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Thank you for visiting our West Wichita Rotary Club Website! Rotary is a diverse group of local businessmen and women dedicated to promoting Service above Self throughout the community and world.
Chartered in 1987, our club provides each member with a unique opportunity to serve others. We support our community with projects throughout the year, including building and delivering bookshelves for several west Wichita Title 1 schools, partnering with local schools to identify families in need of groceries, providing gifts for needy families at Christmas and ringing bells for the Salvation Army. Our club also supports international goodwill through the Open World Program and Rotary Inter-country Teacher Exchange (RITE). We have many opportunities to give back to our community and world that you will find very rewarding.
Please, take a few moments and discover all that our club has to offer by browsing our website.
Upcoming Speakers
Delane Butler, VP of Marketing & GM, El Dorado, KS
Oct 03, 2023 12:00 PM
The Outreach Program
It is rare for nonprofits to merge, but today’s speaker will share his first-hand experience with the recent merging of a local Kansas nonprofit into a larger Iowa-based nonprofit with overlapping missions.
Delane Butler’s nonprofit merging experience involves El Dorado-based Numana, of which he served as President since 2021, and The Outreach Program based in Union, Iowa. Numana’s mission was to empower people to serve the hungry and they accomplished this by conducting volunteer meal-packaging events in Kansas and across the United States. The Outreach Program also serves the hungry through meal-packaging events in addition to providing safe water, education and medical help to those in need.
During the presentation, Delane will share highlights of his experience with managing Numana’s side of merging into The Outreach Program and its four areas of nonprofit work.
Delane has a passion for consistent branding and has extensive experience in the nonprofit world. Previous to the Numana position, he served as Vice President of Marketing at United Way of the Plains in Wichita for 24 years and Communications Associate at United Way of Central Indiana in Indianapolis. He has served on the boards of the Kansas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Advertising Federation of Wichita, and on the elder board at Pathway Church.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Texas Tech University. He is married to Alicia Butler, Wichita Area Director for Safe Families for Children, a Chicago-based nonprofit, and they have five children.
Past Speakers
David Weber Extra Effort Awards
Rotary Club of West Wichita works with teachers at Lawrence Elementary and Benton Elementary to recognize students for their extra effort. Students are given a small plaque and teachers explain the traits that helped them earn the award. This program was started in the late 1980s by the late David Weber, a music educator at Friends University and club member.
Repainting a US map at Lawrence Elementary
These oversized maps of the United States are on dozens of our playgrounds throughout our district. This map at Lawrence Elementary was one of our first and needed a fresh paint job. Teachers use these maps for a variety of educational purposes and the maps are an example of Rotary's ongoing community service.
Rotarians deliver gift cards to local teachers
Elementary teachers at Benton and Lawrence start the school year with more cash to buy school supplies thanks to a grant from the West Rotary Foundation. Watch the video of teachers getting the gifts
Member Birthdays:
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Christy BarnettOctober 4
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June CostinOctober 4
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Paul BlissettOctober 8
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Joe TerickOctober 21
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Diana FredelakeOctober 24
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Nancy ChadickOctober 24
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Vern KlassenOctober 30
Join Date:
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Christy BarnettOctober 5, 20212 years
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Sharon WestOctober 9, 200122 years
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Stephanie FlamingOctober 19, 20212 years
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Ann WelbornOctober 21, 200320 years
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Jamie WiseOctober 21, 200815 years
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Ed FreyOctober 29, 200221 years
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Lori TaylorOctober 30, 200716 years