From left are Kevin Sixbey, Rotary Club of Jamestown president; John Healy, incoming club president; Rotarian Steve Sandberg, Pat Sandberg, and Dr. Greg Jones, Rotary Club’s Foundation chair, celebrating the Sandbergs’ Paul Harris Fellow Awards.

Steve Sandberg was honored recently with his third Paul Harris Fellow Award at the club’s annual recognition dinner by Dr. Gregory Jones, club Foundation Committee chairman.

Sandberg has been a Rotarian since 1995 and served as club president in 2010-11. He was president of Sandberg Kessler Architecture & Engineering PC, founded in 1991 and provided comprehensive design services for educational, municipal. and institutional clients in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. A graduate of South Carolina’s Clemson University, Sandberg has received awards for projects such as Harvey C. Fenner Elementary School in Falconer, Frewsburg Central Middle/High School, and Brocton Central School.

After his retirement, Sandberg took an active role in leading the Vocational Service Committee and developed a relationship with the Jamestown High School Business Department for the club to participate in mock interviews with JHS students to prepare them for the workplace.

He was a leader in developing the formula that the local Rotary Club uses to see that its earned money raised go to support Rotary’s goals in a consistent and balanced manner.

In turn, Sandberg presented his wife Pat with a Paul Harris Fellow Award as well. Mrs. Sandberg devoted her working life to a career in nursing.

“I can’t think of anything more honorable than being committed to caring for other people,” Sandberg said. “Nursing is a way of life for my wife – in the care she shows for me and her family and friends, in the respect she has for the rights of others and in the care, she shows for our earth.”

Sandberg and his wife Pat, have three grown sons and two grandchildren.

The Paul Harris Fellow Award is named for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary International with three business associates in Chicago in 1905. The fellowship was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for a contribution of $1,000 or more to the humanitarian and educational programs of the Rotary Foundation. Those programs include an array of projects that save and invigorate the lives of people around the world and enhance international friendship and understanding. Foundation programs provide educational opportunities, food, potable water, health care, immunizations, and shelter for millions of persons. Activities are funded, implemented, and managed by Rotarians and Rotary clubs around the globe. Rotary International is the world’s largest service organization with more than 1.4 million members in over 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 168 countries.

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