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This year, the Ipswich-Rowley Rotary Club enters its 99th year of service above self.  All year long, we will continue and expand our tradition of service to the community and the world, while preparing for our Centennial celebration next year. 
 
We also will join Rotarians around the world to ‘Imagine Rotary’.  Here are some of the things we are imagining for our club this year:    
 
Women and minority leaders, inspired by our club’s long track record of female leaders, and by Rotary International’s first lady President, with a second scheduled to take the reins in two years.  In Ipswich-Rowley Rotary, women represent 40% of our membership, and an even higher percentage of our most active and influential members.  In addition, diversity, equity and inclusion are major areas of focus in Rotary.  We’re not the ‘old boys club’ any more.  
 
Youth leaders, locally and around the world.  Following a two year pandemic induced pause, we are hosting a year-long Rotary Youth Exchange student from Finland, while an Ipswich student is studying abroad.  We also are sponsoring a Rotary Global Scholar from Belgium; she is studying at the Harvard Law School and envisioning a better future.  Locally, our sponsored Ipswich High School Interact Club continues its service programs that help make our community a bit better, just as they did throughout the pandemic.  And, our scholastic, camp, and non-profit scholarship programs benefit deserving youth from Ipswich and Rowley.             
 
A better environment, starting with a grant program we initiated to help save the Ipswich River.  In that program we will partner with neighboring clubs in towns also dependent on the health of the river.  We also will participate in a District wide ‘Pollinator’ initiative focused on helping revive these vital species; nearly 45% have been lost in the last 50 years.  
 
Fellowship in a service organization with no walls.  Ipswich-Rowley Rotarians work hard to improve our communities.  We also are part of a team with global reach, helping others throughout the world who are fighting famine and disease, and to eradicate Polio so that our children never will have to face that terrible disease.  
 
We welcome you to join us in community service, networking, mentoring, fellowship – and FUN!  This summer, Rotarians from our sister club in the UK will visit for a week as part of our long standing bi-annual club exchange.  Rotarians are ‘People of Action’, and the friends you make in Rotary truly do last a lifetime.  Together, we will achieve more than we can alone. 
 
Yours in Rotary Service,
Ray Morley, President