Rotary Club of Yoakum

Rotary Club of Yoakum Over 100 years of Rotarian History.

1st & 3rd Thursday of each month - noon
1026 E Gonzales, Yoakum

02/23/2026

Rotary International turns 121 today! We’re proud to have had a local club here in Yoakum for over 102 of those years!
Happy Birthday Rotary!

Happy Valentine’s Day! We started the day at the Rise Against Hunger meal-packaging event in Flatonia with the Rotary Cl...
02/14/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day! We started the day at the Rise Against Hunger meal-packaging event in Flatonia with the Rotary Clubs of Flatonia, Yoakum & Shiner plus the Flatonia Interact Club!!
We packaged about 10,000 meals that feed a family of 4.

Happy Valentine’s Day!
02/14/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day!

12/19/2025

All Roads led to Arlington! The Road to Glory! The Yoakum Bulldogs are State Champions beating Grandview 45 - 29! Yoakum Proud! 💙🐾🏈

12/18/2025

💙💙 GO BULLDOGS!! 💙💙

💙💙 BE CONFIDENT!! 💙💙
💙💙 STAY HUMBLE!! 💙💙
💙💙 FIGHT HARD!! 💙💙

We are proud of you!!

Last Friday Rotarians had their pinky’s painted purple at the Yoakum Interact Club’s Purple Pinky Project booth.The Yoak...
10/24/2025

Last Friday Rotarians had their pinky’s painted purple at the Yoakum Interact Club’s Purple Pinky Project booth.
The Yoakum Interact club is continuing their fundraiser/ awareness project today at the high school for World Polio Day.
Great job Interact students!

Here’s wishing The Proud and Spirited Bulldog Band success at contest today! We were privileged to sponsor Friday night’...
10/18/2025

Here’s wishing The Proud and Spirited Bulldog Band success at contest today!
We were privileged to sponsor Friday night’s band meal.

10/10/2025

Yesterday Shiner Rotarian Bill Bradfield was called home. Bill had a life of service to his country and community in the Army and with Rotary across the globe. For the Shiner Rotary Club, Bill was the rock of our club. He was a kind and witty man but wasn’t afraid to make sure you knew his opinion about things. He was a leader, a mentor, a storyteller and most of all our friend. In true fashion, Bill passed away just before our Wednesday meeting making it one of the very few Rotary meetings he’s ever missed in over 55 years of being a Rotarian. Bill will be sorely missed in our small but active club. His shoes will be difficult to fill, but his legacy will live on.
Rest high on that mountain friend.

10/05/2025
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10/05/2025

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4 of our tumbler raffle winners were present at the awards ceremony to pick up their prizes. Congratulations and Happy B...
10/05/2025

4 of our tumbler raffle winners were present at the awards ceremony to pick up their prizes. Congratulations and Happy Birthday Chad!
Pamela Hickey Ward Midway Construction, LLCC

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100 Years of History

The Yoakum Rotary Club was established on September 24, 1923 when Rotary International issued Charter Number 1515. This was only 18 years after the first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago by Paul Harris. Organization of a Rotary Club in Yoakum came at a time when the town was divided over a political issue. The new club reportedly helped bridge the gap between the two factions. On May 28, 1928 the Hallettsville Rotary Club was chartered with the Yoakum Rotary Club as its sponsor.

The charter directors were Ed. A. Palmer, Emanual Hertz, Carl C. Welhausen, David J. Shall, Mark C. Driscoll, Ludlow D. Buffington, and J. Kilburn Elkins. Over the years, the Yoakum Rotary Club has been involved in many activities. It currently sponsors a Rotaract Club at YHS, the Jamison Center, and distributes “I Like Me” books to the local elementary school, among other projects. It sends local youths to leadership, free enterprise, and other special study camps. Yoakum Rotary also provides several academic and vocational scholarships.

Yoakum Rotary club has an annual Clay Shoot fundraiser, hosted locally. It has grown in participation and funds raised every year that it has been put on.

The Rotary Foundation is involved in a massive polio vaccination program internationally. Since we started the fight against polio, we’ve reduced the number of polio cases by 99.9 percent and reached more than 2.5 billion children with the vaccine. There are fewer polio cases today than ever before, but we will not stop until we reach zero.