About Catonsville Rotary Club

Rotary Club of Catonsville, Maryland
P.O. Box 9324
Catonsville, MD 21228
Club #5862 District 7620.,
Founded 1928

Introducing Penny, our award winning piggy. Penny appears in her Rotary blue cape, trimmed with Rotary gold and embellished with bright shinny pennies designed in a Rotary Wheel. Penny is very fond of spare change and will happily consume small sheets of paper, if they come her way. Penny has an excellent attendance record at club meetings and loves to strut her stuff at special events!

A Brief History of the Catonsville Rotary Club

The Club was founded in September of 1928 by seventeen men from the Catonsville area. It was chartered as Club # 2956 in District #34. The President at charter was Mr. Edgar Smith. The Rotary Club of Catonsville was the very first service club operating in Catonsville.

Unfortunately, we don't know much about the men who founded the club and we have no record of what their classifications were, indicating their profession or business. We do know that they were at least in part, responsible for the Baltimore Club re-writing it's Charter which allowed the growth of Clubs in Baltimore County.

By 1930 membership had grown to about 30 members, but shrank to 8 in 1932, because of the Depression, It rebounded to 35 by 1940.

Over the years, the Catonsville Club sponsored new Clubs in Pikesville, Arbutus and Woodlawn.

The club sponsored at least two Boy Scout Troops, assisted in establishing the Catonsville Library, spearheaded the effort to get an ambulance in Catonsville, worked to get side walks on Frederick Road from the City line into Catonsville and won first place for it's float in the Catonsville 4th of July Parade for several years running.

During the years of World War II, the club sponsored a Victory Garden Contest, provided spotters to man the Air Towers and just after the war, ran a huge Clothing Drive, collecting, packing and shipping 50,000 pounds of clothing

The club has always been involved in the Community of Catonsville. Today's club runs regular food drives for the Maryland Food Bank, collects for the 4th of July festivities, provides a scholarship to a deserving student from Catonsville High School, and supports many activities of other valuable organizations in our community. Each year since 1978, the club has honored a Police Officer of the Year, a Fire Fighter of the Year, and a Teacher of the Year.

Our club supports several international programs, such as the Rotary International program Polio Plus, designed to wipe out polio in the world in the next few years. We are helping to build a school in Ghana.

For more information about our current activities click on Charitable above.

2006-2007 Officers, Directors & Support
Jerry O. Pittman, President jopittman@phinc.org Toni Manning, Vice President 410-712-7373 tonim@sas-labs.com Back To Top	Brian Wolfe, Treasurer wolfeb@dtwcpas.com Kathleen Moses, Secretary kathmoses@netzero.com

Paul Harris Fellows

Every member of our club is a Paul Harris Fellow as of July 1, 2007.

Someone is invited to join the Rotary Club of Catonsville when a member “proposes” a name to the Board of Directors, based on their enthusiasm for our mission and your classification. Their classification is a business or vocation.

Enthusiasm is of utmost importance because involved members are the “engine” that makes our charity projects, weekly meetings, fundraisers, and community efforts worthwhile and successful. Members are expected to be active.

Member Responsibilities

A primary responsibility of membership in Rotary is regular attendance at the club’s weekly meeting. Attendance measures your enthusiasm and support. Members are requested to attend at least 60% of the meetings and annually the club recognizes those with 100% attendance.

In order to achieve this goal members “make up” a missed meeting by attending the regular meeting of any other Rotary Club within two weeks (before or after) the meeting they missed. This makes possible “make-ups” while on business or leisure trips as well as around our area.

Any member of any Rotary Club is welcome at any meeting of Rotary around the world and this is an important means of building cross-cultural relationships and understanding. It is also great fun and opens new doors for business and pleasure.

You Are Invited to Serve

Do you want to make a difference: In your career? In your community? In your WORLD? Are you willing to: Attend dinner meetings Mondays at 6:30 P.M.? Enjoy good-natured and warm fellowships? Share a few HAPPY DOLLAR$? “Lend a Hand?” Support our Communities’ Youth? Support a wide-range of LOCAL CHARITIES? Support worldwide Community Projects?

If your answer is YES to these questions, you are invited to serve by filling out the Contact Form by clicking here, or call Toni Manning at 410-712-7373 or evenings at 410-882-2731 for more information.

Object of the Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

I. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

II. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of worthiness of all occupations, and the dignifying by each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

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III. The application of the ideal of Service to each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;

IV. The advancement of International understanding, goodwill, and peace through the fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of Service.

V. All accomplished in an atmosphere of fellowship and good humor!

The Four Way Test

Rotary President Herbert J. Taylor, 1954-1955, developed this simple four-question test of the things we think, say, and do. Rotarians try to apply the four-way test before making decisions.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Club promotes high ethical standards in all vocations and intends to model these standards especially with young people both in principle and practice. By this we intend to unite business and professional people in the encouragement of humanitarian service around the globe.

Rotary International Foundation

The Rotary Foundation grants more than $60 million annually to projects that relieve human suffering, provide education, and promote peace around the world. Most grants require a partnership between Rotary clubs in two different countries.

In 1985 Rotary International launched a 20-year goal to eliminate polio from the world by promoting childhood vaccinations. Rotarians have raised more than $230 million.