Center Rotary Club meets Tuesday at 12 noon at the John D. Windham Civic Center in Center, Texas.

History

Club Presidents - 100 Years of Leadership

2026 Pending...
2025 Lawrence Davis *PHF
2024 Rayford Copelin *PHF +2
2023 Steve Waters *PHF +1
2022 Cancee Lester *PHF
2021 Faythe Abraham
2020 Camille Stanfield *PHF
2019 Collin Mathews *PHF
2018 Hollie Adams *PHF
2017 Scott Stanfield *PHF +1
2016 Jason Balkcom *PHF
2015 Anna Lee *PHF
2014 J.J. Ford *PHF
2013 Thomas Morrison
2012 Misty Wilburn *PHF
2011 Gerald Mackey *PHF
2010 JoAnna Martin *PHF
2009 Ed Johnson *PHF
2008 Chandra Atholi *PHF
2007 David Hailey *PHF
2006 Steven Shires *PHF
2005 Cam McElroy *PHF
2004 Chad Nehring *PHF
2003 Spence Dance *PHF
2002 Will Lucas *PHF
2001 Rayford Copelin *PHF +2
2000 Rayford Copelin *PHF +2
1999 Steve Waters *PHF +1
1998 Murray Mathews *PHF
1997 Ed Konderla *PHF +1
1996 Ron Phillips *PHF
1995 Doug Efferson
1994 Howell Howard *PHF

1993 Paul Alexander *PHF
1992 Roy Blackshear *PHF
1991 John Black *PHF
1990 Robert Poffinbarger
1989 Guy Harrison
1988 Hank Halvorson *PHF
1987 Bob Reeves *PHF
1986 Rick Campbell *PHF
1985 Rev. Dyson V. Nickle, Sr. *PHF
1984 Dr. Robert Hughes
1983 Dr. Joe Hooker *PHF +1
1982 Wayne Cosby
1981 Steve Moss
1980 Joe West
1979 Jackie Hilton
1978 Richard Newsome *PHF
1977 David Chadwick *PHF +1
1976 Billy Parmer
1975 Dr. James G. Rogers, Jr. *PHF
1974 John Reagan Harris *PHF
1973 T. Julian Taylor *PHF
1972 Kenneth Allen
1971 Dudley Davis *PHF
1970 Richard Boyette
1969 Richard Boyette
1968 Chester McLeroy
1967 James Campbell *PHF +2
1966 Tom McLeroy *PHF
1965 William D. George
1964 Vernon H. Wilson
1963 Bill Bowlin
1962 Alvis Howard *PHF
1961 Dr. Lester Warren
1960 Jack K. Garrett

1959 D.S. Melver
1958 Frank Rawls
1957 George Slaughter
1956 Dr. Victor M. Mathews
1955 Duke Taylor, Jr. *PHF
1954 Bob Pinkston
1953 Malcolm Weaver
1952 Stanton Menefee
1951 Fred Eden
1950 Eugene Haley
1949 Heber Parker
1948 Kenneth M. McFarland, Jr.
1947 W.E. Griffith
1946 Dave McNeill, Jr.
1945 Rex Payne
1944 Prentice Sanders
1943 Guy Cowser
1942 Andy Messinger, Jr.
1941 Clinton Heartfield
1940 Jack Motley
1939 Rev. Nimmo Goldston
1938 Rev. Andrew D. Lemons
1937 F.L. Moffett *PHF
1936 Butler Johnson
1935 Dr. Jack Windham
1933-34 Depression
1932 Dr. Jack Windham
1931 Dr. J.C. Hurst
1930 Walter B. Rider
1929 T. Wood Smith
1928 T.O. Davis
1927 Oz Metz
1926 W.C. Windham
1925 R.S. Sanders

*PHF represents Paul Harris Fellow and the + number equals the total amount donated. Example: PHF +1 means (2) two Paul Harris Fellows have been awarded.
A Rotary year runs from July 1st through June 30th.

Highlights of Community Contributions

Big accomplishments ($10,000 or more):

$1,180,887 to the Catherine Pinkston Roughrider Scholarship Foundation (1991-2018)
$50,000 to the John D. Windham Civic Center (2010)
$50,000 to the Center Softball Field (2012)
$25,000 to the pavilion at the Center Baseball Park (2005 Rotary International Centennial Project)
$20,000 to the Center Soccer Association for equipment and stands (2020)
$15,000 to the Shelby College Center (1986)
$15,000 to the Center Boy's Baseball for lights (2008)

Additional contributions:

$9,000 ($3,000 over 3 years) to PolioPlus for Rotary's 100-year Project) (2003-2005)
$1,600 every year to Shelby County Outreach Ministries Ensure Program (Since 2013)
$2,000 to Center Youth Softball for field lights (2010)

Projects using District 5910 Match Funds:

Heater and Fan Drive (2003)
ADA Equipment Installed at Portacool Park (2023)
New Carpet Installed in the Redditt Room of the Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library (2024)
Books for Elementary students Grades 1st-3rd for all Shelby County schools (2025)

Rotary Club of Center Chartered in 1925

On May 5, 1925, fifteen Center business and professional men met at the Polley Hotel in Center to discuss plans to form a Rotary Club. Nacogdoches Club and their special representative, Eugene H. Blount, and District 13 Governor Harry H. Rogers, the organizational meeting resulted in electing R.S. Sanders as the Center Club's first president; J.C. Hurst, vice-president; W.W. Mayes, secretary and treasurer; and M.H. Voss, sergeant at arms; W.C. Windham, board member. Charter members: J.C. Blake, C.E. Hall, T.L. Hurst, O.F. Metz, F.E. Parker, Roy Payne, W.J. Rogers, S.H. Sanders, L.C. Smith, and M.M. Weaver.

On May 26, 1925, Rotary Club of Center was admitted to membership in Rotary International!

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