EARLYSVILLE RURITAN CLUB
EARLYSVILLE RURITANCLUB

A little bit about the Earlysville Ruritan Club

Our Club was Chartered in 1964!  We are proud to have served our community for over 60 years!

 

The Earlysville Ruritan Club imeets at the Earlysville Volunteer Fire Company.  Before we moved to the Fire Company, we had been meeting at Broadus Wood Elementary School for about 40 years.  We would like to thank the Administration and support team at Broadus Wood for their constant support by making the facility available for our Club for all those years.  

     In 2005 our Club donated $30,000 to the Earlysville Volunteer Fire Company for their building program.  They doubled the size of their facility in November 2005 which includes a large community hall (available for rent), commercial kitchen and meeting rooms .  The Earlysville Ruritan Club was a key player in the creation of the Earlysville Volunteer Fire Company over 50 years ago!  We are proud of the members of the EVFC for their dedication in the protection of the lives and property of the Earlysville community.  The EFVC has graciously opened their doors to have the Ruritans meet in the new facility.  We are very excited about our place to call home!  Their new facility is a great asset to our community.

     We are currently working on some new projects that we hope will generate the funds needed to provide more services to our area.  We are thankful for all those that have been supporters of our Club and hope that it will continue.

 

 

 

2024 Officers:

President:  Tim Martin

Vice-President:  Jeff Dunlap

Secretary:  Bill Meyers

Treasurer:  Dennis Holmberg

Acting directors:  Dale Crutchfield, Bill Jones, Tommy Eanes

 

About Ruritan

WHAT IS RURITAN?

 

Ruritan National has nearly 30,000 members throughout the United States, that work to improve more than 1,100 local communities. Since the organization’s beginning in 1928, Ruritan Clubs have served America with Fellowship, Goodwill, and Community Service. Ruritan is a civic service organization made up of local clubs in urban areas, small towns and rural communities.

Ruritan's purpose is to create a better understanding among people and through volunteer community service, make America's communities better places in which to live and work. The slogan of Ruritan is "Fellowship, Goodwill and Community Service." Club membership represents a cross-section of the community in which the club serves, and is not restrictive with regard to occupation, social position, or any other specific criteria.

Unlike most civic service organizations, Ruritan rarely has national programs. Rather, each club surveys its own community as to the needs of that community and then works to meet some of those needs. Nearly all clubs work locally with FFA, 4-H and other organizations serving youth. Nearly one in every three Ruritan clubs sponsors a Boy or Girl Scout unit.

 

HISTORY

 

The first Ruritan Club was chartered May 21, 1928, in Holland, Virginia. Since that first club, Ruritan has grown throughout the United States of America, and in doing so, has become "America’s Leading Community Service Organization."

Tom Downing of Suffolk, Virginia, and Jack Gwaltney of Holland, Virginia, are known as the co-founders of Ruritan. Gwaltney and Downing recognized the need for an organization where community leaders could meet and discuss ways to make their community a better place in which to live.

The name "Ruritan" was suggested by Daisy Nurney, a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper, and the club’s charter members unanimously adopted "Ruritan" as the organization’s name. The word is a combination of the Latin words for open country "ruri" and small town "tan," interpreted as pertaining to rural and small town life.

 

 

Contact Us Today!

We meet every 2nd Thursday @ 7PM  at the

Earlysville Vol Fire Company:

283 Reas Ford Rd
Earlysville, VA 22936
 
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