Welcome to our Texarkana Sunrise Rotary Club!
Texarkana Sunrise Rotary Club was chartered 1999. Rotary 5830 District Governor Ted Huffhines, Club President Patty Collier, 2016-2019 Assistant Governor Ralph Waits.
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: FIRST - The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; SECOND - High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; THIRD - The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarians' occupation as an opportunity to serve society; FOURTH - The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
2017-2018 President, Patty Collier received honours for Club Rotary Foundation Giving for 2016-2017 Immediate Past President, Karen Wall's club year
Texarkana Sunrise RC President Patty Collier accepts award for 2016-2017 Past President Karen Wall
The following awards are: Per Capita Annual Giving, EREY, Foundation Giving Club From left to right: IPDG Lee Montgomery, Texarkana Sunrise RC President Patty Collier, DG Ted Huffhines
Club Members from left to right:Doug Bowers, Wilson Hood-Honorary Member, Shirley Pinnix Evans, Ralph Waits, Joe Warren, Patty Collier, Mary Wormington, Karen Wall, Becky Bunch, Robert Bunch, Dave Dutton, Steve Rogers, Steve Collier ( not pictured Chad Carlile, Katie Shonkwiler)
Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
DG Ted Huffhines addressed over 180 Teachers, Principals, Superintendents and Rotarians, Thursday, April 5, 2018 at Texarkana Rotary Clubs' 25th Annual Teachers Appreciation Luncheon. This year's Rotary International Theme is: "Making a Difference". Teachers do make a difference in the lives of our children everyday. 
Keynote Speaker, Texas State Representative Gary VanDeaver asked the question to the audience of Educators, " Does what you say matter?" Rep. VanDeaver, told a true story of two young ladies that had the same first name. The rest of the story is yes, what you say does make a difference. 
Brandon Washington with Texarkana College was Sunrise Rotary Club guest speaker on March 21, 2018.
Cassy Meisenhelmer, Development Director with Belay Global was Sunrise Rotary Club's guest speaker on March 14, 2018.
RYLA Students and Leaders speaks to Sunrise Rotary Club on March 7, 2018.
On February 21, 2018, Mark Bledsoe, Executive Director of Greater Texarkana United Way speaks to Texarkana Sunrise Rotary Club about the upcoming trip to Moscow.
Eddie Lamb speaks about BriExit on February 14, 2018 to the Sunrise Rotary Club Members.
December 9, 2017, Texarkana, Arkansas and Texarkana, Texas Police Departments held their annual shop with a cop event. Texas side officers shopped with children at Target while Arkansas side officers were at Walmart. Both departments arrived at the stores with a long convoy of police vehicles with their lights and sirens blaring.
J. Wilson Hood was born June 29, 1933, at Nida, OK, on the outskirts of Milburn, OK, the only son of Nina Monteen Johnson Hood and Woodrow Wilson Hood. After graduating from Velma-Alma High School in Velma, OK, he attended Murray Junior College in Tishomingo, OK. After serving in the United States Army, he went to Oklahoma A&M (O.S.U.), where he graduated with a degree in Dairy Manufacturing.
