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History
of
The Rotary Club of Space Center (Houston), Texas, U.S.A.
Club 2010 District 589
for
Rotary Year 1975-76
President
Donald H. Kirk
Chartered August 6, 1964
Twelve years of serving the local and
world communities with a passion for
“Service Above Self”
Officers
Vice President
Lionel Garcia
Treasurer
Jim Wyatt
Secretary
Harry Jennings
Directors
Chuck Jacobson
Marvin Matthews
Randy Hall
Pete Gist
Phil Fischer
Ace Gotcher
Alfred Neumann
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.
The history file contained very few
documents. There was 20 Board meeting
minutes, seven
pieces of correspondence, and no avenues of service
committee assignments. There were not any out
a possible 49 newsletters,
Blastoffs, assuming
that one was issued every Club meeting
day. The
Club Programs and Special Events
listing did not contain any
programs. It is assumed that the Blastoffs were legal size
written on front and back in various colors such as pink,
orange, and blue since the year before and the year after
were.
The Club continued to meet at the Nassau Bay Resort Hotel
at noon each Monday. However it is noted in the March 10
minutes that the Club began meeting at the Holiday Inn Motel.
The
July 1, 1976 Semi Annual Report of Club
Membership
noted a membership
of 109 with 1 Honorary member. The
Club's Roster
is based on the July 1, 1976 Semiannual Report
of Club Membership. Six previous presidents were on the
membership roster.
The financial information consist of an
undated 1975-76 budget
and the Shrimporee Financial Statement
(the term Shrimporee was used for the
first time in Rotary year 1975-76, however both Shrimp
Boil and Shrimporee were used interchangeably in
documents found for the year). A letter dated
August 19, 1976
lists the principle beneficiary and apparently
other service projects for the Rotary year.
Information contained in the Board meeting minutes and
information from the budget was used to arrive at the service
projects. With the assumptions made, the amount of
donations to
service projects
was $6,681. The amount of monies made
from fund raisers since the first recorded fundraiser in
1968 was $30,201.
There were three documents in the 1976
Shrimporee folder pertaining to 1975. These are in the
archives to reflect some of the activities for that year's
fund raiser:
Meal
ticket,
Commercial Operating Plan, and Clean-up Plan
. Another document was found in the 1979
records which provided the
publicity program
for the 1975 Shrimporee.
The Space Center Club
made its fourth
Paul Harris Fellow
award in April, 1976. Gene Lindquist,
long time member of the club was honored with a Paul Harris
medal and a leather bound certificate. Gene served the
club as a director, treasurer, and president, and for the
past seven years has been the editor of the The Blastoff.
The Board
approved on
July 9, 1975
that the small replica of the Space
Center Rotary Club banner that went around the moon be
the official banner of the Club .
For the past several
years there has been mention in various document about
the Earth I Care program, but this year the Board was
requested to "bail" out the program but voted not to support
it. The Club awarded its annual $250 educational
scholarships to Melissa Wiginton, Emily Gilmore, Mike Bowling,
and Bradford Ward. The Club also continued to support
the Clear Creek Basin Water Quality surveys. John Hart,
creator of the comic strips, "B.C" and "Wizard of Iz" was
honored by the Club for his contributions to the Earth
Awareness Fund's Summer Fellowship
Program.
Also noted in the Board meeting minutes was a visit by the
English and approval of buying the Seaman's Center a new
van paid for over a three year period. This was the
eighth year for the Drug Awareness Program. The Board
meeting minutes also approved $3,000 for the Drug Awareness
Program but no mention of how this was to be paid out. A
thank you
letter dated September 23, 1975
was received from the Bay Areas
Committee on Drug Abuse.
The 67th Rotary International Convention
was held June 13-17,1976 in New Orleans LA, USA.
There were 13,035 in attendance. Lionel Garcia
attended from Rotary of Space Center.
The District
589 Conference was held in Galveston, Texas on June 15-17,
1976.
Rotary year 1975-76 was placed in the archives in July 2009.
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