June 25, 2013
Seven Paul Harris Fellows were presented with their awards at the Kingaroy Rotary Club’s changeover meeting held at Kingaroy RSL Club on Monday night.
The Paul Harris Fellowship honours Rotary founder and Chicago lawyer Paul Harris who began the movement in 1905.
Individual Rotary clubs around the world honour outstanding individuals as Paul Harris Fellows. These people must meet high professional and personal standards and are not limited to Rotarians.
Club awardees were former club presidents Mark Huston and Richard Rose; long-serving club treasurer Vince Evans, and Martin Boettcher.
Non-Rotarians presented with awards were Martin Boettcher’s wife Emma; Centacare South Burnett co-ordinator Louise Judge; and Endeavour Kingaroy Kitchen manager Hazel Patterson.
Martin and Emma Boettcher raised a record $2000 for Rotary International’s Polio Plus program.
The club also handed out cheques to a number of local groups: $1000 to South Burnett Young Leaders, $500 to Meals on Wheels and $500 to Centacare South Burnett.
The highlight of the dinner was the installation, by Past District Governor Eric Wood, of the incoming Executive for 2013-14:
- President: Damien Tessmann (South Burnett councillor)
- Secretary: Gerard Faulkner (high school teacher)
- Treasurer: Vince Evans (safety officer)
- Assistant Treasurer: Emma Yeats (accountant)
- Rotary Foundation: Neil Black (Pioneer Lodge Motel)
- International Service: John Bastable (agriculture)
- Youth: Deb Hails (Kingaroy State School principal)
- Service: Patrick Eales (car dealer)
- Administration: Jack Delaney (share trader)
- Vocation & Media: Val Hooper (librarian)
- Related article: Rotary’s Club Of The Year
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