Fellowships

Contributed photo/Deb Clark
FELLOWSHPS — On June 27, the Houlton Rotary Club presented three Paul Harris Fellows. This year’s Rotarian recipients are Brenda Brown, left and Jon McLaughlin, middle, while the community recipient is Marie Carmichael. The Paul Harris Fellow is the highest recognition that can be awarded to an individual. The Paul Harris Fellowship is named for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary with three business associates in Chicago in 1905. The Fellowship was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for a contribution of $1000 to the humanitarian and educational programs of The Rotary Foundation. Those programs include projects that save and invigorate the lives of people around the world and enhance international friendship and understanding. Foundation programs provide educational opportunities, food, potable water, health care, immunizations, and shelter for millions of people. These activities are funded, implemented and managed by Rotarians and Rotary clubs around the globe.  Rotarians designate a Paul Harris Fellow to recognize another person whose life demonstrates a shared purpose with objectives and mission of the Rotary Foundation to build world understanding and peace.