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Capital Rotary Club members Rowland Alston (standing) and Jenks Mikell (seated at right) deliver student dictionaries to Arden Elementary in Richland School District One as part of the club’s yearly participation in The Dictionary Project, begun by a non-profit organization in Charleston in 1995 to help youngsters become good writers, active readers, creative thinkers and resourceful learners.
Capital Rotary is giving more than 860 dictionaries to third-graders for the current school year. In the past 11 years, the club has distributed personal dictionaries to some 11,300 students in the Columbia area.
Rotary District 7770 Governor Rod Funderburk presents Capital Rotary president David Boucher (left) with a t-shirt inscribed with the international 2016 theme, “Be a gift to the world.” In a speech to the local group, Funderburk urged continued support of Rotarian efforts to cure polio worldwide and to fund Alzheimer’s disease research.
He also lauded the Capital club for having a positive impact on the Columbia, SC community through its various charitable projects, and he said sharing the gift of membership in Rotary is important because “we are the premier service organization in the world.”
Columbia Capital Rotary Club BLOOD DRIVE
When: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10 am – 4 pm
Where: Richard Ellis Building, 1333 Main Street, Columbia, SC (Conference Room – 1st Floor)
How you can help: Schedule your appointment at www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: caprotary
Download a Blood Drive PDF Flyer
All presenting donors will receive a FREE ticket to Carowinds and a box of Girl Scout Cookies! (while supplies last)
Walk-ins Welcome! ALL Blood Types Needed! Please bring Photo ID!
Helping Hands for Harvest Hope
Columbia’s Capital Rotary Club members showed they “have a heart” in February by volunteering at Harvest Hope Food Bank. Nearly 20 Rotarians from Capital Rotary Club helped pack groceries for distribution to the needy and elderly in lieu of a weekly club meeting. Harvest Hope is headquartered in Columbia but works to meet the needs of hungry people in the Midlands, Pee Dee and Greater Greenville regions of the state. It feeds more than 35,000 people weekly.
In the first picture below, bagging donated drinks are (in background from left) Blake DuBose, Jay von Kolnitz, Mark Bokesch, Trey Boone, John Guignard and Ann Elliott, along with (foreground left) Ione Cockrell and Denise Holland (foreground right).
New Capital Rotarian Ben Carlton (center) is welcomed into club membership by president Mark Bokesch (right) and sponsor Bryan Goodyear. Carlton, who practices corporate law with the Columbia firm of Richardson, Plowden & Robinson, is a graduate of North Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina’s Law School, where he was associate editor in chief of the Law Review. Carlton is an Eagle Scout and serves as a regional selection committee member for NC State’s Park Scholarship. He’s a member of the SC Bar and the Young Lawyers Division, plays in the Columbia Tennis League and received a “Key to the City” of Hickory, NC, where he grew up.
Columbia’s Capital Rotary Honored as Two-Star Club
Jimmy Gibbs (left), an assistant governor for Rotary District 7770 in eastern South Carolina, congratulates Columbia Capital Rotary president Mark Bokesch for the club’s achieving 2-STAR status. This signifies annual Rotary Foundation contributions of at least $200 per club member. The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation promoting world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs. It’s supported solely by voluntary donations from Rotarians and friends who share the vision of a better world.
Capital Rotary Club member Matt LaMarche is honored as a new member of the Bequest Society by Rod Funderburk, governor-elect of Rotary District 7770. The Society is made up of Rotarians who have pledged $10,000 or more for the Rotary Foundation in their estate plans – funds that help advance programs improving health, supporting education and alleviating poverty worldwide. Bequest Society members compose 20 percent of Capital Rotary’s membership.
Adam Dougherty has been named 2014 Rotarian of the Year by Columbia’s Capital Rotary Club. President Scott Wallinger (right in photo) made the plaque presentation at a club assembly June 25th. The award recognizes dedicated service and loyal devotion to the ideals of Rotary.
Dougherty joined the club in January 2010 and has served as chair of its annual Christmas wreath sales fundraiser. Profits from this project (approximately $15,000) go toward college scholarships for local students.
Dougherty earned an undergraduate degree in business and an MBA from the University of South Carolina. He is a territory manager for the John Deere construction and forestry lines at Flint Equipment Company in West Columbia.
Dougherty and his wife, Haley, have been married for 10 years and have three children.
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