After assuming the office of President on July 1^st 2020, President Brittany Gloersen established a team of Rotary Minute Men--a committee dedicated to highlighting the vast successes of Rotarians around the world. Each week during the Membership Meeting, one of the Minute Men takes 60 seconds to regale all present with a story of how the power of Rotary was harnessed by a Rotary club, group of Rotarians, or a single Rotarian to create positive change. These stories truly personify Rotary's creed of "Service Above Self." While only 60 seconds in length, these Minute Men reports serve a lasting purpose. Both guests who are unfamiliar with Rotary, and members who have dedicated their lives to Rotary, can find inspiration in the subjects of the reports.

     Another successful service project for the Rotary Club of Deland! Saturday, February 17, 2018, about twenty Rotarians and Interact students descended upon the Drop-off Circle at DeLand High School.  Armed with shovels, rakes, axes, a chain saw and a pressure washer, they weeded, planted fifty Coontie palms, trimmed Ligustrum trees, pressure washed the Rotary Four-Way Test Marker as well as the Memorial markers, spread one-hundred bags of eucalyptus mulch, and pressure washed as well as straightened the DeLand High School Home of the Bulldogs Sign.  “Service Above Self.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Rotary Club of DeLand honored the sixty-one winners of its 2017 Rotary Achiever Awards at the May 18^th  luncheon at Wayne G. Sanborn Activity Center.  Rotary Achiever Project Chair Morgan Gilreath praised the winners for their significant accomplishments as well as their leadership potential.

Rotary Achiever Awards are given annually to West Volusia elementary school students in the fourth and fifth grades who have exhibited the greatest increase in academic achievement during the school year, based on standardized reading tests.   The main goal of the Rotary Achiever Program is to instill the concept of rewards received for effort expended.

 

 

Since 1997, the Rotary Club of DeLand has given out 987 Rotary Achiever Awards and invested over $127,000 in this program.