Districts can nominate a member who has performed service in all five Avenues of Service for an award from Rotary International.
This year the recipient fulfilled all the Avernus of Service with additional work in literacy and a tremendous amount of time, energy and donations put forth towards our efforts to enhance Peace in the world. Please see her impressive bio below.
I am very proud to announce that Carol Fellows, MD from the Rotary E-Club of the State of Jefferson was this year’s recipient. Please reach out to her and extend our heartfelt congratulations on this prestigious and well-deserved award.
My Life in Rotary
Joined RC of Klamath County 1972, one of three women in club of 185 members.
Club president in 2001-02, adding 49 new members, back up to 182 after its decline. Five community projects, five international projects, successful challenge to raise highest ever donations to TRF to date. Very fun year.
AG Klamath and Lake, four years
Attended RC of Kampala North, 1994, knew I was hooked and had become a Rotarian. First Matching Grant with them to rehabilitate a shelter for women anesthesia candidates.
Five MGs with RC Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2004-5.
Three prosthetic hand projects in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.
Started Klamath Cares/Klamath Reads in 2000 with 1000 first graders, later spread as Gift of Literacy or by other names to multiple other communities in Oregon and northern California. Now in 24th year.
Co-founder of Rotary First Harvest of Oregon, 2002, no longer in existence
District Rotarian of the Year 2005.
RI Service Above Self award 2006.
D5110 District Secretary 2007-08, DG visits with Tim to all 73 district clubs, two newly chartered
District Governor Nominee, 2007 (resigned to pursue prosthetic hand project after Tim’s DG year)
D9210 District Conference, Mombasa (co-presenter) 2006
Five Presidential Peace Conferences – Nairobi (co-presenter) 2007; SLC, Victoria, Atlanta, Bangkok
Nine RI conventions: Barcelona, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Bangkok, LA, Sydney, New Orleans, Atlanta, Hamburg
Chulalongkorn visit/graduation 2012
Duke/UNC visit/graduation 2015
Endowed Carol Fellows and Tim Bewley Rotary Peace Fellowship in 2008
Twelve trips to ORC including our induction into the Arch Klumph Society in 2009
Peace Center Immersion Event, University of Queensland, Brisbane 2014
Organized Rotary Peace Fellowship alumni “unconference” in Hamburg in 2019, leading to formation of the Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association.
D5110 Rotary Peace Fellowships Subcommittee Chair, 2011-19
Rotary Peace Centers Major Gifts Initiative Committee 2011-15
Rotary Peace Centers Committee 2015-19 (site visit to Uppsala in 2018)
Peace Centers dinners hosted or co-hosted – Ashland, Scottsdale, Long Beach, Squaw Valley, Reno, Victoria
National Immunization Days trip to India, 2015
Councils on Legislation, Chicago, 2016 and 2019
Zone Institutes – multiple
~~ fifty four international clubs visited in 17 countries: Mexico, Panama, UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Kyrgyzstan, NZ, Australia, India, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, India and Thailand, some multiple times
Fifty six presentations in Western US: “Rotary and Peace: Demythologizing Rotary Peace Fellowships”
Favorite Rotary memory: Hilarious wedding put on by the RC of Muyenga in 2007 with drummers and dancers, mock priest, brother and parents, wedding cake, feast and dancing.
Proudest of:
Our district’s 21 Rotary Peace Fellows, three currently enrolled, with one we helped with his wife and two small daughters get out of Afghanistan so he could pursue his fellowship at the Rotary Peace Center in Brisbane, Australia.
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