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<\/p>\nBrothers Joe and Jon Stine joined The Rotary Club of Orlando in 1961 and 1964, respectively, following in the footsteps of their father, Paul Stine, who became a Rotarian first in Sanford in 1933, serving as president there. Upon his move to Orlando in 1940, he joined the Rotary Club of Orlando and served as the president in 1946\u201347.\n<\/p>\n
From an early age, their father instilled in them one of Rotary\u2019s core principles \u2014 service to the community. Both Eagle Scouts, the brothers eventually joined their father in the family business after completing their education at the University of Florida. Joe graduated in 1956 with a degree in engineering, and Jon graduated in 1959 with a degree in business administration. After college, both served a tour in the Air Force before returning to work for their father.\n<\/p>\n
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Brothers Jon (left) and Joe Stine. (COURTESY OF BILL PEEPER)<\/p>\n
Jon Stine served as president of The Rotary Club of Orlando in 1978\u201379 and remained active in numerous club and community initiatives.\n<\/p>\n
Throughout the Stine brothers\u2019 many years of membership, they carried forward that tradition. Their Rotary service projects have included:\n<\/p>\n
\u2014Helping generate funding to build 21 classrooms in Kenya, where children previously were taught outdoors under shade trees.\n<\/p>\n
\u2014Creating literacy programs in six Orange County Title One elementary schools, providing students with casual reading books they could call their own and take home.\n<\/p>\n
\u2014Establishing and helping fund food pantries in those same schools, ensuring students from families in need had food available for weekends and holidays.\n<\/p>\n
In addition to Rotary, Joe Stine was involved with Boy Scouts, Heart of Florida Capital Funds Committee, Orlando Growth Management Plan, Associated Industries of Florida, Florida Wholesalers Association and Southern Industrial Distributors Association.\n<\/p>\n
Jon Stine was busy with Junior Achievement, Mid-Florida Industrial Development Commission and the Orange County Civic Facilities.\n<\/p>\n
The brothers said that their father was a strict boss with high expectations \u2014 not only in business but also in their personal and community lives.\n<\/p>\n
Older brother Joe said, \u201cHe was our father, our boss and our best friend,\u201d and Jon readily agreed.\n<\/p>\n
Paul Stine began working for the industrial supply company owned by Harry P. Leu in 1933 and ultimately purchased the company from him in 1940. Harry Leu, also an Orlando Rotarian and club president, later became one of Orlando\u2019s most notable philanthropists, donating his lush 56-acre estate on Lake Rowena to the City of Orlando in 1961. Today it is known as Harry P. Leu Gardens.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brothers Joe and Jon Stine joined The Rotary Club of Orlando in 1961 and 1964, respectively, following in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-269859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}