History
of
The Rotary Club of Space Center (Houston), Texas, U.S.A.
Club 2010  District 589
for
Rotary Year 1969-1970

President
Roger F. Hobart

Chartered August 6, 1964

Six years of serving the local and world communities with a passion for
“Service Above Self”

The history for the Rotary Club of Space Center (Houston), Texas, and U.S.A. has been compiled from previously written histories and chronologies which can be found in the Welcome section of the Home Page.   For the most part, the wording of these previously written histories have been used verbatim except for the insertion of additional information found elsewhere, obvious errors, and annotations by Historian 2009.
      
There were very few documents in the history file.     No information could be found about the Board of Directors, financial information, or a membership directory other than names in committees.  The information about the officer noted above was found in other history documents.   However the Rotary year 1971-1972 budget documents contained a tabulation of budgets for Rotary years 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.  It is noted in this document that the total budget for Rotary year 1968-69 was $8,685 with $2,322 donated  to following   service projects: Freeman Library, International Education Students, Scholarships/Citizenship Awards, Interact, Harris County Boy’s Home, Little League, Boys Scouts, Career Day, YMCA, Junior Achievement, and the second year for the Drug Awareness Program.  This brings the total amount of funds received and donated to $4,922  since the Club was chartered in 1964.

There were no Blastoffs or newsletters in the history documents, however 21 programs were noted  in the Club Programs and Special Events listing.  The listing notes a Hobo Party on September 26, 1969 of which there were newspaper articles and photographs .

There were 15 Board meeting minutes.  There was much discussion in the minutes about drug awareness, a comment that the District Governor reported that the Club had been criticized for not being friendly, and that Interact was not very active.  The Club continued to meet at the Nassau Bay Hotel.

The Club's avenues of service committee members can be viewed by clicking on   Committee Members . 

The July 1, 1970 Semi Annual Report of Club Membership noted a membership of 96 with 7 Honorary members.  The  Club's Roster   is based on the July 1, 1970 Semiannual Report of Club Membership.  Three previous presidents were on the membership roster.

The Apollo 9 crew, McDivitt, Scott, and Schweickart, was elected to Honorary membership during 1970. 

A committee was appointed to study and develop a fund raising project for the Club.  Discussions were held throughout the year and were carried over into the. next year.  The Club Events Committee was authorized to proceed with a raffle.  The Club continued to support the Interact Youth Program even though there was less interest than last year, especially in attendance and activities.  A Club golf tournament was proposed and submitted to the membership for approval.  Handicaps included up to 60 feet of string, one free shot, one free throw, and similar non-tournament rules.

The 61st Rotary International Convention was held May 31-June 4,1970  in Atlanta, GA, USA .  There were 10,803 in attendance.  Robert Hobart attended for Rotary of Space Center.   No record could be found regarding District 589 Conference.

Rotary year 1969-70 was placed in the archives in July 2009.