Blue Badge Requirements
Updated 6-25-2023
Welcome! You are now a full member of the Rotary Club of Palo Alto.
Your first six months are an opportunity to get acquainted with the work of our club and of Rotary International. After you have been a member in good standing for six months and have completed the mandatory and optional activities described below, you will have earned your permanent Blue Badge. Activities for Transferring or Returning Rotary Club members are on the next page.
Blue Badge Coordinator, Linnet Kwok: linnetkwok@hotmail.com, is available to assist you. When you complete your activities to earn your Blue Badge, please tell her. Your Blue Badge will be ordered and presented to you at a Club meeting.
Mandatory Requirements for New Rotary Club Members:
You must be a Club member in good standing for six months.
In any order, please complete all four of the items listed here and marked with an X.
____ X - Attend a Red Badge Club Orientation meeting. Blue Badge Coordinator will schedule it.
____ X - Serve on at least one committee of your choice. Ask your sponsor or the Blue Badge
Coordinator for advice.
____ X - Participate in a Club Hands-on Project, local or international. Alert will be at a club
meeting.
____ X - Give a brief personal history at a meeting - called a New Member talk.
In any order, please also complete any six of the optional items listed below.
Becoming Acquainted with Club Members
____ Give Opening Remarks at a Club meeting:
Contact Trish Bubenik: tbubenik@earthlink.net
____ Serve at the Welcome Desk at two weekly Club meetings.
Contact Katie Seedman: kseedman@gmail.com
Understanding Club Operations
____ Attend a monthly Board of Directors meeting, usually the second Wednesday at 8 AM,
via Zoom. Contact Liz Kniss: PARC.Liz.Kniss@gmail.com
via Zoom. Contact Liz Kniss: PARC.Liz.Kniss@gmail.com
____ Attend a quarterly Endowment Board meeting.
Contact Chair Betsy Bechtel
____ Attend a club committee meeting.
Contact the Committee Chair: https://www.rotarypaloalto.org/page/committees
Understanding ROTARY: Becoming Involved in Club Activities
____ Complete the 20-minute online Youth Protection Awareness Training.
Contact Ben Threlkeld, benthrelk@gmail.com, for online access directions.
____ Bring a guest to a Club meeting – perhaps a family member or a potential member.
____ Attend any District-sponsored Rotary meeting or event.
Information is available at our club meeting or on the club website.
____ Attend another Rotary Club meeting, locally or anywhere you travel.
____ Attend Gunn High School Interact meeting.
Contact Rotary/Interact Liaison, Pam Krudop: pkrudop@avidbank.com
____ Attend a Club Social Event. Information is available at a club meeting or on website.
If you are Transferring from another Rotary Club or Returning to the Rotary Club of Palo Alto:
Complete in any order all four of the items listed below as Mandatory for Transferring or Returning Rotarians and marked with an X.
____ X - Attend a Red Badge Club Orientation meeting. Blue Badge Coordinator will schedule it.
____ X - Serve on at least one committee of your choice. Ask your sponsor or the Blue Badge
Coordinator for advice.
____ X - Participate in a Club Hands-on Project, local or international. Alert will be at a club
meeting.
____ X - Give a brief personal history at a meeting - called a New Member talk.
You will be contacted by Chair Rob Lyman to arrange a date for your talk.
These items are suggested though optional.
____ Attend a monthly Board of Directors meeting, usually the second Wednesday at 8 AM,
via Zoom. Contact President Liz Kniss
____ Give Opening Remarks at a Club meeting:
Contact Trish Bubenik: tbubenik@earthlink.net
____ Serve at the Welcome Desk at two weekly Club meetings.
Contact Katie Seedman: kseedman@gmail.com