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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Southwest Wichita Falls website. The Southwest Rotary Club of Wichita Falls provides service to others, promotes integrity, advances world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

Service Above Self

We meet In Person

Mondays at 12:00 PM

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1000 5th St
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
United States of America

Visitors and guests are welcome!

District Site

Venue Map

Leadership Wichita Falls

Leadership Workshop for members of Wichita Falls SW Rotary Club

Oct 25, 2021 12:00 PM

Alicia Deges I Executive Director

Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra

Nov 01, 2021 12:00 PM

SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Oct 25, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Nov 01, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Nov 08, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Nov 15, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Nov 22, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Nov 29, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Dec 06, 2021 12:00 PM

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SW Rotary Club Weekly Meeting

Dec 13, 2021 12:00 PM

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Small Business Development Center and i.d.e.a. WF provide informative presentation at Oct. 11th meeting

Growing Local Economies is one of the Rotary Foundation’s areas of focus and a priority for many Witchita Falls SW Rotarians.

Club President Elect Steve Haviland introduced our speakers Vanda Cullar, Director of the Small Business Development Center SBDC at MSU and Jeannie Hilber, i.d.e.a WF Coordinator. No stranger to WFSW Rotarians, Vanda has presented to our club over the years. In addition, SW Rotary has supported SBDC with community grants in past years. In his introductory comments, Steve shared that 25% or so of SW Rotarian’s have benefitted from consulting with Vanda’s team at the SBDC. Our own Penny Miller, was a semi-finalist in the ideaWF 2017 competition

RC of SW Wichita Falls Reinvigorated Traditions - Wichita Falls Youth Symphony Orchestra at Oct 4th meeting

The Wichita Falls Youth Symphony is focused this year on reinvigorating traditions of musical excellence.

After surviving a year that was neither vigorous nor traditional, YSO finds itself in a unique position to reevaluate all its traditions and ask what really hurt when we lost it last year? What makes orchestra great that we want to focus on elevating this year? At its heart, orchestra is about coming together to create beautiful music, so the education vision this year is to bring kids together with an artistic team who have both expertise and passion and support the students in performing the best of orchestra repertoire.

Base Camp Lindsey, Building a Foundation for Life One Veteran at a Time

SW Rotary of Wichita Falls welcomed Tara Bryant, Board Chair for North Texas Veteran’s Relief Fund and Chris De La Garza, Vice Chair for the Board to our August 30^th meeting.

Chris gave us an overview of Base Camp Lindsey, a holistic approach to solving homelessness. Following a model currently working in over 50 communities across the country – from New Orleans, to Kansas City – this approach targets the 70+ homeless Veterans living in Wichita county as well as surrounding counties in North Texas.

Brenda Terry of Beacon Lighthouse for the Blind provides informative September 13th program

Today's program introduced Beacon Lighthouse for the Blind to members of the Wichita Falls Southwest Rotary Club.

Beacon Lighthouse for the blind enhances economic and personal independence of people who are blind and visually impaired primarily through employment in the manufacturing and sale of quality goods and services.

Southwest Wichita Falls Rotary Club members Michael Tipton and Penny Miller recognized as Paul Harris Fellows

The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation. At our Aug 2nd meeting, Club President Bruce Gray recognized 1st time recipients Penny Miller and Michael Tipton.

President Bruce Gray recognizes PHF recipients Penny Miller and Michael Tipton

Penny and Michael joined other notable figures that have been named Paul Harris Fellows, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, U.S. astronaut James Lovell, UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, and polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk. The number of Paul Harris Fellows worldwide has exceeded one million since 2006. Congratulations Penny Miller and Michael Tipton.

Texas State Representative James Frank spoke at August 3rd Meeting

State Representative James Frank updated Wichita Falls Southwest Rotary members on the most recent legislative session in Austin.

Hearing information from someone that was there can be an informative regardless of the politics. We in Rotary pride ourselves in being inclusive of all regardless of religion, politics, race, culture or ethnic background and that includes allowing ourselves to be informed by federal, state and local leaders when we have the opportunity. Thank you State Rep James Frank for your presentation.

Some excellent advice from our July 26th speaker Dusty Sternadel

Dusty Sternadel of NSpire provided some inspirational information for running a business in todays economy.

A mother of 5 kids, and owner of 2 local businesses, one of them with an excellent 11 year financial advisor portfolio she was able to provide perspective for our members that can be applied to their businesses and their personal lives. So, what is the Trillion Dollar issue? We won't spoil it for those who have not heard Dusty speak. but just know there are a lot of zero's. For our enlightened members, they now have at least one solution.

Chris Sauer, past president of the Clay County Outreach spoke at July 19 meeting.

The Clay County Outreach Food Pantry has been in continuous operation since 1985 serving the citizens of Clay County providing food staples for food insecure residents of Henrietta and the surrounding county.

A non-profit 501(c) (3) organization that is all-volunteer with no paid staff. All operational costs are covered by donations and grants. The need is great, Clay County has 1600 food insecure citizens including 500 children.

Amazing videos submitted for the 2021 4-Way Test Videos

All of the videos that teams submitted were amazing.

After much deliberation, the selection committee awarded the following 1st and 2nd place winners.

In 1st place from City View High School we have this video.

And, in second place we have this video from Rider High School

Partners in Education award RC of SW Wichita Falls as the Organization of the Year

The club was recognized by the Partners in Education for supporting Wichita Falls ISD students in many different ways including scholarships, the Road to College program, support of Fain ES and others.

The Rotary Club of Southwest Wichita Falls is proud to support many community projects.

4-Way Speech Video Contest

Foundation Moment Stories

Flag Program - SW Rotary of Wichita Falls

Financial Assistance Short Form

Grant Application

Financial Assistance

President

President Elect

Vice President

Secretary

Treasurer

Membership

Public Relations

Immediate Past President

Lee Gunter

The Rotary Foundation

Steve Haviland

Executive Secretary / Director

Brittany Barbosa

Sergeant-at-Arms

Michael Tipton

The Wichita Falls High School student video contest

"the Rotary 4 Way Test" in action

Contestants produced amazing video's. Below are the finalists.

Congratulations to both teams for their outstanding work.

Below is the 2nd place video submitted by the Rider High School team. Click image to view video.

Below (drum roll please) is the 1st Place winning video submitted by the City View High School team. Click image to view.

For more information on the 2021 4 Way Test Video contest click here.

Kiwanis Lions Optimist Rotary join for week of service to Celebrate Community

Kiwanis, Lions, Optimist, Rotary, join for week of service to Celebrate CommunityEVANSTON, ILL.: October 7, 2021 – Celebrate Community, a joint initiative of the four major volunteer service organizations, will launch