• Early years efforts were focused on education, promotion of farmers and youth
• Assisting the adult handicapped
• Education
• Promotion of farmers
• Service to youth
• Educational fund to enable students to pursue further education
• 4H and Future Farmers of America
• Boy Scouts
• Camp Fire Girls
• One High School boy to Boy’s State
• 1947 they raised funds to buy uniforms for the entire high school band
• Support of the handicap
• Exchange students-inbound and outbound students
• Big brothers, Big sisters
• Post Prom party
• Arion award and scholarship
• Vo-Tech scholarship
• Destination Imagination
• Manchester Kids League
• Delaware County Historical Society
• West Delaware Band
• Pass the Hat Players
• Delaware County Recreation Center
• Delaware County Economic Development
• Rotary Project Amigo (building of homes in poverty ridden Mexico)
• $13,000 to the Polio Plus Program during the late 1980’s
• Built a retaining wall by the River on South Franklin St, where a beautiful park & gazebo sit
• Planting of flowers and shrubs on the West end of Manchester

The Manchester Rotary Club, Manchester, Iowa held a National Honors Society Banquet. In the photo is (LtoR) President of Rotary Club Brian Pralle, District Governor Rosie Hussey, NHS President Deb Durey, and Faculty Advisor Dave Schultz

The Manchester Rotary Club of Manchester, Iowa recently completed a service project for the City of Manchester by partially funding and contributing labor for the purpose of planting perennials along the main west entrance to Manchester. This was a fun project for all involved and culminated with the Rotary Club receiving this fall the Distinguished Service Award from the City of Manchester for the work that was done... Submitted by Brian Pralle, President of the Manchester Rotary Club.