Sara Pattison

Lynn Sandmann used to skip breakfast and embrace extreme diets and exhausting workouts. She couldn’t start her day without checking her weight. Thin wasn’t enough. She didn’t have a “thigh gap,” the air space between her thighs that, although unnatural and unattainable by most women, has been touted as a 21th century mark of beauty. […]

More than 200 volunteers washed windows, served meals to homeless families, cut brush, painted picnic tables, and constructed buildings, from storage sheds to doll houses, as they met the needs of non-profits across the region in the first Cincinnati Rotary Do Days. The two-day service blitz on Oct. 21 and 22 was the first of […]

Marks Rotary 100-Year Commitment The Rotary Club of Cincinnati opened a summer camp for children with polio in 1921. A hundred years later, polio may be history, but the camp that Rotary built is marking its century milestone with a $1 million expansion that will double its size and launch it into its next century […]

The Rotary Club of Cincinnati honored four Cincinnati Public School educators and administrators in June, recognizing excellence, innovation and commitment. Iranetta Wright of Mt. Auburn, the new Superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools, welcomed the honorees and pledged to work with teachers, staff, parents and the community “to make sure CPS is a world class destination.” […]

Roger Grein, who spent much of his life and his fortune nourishing a spirit of giving in generations of students, received the 2022 Greater Cincinnati Jefferson Award for outstanding community service. The award was presented on March 24 at a luncheon sponsored by The Rotary Club of Cincinnati, which administers the local award. Partner sponsors […]

A decision five years ago to showcase Greater Cincinnati for Rotary leaders from across the country has become a stepping stone toward COVID recovery for local businesses. The Rotary Club of Cincinnati is the 2021 host for the national Rotary Large Club Conference, which brings together executive directors and presidents elect from large Rotary clubs. […]