Charlotte Harris shares her reasons for being a member of theRotary Club of Tucson Legacy Society.
My firsthand awareness of the good work that Rotary does came through my husband, Mike's, involvement in the mid-1980s when the Rotary Club one joined had to do with the geographic location of one's employment. He was first employed by a hospital on Tucson's east side, and then a mid-town hospital. He was a charter member first of The Rincon Rotary Club and then a charter member of The Casas Adobes Rotary Club.
To financially support Rotary programs, endowments, in my mind, are the key to the future success of our Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation. Endowments allow our Club's Foundation to continue their mission to make the world a better place for all. With a successful history of over 100 years of community service, our Rotary Club of Tucson has supported programs in our local community and our world community with both continuing to be our primary focus. With an endowment that has a permanent corpus, only the interest earned is spent, and every year the endowment earns the income to be spent on programs with the corpus staying intact. It is also a way for each of us to continue to support the important programs vital to improving lives after we have left this world.
That is why I support our Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation through our Legacy Society which provides the opportunity to invest in one of our three Endowments: Scholarship, Community, and International. Each of these Endowments provides a focus area for us to designate our donation(s). Distribution decisions are made by our fellow Rotarians who, like us, want to do the greatest good.
I hope each of you will join this effort supporting either through a direct donation of $10,000 or more or through your estate plan of $10,000 or more. Thank you for this consideration.
Thanks for sharing your reasons for being a part of the Legacy Society, Charlotte.
Legacy Society Committee:
Jo DeChatelet, Chair, Charlotte Harris, Marcia Krumwiede, Lee Olitzky, Darrell Stewart
