Welcome

WELCOME! To the small club with big fellowship!

Our club was founded in 1986 and continues to represent the highest ideals through its service-oriented programs both at home and abroad. Our club meets every Tuesday noon at the Best Western Executive Inn (near the Space Needle) and offers our members and guests the highest level of spirit, fellowship and opportunity for community service.

By coming together under the auspices of Rotary International our members are able to improve the lives of fellow citizens in the Queen Anne Community as well as around the world.

The power of International Rotary allows our small club to leverage its resources.  We recently dug wells in three villages of Zimbabwe.  Until the wells went into service, villagers had to walk miles with buckets to fetch clean, healthy water.  Queen Anne Rotarians raised the money and through the contacts of Rotarians in Zimbabwe contracted an engineering company to dig and install the wells.  A number of years ago, the club teamed up with the Bangkok, Thailand, Rotary Club and applied for matching grants from Rotary International.  With those funds, we successfully innoculated every Thai man for Hepatitis B vaccine.  For the past 20 years, every Rotarian in the world has raised money and worked towards eradicating polio from the face of the planet.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently awarded Rotary a matching grant of $100 million to help the effort in the last four countries with the disease: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Afghanistand and Pakistan.

Another project completed recently was the building of a school in a village outside Hue, Vietnam.  Queen Anne Rotarians, along with a handful of other clubs, contributed money, and our International Director Larry Symonds travelled twice to Vietnam to make this project happen.  The club has been so excited by this project that it is looking forward to building another school.

We also serve our Queen Anne community, helping schools, hotlines, hospitals and the homeless.

Education and literacy is important to Rotarians.  Queen Anne Rotary has sponsored, and is currently sponsoring, Ambassadorial Scholars who pursue post-graduate work at Universities overseas.  We are also very involved with education locally.  Every year Queen Anne Rotarians give every third grader in our service district a dictionary to promote reading.   Queen Anne Rotary has had a relationship with Coe Elementary School for nearly 20 years.  Rotarians have led reading programs, provided tutoring and recognized stellar students.  Every month QA Rotarians recognize the top students at McClure Middle Schools as well as Center High School.  The club provides an annual $5,000 scholarship to an outstanding arts student at Center High School as well.  The scholarship is a memorial to a deceased member of our club, Jack Fearey.  Jack, who graduated from college with a music major, was Director of the Seattle Center during the 1970's and transformed the former site of the World's Fair into the cultural gem it is today.
Former Club President Mark Wilson pins his wife Connie with a Paul Harris Fellowship pin.  The award recognizes Connie's $1,000 financial support of the Rotary Foundation and its worldwide projects including the eradication of polio and 7 other childhood diseases.  14 members of Queen Anne Rotary are Paul Harris Fellows.  The club has also sponsored 23 other Paul Harris Fellows.  The Fellowship is named for the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris of Chicago.  It supports humanitarian efforts as well as the largest college scholarship program in the world.  The Ffoundation also supports the scholarships for hundreds of college graduates every year to study abroad.  Rotary is the single largest non-government provider of scholarship in the world.  Our club has successfully sponsored local students from Seattle Pacific University to be awarded these scholarships.


Every holiday season Santa and his elves descended on Seadrunar to visit the children and hand out gifts.  Seadrunar stands for "Seattle Drug and Narcotic Rehabiliation."  The parents are freeing themselves from addiction.  Without Rotary caring, their children would not have a very merry Christmas.  This is probably the eleventh year, maybe more, that the club has supported this project.

Every July Queen Anne Rotarians volunteered as crossing guards for the Queen Anne Fun Run to benefit the Queen Anne Helpline.  Queen Anne Rotary often supplies manpower to local fundraisers as another way to give back to the community,  The club has responded to helping the elderly repair their homes and manning food booths at charities benefiting Children's Hospital.

These are but a few of the many programs Queen Anne Rotary supports.  There are real needs in our community and Rotary allows you to personally take action to make things better.  "Service above self" is the motto for Rotary.

Rotarians also apply the Four-Way Test in all relationships:

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIP?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

If these programs and values touch you, please feel free to join us to learn more about Rotary and how you can serve your world and community.  We would value your fellowship.