One Small Club, One Huge Impact

2. One Small Club, One Huge Impact www.Cherrycreekrotary.org

3. Mission Statement of CCRC 1988 “The primary focus of CCRC is to further the camaraderie, friendship and fellowship of the members and to promote greater understanding, cohesiveness, and effectiveness as a Rotary Club”

4. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club, sponsored by The Denver Rotary Club, was provisional on November 5, 1987 and chartered on December 7, 1987. Club formation was spearheaded by Bill Rima and George Becker. The first president was Mick Stefan who turned the club over to David Walker in July 1988.

5. One hundred and ten people witnessed Charter night, at the Metropolitan Club in Englewood on January 26, 1988. Representatives from all over Colorado came including 15 Denver Rotarians plus 9 members from other clubs. Past District Governors Bill Reeves, Bob Sears, George Mendenhall, Grant Wilkins and Charlie Peterson all attended.

6. 39 Charter Members • Charles Hegarty • Brooks Waldman • Andy Kenny • Thomas Carr • John Simmons • William Chrismer • JerreHause • Ronald Lubbers • Ted Switzer • David Irvine • Jeffrey Maen • Margaret Dickerson • Jim Mayhew (deceased) • Rose Panico • Carol Marshall • Karol Shupe • William Bissell • Debra Johnson • Jerry York • Jim Vandapoll • Karen Buss • David Walker • Mick Stefan, Jr. • Holly Hoting • Bonny Brust • Carl Wells • Joel Blanchard • Carol Gill

7. Charter Members Cont. Curtis Roberts John Serini William Robb (deceased) Daniel Brotzman Richard Sharkey Judith Sussman LaVone Adams Stan Washburn Robert Best (deceased) John Reynolds Richard Smookler Wolcott Rice Robert Mintz

8. Cherry Creek Rotary Club Full of Firsts The first breakfast club chartered in District 5450 The first club in the district to be chartered with women (20%) The first club to be chartered without even one Rotarian? The first club in the district to have a female president LaVonne Adams Two “Rotary Service Above Self Awards” have been awarded to Scott Johnson DDS 2003 and Robert Mintz, 2004 Two District 5450 Rotarian of the Year Awards: Jim Mayhew 1997 and James Hoops 2010

9. The First Board of the Cherry Creek Rotary Charter Board members were: Mick Stefan, President David Walker, President elect Rose Panico, Vice president Jeff Maen, Vice president Karol Shupe, Secretary Ted Switzer, Treasurer Lavone Adams, Sergeant at Arms Charter directors were: Carol Marshall, Community Service Rick Smookler, Club Service John Serini, International service

10. Meetings were, and still are, Tuesdays at 7:00 AM. • The Cherry Creek Inn, Colorado & Cherry Creek Dr. • The Holiday Inn on Colorado Blvd. • The Denver Country Club • The Canyon Café, Cherry Creek Shopping Center • The Sheraton Hotel later named the Wyndham Hotel (same location as the Holiday Inn). • The Private Reserve in Cherry Creek (they closed without notice so we held the last meeting there in the parking lot. Had breakfast brought in. Everybody brought chairs and we had a great final meeting). • The Welshire Inn, Colorado Blvd. • The Macaroni Grill, Cherry Creek • The Inn at Cherry Creek

11. Presidents of CCRC • Mick Stefan 1987-88 • David Walker 1988-89 • Bob Best 1989-90 • Lavone Adams 1990-91 • Jeff Maen 1991-92 • Alan Marter 1992-93 • Gary Williams 1993-94 • Karol Shupe 1994-95 • Steve Rickles 1995-96 • Robert Mintz 1996-97 • Jody Braverman 1997-98 • Dan Brotzman 1998-99 • Bob James 1999-00 • Bob Atherton 2000-01 • Tom Carr 2001-02 • Sarah Werner 2002-03 • Nora Olson 2003-04 • David Trachtenberg 2004-05 • Mary Verity 2005-06 • Tom Hooyman 2006-07 Jim Hoops 2007-08 • Debi Bush 2008-09 • Dick Hayes 2009-10 • Terry McCullough 2010-11 • Joel Russman Esq. 2011-12 • Bill Bissell DDS 2012-13

