Rotary Club of Lakeway/Lake Travis

About Our Club

The Lakeway/Lake Travis Rotary Club is part of one of the greatest international organizations in the world. Our club members are dedicated people who share a passion for both community service and friendship. Our club proudly welcomes and represent the surrounding communities of Lake Travis, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and Rough Hollow. Becoming a Rotarian connects you with a diverse group of professionals who share your drive to give back.

The organization consists of local business leaders working to address various community and international humanitarian projects. The club encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build good will and peace in the world through the Ideal of Service. The club objective is to encourage and foster the Ideal of Service as a basis of worthy enterprise. Rotarians worldwide - live by the same 24-word code of ethics that is reflected in the Rotary 4-Way Test. Adopted by Rotary International in 1943, the 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages.

This simple philosophy and code consists of the following:

Of the things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

The Lakeway/Lake Travis Rotary Club was chartered in January 1992.  The Club membership includes approximately 50 professionals (both women and men) who practice the Rotary motto of "Service Above Self". Since its creation, the Lakeway/Lake Travis Rotary Club has awarded over 150 scholarships to Lake Travis Independent School District high school students and participated in many charitable events such as: 

  • Awarding scholarships to more than 300 local students, for a total scholarship fund of approximately $390,000.
  • Supporting ShelterBox USA, the largest club level Rotary project in the world, providing emergency provisions to thousands of disaster victims all over the world.
  • Sponsoring the EarlyAct program at local elementary schools. The EA program teaches the principles of ethics and integrity to children through an exciting series of lessons and charity projects.
  • Sponsoring and advising Interact Clubs, Rotary community service clubs for middle school and high school students.
  • Honoring LTHS students by awarding Student of the Month certificates for outstanding character and leadership.
  • Sponsoring the Special Olympics Awards luncheon ceremony annually.
  • Donating $50,000 to the new Lake Travis Community Library.
  • Supporting the local free Healthcare Volunteer Associates Clinic, both financially and with volunteer hours.
  • Arranging international youth exchanges for over 100 students.
  • Collecting, repairing and delivering over 550 bicycles to both Mexican and local under-privileged youths.
  • Distributing Spanish-English dictionaries each year to every LTISD sixth-grade student.
  • Providing fresh-water storage tanks for a Mexican fishing village.
  • Working with a Rotary Club in Africa to provide mosquito netting to local villages to help prevent malaria.
  • Providing physical therapy equipment and a therapy pool at a school for handicapped children in Mexico.
  • Providing two neo-natal incubators to a hospital in Mexico.
  • Providing hearing aids to over 100 indigent youth in Mexico and Austin.
  • Providing a refurbished ambulance to a hospital in Matamoras, Mexico.

The Lakeway/Lake Travis Rotary Club meets every Thursday at Salt Grass Steak House, 12613 Galleria Circle, Bee Cave, TX 78738 .Most meetings we have an interesting speaker on a variety of pertinent topics.  On first Thursdays we have an evening social hour at another local restaurant.  Check the "Speaker" schedule on the home page for details.  We'd love to have you join us. 

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