Word: rotaryism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But deriders of Rotary will learn better very soon now. As Rotarian Gardner Mack wrote only this month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and...
Rotarians have been called many names, from "grownup Boy Scouts" to "snouting imbeciles." But no one conversant with Rotary's inception and ideals could possibly give credence to such abuse.
Rotary was founded 22 years ago, when Percy Paul Harris of Chicago called three friends into his office and discussed the Golden Rule with them on the evening of Feb. 23.
It was the third club or the fourth that brought Rotary into civic affairs in a very definite way. . . . In the town where this particular club was situated were three civic organizations of the Chamber of Commerce character. They were intense rivals. . . . There came an occasion for community action. . . . The...
That is the keynote, hub, axle, dynamo, driving force, central idea of Rotary?SERVICE?and Rotarians have sent emissaries all over the world to pass the word along and plant more Rotary Clubs, each composed of 50 to 200 representatives of separate professions and "lines."