Anamosa Rotary Club

 

• 1963-68 The Anamosa Rotary Club sponsored the Travel and Adventure Series. A series of six color movies or slides each year narrated in person by the photographer. Proceeds from this series were designated toward a $1800 pledge the club made toward construction of the Anamosa Community Hospital over a three year period.

• The Club participated directly in the Rotary Foundation by sponsoring students for a year of graduate study in a foreign country of their choice. The scholarship students receive a complete expense paid year covering all travel, tuition, living and related expenses.

• 1978-79 The club sponsored a girl who spent a year studying music in Germany.
• 1984-85 The club sponsored another girl who spent a year in Vienna, Austria studying economics, financing and banking.
• 1977-78 The club hosted a Rotary Exchange student from Perth, Western Australia.
• 1980-81 The club built a picnic shelter located at the south end of the Wapsi-Ana City Park on Linn St. The funds for this shelter came from the estate of Marjorie Monroe a long time piano teacher in Anamosa. She was the maiden daughter of a long time hardware merchant in Anamosa.
• 1992-The Club sponsored a girl from Piracicabo, S. P. Brazil as a Rotary Exchange student.
• 1994-95 Rotary sponsored an inbound student from Santiago, Spain.
• 2003-The Rotary club donated the funds and supplied the help to reroof this shelter with help from some workers from the Lawrence Community Center.

Other service activities:
• Driving tractor for the people movers and running the beer tent at the Great Jones County Fair.
• Helped underwrite several very worthwhile service projects.
• Provided funds for the Self-Help Tractor Project through voluntary contributions and providing two Service Award Scholarships of $250.00 each for graduating High School seniors.
• Regularly supports the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Camp Courageous of Iowa, Rotary Foundation and the Annual Christmas Tree Walk at the Lawrence Community Center.
• Christmas time each year one Rotary meeting is devoted to caroling at the Anamosa Care Center.
• Books are donated to the Anamosa Public Library in honor of a deceased member.
• The club has given many contributions to the Lawrence Community Center, starting in 1989, totaling some $5,825 which they have used to purchase furniture for the meeting rooms, new dishes, money toward the piano and other such items. In 1993 Rotary donated $2,887.20 for the large outdoor sign at the Center that was finished in the spring of 1994.
• A very significant project that Rotary supported by actively working with was the Life Line program, an earlier personal security system, that was run through the Anamosa Community Hospital.
• August of 1992 a joint Rotary and RAGBRAI met to discuss recommendations for an enclosed shelter in the Wapsianna Park near the swimming pool. Concrete work and the construction proceeded into the fall of 1994. The contributions and leadership of this project was Rotary’s largest project to date.
• $1,800 pledge the club made towards construction of the Anamosa Community Hospital over a three year period.
• 1980-81 The club built the open picnic shelter located at the south end of Wapsi-Ana City park on Linn St.
• 2003-The club donated the funds and supplied the help to reroof the shelter with help from some workers from Lawrence Community Center.
• Providing funds for Self-Help Tractor project through voluntary contributions
• Providing two Service Award Scholarships of $250.00 each for graduating Anamosa High School Seniors
• Special recognition for two outstanding 4-H students through the Rotary leadership award.
• Supporting the annual 4th of July fireworks.
• Paying drug bills for needy persons at Christmas time
• Supporting a Little League team
• Having a stand at the annual Pumpkinfest
• Parking cars at the high school football games
• Boy Scouts
• Girl Scouts
• Camp Courageous of Iowa
• Rotary Foundation
• Annual Christmas Tree Walk
• Donating a book to the Anamosa Public Library in honor of a deceased member
• Donating more than $5,825 to Lawrence Community Center for furniture for the meetings rooms, new dishes, money toward a piano and other such items.
• $2,887 for a large outdoor sign at the Center
• Life Line Program, an earlier personal security system through the Anamosa Community Hospital
• New shelter on a high bluff overlooking the Wapsipinicon River
• Financial support for banners, waste receptacles, benches for downtown and allowing use of the gas grill for the Pumpkinfest Pancake Breakfast and for volunteering at the breakfast
• Welcome to Anamosa signs for the entrances into town.
• Restore the old shelter near the playground area by the river after securing permission from the IA DNR
• Money and labor for pouring a concrete floor to raise the level of the floor to meet handicapped requirements and the roof reshingled plus other restoration work.
• 1992 the club began restoration of the old shelter near the playground area by the river after securing permission from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources working through local park rangers.