The Winston-Salem Sertoma Club is an organization of men and women united in the ideal of service to the community and exists for the high and noble purpose of benefitting mankind at large. The name of our club identifies this purpose. Sertoma stands for SERvice TO MAnkind. Our club is composed of about 35 business people from this area who are interested in serving others through a civic club. We meet weekly for lunch, fellowship, club business and an interesting program to help keep us current with the events in our community. This meeting is the heart of our club, where friendships are made and guest speakers inform and entertain members.
A Sertoma club is an organization with membership open to all those who share a common aspiration of interest, usually in the civic and youth fields, and who become members by their own decision. There is no doubt that a Sertoma club fulfills certain basic human needs such as self-expression, an outlet for creative drives, and self-assertion through collective action. It also offers a measure of recognition and security in addition to personal development in leadership training.
Sertoma gives you a unique opportunity to grow as an individual. You will develop interpersonal skills from public speaking to working with a group of diverse individuals, from raising money for a good cause to holding elective office. You will gain a better understanding of your community and its problems, and you will work with business and political leaders to help solve them. And you and your family will develop new and lasting relationships as you get to know your fellow Sertomans throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. But to be honest, Sertoma will gain as much or more by having YOU as a member! The membership requirements may be found by clicking here on membership.
The Winston-Salem Sertoma Club has sponsored many local community services in our area depending on need and the availability of funds. We regularly contribute to the Salvation Army and participate in their yearly bell-ringing drive. Our primary sponsorship emphasis though is on speech and hearing impairments and is represented by the Sertoma Interclub Council, which conducts a summer speech therapy program for children and hearing screenings for adults and children. We also operate a summer camp for speech and hearing-impaired children at Camp Sertoma, an American Camping Association accredited 800-acre camp located near Hanging Rock State Park. For more information, contact the Camp Sertoma Club.
Our club plans its own service work to fit the needs of the community, a system which encourages the development of unique and imaginative service programs and gives members an opportunity to serve in an either a group or an individual way. Sertoma clubs provide people with an ideal outlet for their energy, their enthusiasm and their dedication to serve their communities. One way we do this is through fundraisers like bar-b-ques and golf tournaments. One of the more exciting fundraisers for the year was the recently-held golf tournament at Oak Valley Golf Club on October 3, 2008. We are eagerly looking forward to next year's tournament as a way to raise funds for many worthwhile programs.
Our Club meets weekly (except around holidays) for lunch on Mondays at 12:00 PM at the Golden Corral Restaurant, Hanes Mall Shopping Center. The meeting agenda includes fellowship, lunch, an opportunity to meet new people and develop relationships with others in the same or different professions, club business and a program. The programs that have been presented in the past have been outstanding. We have had the honor of welcoming such dignitaries as Mayor Allen Joines, Sheriff William Schatzman, and State Representative Dale Folwell, as well as directors and representatives of community agencies such as Samaritan Ministries, Goodwill, Crisis Control, The Salvation Army and the Winston-Salem Center for the Hearing Impaired. Upcoming program dates can be found here.
The meetings are important to the vitality of the club and we strive to make them interesting and informative, but the meetings are also scheduled to be punctual and convenient so as not to interfere with busy personal agendas. The Sertoma Emblem shown at the top of this page is a badge of true fellowship, assistance and friendship, and will always stand as an ever-present reminder of the great strength of those united, and the frail weakness of the separated. The Roman fasces ever recalls the ancient lesson of the bundle of branches which was impossible to break when bound together, but was easily destroyed when separated. It is the hope that Sertoma clubs be bound closely together in the spirit of cooperation, fellowship and goodwill in Sertoma International, and that they will be an unbreakable power for good, advancement, helpfulness and strength in every community. We hope that you will join us in the future as our guest for one of our meetings, and consider joining us.
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