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Visit our Club

You are invited to be our guest for lunch. We meet most Tuesdays from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM at La Valencia Hotel in the Village of La Jolla, 1132 Prospect St. Usually we have a club social on the last Tuesday of the month instead.

Our Vision: Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change - across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.

Our Mission: Be an energized and proactive Service Club committed to "Service Above Self". We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

Our President's Welcome Letter

As the first woman to be admitted to the La Jolla Rotary Club 37 years ago,
it is a special honor for me to serve as the Club President this year and to
welcome you to our Club.
The members of the La Jolla Rotary Club are focused on working together
to address the needs of our community and to support the world-wide projects of Rotary International.
Our members are dedicated to Rotary’s ideal of service above self and to making a difference.
To learn more about our projects both local and world-wide, please join us at an upcoming meeting. We meet at noon on most Tuesdays at the La Valencia Hotel.

Barbara Brown

Alison Brown

On June 12th, The Rotary Club of La Jolla is sponsoring a truly unique event, and we are hoping you and some of your friends will be able to be there. Grammy and Emmy Award winner and Banjo Hall of javascript:void('Cut')Alison Brown

is performing a concert at Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in la La Jolla and donating the proceeds to benefit the charitable work our club does both in the community and around the world.

Alison plays to sold out audiences throughout the country, Europe and Japan and is featured in a recent documentary about Steve Martin, with whom she regularly collaborates. She has an amazing back story, too and we are thrilled to be able to get her.

Oh...by the way...Some lucky bidder will also go home with a brand new, specially made Deering Banjo. A flyer about the event is attached.

LJHS Interact Club Homebuild #39!

On Saturday January 13, a group of 16 Interact students and 6 parent volunteers, went to Mexico to build home #39 for the Rotary Club. We had great weather and were able to provide a very deserving family a new home for them to enjoy for many years to come. They were freezing in their tiny hovel and were so grateful for a home. Another successful homebuild, where the students were fantastic workers and there were no injuries.

They are looking forward to #40 this spring. Craig Schniepp, Youth Services Director and homebuild leader

Uganda Global Grant

The Rotary Club of La Jolla along with the Rotary Club of Mbale in Uganda is currently working on a Global Grant in Uganda called the Rotary Vijana Poa Mbale Technology Hub Project. This project started on November 29, 2021, with a grant of $85,000. The objective of this project is to provide technology and employment education to youth and women for advancing economic empowerment in Mbale, a disadvantaged region in Eastern Uganda. More than 22% of the youth population in this region is unemployed and lives in extreme poverty. The goal of this project is to ensure that every youth is working through computer skills, entrepreneurial and mindset education. The program also provides women empowerment education to women who have previously been marginalized and alienated from the workplace.

75 Years of La Jolla Rotary

Chuck Dick Writes: There's a way to summarize 75 years of La Jolla Rotary history by saying 3 things.

First, the Club was established in 1947 by a stalwart Rotarian from Club 33, and within a few years, the Club had been successful recruiting new members from across the La Jolla landscape. They were people who already had played significant roles in building a community out of a small village, and within a short time, their natural impulse to serve quickly found a vehicle in Rotary’s embrace of service above self.

Second, beginning in the 1970s and continuing for the next 25 years or so, our club called upon the extraordinary generosity of its members to support an array of service work around the world. La Jolla Rotarians contributed almost 70% of the District’s’ fundraising commitment for Polio Plus, and we obtains Rotary Foundation grants to help make changes in the third world. We worked with Tijuana Rotarians to build a school in an underserved neighborhood of Tijuana, and Colonia Esperanza stands today as source of hope.

In the third 25 years of our club, we saw that service was more than writing checks. We began to use our scholarship endowment to assist college bound La Jolla students, and we committed to help Garfield High School students launch careers. We became Rotarians at work, and we used our hands to make physical changes in our community. We have breathed life into the concept of Service Above Self.