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S i B T T D ST A 18 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1022, ‘ ROTARY MEMBER New Britain Trust Co. LA, Sprague ROTARY MEMBER Porter & Dyson Co., Jewelers Geo. H. Dyson ROTARY MEMBER Volz Floral Co., Florists Albert N. Volz ROTARY MEMBER McMillan Store, Inc., Dry Goods Rackliffe Bros., Hardware ROTARY MEMBER ROTARY MEMBER Wm. G. Muller, Cigar Manufacturer Wm. G. Muller ROTARY MEMBER L ) Howard C. Wilson in the United States. Origin of Rotary Seventeen years ago, Paul P. Harris, an attorney in the City of Chicago, was tor- mented with an unmitigated obsession to achieve somethingof benefit tohumanity. The lonesomeness of the large city, the dull routine of business, and the earnest desire to enlarge his circle of acquaint- ances spurred him into decisiva action. He invited three friends to his office—a coal dealer, a mining operator, and a merchant tailor—to whomhe deliberately elucidated his idea of forming a club, a unique club, that would be wholly differ- ent from any othef existing orgamzanon H a club that would promulgate the spirit of service, make business men better business men, develop a wide acquaint- anceship, and afford its members an opportunity to serve society. This mecting occurred on February 23, 1905, and was the actual arrival of baby Rotary into a world that received her with open arms. Members consisted of one man from each business or profession, who'met in rotation at their places of business to discuss various questions that might arise from time to time, and to offer suggestions concerning the welfare of the community. Inorder tostrengthen fellowship, it was unanimously agreed that each member should call the other by his first name or by his nickname. _ Membership in the Chicago Rotary Club increased very rapidly and just three years after its inception, the second Rotary Club was organized in San Fran- cisco. The worthy movement spread along the Pacific Coast, crossed the con- tinent, and crept north and south on the Atlantic Coast. At the close of the year 1910, sixteen clubs had been organized “He Profits Most Rotary Acl marks the history of the The initial Convention of Rotary Clubs W. L. Hatch & Co., Insurance R S past seventeen years of | Rotary activity is due en- | tirely to, and its ultimate worth is marked by, the manner in which dach individual club has lived up to the creed that “HE PROFITS MOST | WHO SERVES BEST.” £ & £ The real achievement of Rotary lies in the way this spirit of service is re- flected in the community in which a club has been established. Its activities are varied and numerous and are usually confined to those things which no other organization is formed to accomplish, although some of its greatest achieve= ments, and necessarily its least known activities, have been in promoting work for and with other organizations was held in Chicago in 1910. The “Na- tional Association’” was formed at this Convention.: But, two yearslater, at the Duluth Convention in 1912, Rotary cevalved from a national organization to an international organization. Rotary has grown more rapidly since 1912 than during the first seven years. Today there are more than one thousand Rotary Clubs in, the world with approx- imately eighty*thousand members. Al- though the greater number are in the United States, the land of its birth, there are now Rotary Clubs in Canada, New- foundland, Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, France, Ireland, Cuba, South America, South Africa, the Republic of Panama, Japan, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, the Phillppine Islands and many other countries. Inquiries have been re- ceived from Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Falkland Islands and British East Africa, which clearly manifest the far-reaching fame of Rotary. ROTARY MEMBER Rogers Recreation Building - Geo. C. Rogers [ Delbert K. Perry, Architect ROTARY MEMBER iy @ D. K. Perry ROTARY MEMBER Hart & Cooley, Manafdctarers E. C. Goodwin along the lines which these other organizations are given public recognition LS e : _ of accomplishment. Thus during the great war, Rotarians, nominated by A International Headquarters or the local club, at the request of government E a stern Brl‘.‘k CO., Brlck Man afacturers departments or war work organizations like the Red Cross, Y. M. C. .A., etc., formed the nucleus groups about which were built many most active and R. O. Clark : efficient local organizations. ROTARY MEMBER Taking the achievements of all Rotary Clubs in the eastern and x}/estern hemispheres, they touch every phase of community life. Twenty-five thousand boys and girls who had quit school were influ- enced to return last September through the activity of 114 Rotary Clubs in the “back-to-school” movement which began with the Blackwell, Okla homa, Rotary Club three years ago. That is just one of the phases of what| is termed Boys Work—one of the several special agencies through which| practically every club in the international organization has been active. Carl S. Ramsay B o e e o~ — " ROTARY MEMBER ' g Putnam & Co., Brokers ROTARY MEMBER Stanley R. Eddy The principal branches of Boys Work, in addition to the Boy Scout Movement, are: Providing or organizing the community to provide boys’ camps, playgrounds and swimming pools; providing surgical treatment fo crippled children; giving boys vocational counsel; big brothering unders privileged and delinquent boys; establishing dental clinics, etc. W.L Hatch | ROTARY MEMBER New Britain Lumber Co. Geo. K. Macauley Publis Members of the ROTA ROTARY MEMBER S. N. E. Telephone Co. T. P. McAuliffe