Paul Harris Fellow
Awarded to Carolyn at Handover
Paul Harris Fellow
Rotary was founded in Chicago by the late Paul P Harris a Chicago lawyer. He was lonely in the city he wished to form a club for businessmen who had some use for each other beyond just making money out of each other. On 23 February 1905 the first club was formed based on fellowship and meeting at individual houses – hence the name Rotary and the development of humanitarian service and our motto Service Above Self. He died in 1947.
The Paul Harris Fellow was established in his honour in 1957 to express appreciation for the contribution to the programmes of The Rotary Foundation. Foundation is the Americanism for Charity, hence TRF is our own charity.
Foundation programmes provide educational opportunities, Humanitarian projects, providing food, water, health care, immunisations and shelter for millions of people. In 2021 TRF gave $143m in Global Grants, $153m to polio eradication, $31m each to district grants and Disaster response. Which now of course includes Ukraine
A Paul Harris Fellow is to recognise a person whose life demonstrates a shared purpose with the objectives and mission of The Rotary Foundation
That person is Carolyn
She has taken part in virtually every activity the club has undertaken to support particularly the Community and Youth of Portland, but also the Rotary Foundation and International projects.
She has supported our International projects and has indeed been to Nepal
She always joins in and supports our community events
She is always there if there is a street collection for natural disasters.
She organises and attends the highly successful tabletop sales.
She is always there for the Christmas activities and collections. The children's party and tombolas. when so far from home will host Father Christmas and his elves with wine and nibbles and just loves to be an elf and ride with him on his sleigh.
The Certificate states that this person is named a Paul Harris Fellow “in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations between the peoples of the world.”
