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DUE TO COVID-19, WE WILL MEET VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

NORMALLY, WE MEET TWICE A MONTH -- ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY AT
175 E. Lancaster Ave., Wayne, PA 19087  (610) 688-7200
Click HERE for map and directions

PLEASE CHECK CLUB CALENDAR FOR OUR FOURTH WEDNESDAY EVENTS AT OTHER LOCATIONS
For membership inquiries,  please contact Membership Chair Julianna Zekan Blazey



<-- Click on link at left for information about June 3, 2021 Golf Outing

UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS and IMPORTANT ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DATES

NEWS

Wayne Rotary will join Paoli-Malvern-Berwyn Club to sponsor 25th Annual Golf Outing at Paxon Hollow Country Club on June 3, 2021.  Click on link at left for more information or 
email golf@rotaryclubofwayne.org!

Cabrini University Rotaract leaders Sonia Spadafora, Isabella Romani, and Brad Ganster holding plarn, which is yarn made from plastic bags, and a crocheted bed roll to be donated to homeless, at the Plarning event they hosted Saturday, April 7.  

Wayne Rotarians Doug Blazey, Bob Jeffries, and Julianna Blazey (below) helped with the Plarning event.  The college service club, which is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Wayne, was named Best Rotaract of 2017-18 at the District 7450 SASY (Service Above Self) Awards on April 20. 

Club President John Douglas welcomed Mark Rudiger of the Westtown-Goshen Rotary Club's Rotarians Against Distracted Driving program to the Wednesday, April 11, 2018 dinner meeting at Margaret Kuo's.

At the club's Annual Holiday Party in December 2016, Past President/District Governor Doug Blazey (right) presented an award to Officer Charles R. Yespelkis, a 35-year veteran of the Radnor Police Department.  During his career, Yespelkis saved three people by CPR and four more by medical treatment, delivered two babies, apprehended two bank robbers, and led the department in DUI arrests and traffic citations for many years with 550 the top number. He’s also helped numerous stranded motorists with flat tires.

Annual Wayne Rotary Projects:
  • End Polio Now "Purple Pinkie" awareness at Radnor Fall Festival and Wheels at Wayne car show
  • Thanksgiving luncheon donation at the Wayne Senior Center
  • Gift drive for CASA Youth Advocates of Delaware County
  • Distribution of American flags in Wayne Memorial Day
  • Preparation of meals for Mercy Hospice women's shelter
Other Wayne Rotary Projects:
  • First Baptist Church of Wayne Cemetery restoration project
  • Health education for the heart - CPR and education for Wayne Rotarians and their families
  • Literacy Dictionary for 3rd-4th graders of the Lea school
  • Main Line 3K run
  • Radnor Festival Health Fair
  • Rotaplast cleft palate surgeries
  • ShelterBox
  • Support Our Troops
  • Wayne clean-up
  • Clean Water project
  • Home of the Sparrow

        Rotary Club of Wayne Scholarship Recipients at Radnor High School:

        2020:  To Be Announced2009: Meagan McGinty
        (Occidental Coll.-CA)         		1998:  Christi Bartel  
        2019:   Sneha Roy
        (Univ. of Pittsburgh)        		2008: Elizabeth Hilberts
        (Denison Univ.-OH)         		1997:  Michael Berry 
        2018:  Julianne Reddy
        (Drexel University)        		  2007: Kathleen Williamson
        (St. Louis Univ.-Spain)        		 1996:  Dahlia Halicki
        2017:  Jacob Schwack
        (Univ. of Florida)        		 2006: Catherine Stamateris
        (Boston Coll.)        		 1995:  Brian Mathews
        2016:  Zachary Parrish
        (West Chester Univ.)        		 2005: Julie-anne Savarit-Cosenza
        (American Univ.)        		 1994:  Rayne Soret-Johnson
        2015:  Emilie Grace Horstmann
        (Univ. of Arizona)        		 2004:  Caroline Pearsall
        (Univ. of Pennsylvania)        		 1993:  Lori Consalvi
          2014:  Elizabeth Hilt
        (Ursinus College)        		  2003:  Daniel Bloom
        (Penn State Univ.)        		 1992:  Kevin Mathews
         2013:  Natalia Salinas
        (Yale University)        		 2002:  Sarah Cryan
        (Boston Univ.)        		 1991:  Steven Gord
        (Dartmouth Coll.-NH)
        2012:  Shelby Richardson
        (Loyola Univ.-LA)         		 2001:  Kara Seaton
        (Bates Coll.)        		 1990:  Janine Kramer
        (Albright Coll.)
        2011: Katherine Sydnes 
        (Temple Univ.)        		 2000:  Patrick Farley
        2010: Giselle Blanco
        (Manhattan Coll.-NY)        		 1999:  Hannah Go

        Club History:

        2020:  New projects supporting Wayne Food Pantry and 1,000-Book Challenge
        2017:  Largest donation of holiday gifts to CASA Youth Advocates, Inc. in past decade
        2012:  Donated $3,000 to Radnor Township Police Dept. for Officers' Bicycles
        2010:  Stacy Filopoulos, Esq. represented club in Group Study Exchange to Greece

        '08-09:  Club was #1 in District in per capita Rotary Foundation giving
        '04-05:  Doug Blazey led Group Study Exchange team to Queensland, Australia
        1990:  Renewed Radnor HS Scholarship: oldest continuously funded RHS award
        1981:  Hosted Pro-Am golf tournament benefiting St. Edmond's Home for Children

        1979:  Inaugurated annual 10k Run at Radnor High with Interact Club
        1969:  Radnor HS Interact Club sought to create Special Needs center
        1964:  Annual "Service Above Self" medal presentation to VFMA cadet
        1962:  Held Career Conference for local youth as Vocational Service

        1961:  "Sounds of the Big Bands" concert on WRCV Radio at Wayne Theater
        1960:  Club named Rotary Foundation Builder with 300% Participation
        1959:  Purchased 100 U.S. sidewalk flags for display along Lancaster Avenue

        1956:  Sponsored new Rotary Club of King of Prussia, PA
        1950:  Hosted 9 English King (Eagle) Scouts at Boy Scout Jamboree
        1949:  Sponsored new West Chester Pike [now Newtown Square] Rotary Club
        Purchased motorette-scooter for crippled local resident
        1947:  Helped fund Radnor Fire Co.'s first ambulance, a Packard

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        '39-40:  New club had highest attendance percentage in District (94.84%)