Welcome to the Rotary Club of Kerrville

Are you an established professional who wants to make positive changes in your community and the world? Our members are dedicated people who share a passion for community service and friendship. We meet on Wednesdays at 12PM at Kerrville Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, 201 Holdsworth Drive, Kerrville, TX  78028. Come Join Us!
Club News
The Rotary Club of Kerrville's Casino Night Gala is the club's largest fundraiser for 2026!  This night will fund all the club's local projects, including the following:
  • Scholarships for High School Seniors
  • Rise Against Hunger Food Packaging
  • Water Safety & Literacy Education for 2nd & 3rd graders in all elementary schools
  • The Blue Santa Holiday Food Program for low income families
  • Support of the Hill Country Stock Show with Scholarship Funding for participants
  • Youth Citizenship Awards for 5th Graders in all local schools
  • Breakfasts for Hill Country Veterans twice a year
  • High School Interact Clubs to foster leadership and personal experience/development
  • Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) for High School Juniors
  • First Responders Lunch to recognize exceptional service to the Hill Country Community
  • Rotary Members Involvement in Highway Trash Pick-Up, Sponsored Blood Drives, Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign, Eradicating Polio
The 2026 event will be held Saturday, April 18th at the Comanche Trace Country Club from 6pm-9pm.  The evening starts with a gormet dinner, drinks & a Live Auction.  There will be Casino Night Games as well as Dueling Pianos after the Dinner and Live Auction.  A silent auction runs throughout the night!  What else?  A Whiskey and Wine Pulls, prizes for those working the "tables".  Raffle tickets will be available with amazing prizes, at the low cost of $50!
 
Click on this link to purchase tickets:  
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/VZHP9XVTJD3PL
Several Rotarians received Paul Harris awards at the recent Centennial Lunch celebration.
 
Kenneth Early, George Eychner, Ashley Phillips, Tom Fox, Rhonda Sandford, Gabriel Alonzo, David Martin, Kristi Shepherd, John Forister and Tim Crenwelge recieve their Paul Harris awards.
Greg Podd was the guest speaker at our Centennial Celebration on February 25 at St. Peter's Tucker Hall in Kerrville. He is a trustee of the Rotary Foundation, and has served in numerous positions in Rotary International.
 
Greg acknowledged our club's many projects and accomplishments, including the Veterans Breakfast, Josh the Otter water safety program, Walk a Fun event, Highway and River clean up, College Scholarships, and support for international programs for polio eradication and clean drinking water. He encouraged us to look to the future, and imagine what Rotary fifty years from now would look like. We can look forward to health beyond polio, and concentrate on preventing disease including malaria, HIV and cancer. We should also continue to work for clean water and sanitation for those who lack it.  
 
Technology of the future will be unrecognizable to us today, and this power should be harnessed for the good of humanity. Greg concluded by emphasizing that Rotary's greatest asset is people all over the world working towards a better future.
 
 
 
 
Stockton Williams led us in a prayer to start the event.
 
Williams, Stockton
 
Kristi Shepherd provided the pledge.
 
 
George Eychner provided a song appropriate for the occasion. 
 
 
Robin Miears led us in the Four Way Test.
 
 
A big thanks goes to Greg Faldyn and his committee for working over the last year to put the Centennial Celebration together. Thank you also to Tammy Prout for publishing the newsletter and history of our club, with valuable research from Rosa Lavender about our club's accomplishments and past presidents.
The dedication of the Flagpoles at Guardian Plaza is Wednesday, April 8. This dedication recognizes the courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment of our law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders.  This will be a lunch event, taking the place of our regular noon meeting. 11:30-1:00.   The lunch will take place right after the dedication, and guided tours of the new facility will be available after the lunch.
 
The First Responders Golf Tournament is April 13.
 
The First Responders lunch is April 15.
 
The Main Event fund raiser is April 18.
Wayne Uecker introduced our speaker Teddy Roosevelt.
 
 
Joe Wiegand, aka President Teddy Roosevelt, provided a great program on the 26th U.S. President, who served in that office from 1901 to 1909. Joe is a thirty year member of Rotary International and  travels the country as a keynote speaker at conferences and Rotary clubs.
 
He lives in Medora, North Dakota, where he works for the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation.  His performance tour is highlighted in summer by a daily matinee in Medora, gateway to Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
 
Although Roosevelt was the poster child for the strenuous life, he was born a frail and asthmatic child. He managed to overcome his frailty, and achieved notoriety as a fearless leader in the Spanish American war.  Roosevelt was the youngest United States President, ascending to that office when President McKinley was assinated. Teddy was elected for another term in 1904. 
 
Amoung his many accomplishments in office, he established five national parks and eighteen mational monuments.
 
 

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Rosa Lavender
Mar 18, 2026
Rotary The Last 25 Years
Brian Gibson, Special Agent in Charge, USSS, SA
Mar 25, 2026
Secret Service Update
Airport Manager Kirk Griffin
Apr 01, 2026
Airport Growth Update
DR Melissa Allen and Ladena Odom
Apr 08, 2026 11:00 AM
Schreiner CTWD
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Apr 15, 2026
First Responders Award Luncheon
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Mailing Address:

Rotary Club of Kerrville
P. O. Box 295335
Kerrville, TX 78029
kerrvillerotary@gmail.com