Rotaract Club of Santa Monica College

 

2007 - 2008
Santa Monica College Rotaract President Edgar Nunez and 10 Rotaractors joined the Rotary meeting on December 7, 2007 in recognition of their Club participation and completing over 4 hours of community service.  Some of the accomplishments and activities include: Raised $1,499 for AIDS Walk Contributed over 200 canned food items for the Los Angeles Food Bank Attended kids who suffer through Prader-Willi syndrome for an entire day Heal The Bay event: Helped clean the dirty beaches Strong showing of our club at the Rotaray District Youth Conference Feeding the homeless at the AME Church Collaboration with UNICEF to Tijuana, Mexico to visit an orphanage Meals On Wheels: Delivering fresh meals to immobile senior citizens Volunteer for the Santa Monica Symphony concert Rotary 5280 District Picnic Rotaract club being mentioned in the Santa Monica press Rotaract club being mentioned in the SMC's Corsair paper.

	This is the picture taken right before the start of the AIDS Walk. The walk began at 10am but we had members showing up as early as 7am at school for carpooling. In total, we had 22 of our Rotaract members doing the AIDS Walk and raising a total of $1499!  3 of our members: Lucetta Pringle, Vice President Marie Camacho and Tanja Hrast raised a combined total of nearly $800. Thats a little over 50% of the total donations.
This picture includes Rotaract members, UNICEF club members (the ones wearing red shirts, a partnership club we club we made alliance with begining fall 07), and friends and family members from Rotaract members.
	Rotaract President Edgar Nunez holding our Rotaract sign walking with other SMC students from various clubs. This was a great accomplishment done because SMC has never had as much clubs involved in one charitable event. From left to right we have student from UNICEF, myself representing Rotaract, student from Anthropology Club, and the last 2 on the right are from the "Gender & Sexuality Alliance" club. UNICEF is a club that deals with children, Anthropology club is a club for Anthropology majors, and GSA is a club that tries to unite students of all sexual preferences. The reason I am the only one holding a sign was because our club was able to sign up 20+ members by a certain due date on the AIDS Walk site. They had a requirement for groups (which was to have 20 or more sign up online) in order to give them their own meeting station.
This was during club row. We thought of a great marketing strategy to promote our club, and that was to give away "free kisses." This caught the attention of many students walking by because they were actually given a free Hershey Kiss, not an actual kiss. But some of our members had some sense of humor and gave some kisses to students cheek. In total we signed up over 50 prospecive members.
	Treasurer Randy Unger posing for the camera with our other poster labeled "Thrive".  We feel that after our hard work, we Rotaract members thrive for rewards.  In the poster, students get to see the rewards we earn for all the work we put in. This is all during the school's Club Row event. Club row is held once per semester and clubs get the opportunity to recruit members and promote themselves.
This is a copy of the SMC's school paper (The Corsair) which had an article about the Rotaract Club of SMC.
	Newly elect VP Afram Chukro, from Sweden (Also taken at the AIDS Walk).  He has been involved with Rotaract for 4 semesters and has shown commitment for the club since the beginning.  His hard work paid off and will now work to make Rotaract a successful club once again for the spring semester.

 

2004
	Some of the Rotaractors caught enjoying the sun in Santa Monica, California.
A pair of Presidents: One young & One chronologically gifted; One tall & One less tall; and, One thin & One less thin. Chris Fortschneider is the President of the Rotaract Club at Santa Monica College.  Lionel Ruhman is the President of the Rotary Club of Santa Monica. Both have a big smile and both give numerous hours of dedicated service to their clubs (in particular) and their community (in general).
	After a recent Rotary meeting, President Lionel Ruhman was talking with two Rotaract VIPs  --  President Chris Fortschneider and VP Megan Komensu.