Provo Rotary Club will
celebrate two milestones this coming year. First, it will mark 100 years since
the club was organized in August, 1919, with W.F. Bulkley, an Episcopal
archdeacon, as president.
The second milestone is its first
woman president, Ruth Riley. She lives in Spanish Fork but works as vice-president
of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors in Provo. She and fellow Provo Rotarian
Steve Tolley are planning events to celebrate the Provo club’s centennial.
Riley has actively promoted service
in the Provo Rotary Club. She and fellow Rotarian Linda Pemberton have for the
past three years organized a popular project involving many local Rotarians and
their families, United Way officials, and local residents in planting
raised-bed gardens and repairing storage units at Franklin Community Center.
Canteen Committee Chair Vaughan Park brings the club’s rolling kitchen and
serves hotdogs, chips, and drinks to all participants.
Provo Foundation Chair Tom Powell
each year secures a district grant to help with the Provo club’s annual
dictionary project. They apply Rotary stickers to the dictionaries and deliver
them to every fourth-grader in Provo School District.
Riley says that “Service is what
Rotary is all about.”
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