100 Years of Service!
The Rotary Club of Eugene (Club) was founded on March 15, 1923. We recently celebrated our 101st anniversary. The Club and our members have been prime movers in the community for a very long time.
With a little bit of insider knowledge of Club history you would find that in almost any direction you look, or any part of town you are in, evidence of a Club project exists. Of course we are proud of our Club’s past accomplishments, however, by its nature Rotary attracts forward-looking people. In the stories you can read below and photographs with them you will find example after example of Club members seizing on an idea and pushing it forward. Some of the stories chronicle past projects that are now iconic fixtures in Eugene, other project are ongoing – but all the projects are compelling.
When you become a member of the Rotary Club of Eugene you help community grow, your children thrive, your hungry neighbors eat and your homeless fellow humans find shelter and comfort. Or, you may find yourself working on something completely unforeseen, like our reforestation and rebuilding efforts following the Holiday Farm Fire.
You can’t predict what projects we will take on as a Rotarian but worthy projects in need of a champion will materialize – they always do. Many of the projects chronicled on this page were started because one member had an idea or heard of a need. If you have an idea, we need you in our Club. You can safely predict that not only will our Club projects lift up the least of us, they will lift all of us.
Read the stories on this page and the Participation page. Then join us so we can do the work, together.
Rural Health Team – Uganda: Project Update
Our Club's International Service committee, in collaboration with the Airport Rotary Club and other Rotarians are continuing our support of the Rural Health Team (RHT) in the Tororo District of Uganda. The RHT consists of a team of health care providers (about...
Rotary Club of Eugene Sponsors Model United Nations Project
The Rotary Club of Eugene (Club) and Model United Nations (MUN): An opportunity to blend two Rotary priorities of local and international service by engaging high school students toward understanding geopolitical issues and Peace through Service. In the Spring of 2017...
Rotary Club of Eugene Covid Response
Covid Mass Vaccination Clinic Volunteer Effort In February 2021 the Rotary Club of Eugene (Club) negotiated an agreement with the Lane County Department of Health and Human Services to recruit and vet volunteers for the mass vaccination clinics that were being...
ArtSpark Arts Education In Schools
In July of 2015, Rotary Club of Eugene (Club) member Pete Gribskov visited the Lane Arts Council as part of the club’s Vocational Lunch Group program. On the vocational visit to Lane Arts Council, Executive Director and fellow Rotarian Liora Sponko introduced the...
A Memoir: How the Rotary Club of Eugene Reintroduced Rotary into the Former Soviet Union by Starting a Club in Irkutsk
The following narrative is the story of how the Rotary Club of Eugene (Club) worked to get Rotary invited into the Soviet Union and helped charter and form the Irkutsk, Siberia Rotary Club. The narrative was written in the first person by Rotary Club of Eugene member...