District Foundation Service Awards - May 7, 2009

At the club's May 7, 2009 meeting, our member Everette Wood, District 6080 Foundation Chair, presented District Foundation Service Awards to Anne Deaton, Judy Elliott, and Renee Reed-Miller for "outstanding service in promoting the Rotary Foundation and its goal of world understanding and peace." Pictured below, from left, are Everette Wood, Judy Elliott, Renee Reed Miller and Anne Deaton. The awardees' accomplishments for which they were cited are highlighted below the photo.

Anne Deaton, who joined our club in 2006, was cited for:

• Welcoming groups of Rotarians from Germany and Nigeria to the MU Chancellor's Residence

• Organizing a luncheon involving Rotarians when the President of the Kilgali, Rwanda Rotary Club was in Columbia

• Visiting two orphanages, a home for the elderly and several projects our club has completed with the Cuernavaca Rotary Club in Mexico

• Being part of the Rotary delegation which discussed Rotary projects with the wife of the Governor of the State of Morelos, Mexico

• Visiting Rotary clubs in India and heading up a project to supply student school desks in cooperation with the Belgaum, India Rotary Club

• Working with the Jalna, India Rotary Club in the initial stages of a project to establishing a plastic surgery clinic

Judy Elliott, who joined our club in 2001, was cited for:

• Serving as District 6080 Short-Term Cultural Exchange Coordinator

• Organizing the first Short-Term Cultural Exchange program in 2002-2006

• Raising some $5,000 from the sale of "silver paw" bracelets from Mexico

• Spearheading numerous projects with the Cuernavaca Oriente, Mexico Rotary Club (see list on the International Service page)

• Hosting a Group Study Exchange visitor in 2005

• Hosting a dinner for the Group Study Exchange visiting team from Nigeria in 2009

• Attending the last two District Conferences and the Rotary International Convention in Los Angeles in 2008

Renee Reed-Miller, who joined our club in 2006, was cited for:

• Serving as chair of the club's World Community Service Committee

• Visiting Rotary clubs in India and working with other Columbia Rotarians to write a grant for a potable water project (click here for photos of that project)

• Working with the Boulder, CO Rotary Club to ship three containers of donated goods to outfit the Agatha Foundation Clinic in Jinja, Uganda

• Spearheading a project to provide books for school children in Afghanistan