Candlestick." This award-winning television feature chronicled a young prison convict's "dream come true" opportunity to try out in front of San Francisco Giant players and front office personnel. It resulted in his getting invited to a spring training tryout with the Giants upon his release from prison.

Barr's career includes broadcasting NBA basketball, NFL football, Major League Baseball, professional tennis, numerous college sporting events as well as several other major sporting events. His sports reporting resume includes 30 Super Bowls and 5 Olympic Games.

In 1988, Barr followed his heart and love for sports by launching America's Sports Talk Show "Sports Byline USA." This national, 3 hour, nightly sports talk show was the first national sports talk show and network, and has become America's largest sports talk radio network. Heard on 200 U.S. radio stations, it reaches more than two and a half million American listeners. Also, it's heard worldwide on the more than 500 American Forces Radio Network stations in 177 countries, in Canada and on Radio New Zealand. An in-flight version of Sports Byline USA is heard on all domestic and international ATA Airline flights. In July, 2002, the Sports Byline Network expanded to 24 hours a day with the launch of Sirius Satellite Radio. Sirius allows listeners to receive the Sports Byline programming in their cars, trucks, boats, planes, motorhomes, and homes coast to coast, without interruption. Sports Byline USA Network programming can be heard on Sirius Stream 122. In addition to Sports Byline USA and Sports OverNight America, additional programming includes The Wrestling Observer, Out and About, the Video Game Review, the Big Soccer Wednesday, as well as live sporting events. The Sports Byline USA programming network is also heard on the Internet and is podcasted.

Furthermore, Ron Barr's voice and likeness are known worldwide. He is the sportscaster in more than a half dozen EA SPORTS video games. Millions of video game players know Ron Barr as the "voice of" NHL Hockey, Bill Walsh College Football, PGA Golf, FIFA Soccer and many other popular sports video games.

Barr sums up his career and love for sports saying, "I work in the toy department of life."

RCMS is Awarded "The Spirit of Marin" and "Business of the Year!"

Rotary Club of Marin Sunrise
Is Awarded the “Spirit of Marin” Business of the Year

Guiding principles

These principles have been developed over the years to provide Rotarians with a strong, common purpose and direction. They serve as a foundation for our relationships with each other and the action we take in the world.

Object of Rotary

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.

The Four-Way Test

The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at club meetings:
Of the things we think, say or do

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Avenues of Service

We channel our commitment to service at home and abroad through five Avenues of Service, which are the foundation of club activity.

Club Service focuses on making clubs strong. A thriving club is anchored by strong relationships and an active membership development plan.
Vocational Service calls on every Rotarian to work with integrity and contribute their expertise to the problems and needs of society. Learn more in An Introduction to Vocational Service and the Code of Conduct.
Community Service encourages every Rotarian to find ways to improve the quality of life for people in their communities and to serve the public interest. Learn more in Communities in Action: A Guide to Effective Projects.
International Service exemplifies our global reach in promoting peace and understanding. We support this service avenue by sponsoring or volunteering on international projects, seeking partners abroad, and more.
Youth Service recognizes the importance of empowering youth and young professionals through leadership development programs such as Rotaract, Interact, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and Rotary Youth Exchange.