Sara Pattison

We are fortunate to have the Jefferson Awards as one of our community service programs. This satisfies one of Rotary International’s areas of service. This is the 13th anniversary of our Club’s coordination of the Jefferson Award in Cincinnati. Our own Doug Adams won the award in 2005. We are once again going to recognize […]

We finished our sixth installation late last week at Victory Junior School in Masurite County. Victory Junior was founded as a free school that students could attend without paying tuition and is located in a part of Uganda that does not have access to grid power. Throughout the course of our installations we have shown […]

In the cafeteria of Roselawn Condon School, more than 100 children with disabilities and 60-plus volunteers are singing Christmas songs around the piano, dancing with foam reindeer antlers bobbing on their heads and scooping the last spoonfuls of ice cream on their holiday cake. Suddenly a peal of bells cuts through the din and a […]

Rotary Club of Cincinnati members wielded picks and shovels at the Camp Allyn campus in Batavia and planted 30+ trees on a frosty fall day. The gathering was the club’s response to a challenge by the president of Rotary International, calling for Rotary clubs around the globe to plant a tree for each of the […]

The Rotary Club of Cincinnati has launched a fundraiser to provide sustainable solar energy to schools in rural Uganda and shared our club’s ongoing role in the project. For four years our club has worked with Raleigh Rotarian, Nathan Thomas, whose efforts have already provided this energy to 19 schools through the organization he help found, […]

The Rotary Club of Cincinnati honored its Vietnam Veterans on Thursday, November 9, 2017, with a nationally designed commemoration ceremony to honor the men whose original homecomings were often quiet or ignored. “It was such a controversial time,” said Fred Fischer of Indian Hill, who served in the Navy from 1971 to 1975. “You didn’t […]