The International Fellowship of Scouting Rotarians works to strengthen both Rotary and Scouting worldwide by engaging our members in support of both new and existing Scout units and Rotary Clubs.
Greetings From Our Officers:
President
PDG Lane Calvert
1-714-906-0929
International Commissioner
PDG Mark Kriebel
1-607-727-2420
Wanted! Photos and stories of Scouting and Rotary working together.
Our newsletter will feature stories and photos of Scouts and Rotarians supporting one another or working toward shared goals in service to others. Sometimes this means collaborating directly on a project, and other times it may mean pursuing parallel efforts that strengthen the same cause. In either case, we want to highlight these connections, share inspiration, and encourage others with examples of what can be done. Both Scouting and Rotary are stronger when we support each other.
We invite you to share your story. Please email photos and stories to webmaster/editor Steve Henning at rhodyman@earthlink.net
Welcome to new IFSR World President PDG Lane Calvert
Shown in photo: Exec. Sec. Randy Seefeldt and Asia Pacific Chair Toby Suzuki with IFSR President PDG Lane Calvert (l to r)
Lane Calvert, our new IFSR President, brings a lifetime of service to youth and community. He devoted over 40 years to the Boy Scouts of America and has lived in Orange County for more than 35 years, where he now enjoys an active retirement.
He served as Relationship Chair working with Rotary International and churches strengthening the bond between the BSA and its charter partners. Following his professional career, Lane remained deeply engaged as a volunteer in numerous nonprofit organizations. He served as President of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council and has been a board member there for over 30 years. Currently, he is the Interact Chair for Rotary District 5320, which supports 50 clubs and nearly 2,000 members. Under his leadership, two Interact Governors were appointed to the Rotary International Youth Advisory Council—one of whom was a keynote speaker at a Zone Institute and another who spoke at the recent Rotary International Convention in Calgary.
Lane’s Rotary involvement remains strong. He recently completed a second term as President of the Rotary Club of Anaheim, having previously served as District Governor for District 5320 in 2006-2007, covering Orange County and part of Los Angeles County. He has also served as an Assistant Rotary Coordinator, promoting Rotary’s fifth avenue of service: Youth. Lane currently serves on the Youth Task Force for Zones 26-27, where he champions programs such as RYLA, Interact, Youth Exchange, and Youth Protection.
Lane earned a B.S. in Recreation and Outdoor Education from California State University, Northridge, in 1973. He has served on the Parks and Recreation Commission for the City of Marina, California, and the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park Board.
He and his wife Connie reside in Costa Mesa. For over 35 years, Lane has volunteered as a naturalist at Upper Newport Bay, where he leads nature walks and shares his knowledge of local birdlife and Native American history. He also served six years on the bay’s advisory board.
In his role as Exploring Director for the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts, Lane built vital connections between youth and community leaders, providing mentorship and professional insight. He founded Rotary Workability Day, a county-wide event uniting service club leaders and special needs youth, and helped organize Scouting for Food, a long-standing community service initiative.
He is looking to Cliff Dochterman Award recipients to strengthen Scouting through the IFSR and Rotary. He is a familiar face at IFSR booths at jamborees, zone meetings, and Rotary conventions. Lane’s lifelong dedication to youth through Scouting and Rotary embodies the motto "Service Above Self." His personal theme, "Character Counts," reflects his belief in the power of mentoring and role modeling to inspire future generations and build a better world.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, 85, of Lyndhurst, Ohio passed away peacefully on Friday, June 20, 2025.
Bill Garrison was born on December 26, 1939 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania and later spent his childhood years in Findlay, Ohio. When he was ten years old, his father passed away suddenly and his mother wanted him to have a male role model, so she enrolled him in Boy Scouts.
Bill thrived in Scouting and a lifetime passion and commitment to service began. As a youth, Bill earned numerous awards in Scouting, notably the God and Country Award, the Explorer Silver Award, Eagle Scout, and was awarded the Vigil Honor, Order of the Arrow.
Bill served in numerous roles with the Boy Scouts of America, both locally and nationally. Because his lifelong concern was for the young people on the margins of society, he spent many years as Cubmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster for an inner-city Cub pack and Boy Scout troop. One of his greatest joys was seeing his young Scouts earn their Eagle and go on to lead productive lives.
