About Rotary Club of Buffalo

More than 150 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 100 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
2010-2011

Charles C. Martorana - President
John Bradley- Vice President
Charles Telford- Secretary
Joseph P. Brennan- Treasurer
Ronald H. Caruso– President Elect
Sandra L. Yeater – Past President

DIRECTORS 2010-2011 Term
Terms Expire June 30, 2011
John Bradley
Joseph P. Brennan
Robert D. Eck
Michael J. Grimaldi
William P. Keefer
David E. Knauss

DIRECTORS 2011-2012 Term
Terms Expire June 30, 2012
Bryce Bixby
Megan Burns-Moran
Anthony N. Diina
Carolyn M. Murray

Buffalo Rotary Foundation
Board of Trustees
2009-2010

Richard B. Adams - President
Edwin L. Meyer - Vice President
Charles Telford– Secretary
Wayne Bacon– Assistant Secretary
Antone F. Alber – Treasurer
Wayne Mertz– Assistant Treasurer
Paul J. Marzello - Immediate Past President
Stanley Kaznowski (2011)
Wayne D. Bacon (2012)
Wayne W. Mertz (2013)
Charles Telford (2014)
Sandra L. Yeater (2014)
Charles C. Martorana – Club President
Ronald H. Caruso Club President-Elect
Sandra L. Yeater Chair, Community Grants
Committee

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS 2010-2011

Ray Klinginsmith - President
Rotary International
One Rotary Center
1560 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60201

Karen L. Oakes
District Governor 7090
1123 Charlottesville Road 5, Rural Route 2
Simcoe, Ontario, Canada N3Y 4K1
Home Phone: (519) 426-2331
E-mail: oakes.kl@sympatico.ca