Zonta Club of Springfield, Illinois
The Zonta Club of Springfield, Illinois was chartered on November 4, 1939. In addition to contributing to the international projects, it has served the local community in many ways during the years. Members donate time, talent and financial help to projects that assist people of all ages.
The Club meets every second Wednesday of the month from August through June. Meetings are held at The Illini Country Club (with the exception of January) with a social starting at 5:30 P.M. and dinner at 6:00 P.M. A business meeting is conducted and guest speakers talk on topics of general interest to the group.
Local Projects
Money raised the previous club year is donated the following year to various projects. One third of the total amount is given to Zonta International for Amelia Earhart fellowships, International service projects, Violence Against Women program and other international programs. The remaining money is used for local service projects, which include:
- Prairie Center for Sexual Assault
- Family Service Center
- Contact Ministries for needy people
- SPARC
- Sojourn Shelter for battered women
- St. John's Women Care
- Mercy (home for homeless women and children)
- Lincoln Library
- Golden Laurel Banquet for graduating high school honor students
- Mary Bryant Home for the Blind
- Gerentology Scholarship at University of Illinois in Springfield
Service Projects for which members gave of their time included:
- Golden Laurel Awards Banquet
- Tree of Wishes for needy people
- Dinner at the Mary Bryant Home for the Blind
Club Bylaws:
Article XIV in the Zonta International Bylaws covers the convention mandated requirements for club operations.
The Zonta Code
- To pledge myself to uphold and practice the ideals of Zonta.
- To honor my work and consider it an opportunity for service.
- To increase the measure of that service by consistent self-improvement.
- To contribute by study and action to the improvement of the legal, political, economic, educational, health and professional status of women.
- To work for the advancement of understanding, good will and peace, through a world fellowship of executives in business and the professions united in the Zonta ideal of service.
Club Collect
- Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.
- Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking.
- May we put away all pretense and meet each other fact to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.
- May we never be hasty in judgement and always be generous.
- Let us take time for all things, make us to grow calm, serene, gentle.
- Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straight-forward and unafraid.
- Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences; that in the big things of life we are as one.
- And may we strive to touch and to know the great common woman's heart of us all, and O lord God, let us forget not to be kind.
by Mary Stewart
Zonta Blessing
We thank thee Father, for this food
And for Thy gracious loving care.
Help us to honor Zonta's Code:
To be in all things fair and square.
And grant our prayer for lasting peace
for every nation everywhere.
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For further information about the Zonta Club of Springfield, Illinois contact
Carol E. Borecky or Caroline K. Nelson
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This Web Page was constructed by Caroline K. Nelson and Kent Borecky January, 1999; updated November, 2004