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About Rotary
The Rotary Club of Santa Monica is comprised of over 160 business and professional leaders who embody Rotary's motto of "Service above Self". The club’s wide variety of community and international service projects reflects the diverse ethnic makeup of our members.
Helpguide’s Santa Monica Rotarian team includes Grace Cheng Braun, Nancy Freedman Simon Hunter, Steve Litvak, Tom Larmore, Tom Loo, Charlene Underhill Miller, Sheryl Monaughan, Jeanne Segal, Robert Segal, and Monika White.
The operations of the club are focused across four avenues of service.
- Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
- Community & Youth Service addresses projects and activities that improve life in the community.
- Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.
- International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and promote world understanding and peace.
The club meets Fridays and noon at the Riviera Country Club, 1250 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA
Rotary International is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders. Rotarians provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs. Read more
The worldwide membership of Rotary International has a steadfast commitment to benefit humanity by working to eradicate polio, improve literacy, provide access to safe water and promote world peace and understanding. For more about the project that donated over 242,000 books to public elementary schools in California and Nevada, click here
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