Bill is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lifetime Humanitarian Award from the Rotary Club of Cleveland, the Cliff Dochterman Rotary & Scouting Service Award, the Whitney M. Young Service Award, the Silver Beaver Award, the Silver Antelope Award, and the prestigious Silver Buffalo Award awarded by the BSA for extraordinary volunteer service on the national level.
Pictured from left to right are Rowland Hill Geddie III, District Governor of District 6080; David Keller, District 6080 IFSR chairman; and Max Cook from the Jefferson City Rotary Club
David Keller presented the Cliff Dochterman Award to Max Cook at the June 12, 2025, meeting of the Jefferson City noon Rotary Club in District 6080. Max is the current outgoing president of the club and past president of the Great Rivers Council with headquarters in Columbia, MO. Max received his Eagle Scout in 1969.
Scouts put out flags on Old Tavern Rd in Newbern Heights in Pulaski before the July 4th holiday. The Rotary Club of Pulaski runs the flag program and scouts from Troop 249 provide the labor.
For the past eight years, the Rotary Club of Pulaski has worked with the Scouting America Troop 249 to raise the red, white and blue. The Rotary's flag program operates as a subscription service, where residents and business owners pay a fee to have an American flag placed on their property for patriotic holidays.
They do this five times a year. The flags go up on Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, 9-11 and Veterans Day, usually 3 days before the holiday and come down three days afterwards. So the flags are out for about a week.
For the price of $35 a year or $65 for two years, members of Troop 249 will come to your house and raise Old Glory, but how did this program come about?
The Rotary Club of Pulaski started their flag subscription service, with an eye towards raising money for backpack feeding programs, established to feed underprivileged children. The program turned out to be a success.
They have 165 flags to put out and had an income of $5,536 for flags put out in 2024. Income for 2025 is $4,475. In addition to the cost of the subscription, they had 30 customers pay $845 above and beyond the amount requested.
In addition to donating to backpack feeding programs, the Rotary Club of Pulaski pays each scout $125 for their labor. The scouts use this money to pay for their annual summer stay at Camp Powhattan, which began the following Sunday, June 29.
The program enables kids to earn money for summer camp, while showing patriotism and putting forth the effort to make the community better.
East Liverpool Rotary Club donation
East Liverpool Rotary Club President Tyler Barnhouse presented Alexis McGown of Scout Troop 2012 in East Liverpool with a donation at this past week's Rotary Club meeting. McGown is in the process of achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and the donation will go toward her Eagle Scout Project. She plans to create benches and picnic tables in Umbrella Alley downtown, along with redoing the flower bed at the end of the alley.
Scout Troop Helps Rotary Club With Memorial Day Flags
The Lock Haven community filled Triangle Park with flags for Memorial Day, with a record 171 dedications in memory and in honor of heroes and loved ones. Scout Troop 711 under Scout Master Robert Sparrow once again faithfully helped the Rotary Club of Downtown Lock Haven assemble and set up the Flags of Honor.
Community cleanup at Sewell Mill Creek
Members of the Rotary Club of East Cobb, Boy Scout Troop 1011 and the Cobb County Water System took part in a cleanup project Saturday morning, bagging a number of bags of trash along Sewell Mill Creek at East Cobb Park. It was the third annual spring cleanup organized by the Friends for the East Cobb Park. Every year the creek has been cleaner than it was the year before.
Columbiana Youth Service Awards Dinner
The Rotary Club of Columbiana held its annual Youth Service Awards Dinner at Columbiana High School Tuesday, April 22. The 2025 recipients were, from left, Outstanding Boy Scout Wyatt Hart, Eagle Scout; Outstanding Interact Student Katherine Campbell; dinner organizer Terry McCoy; Outstanding 4-H student Sarah Baer; and Outstanding Girl Scout Rosario Pantoja. Terry Shaffer served as the guest speaker.
Membership in the
International
Fellowship of
Scouting Rotarians is
open to any Rotarian,
in any country, who
was formerly or is
presently a member
or supporter of any
(girl or boy) Scout or
Guide Association.
