February…the month of Valentine’s Day and love and passion.  It’s a special time to let loved ones and friends know that they hold a special place in our hearts.  As the President of the Westhampton Rotary Club, I can tell you that our small-but-mighty service club, chartered in 1953, is near and dear to my own heart.  Our hard-working board members and fellow Rotarians are passionate about raising money to help people.  They truly embody Rotary’s motto: “Service Above Self.”  And now we’re asking for YOUR help.

 

Like many non-profit organizations, our club’s fundraising efforts have been greatly hampered since the start of COVID-19 last spring. This year we were not able to hold our annual Spaghetti Dinner, always a much-loved Rotary fundraiser in the Westhampton community. Additional fundraising events this year are also in limbo.  The Westhampton Rotary Club uses the money we raise to give scholarships to graduating high school seniors and to support such local, national, and international organizations as Camp-Pa-Qua-Tuck, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, Boy Scout Troop 62, East End Hospice, the Quogue Wildlife Refuge, the Westhampton Cultural Consortium, the Hope for Children Fund, the Salvation Army, and the Westhampton High School’s Robotics, Virtual Enterprise and Interact Clubs.

 

During the month of February, will you help us by donating to the Westhampton Rotary Club so our efforts can continue?  ANY donation, big or small, is greatly appreciated but for every $50 you donate we will enter your name in our “Share Your Love” raffle. (A $50 donation gets one chance at winning one of our great raffle prizes below, $100 donation gets two chances, etc.)  Envelopes must be post-marked by 2/28/21 and winners will be selected on 3/5/21.

                        

Thank you.  I hope we’ll be calling YOU on March 5th to let you know that you won one of our great prizes!  

 

Jim Hulme

 

P.S. Please complete the form (listed in Document Download to the left) and return it with your donation so we know how to contact you if you win.

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Westhampton Rotary mourns the loss of long time member Hank Beck.   Link to obituary on 27 East below:

 

 

Club President Tom Otis at the recent golf outing -- successfully raising funds to provide scholarships to WHB HS graduating seniors.   Photo credit: Hank Beck

 

 The Westhampton Rotary holds the annual Leonard Bishop/Vin Reilly Golf Outing each year to raise the  funds for scholarships. The Scholarship committee meets and interviews numerous students to choose the recipients. The Westhampton Club takes great pleasure n being of service to the community and its students by providing scholarships each year.

The Following Scholarships Were Awarded: