Aloha from the Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor!  Please visit us, and get to know us!!  We believe we are friends-waiting-to-happen.  

We find great value in service to our community, fellowship, and connection to Rotary around the world.  The Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor is one of 53 Rotary clubs in the 50th State and part of District 5000. Rotary started in Hawaii in 1915. The Pearl Harbor club was chartered on June 14, 1950, more than 73 years ago, and has a rich legacy of service and camaraderie!

• Since 1985, we have supported Rotary International’s Polio Plus to eradicate polio from the world; and “we are this close” to ending polio forever. 

• For 15 years, our food drive “YES I CAN” project has resulted in weekly food donations for the Hawaii Food Bank.  We regularly participate in Saturday morning food-packing drives at the Hawaii Foodbank, along with our sponsored Interact clubs.

• Like most Rotary clubs we have sister clubs.  With what club would you think Pearl Harbor would partner?  Hiroshima, of course!  The bookends of the Pacific Theatre of WWII.  Both places suffering cataclysmic events to start and end the biggest war ever.  We are celebrating 40 years of Sister Club friendship and “skinship” with the Hiroshima Tonan (Southeast) Rotary Club.  This is one of the cornerstones of our Rotary Club activities — our sister club relationship — which we believe promotes peace and understanding, the grassroots way.  We also enjoy sister relationships with Tokyo Osaki and the Vladivostok RC.

• We clean the Ehime Maru Memorial and surrounding Kaka’ako Park the 3^rd Saturday morning of every June.

• We sponsor and participate in Rotary youth programs, to include providing scholarships for high school seniors. The Hawaii Rotary Youth Foundation (HRYF) provides an annual $5,000 scholarship to the winner of our scholarship competition, and member Dudley Fullard-Leo has funded scholarships for other applicants.  We also assist with the District 5000 Youth Leadership Conference, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), and we sponsor a Student of the Quarter program where we host and honor students from nearby Radford HS.  We have long-sponsored the Interact Clubs at Radford and Moanalua HS and involve their members in our service projects and Rotary leadership programs. 

• For literacy, we have adopted Aiea Elementary School and sponsor several projects – their Literacy Club Program, Backpack Project, Dictionary Project, Families and Children Read to Each Other, and Dr. Seuss Read Aloud.

• Our participation in District 5000’s Dictionary Project provides over 1000 dictionaries to third graders in the Pearl Harbor area. 

If you would like to learn more about Rotary and our club, please call or email us!

Aloha!

Stephen G. Dyer

Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor, President 2023-24