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Chartered 1996
Meets Friday mornings at 7:30 am at:

Glenmeadow Retirement Community
24 Tabor Crossing
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
( see directions)


The Rotary Club of Longmeadow is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and dedicated fellow Rotarian Mike Orr.

The Rotary Board of Directors as well as the officers and directors of the Longmeadow Rotary Foundation, Inc. have voted to name an annual scholarship in his honor, in perpetuity, to be known as "The Michael W. Orr, Sr. Memorial Scholarship."

Upcoming Meeting Speakers

Upcoming Events

Annual Food Drive - November 22 (click for details)
 


Officers: 2008-2009

President: Bernard M. Sweeney
Vice-President: Peter S. Benton
Treasurer: Patrick Donnelly
Secretary: Peter S. Benton
Immediate Past President: Michael Orr

 


Recent Projects

  • May, 2008
    Longmeadow Rotary, a charter sponsor of the Longmeadow Park and Recreation Dept.'s Pancake Breakfast, helped cook over 700 pancakes at the 2nd Annual Pancake Breakfast held during Longmeadow Days.
  • May, 2008
    Rotarian President Mike Orr presented Frances Lonergan with the 3rd Annual Longmeadow Rotary Scholarship. Frances, a senior at Longmeadow High School, is a member of the Longmeadow Interact Club, Mock Trial and the Cross Country and Track teams. She has taken part in missions trips to Arizona and Baltimore where she helped build homes. Frances will be attending Loyola University - Chicago in the fall. We wish her the best on her future studies.
  • May, 2007
    Presented the 2nd Annual Longmeadow Rotary Scholarship to Matt Hibert.
  • May 12, 2007
    Members of the Longmeadow Rotary Club and the Longmeadow High School Interact Club took part in the Third Annual Spring Clean-up of Molly's Gift Playground at Greenwood Park.
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  • May 19, 2007 
    Participated in the 1st Longmeadow Parks and Recreation's Pancake Breakfast as a Platinum and Charter Sponsor. Members of the Club also cooked the Breakfast.
  • July, 2007
    Donated a popcorn machine and cart to Glenmeadow Retirement Community for use in their community room and at various on-site events.
     

  • Songs for Seats

     March 26, 2007
    The Rotary Club of Longmeadow presented the Longmeadow School Committee with a check for $4,200 from its recent Songs for Seats concert. The money will be used to help renovate the Longmeadow High School auditorium. With this donation, Longmeadow Rotary has donated $12,800 to the School Committee which has been used to repair all the seats in the High School auditorium and will be used to paint the auditorium this summer. The Rotary Club of Longmeadow thanks the people of Longmeadow for their support of this project.

    November 29, 2006
    Held 3rd Songs for Seats concert featuring Francesco Attesti, Annika Kaschenz, John Morgan, the Longmeadow High School Lyrics, the Accidentals and Chamber Orchestra

    Spring 2006
    Mike Barrett and Friends (Bluegrass music)
    Held two concerts to raise money refinish the seats in Longmeadow High School auditorium. Raised enough money to complete to project.

    Fall 2005
    Francesco and Anika (Classical music)
     

  • Conducted a Food/ Blanket Drive to support the Open Pantry
    Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004

  • Conducted an Annual Blood Drive with Mercy Hospital

  • Held the dedication for the “ Molly Gift “ Playground at Greenwood Park in May, 2006. This playground was the first project the Rotary Club conducted in 1996-1997.

  • Donated $1,000 to the YWCA Women’s Shelter to help establish a library at the Battered Women’s Shelter.

  • Each year at Christmas the Longmeadow Rotary has collected gifts that are donated to the YWCA Women’s Shelter.

  • 2003 / Started an Interact Club at Longmeadow High School.
    Interact is a Rotary sponsored service organization for high school age students.

  • 2006 / Presented the first Rotary Scholarship to Amanda Marsh.
    This scholarship is presented to a Longmeadow High School senior.

  • Each year we send three sophomores from Longmeadow High School to the Rotary Youth Leadership Award, a one day program to help foster youth leadership.

  • Hosted the Group Study Exchange, each of the past three years. GSE is a Rotary program in which a team of young professionals lead by a Rotarian is sent to a foreign country to learn about life in the host country, business practices, cultural differences, etc.

  • Rotary/ ABC Golf Tournament to benefit both Longmeadow Rotary and the Longmeadow Chapter of ABC (A Better Chance).

  • Rotary Speakers Forum is televised on Longmeadow Community TV. The various speakers who address the Rotary Club are shown on LCTV.

 
Links

Rotary District 7890 http://www.rotarydistrict7890.org
Rotary International http://www.rotary.org
Interact  http://www.rotary.org/programs/interact
RYLA  http://www.rotary.org/programs/ryla