Eugene Southtowne Rotary

Club #341, District 5110, Chartered December 22, 1975

Southtowne Rotary in Eugene, OR has been dedicated to doing good in the world through local and international projects since our founding in 1975. With approximately 90 members, we’re currently the second largest Rotary Club in Eugene, and by far the most fun!

Our Rotary motto is “Service above Self” and to honor that commitment, Southtowne Rotary has devoted countless hours and raised hundred of thousands of dollars to help create new educational opportunities for youth, distribute aid to the disabled and homeless, provide food for the underprivileged, improve outdoor and recreational living environments, and support visual and performing arts. Our service to the community takes place not only with the direct involvement by our club members but also through our monetary contributions to local scholarships and projects through our Southtowne Rotary Foundation.

We gather once a week on Thursday at noon on Zoom. Contact us if you would like to join. We have interesting speakers on many topics. We receive updates on our ongoing projects and coordinate with each other about our many activities. Together we make a difference. Please check out the articles below and other pages on this site to learn more about us, and if you’d like to come to a meeting, let us know.

Learn about our Food Boxes Program

Avenue of Service Awards

Check out these acheivements!

Camille Ronzio has received the RI Avenue of Service Award (for all 5 avenues) for her work chairing 3 local service committees and co-chairing the District’s Rotary Friendship Exchange Committee.

Southtowne Rotary Club, under President Glen Brigham, has won the Best Club Retention and Engagement Award!

Southtowne News & Program Summaries…

Below you will find the most recent summaries of our weekly programs, project and event updates, and other interesting news. The full Southtowne Blog can be viewed here.

Each of the articles below is summarized. Click on the image or “read more” link to get the full scoop!

Cardiac Surgery for Severely Healthcare Deprived Countries

Nov 19, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, International Concerns, Volunteer Opportunities

Cardiac Surgery for Severely Healthcare Deprived Countries CardioStart International is a volunteer-based organization that travels around the world to support and improve health care systems. They're primary focuses are on adult and pediatric cardiac surgery,...

Rotary Interact and South Eugene High School Projects

Nov 5, 2020 | Club Events, Miscellaneous

Rotary Interact clubs bring high school students together to develop leadership skills. There are over 14,000 Interact clubs over 145 countries. India has over 7,000 Interact clubs. The US has over 5,000. Interact allows high school students to be part of a large...

Dragonfly Facts and Damselfly Information for Eugene

Oct 8, 2020 | Education, Environmental Concerns, People and Personalities

Dragonflies and damselflies flutter in and around Eugene. Oregon dragonfly and damselfly expert, Cary Kerst, speaks about local species, how to identify them, and where to find them. Follow along as Kerst shares a host of fascinating damselfly and dragonfly facts....

Human Rights Issues and How to Improve Our Community

Oct 1, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Non-Profit, People and Personalities, Politics

Meet Ibrahim Coulibaly, an advocate for discussing human rights issues and current president of the Eugene Springfield NAACP. Ibrahim grew up in the small, french-speaking country of West Africa. He came to the US for the first time in 2008, where he lived in New York...

Police Reform Amidst Eugene Protests

Sep 25, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, People and Personalities, Politics

Police Reform Amidst Eugene Protests Over the past few months, the Eugene Police Department has been working hard to manage protests safely and effectively. The department has currently spent $650,000 of overtime costs to do just that. Chief of the Eugene Police...

Transgender Stories: A Gender Journey with Claire Hall

Aug 28, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, People and Personalities

Gender dysphoria is essentially where the mind and body parts don’t match. It has been described as a homesickness in your own body that never goes away. Technically, it is the condition of feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be...