12. Jim Mayhew Rotarian of the Year Awards • 1992-1993 Jim Mayhew • 1993-1994 Thomas Marshall,D.D.S. 1994-1995 Sally Payne-Janover 1995-1996 Karol Shupe 1996-1997 Gary Williams 1997-1998 Gary Williams 1998-1999 James King 1999-2000 Jeff Maen 2000-2001 Nora Olson 2001-2002 Jeff Maen2002-2003 Lee Trachtenberg 2003-2004 Robert James • 2004-2005 Rob Brown • 2005-2006 Midge Nelson & Sarah Werner DDS • 2006-2007 Joel Russman Esq. • 2007-2008 Gary Williams • 2008-2009 Jim Hoops • 2009-2010 Bob Lucero • 2010-2011 Debi Bush • 2011-2012 Peter Vandevanter

13. Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club Honors • 1989 The Ed Bemis Award for “Best Club Bulletin” published by Karen Buxton. • 1992 Vocational Service Award by Norwest Bank for the “Women’s Bean Project”. • 1992 Scott Metcalf Award for Outstanding Club Project “Dentists to Guatemala”. • 1996 Best Club Growth Award • 1997 Rotarian of the Year Award by the district “Jim Mayhew” • 2000, 2nd Place, Bemis Award for Best Newsletter. Editor, Tom Carr

14. Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club Honors • Multiple presidential awards • 2009 Public Service Award for promoting Rotary in the District • 2010 World Community Service Award for providing free dental services around Latin America since 1991. Also received the Presidential Award. • 2010 District 5450 Rotarian of the Year Award to Jim Hoops

15. District 5450 Rotarian of the Year • Jim Mayhew 1997: Prior to Rotary Jim started wheel chair curbs in Colorado. Helped build the lookout on Wilderness on Wheels 1994-95in honor of his wife Ruby. Jim also started the Gift of Life to do open heart surgery on young children from other countries. We supported one surgery at Children’s Hospital and 2 at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

16. District 5450 Rotarian of the Year Jim Hoops was named Rotary District 5450 Rotarian of the Year for 2009-10. He was recognized for his service and devotion to thousands of kids, improving and building their lives as a middle and high school teacher for 38 years. He has served as President of Rocky Mountain RYLA and was an original founder and counselor for YRYLA. He spearheaded the sponsoring of Five Points Cultural District in 2009. Other areas of involvement include: Greenlee K-8 School in Denver; Family Quest to coach single parent families and organize a leadership and character development program at Cherry Creek High School; A two year commitment as a writing coach with College Summit; Helped to develop mentoring programs at East High and Smiley Middle Schools; Tutors students at Denver School of Science and Technology; Obtains guest speakers for the AVID classes at EHS. We are very proud to have Jim Hoops as a member and past president of our club.

17. More Details About CCRC • Six Paul Harris Fellows • Four PH + 1 or 2 • Eight PH +3 to 9 • One major donor and one bequest society member • Our Club has given The Rotary Foundation $151,143 over our 25 years which is an average of over $6,000 a year. We are perennially in the top 10 in District 5450 in giving to TRF on a per capita basis and actually were the number one Club in the 2003/2004 year in the District. In 1991 we donated $9000 to FINCA’s Village Banking and in just that year it tripled to $27,000 and has continually tripled yearly lending over $1,000,000. Hosted foreign exchange students 10 out of 25 years

18. More Details About CCRC • 4. 2003 Sponsored a Temple Buell Rotary Scholar in Australia • 5. 2004 Sponsored a Rotary Scholar in England • 6. In the past have sent two outbound exchange high school students • 7. Have sent at least two students to RYLA each year and two to Junior RYLA. In 2012 seven students went to RYLA or Young RYLA. In total we have sent over 60 children to this leadership camp. A wonder-full accomplishment. $18,000

19. We are proud to have four remaining charter members of the club: Jeff Maen DC, Dan Brotzman Esq, Bill Bissell DDS, and Tom Carr Architech

20. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Foundation During the time that the Cherry Creek Rotary Foundation has been able to give grants to worthy organizations and those important groups that our members have wanted to help. We have given more than $400,000 away in grants. We continue to raise money in order to support our foundation and our community whether at home or in other countries.

21. Projects completed, continuing, or in which the Club participated include: One of the first grants by CCRC was donating a triple sink to the Women’s Bean Project so they could open their doors and help scores of women return from poverty to begin a better life.

22. Projects continued Village Banking began in 1991 with a donation of $9000. That first year the money tripled to $27,000 and each year it multiplied again and again. During the last 21 years growing to over $1,000,000. Managed by FINCA all these years. This also began the Dental Missions that followed several of the Micro banking communities we served.

