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Global Conflict

Rotary history site with complete history from the birth of the founder to present day. Research, fun, orientation, Rotary enrichment.
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Trees Weather War

Histories · Global Conflict · Tenets of Rotary · History Speakers · Why I am a Rotarian · United Nations · Other Orgs · Object of Rotary · Website Awards ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/trees/war.htm - 36k -

Ralston

World Conflict (A Rotary History), SEARCH · WWI · WW2 · WW2 END · TREES · GERMANY · MUNICH · RALSTON · WEB FOUNDER & WEBMASTER, