Flower Mound Rotary

by Caylie Howard | photos courtesy Flower Mound Rotary social media page

It is truly a great honor to be an active member of the elite service group, Rotary Club. Not only is it an amazing opportunity to form deep, lifelong, and memorable bonds with spectacular individuals, but it is also an opportunity to make an impact on our community. While 2021 has brought on new and exciting times for our world, it has also brought on a great milestone for our local community of Flower Mound. This year, the Flower Mound Rotary Club celebrates 34 years of bringing a sense of community, togetherness, and positive change to our Denton County.

“FOR MORE THAN 110 YEARS, ROTARY’S PEOPLE OF ACTION HAVE USED THEIR PASSION, ENERGY, AND INTELLIGENCE TO TAKE ACTION ON SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS.”

“WHATEVER ROTARY MAY MEAN TO US, TO THE WORLD IT WILL BE KNOWN BY THE RESULTS IT ACHIEVES.”

Rotary Club was originally created on February 23rd, 1905 from the extraordinary vision of Chicago attorney, Paul Harris. He originally created this club so that “professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful lifelong friendships.”

As time went on, Rotary Club’s reach and vision gradually grew to include humanitarian service. “Members have a long track record of addressing challenges in their communities and around the world,” Harris once said. “Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves.”

This has led to the Rotary Club’s ongoing commitment. Just a mere 16 years after Harris founded the Rotary Club, Rotary had expanded to having clubs on six continents. Members of the Rotary Club can now be found all over the globe. This includes local Rotarians such as Cindi Howard.

“For more than 110 years, Rotary’s people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects,” Cindi said. “From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self. Rotarians all over the world try to live by that which in turn makes our communities better places to live.” In 1987, the Rotary Club made an incredibly progressive statement by allowing women to join. Today, women are the fastest-growing segment of Rotary membership, and increasingly hold leadership positions within the organization. There are more than 2,000 women who serve as Rotary Club presidents.

Today, Rotary Club strongly encourages its clubs “to focus on a broad spectrum of service activities such as hunger, the environment, violence prevention, illiteracy, drug abuse prevention, polio eradication, youth, the elderly, and AIDS awareness and education. Rotary Club lives, serves, and operates by two mottos, “Service Above Self” and “One Profits Most Who Serves Best.” Our local Flower Mound Rotary Club has certainly held true to both of these mottos over the last 34 years. The amazing and selfless group of individuals that have been and are currently active members of the Flower Mound Rotary Club have shown kindness, generosity, humility, and dedication to serving our local community. With the principles and morals that the Rotary Club is based on, it is safe to say that the changes our community will see for our future will be truly remarkable.