RGHF - Home page: Rotary's Memory since 11 October 2000

RGHF Mission: "As an effort to serve others, RGHF offers history training for Rotary leaders. The fellowship accumulates and preserves the complete history, values, and philosophy of the Rotary movement, as well as encourages others to do the same at every level of the Rotary movement, and publishes those histories, values, and philosophies on the internet, as well as other forms of media as expedient." RGHF is an approved Rotarian fellowship by the Board of Directors of Rotary International. To date, in excess of 30,000 items of the Global History of Rotary have been compiled.

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"Why did Rotary come into being in the year of our Lord 1905? Social movem

Paul Harris, the Founder of Rotary

ents, like individuals, are subject to the laws of heredity and environment. Rotary inherited the growing spirit of tolerance and the “I WILL” spirit of Chicago, the incorporeal hereditaments of many generations. No president or officer of Rotary International, no district governor, no club president has failed to leave his imprint, and as the individual member is in turn the product of heredity as well as environment, it is necessary to look far back into history to find the Why of the rise of Rotary in Chicago in 1905." Page 254 "This Rotarian Age" 1935, Paul P. Harris.
http://www.whatpaulharriswrote.org/library/rotarianage/rotarianage.htm

One page Summary of the Global History of Rotary

The History Library

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WOMEN AND ROTARY

YOUTH AND ROTARY

Paul Harris, Founder of Rotary