Spouses of members and Rotaractors may become
members.
Download and print the Membership ApplicationHERE and mail to the
address indicated.
The IFSR Brochure explains the IFSR and has a
membership application included. It can be downloaded HERE and printed. A version in Spanish can be downloaded HERE and printed. (Newsletters) (Supplies for Members)
Certificates Rotarians can Present for Scouting's
Highest Award
IFSR has full color recognition
certificates for your Rotary Club or
District to present to US and Canadian
Scouts and Guides that achieve their
association's highest award. This is a
great opportunity to not only recognize
a young man or woman for his/her
Outstanding Achievement, but to make
these prospective future Rotarians
aware of Rotary and its programs.
BSA: certificates for recipients of Eagle
Scout Award and the Sea Scout
Quartermaster Award
Girl Scouts USA: for recipients of the
Girl Scout Gold Award.
Scouts and Guides in Canada: for
recipients of the Chief Scout's Award
and the Queen's Venturer Award.
Girl Guides of Canada: for recipients of the Chief Commissioner's Gold Award.
Other Organizations: for any organization there is a certificate for recipients of
their highest award, the Outstanding Achievement Certificate. It can be used for
the Summit Award in Venturing, the Spurgeon Award in Exploring, and the
highest Awards in other Scout and Guide Associations. The IFSR encourages
Scouts and Girl Guides be recognized for outstanding achievement. These
certificates may be given to any Scout or Girl Guide who has attained one of the
pinnacles of Scouting. (Certificates)
Cliff Dochterman Award - Honoring Service To Scouting
This award for
Rotarians serving
Scouting is available
through the IFSR,
Executive Secretary.
The Award honors
former RI President
Cliff Dochterman, a
devoted scouter from
Moraga, California,
USA.
Cliff Dochterman
served as the President
of Rotary International
during 1992-93. His professional career in higher education administration
included 20 years at the University of California in Berkeley and 20 years at the
University of the Pacific.
The Cliff Dochterman Award, a bronze medallion hung from a gold and blue
ribbon, may be awarded by a local Rotary Club or District Governor to an active
Rotarian who has rendered exemplary service to scouting.
Information and a nomination form are available HERE as a PDF document
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader), or from the IFSR-IAR Secretary at P.O. Box
19982, San Diego, CA 92159-0982, USA.
The Boy Scouts of America Relationships Committee has approved the wearing
of the BSA Community Service Knot by Dochterman Award recipients who are
members of the B.S.A.
It is with great pride and appreciation that the IFSR awards this recognition to
exemplary Rotarians and Scouters in the name of Dr. Clifford L. Dochterman.
The IFSR Community Service Award may be awarded by any Rotary Club to a Scout or Guide unit of their choice they wish to recognize for performing community service. The award may be given annually to any Scout or Guide unit by any Rotary Club. Recipients are selected by the Rotary Club.
This is not a Scouting award nor a Rotary award, but an IFSR award and is intended to permit Rotary Clubs to recognize Community Service performed by local Scout and/or Guide units.
To help Rotary Clubs create and print the award locally, this website has a fillable PDF version of the certificate which is easy to fill out:
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President
International Commissioner
Executive Secretary
Lane Calvert, our new IFSR President, brings a lifetime of service to youth and community. He devoted over 40 years to the Boy Scouts of America and has lived in Orange County for more than 35 years, where he now enjoys an active retirement.
IFSR Brochure and Membership Application 
IFSR has full color recognition
certificates for your Rotary Club or
District to present to US and Canadian
Scouts and Guides that achieve their
association's highest award. This is a
great opportunity to not only recognize
a young man or woman for his/her
Outstanding Achievement, but to make
these prospective future Rotarians
aware of Rotary and its programs.
This award for
Rotarians serving
Scouting is available
through the IFSR,
Executive Secretary.
The Award honors
former RI President
Cliff Dochterman, a
devoted scouter from
Moraga, California,
USA.
The IFSR Community Service Award may be awarded by any Rotary Club to a Scout or Guide unit of their choice they wish to recognize for performing community service. The award may be given annually to any Scout or Guide unit by any Rotary Club. Recipients are selected by the Rotary Club.