Smyrna Rotary Club
Smyrna Rotary chartered in December, 1964. A Proud Tradition of SERVICE ABOVE SELF... Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian and educational service projects that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community. President Dan Hoppe has led our club in international service projects in Kenya, the Dominican Republic and right here in Smyrna. Under Scott Auer's leadership in this area, we have helped with a hospital project for children in Costa Rica. Alexander Jahn has led the dictionary project. [Read more...]

Message from Club President
It has been a busy year, busier than in previous years. With our growing size, we have been able to take on more projects. In fact, in the past 18 months, we have doubled the number of projects we were working on previously. [Read more from club President Dan Hoppe...]

Roy Strickland - District Governor
We are absolutely thrilled that our own Roy Strickland is the District Governor of Rotary District 6900 for 2009-2010. He is the third District Governor from our club.

Brown Elementary School
October 2009 - Smyrna Rotarians Jay Treadwell, Larren Odom, and Ken Crowell handed out awards for Most Improved Student and Best Commmunity Service for grades 4 and 5 at Smyrna's Brown Elementary School.

Smyrna Schools
Smyrna Rotary Club has been involved with numerous schools in our community including Campbell Middle School, Campbell High School, Nickajack Elementary School, King Springs Elementary, Teasley Elementary, Brown Elementary, Osborne High School and others.

Teasley Elementary
October 2009-Smyrna Rotarians Brad Cottrill, Jay Treadwell, Narayan Sengupta, David Wine (and wife Debbie), and Ken Crowell helped with Teasley's semi-annual Weed / Seed Day.  Landscaping was the order of the day as these Rotarians helped created a more beautiful learning environment for these students, teachers and staff.

Veteran's Day 2010
The Smyrna Rotary Club initiated the Smyrna Veterans Day in 2008. It co-sponsored the second annual Smyrna Veterans Day ceremony on November 11, 2009.  Rotarian and Korean War Veteran Sam Whitfield was on the front page of the Sunday Marietta Daily Journal a few days before our 2009 event. Immediate Past President Narayan Sengupta chaired the event, which was attended by more than 300 citizens and veterans.  Speakers included Chuck Clay, whose grandfather ran post-war Germany and Larry Odom, who commanded the B-2 bomber base in Knob Noster, MO (and also is father of Smyrna Rotarian Larren Odom). [Read more...]

Remembering J. D. Daniel
Smyrna Rotary mourns the loss of a great Rotarian, a wonderful father and a terrific leader in our community. J. D. Daniel was a charter member of our club, the owner of Jonquil Plaza, and over the past 47 years had almost perfect attendance. J. D. passed away on Saturday, February 6, 2010. District Governor Roy Strickland eulogizes him on this page: [Read more...]

Keep Smyrna Beautiful-Adopt A Mile
November 2009- John Hubbard led a group of  six Smyrna Rotarians to help clean up our Smyrna mile. as part of this wonderful program, ranked as one of the top nationally. 

Cobb Christmas
12/2009 - The Smyrna Rotary Club had a great time at Cobb Christmas. We do this every year and have a wonderful time. Cobb Christmas is a fantastic organization which assembles gift bags and food boxes for people in Cobb County.

Snyder Turner
Smyrna Rotarian Snyder Turner was recently selected as Marietta Citizen of the Year<. Snyder is the director of Calvary Children's Home< located in Powder Springs. Congratulations Synder... we are all very proud of you and all that you do for our community.

Breast Cancer Awareness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Special thanks to member Tyger Volrath for his presentation on Breast Cancer Awareness.

CART Program
CART stands for Coins for Alzheimer's Research. Veteran member Johnny Wilson has been instrumental in advocating the CART program in our club. Smyrna Rotary's final contribution was over $1,564.21 pushing the district over the $24,000 mark.

Meetings
Smyrna Rotary Club meetings are held each Tuesday in the City of Smyrna Community Center (200 Village Green Circle). Meetings begin at 12:15 p.m. and lunch is always served. We have a superb speaker list including US Senator Saxby Chambliss, Cobb County Chairman Sam Olens, US Congressman David Scott and many others (see below). Smyrna Rotary meetings are loaded with fellowship and our speakers program is outstanding. The cost to attend our meetings is $15. [Read more...]

Citizen of the Year
Smyrna's Outstanding Citizen as recognized by the Rotary Club of Smyrna, whether Rotarian or non-Rotarian, will typify Rotarian ideals of Service Above Self, will demonstrate character, commitment, and community service, contribute his/her talents in helping others, and will demonstrate leadership. The Outstanding Citizen must serve in more than one area of interest, demonstrate service over period of time, and make a significant impact in the Smyrna community.

Smyrna Rotary Outstanding Citizen of the Year: 2010 - Narayan Sengupta; 2009 - Mike Terry; 2008 - Larry Freeman; 2007 - Mayor Max Bacon

Cavalry Children's Home
11/2008 - Special thanks to Rotarian Johnny Wilson who donated approximately 200 books to the Cavalry Children's Home in honor of his beloved wife Betty. Betty was an avid reader and her collection included gorgeous books that went back to the 1930s.

New Members
The Smyrna Rotary Club is proud to announce its newest members:

- Jordan Shivers
- Will Howard, who is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records
- Joey Durham, Chic-Fil-A
- Brad Cottrill, Wachovia
- Bill Boucek, US Navy

The club now has approximately 50 members. [Read more...]

News
- Bob Barr visited Smyrna Rotary then announced run for President a few days later
- Sam Whitfield established scholarship at Pickens High School
- Jennifer Bennett learned to ski and does the blues on her first weekend
- Tyger Volrath competed for a spot on the US Olympic Team
- 13 Smyrna Rotarians attend District Assembly
- Smyrna Rotary registered 100% of its members for the 2010 District SuperConference in Atlanta
[Read more...]

Awards & Recognitions
Smyrna Rotary was named Runner-up Best All-Around Rotary Club for 2006-2007 (District 6900) and was number three in the world, among 32,000+ Rotary clubs in more than 200 nations, in per capita support of the humanitarian and educational good works of The Rotary Foundation. This year our club was recognized for having one of the best educational programs in the district. For 2009-2010, the club was one of the top in the world once again.

Georgia Rotary Student
Every year Smyrna Rotary sponsors a GRSP student with another Rotary Club in order to build goodwill and fellowship with other parts of the world. These students live and study in Georgia for the year and teach us about their country and learn about ours. Recent students were Carlos Infantozzi, Gunita Zimacka from Latvia, Robert Hjorth from Denmark and Magda Wierowska (who was Southern Polytechnic's student of the year her senior year. Smyrna Rotary has provided a scholarship to an international student for study at a state university since 1965.

Contact
For further information about Smyrna Rotary, please contact Narayan Sengupta at 770 850 1640 or via email at membership@smyrnarotary.com.

Rotary International - www.Rotary.org

District 6900 - www.RotaryDistrict6900.org