Los Gatos Rotary

We’re excited to hear from Sonya Moore-Wells on positive intelligence. Join us Tuesday!

Another fun First Tuesday social hour with the Rotary Club of Los Gatos. Thanks Marie for hosting us in your beautiful garden! Anyone have a caption for that last photo?

Our First Tuesday Happy Hours are always a blast. Join us this week at Marie’s (shown, left, at the social at Lisa and Barry’s). Please park on the street.

Another fantastic Los Gatos Rotary barbecue at Oak Meadow Park. Good food, good people, and train rides 🚂 is a longstanding tradition at our club.

Woot woot! It’s barbecue time 🍗🍷

Feeding families dealing with extended hospital stays at on Tuesday. Los Gatos Rotarians are people of action.

Los Gatos Rotarians and Sharks fans Dan and Riane enjoying our guest speaker, the Hall of Fame announcer for the San Jose Sharks Dan Rusanowski. They got a shout out from him in his talk for wearing Marleau’s OG number!

What a treat for Sharks fans and sports enthusiasts! Hall of Fame Sharks announcer Dan Rusanowsky will be our guest speaker this week.

Another great First Tuesday Happy Hour, this time at Riley’s house. Fellowship and friendship!

Seth is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View working on humanity’s quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life in the universe. We meet Tuesdays. 12 for socializing, 12:30 for the club meeting, 1 for the guest speaker.

300 backpacks filled with essential supplies! A perennial favorite, working with to help get kids off to a great start for the new school year. ✏️📚

Tonight at Riley and Felicia Barr’s home. Bring something to share!

Today Rotarians volunteered to help kids shop for much-needed back to school clothes in partnership with West Valley Services. We love to see these kids get the dignity of picking out their own things at Old Navy. One of our favorite annual service projects! 🛍️

We are People of Action! Do you know how much service the Rotary Club of Los Gatos does in a year? Here are some of the things we did as a club in our '23-'24 year (not including our grant giving):

- providing breakfast to St Lukes shelter every Tuesday
- running a blood drive with the Red Cross
- filling backpacks for kids in need at Pacific Clinics
- filling backpacks for kids in need with West Valley Services
- donating and packing essential supplies for Pajaro flood victims
- donating to local rotary efforts to help in Maui after the fire
- maintaining a planter box on N Santa Cruz
- bringing toys for the Toys for Tots program
- volunteering at Los Gatos Wine Walk
- packing meals with Rise Against Hunger
- taking kids back-to-school shopping with West Valley Services
- volunteering at the Maruichi bocce ball fundraiser
- serving a Thanksgiving meal at Live Oak Kitchen
- painting and repairing a home with Rebuilding Together
- assembling care packages for longterm hospital patients with El Camino Health
- volunteering at House of Hope
- writing encouraging notes to cancer patients with Cancer CarePoint
- donating essential supplies for refugees with Jewish Family Services
- assembling care kits for seniors in need with SourceWise
- volunteering countless hours with all our youth programs such as Interact, ELC, RYLA, and the Los Gatos Boy Scouts
- monthly clean up at Los Gatos parks

And likely more that we aren't remembering! Put them in the comments if you can add to the list!

We are sad to share the news that Tony James passed away. A member of Los Gatos Rotary since 2009 and our president in 2016-17, Tony was a warm, kind, and gentlemanly person. He was consistently first in line to give service where needed. We will miss him dearly.

Los Gatos Rotarian Lissa Kreisler will interview Guisselle Nuñez about her recently published book written with former San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales - “Life in the Fishbowl: Lessons to Help You Survive and Thrive in Elected Office”

Today in our club meeting we wrote cards of encouragement for , a great organization we are proud to support year after year. Cancer has touched every one of us in some form. Thank you Cancer Carepoint for the good you do.

Doug Brent took the ‘24-‘25 theme ‘The Magic of Rotary’ to a whole new level at his first meeting as our club president! Just another fun day with Los Gatos Rotarians.

Did you miss seeing our amazing centennial video at our celebration? Here it is! We are proud of our 100 year legacy of service to the community.

Rotary100 FINAL FINAL The Rotary Club of Los Gatos, California celebrates 100 years of service in our community. We are proud of our legacy of fellowship, mentorship, and service....

Don’t miss the first club meeting of the new Rotary year. And Doug says he has a surprise up his sleeve!

We had such a fabulous social at the Cheskin home. High temperatures but high spirits! Great food and great company. Thanks Barry and Lisa.

Join us Tuesday evening for our first social of the ‘24-‘25 year. The Cheskins have graciously invited us to their home — and they will feed us too! Just bring a beverage!

Suzanne made another great video to recap our Rotary year!

Megan's Roast & Toast Los Gator Rotary celebrates its 100th birthday. 1924-2024

It’s official! We roasted and toasted President Meghan Burton last night and the gavel passed to our new President Doug Brent. Thank you Meghan for your excellent leadership in the ‘23/‘24 year.

Last week the Town of Los Gatos approved our plan to update Live Oak Manor Park! We are so excited to do this for our community. We only turn 100 once! Work will begin this fall. Stay tuned.

We’ve got a scholar from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford coming to speak to us this week. He has also served as deputy director of national intelligence for analysis and as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council among other things. I bet he has some stories…

Los Gatos Rotary in the news! The Outlook wrote about our centennial and the LosGatos Weekly Times wrote about our 50+ year members we honored at our centennial. ✨We are proud to be celebrating 100 years of service above self in Los Gatos ✨

We are wrapping up our Rotary 23-24 year with Meghan’s final two meetings as president! Join us this week to socialize and learn about robotic surgery with Dr Borrison.

We are very proud to be giving out $50,000 in scholarships in 2024 to some amazing young people. Our 2024 scholarship recipients: from Leigh High School- Jacob Applebalm, Manasija Bhargaven, Isabella Beveridge, Emily Chen, Rayan Ezaz, Li-Yen Ho, Brandon Park, Dante Ruiz, and Nikitha Srinivasan. From
Los Gatos High School- Michaela Aueyung, Allison Callaghan, Pria Chandarana, Tian Chiu, Claire Galbo, Seth Greenland, Najman Mahbouba, Quinn Mekler, and Kyle Santoro. Congratulations! 🎊🎉 🎓