THE HISTORY OF DISTRICT 4855

Covering the area of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Prepared by the district and not verified by Rotary Global History

 The steady growth of Rotary clubs, predicted at the Convention of Duluth, Minnesota, USA in 1912, the then "International Association of Rotary Clubs," resolved to divide the Rotary world into regions.
In 1915, already with 160 clubs around the world, Rotary districts are created along with the designation of "district governors.".
By 1921 Rotary International had reached the thousandth club.

In 1922 the official name was changed to Association for Rotary International, and adopted the statutes prescribed for all clubs to be formed after that date.
In 1927 a decision was also made not to approve any new regional administrations, thereby bringing all clubs around the world, under the central administration of the newly created, world-wide association.

With the existence of nine clubs in this region - Argentina 4, Brazil 2, Chile 1, Peru 1 and Uruguay 1, the Conference developed in 1927 in Montevideo, reiterated the importance of the district administration, which was already operating in other areas of the Rotary world.
Rotary International accepted this resolution and as a result,a District 63 is born for clubs in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Later, Paraguay is added to the District, and the first District Governor appointed was the illustrious Donato Gaminara from the Montevideo Rotary Club.

On 1 July 1938, District 63 is divided to cater for the increase in the number of clubs and our area becomes a new District 31.
As the years and the number of clubs and members progressed, District 31 becomes District 32, then District 138; then 138 and 139; this passes into Districts 489 and 491; eventually, of these was born District 490 where we finally reach the history of our own district.

Twenty-five years later however, in 1963, parts of the boundaries of that district leave us and we become District 485.
To account for the increase in new clubs and districts world-wide, Rotary International requires a 4 digit numbering system and the previous districts became 4900 and 4850.

To describe the the clubs in these two districts, we will trace the history of the emergence of our new District 4855.

The story begins in this area on 1 July 1970 with the creation of District 490, which includes 24 clubs in District 489 and 28 clubs from District 491; a total of 52 clubs.
Osvaldo PFJaeggli was its first governor from the Ituzaingó Club.
The redistricting of 1984, effective from 1 July 1985, two new districts 482 and 485 were created, the first governor of 485 being Horacio Takeo Akiyoshi, whose home club was RC Caseros.
6 of these clubs were integrated with District 489 and 33 integrated with District 490. a total of 39 clubs.

The general redistricting of 1988, effective 1 July 1989, integrates into District 485, 5 clubs from 482, 18 clubs from 485, 7 clubs from 489 and 13 clubs from 490, a total of 43 clubs. The first District Governor was Hector Miguel Malano from Club Mercedes.

A further redistribution requested by Rotary International makes the old 4850 become District 4855, and its first governor is Juan Dmytrow from the Club General San Martín.

District 4855 now includes the following clubs -
Alberti, Bella Vista, Bragado, Carlos Casares, Chivilcoy, Chivilcoy Oeste, Francisco Álvarez, General Rodríguez, General San Martín, General Sarmiento, José C. Paz, José Hernández de Gral. San Martín, José León Suárez, Libertad, Los Polvorines, Luján, Luján-Ana de Matos, Luján-J.B.Barnech, Mercedes, Mercedes Oeste, Merlo, Merlo Norte, Moreno, Moreno Molina Campos, Moreno Norte, Moreno Sur, Moreno Trujui, Morón, Nueve de Julio, Parque San Martín, Paso del Rey, San Andrés, Villa Flandria J.M.Jáuregui, Villa Libertad, Villa Maipú,
and the clubs transferred from District 4900 -
Cañuelas, Caseros, Caseros Norte, Caseros Sur, Castelar, Castelar Norte, Castelar Sur, Ciudadela, Ciudadela Norte, El Palomar, El Palomar Centro, González Catán, Haedo Norte, Hurlingham, Isidro Casanova, Ituzaingó, José Ingenieros, Lobos, Lomas del Mirador, Lomas del Mirador Oeste, Marcos Paz, Ramos Mejía, Ramos Mejía Sur, Saladillo, San Antonio de Padua, Santos Lugares, Veinticinco de Mayo, Villa Constructora, Villa Tesei.
Total 66 clubes.

From the 1 July 1927, which begins the story of the districts in this area and originally created by the sole District 63 consisting of seven clubs, up to the time of the RI theme "The investment into the future", faced with the redistricting and general launch in 1989 , which increased to 17 districts for Zone One SACAMA, namely: Argentina and the districts shared with Paraguay and Uruguay, which were integrated with 641 clubs and 15,822 Rotarians.

To this day the decrease in the number of Districts and Clubs, results from the inevitable loss of representativity in institutional decisions (number of votes and representatives).
However, and beyond these issues, the reality is that this new district begins its second year with the hopes and expectations intact and growing.
Aware that there Dreams and Reality. Dreams and Reality are in our hands to see in them the future of Rotary.