During this time members have an opportunity to interact, transact necessary club business and listen to an interesting speaker or discussion on diverse subjects. Regular attendance enables club members to get to know each other better and to discover different interests. The meeting atmosphere is enhanced by visitors from other clubs, often from other countries. The members also engage in other varied activities. Some of these are purely social, while others are concerned with fund raising, active participation in community events or hands-on service projects.
Many members work on the different committees designed to serve our community.
The club is run by an elected President and Board of Directors to which the various committees report. As the first Rotary Club on the Peninsula and the first service club in town, the Rotary Club of Palo Alto was officially launched on April 18, 1922. The initial meetings were held in the oak-shadowed Palo Alto Hotel at the corner of Lytton and Alma. Sixteen members signed that first charter. We are now one of the 60 clubs that make up Rotary District 5170 that stretches from Oakland south to Hollister and west to Santa Cruz.