23. Projects continued Urban Peak Shelter for teenage runaways. For several years we gave some of our early grants to this organization that has been in Denver for over 15 years. We also cooked and served several meals to the teenagers. .

24. Open Heart Surgery on 3 Children The Gift of Life, open heart surgery for children from the Dominican Republic and Peru. Spear headed by Jim Mayhew and Gary Williams

25. Projects continued The building of a lookout for handicapped people in the mountains at Wilderness on Wheels on Guanella Pass 1994-95 In honor of Ruby Mayhew

26. Hands on projects: • For two years we manned Annie’s Second Hand Store for Children’s Hospital, selling second hand clothes on weekends. • Clean up along the Cherry Creek Trail • Landscaping for schools, Bonfil’s Blood Bank and churches. • For more then ten years we manned the Pepsi booth at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival raising money for the early Dental Missions.

27. Hands on Projects continued • Peoples Fair selling popcorn, lemonade and Lowry’s Beef Jerky. Surviving a lightening bolt strike a foot away. • Shampoo Testing: Paid for every individual who signed up for this research project • Blood Testing at National Jewish Hospital: Paid for every member that was able to give blood monthly • 9 HealthFair since 1989, way before Cindy Belz joined our club. • Packing and shipping medical supplies to Mexico following the devastating earthquake. Rotary for Mexico

28. Projects continued We provided a grant for the building of a prenatal clinic in Ecuador. This was followed by another Dental Mission.

29. Dental Missions September 1991 was our 1st Dental Mission to Guatemala (Robert Mintz, Dr. Tom Marshall & Scott Johnson DDS. 19 total missions to 10 different Latin American countries. Dental Missions: Guatemala (3 trips) Costa Rica (2 trips) Dominican Republic (2 trips) Peru (1 trip) Honduras (2 trips) Ecuador (3 trips) Mexico (1 trip) Argentina (2 trips) Chile (2 trips) Panama (1 trip)

30. Dental Missions • Continuing for 19 years the Cherry Creek Dental Mission has travelled to third world countries providing over $2,500,000 in free dental services to children.

31. Dental Mission Argentina

32. International Dental Mission • 19 consecutive years • Over $2.5 Million free dental care to thousands in seven different Latin American countries! • Led by Dr. Scott Johnson

33. Dental Missions Scott Johnson DDS Scott Johnson DDS • Special memory of Jim Mayhew joining us on our 7th mission trip which was to La Vega, Dominican Republic, the hometown of Raul Lambert who was our second “Gift of Life” heart surgery recipient • Receiving Rotary International’s “Service Above Self” award at the President’s dinner in January of 2003

34. Climbing Wall at Greenlee Elementary School. Here they learn while they climb.

35. Rotarians at work painting a house for the elderly. Fellowship!!!

36. Leadership Weekend Greenlee Elementary

37. Bicycles Thailand

38. Eradicating Polio Over 1 billion dollars given by Rotarians and the Gates Foundation to end Polio. Since 1985 there has been a 97% reduction in polio throughout the world.

39. Sailors on USS RooseveltUSS Mesa Verde Books sent to Sailors Sailors are videotaped reading the books Book and videotape sent to their children stateside

40. Sewall Child Development Center

41. Rotary International 1.2 Million Members 32,0000 Clubs World Wide Oldest U.S. Service Organization—est. 1905 Over US$ 1 Billion for Polio Eradication www.rotary.org

42. Computer Labs ZarumaEcuador

43. Shelter Box Emergency Shelters sent all over the world

45. Fund Raising • The Walter Hailey seminar was the Clubs first effort. The seminar was entitled “The Power of Persuasion”. It was very successful with over 400 in attendance and net proceeds of $16,000, all of which went to the Clubs foundation.

46. Fund Raising Continued • The “Cherry Creek Shriek” was a Rocky Mountain News worthy Halloween costume party with live music and a silent auction raising about $5000. Similar fundraisers continued in this fashion for three years.

47. Cherry Creek Shriek Brien and Cindy Foster, Bill Adams and the unknown bird people dressed up for this costume party.

48. Cherry Creek Shriek Cont. Jeffrey Maen Loy Dickenson & Karol Shupe

49. For ten years our club manned the Pepsi booth at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival to raise money for our early Dental Missions. Hundreds of man hours were supplied by the members of the Cherry Creek Rotary Club

50. Fundraising Cont. • Tom Carr: • You won and now your going to Hawaii. • Raffle for travel to fabulous destinations were run for two years also raising about $5000 each year • Someone won second place and went skiing