About Rotary Club of Buffalo

More than 180 of our city’s civic and business leaders belong to Rotary Club of Buffalo, the 28th Rotary International club in the world, founded in 1911. Through our individual and corporate memberships in Rotary, we connect with people in other vocations, with business and civic organizations locally and nationally, and with other Rotarians throughout the world.
 While the Rotary Club of Buffalo has the most sought-after speaker’s platform in Western New York and has luncheon programs every week that are informative, entertaining and exciting, our purpose is to serve others. And our Club has been doing just that for more than 97 years! 


Click here to view a list of our current officers and directors.

Buffalo Rotary Foundation

The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty. 

The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.

Click here to view a list of Buffalo Rotary Foundation’s current board of trustees.

About Rotary International

Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
 There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical and nonreligious, and are open to all cultures, races and creeds.

The mission of Rotary is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards and to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through its fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.

For more information about Rotary International, visit www.rotary.org.

The Four-Way Test

In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created the Four-Way Test, a code of ethics adopted by Rotary 11 years later. The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:

Of the things we think, say or do…

         Is it the TRUTH?
         Is it FAIR to all concerned? 
         Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

         Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Club of Buffalo
Officers and Directors
2009-2010

President
Sandra L. Yeater
Tonawanda Pediatrics

Vice President
Ronald H. Caruso
R.H. Caruso & Co., Inc.

Treasurer
Michael J. Grimaldi
Lumsden & McCormick

Secretary
William P. Keefer
Phillips Lytle

President-elect
Charles C. Martorana
Hiscock & Barclay LLP

Directors

John Bradley
The Alcott Group

Joseph P. Brennan
M& T Bank

Anthony N. Diina
Metrodata Service, Inc.

Robert D. Eck
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.

Paul Hurley, Jr.
Trocaire College

David E. Knauss
Lehigh Construction Group, Inc.

Carolyn M. Murray
Hunt Commercial Real Estate

Donald Ogilvie
Erie 1 BOCES

Charles Telford
Damon & Morey, LLP

Dr. Antone F. Alber
Wehle School of Business
Canisius College

Buffalo Rotary Foundation
Board of Trustees
2009-2010

President
Paul J. Marzello Sr.
D.F. Williamson Co. Inc.

Vice President
Richard B. Adams
SFC Adams Inc. (Retired)

Secretary
Dr. Antone F. Alber
Wehle School of Business
Canisius College

Assistant Secretary
Wayne D. Bacon
Mills Welding & Specialty Gases (Retired)

Treasurer
Edwin L. Meyer
E.L. Meyer & Associates

Assistant Treasurer
Wayne M. Mertz
Goergen Mackwirth Co., Inc.

Immediate Past President
Robert J. Galdys
BCS

Trustees

Donald A. DeMeo,
Forest Lawn Cemetery

Stanley Kaznowski
Curtis Screw Company

Wayne D. Bacon
Mills Welding & Specialty Gases (Retired)