Meetings: Tuesdays 12:15PM to 1:30PM, at the Cannstatter 9130 Academy Road, Philadelphia, PA 19114 (tel.: 215332-0121 For more information, call Club President Tom Finnegan, phone: 1-856-665-5386 or Membership Chairperson Carol Bombas at 215-745-4360

Frankford-Northeast Philadelphia Rotary Club president Thomas Finnegan shakes the hand of Jim Ryal after handing him a check for $1,000 to go to the ShelterBox organization from the Rotary. Jim Ryal explained that the mandates for the ShelterBox international disaster relief charity are to work quickly and simply.
Ryal, the Pennsylvania representative for ShelterBox USA, recalled the response after an earthquake ravaged Haiti on January 12.
“The decision to deploy to Haiti was made twelve minutes after the earthquake struck,” he said. Ryal was the guest speaker last week at the weekly Frankford-Northeast Philadelphia Rotary Club meeting. Afterward, club president Tom Finnegan presented him with a $1,000 check for the charity. .
CTCA staffers address Frankford-Northeast Philadelphia Rotary Club
As Cancer Treatment Centers of America nears its fifth anniversary in the Northeast, two staff members outlined the hospital’s mission at last week’s meeting of the Frankford-Northeast Philadelphia Rotary Club.
CTCA opened in December 2005 at 1331 E. Wyoming Ave., in the site of the former Parkview Hospital.“The growth has been tremendous,” said Dr. Jeff Sklar, director of chiropractic services.
Sklar was joined by Nhu Huynh, the hospital’s director of nutrition. Sklar attributes the company’s success to the passion of founder Richard J. Stephenson, who acted after becoming dissatisfied with the care his mother received when she was fighting cancer in 1982.
The Purpose of  our Rotary Club: a founding principle of Rotary was to provide a forum for professional and business leaders for Professional Networking (business owners, people in management positions). We create ways to raise money and use these financial resources to help humanity on a local community level, national level, international level, as well as helping our own Rotary Club thrive. About 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,500 Rotary Clubs worldwide (Rotary International). Local clubs may combine their humanitarian influence worldwide. As of June, 2004, 209 countries are polio-free as a result of the Rotary PolioPlus program, to stamp out Polio in underprivileged countries of the world. We also award scholarships to our local community’s students who need help in furthering their educational goals. We also help to provide disaster relief, and help in world peace through funding Ambassadorial (educational) Scholarships, whose recipients serve as unofficial “ambassadors of goodwill” in foreign countries. We ‘give-back’ to the people of our local community because of them, our businesses have become more successful. Rotary Clubs are benevolent business networking organizations destined to help in various humanitarian ways in the local community as well as in the worldwide community.

First time guest prospective Rotarians are welcome to enjoy a complimentary lunch. Our club features a guest speaker at most Tuesday meetings. Speakers are welcome to contact our club to schedule a speaking engagement date. Speakers are presented from 1:00PM thru 1:30PM, who also enjoy a complimentary buffet. Luncheon served from 12;15PM through 1PM.

Club Officers: 
  • Club Officers:
  • President, Tom Finnegan
  • President-Elect -Margaret Kelly
  • Vice President - Carol Bombas
  • Secretary, Joe Cohill
  • Treasurer, Joe Cymbor
  • Sergeant-at-Arms, Russ Urzi
  • Past President Teri Grumbrecht
Board Members:
Club President 2010-11 Tom Finnegan, Past President Teri Grumbrecht, Carrie Rice, Chuck Killian, Joe Cohill, Joe Cymbor,
Russ Urzi, Jim Stanton