Cobb Christmas
11/2010 - Last year, Rotarian Steve Kimble led the Smyrna Rotary Club to donate 40 bikes and bicycle helmets to Cobb Christmas. This year, he is doing it again! Thanks to his leadership, the club has bought more than $4000 of new bikes and bike helmets and donated them to Cobb Christmas.

Veteran's Day 2010
11/2010 - The Smyrna Rotary Club initiated the Smyrna Veterans Day in 2008. It co-sponsored the second and third annual Smyrna Veterans Day ceremony on November 11, 2009 and on November 11, 2010.  Rotarian and Korean War Veteran Sam Whitfield gave the benediction. We had approximately 400 to 560 people at our latest event. [Read more...]

Food Drive
11/2010 - New Rotarian Doctor Yana Hugh led the Smyrna Rotary Club and King Springs Elementary School to donate 2000 canned goods for Thanksgiving for those who did not have enough food.

Mercy Ships
11/2010 - Rotarian Raymond Coffman is leading the Smyrna Rotary Club on its Mercy Ships project which raises money for cleft lip and other surguries for people in Sierra Leone. "Good news," says Raymond. "Today I received $450 in donations. So far raised $1005.00. This will be matched one to one by District 6900.

Sam Whitfield
11/2010 - PDG Roy Strickland writes: "Sam Whitfield. Smyrna Rotarian, charter member, past president, 46 years perfect attendance, Outstanding Citizen Award, Four Avenues of Service Award, District Foundation Service Award, Multiple Paul Harris Fellow, Foundation Major Donor, Paul Harris Society, Bequest Society, Will Watt Fellow, ROCK STAR! Sam was also Rotarian of the Year! "

100% Paul Harris Fellow Club
11/2010 - "Smyrna Rotary! 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club," says PDG Roy Strickland. "100% Sustaining Member Club. 100% EREY Club. Number One in District 6900. Number One in Zone 34. Number Seven in the World! 24 Multiple Paul Harris Fellows. 12 Paul Harris Society Members. 8 Major Donors. 2 Bequest Society. My club . . . and I am proud of them!"

Latest Speakers
11/2010 - State Senator Doug Stoner spoke to the club on 11/30/2010. It is always great to have Smyrna native Doug as our speaker.

The Stricklands meet the Royals
10/2010 - PDG Roy Strickland and Suzanne Strickland invited to meet with Camilla Parker Bowles in London. Their picture is in the Marietta Daily Journal.

SuperSmyrna
10/2010 - Smyrna Rotary is one of the founding partners of SuperSmyrna. Saturday, October 23, 2010 Smyrna Citizen Preparedness Initiative First Aid Training & CPR 9 am to Noon, Fire Station 1. RSVP at SuperSmyrna.

Crutches
10/2010 - Smyrna Rotary is participating in a Rotary wide initiative to pick up unused crutches to give to those in other countries who cannot afford them. Change someone's life in a great way. Donate those crutches that are in your garage or basement sitting unused.

Softball
10/2010 - Smyrna Rotary maintains a perfect record of 0-18 (yes, 0-18) over two seasons of play against local teams.

New Members
9/2010 - The Smyrna Rotary Club is proud to announce its newest members:

- Doctor Yana Hugh
- Suzanne Pruitt
- David Van Dyke

The club now has approximately 45 members. [Read more...]

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 Tim Gowens 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 Tim Gowens...]

Roy Strickland - Past District Governor
We are absolutely thrilled that our own Roy Strickland is the immediate Past District Governor of Rotary District 6900 for 2009-2010. He was 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.

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
Peter Wasserman leads 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. 

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.

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