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Room 711

The Background
23 February 1905
Moving the Room
Where is it now?
What's in there?
Gallery One
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Remembering

THE FOUNDER

Jean and Paul
Memorial
Paul Harris

Also, Tours of One Rotary Center

How Rotary really started, in the words of Paul Harris, Founder of Rotary, recorded on 20 December 1945

Room 711 was an office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois, USA  There a mining engineer, Gus Loehr, conducted his businesses. As far as history shows, there was never a Rotary meeting in Room 711. That is, the name Rotary did not come up at the time four men gathered in Loehr's office on a cold winter night, Thursday, February 23rd 1905. Also Gus Loehr did not remain with the group for very long.

 

As you will read in Paul Harris' 1935 book "The Founder of Rotary," he had an idea, one he had discussed with at least two friends. However, on that Thursday evening, one of those friends and an early client, Silvester Schiele, had joined Paul for dinner.

 

You'll read the story of what happened that night and how this casual meeting became an organization which changed the world, and has the potential still to bring peace to this planet.

 

Though the man whose office this is did not remain in the organization, nor did another guest that night, Silvester became the first president of the Chicago club and a steadfast Rotarian. Paul and Silvester were fast friends and became neighbors ... even in death.

 

The office, Room 711, is a symbol, protected and maintained as the birthplace of Rotary.  Now, you can join Paul, Silvester, Gus, and Hiram as members of the "711 Club."

 

Jack Selway, webmaster for Room 711

Founder of "Rotary Global History"

OTHER LINKS

My Road To Rotary
The Founder of Rotary
This Rotarian Age
History of Rotary: a speech by PDG Mimi Altman. She was an important member of the Paul and Jean Harris Home Foundation and Rotary Heritage & History International Fellowship

The Rotary Global History Fellowship Library
1904 ?? CONFLICT FOUNDER HARRIS HISTORY TOUR RESEARCH SERVICE IS OUR BUSINESS
1905 SOCIETY CRITICS FRIENDSHIP TREES JAMES WALSH RI ARCHIVES TENETS
A PROJECT EARLY LEADERS GENEALOGY LEVY RI VISITOR UN
ABBREVIATIONS ETHICS GOLDEN STRAND MUSIC ROOM 711 WHEEL HISTORY
ADVENTURES EVOLUTION GOLDEN THEATER NICHOLL THE ROTARIAN WORLD PEACE
BABBITT EXTENSION HARRIS SPEAKS ONE PAGE HISTORY ROTARY GROUPS WORLD THINKS?
BIBLIOGRAPHY FAMOUS HERITAGE TRAIL OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ROTARY!
CARTER FELLOWSHIPS HISTORY CALENDAR PEACE MONUMENTS ROTARY?
CENTENNIAL FILM & AUDIO HISTORY TOOLS PEREGRINATIONS SECRETARIAT  

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