Carolyn E. Jones

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Why I Am A Rotarian

APRIL 25, 2006

I am an only child. When my mother was in her early twenties, she suffered a motorcycle injury while with her boy friend (my father). The doctors told her she would never be able to have children. About 3 years later, she and my father had one child: me. They never had another child even though they never did anything to prevent having more children.

I have a romantic streak in me and this story always had special significance. I felt that I had to be born. There was a meaning, not an accident. [Perhaps I was too self-important]

In 1997-1998, I became the governor for Rotary District 5010. Circumstances and events impelled me to promote “The Children of Russia Project.” By the end of my governor year, 132 Rotary clubs in 19 districts in 5 nations AND the Rotary Foundation had raised over $600,000 to improve the conditions of children in 22 communities in eastern Russia.

The romantic streak in me concluded that I had somehow completed the circle in life and repaid the fates that had decried that I would beat the medical odds and become me. Rotary made it possible for me to close the circle. And that is why I am a Rotarian.

Carolyn E. Jones

TRF Trustee, 2005-09

Rotary Club of Anchorage East, Alaska
District 5010

USA

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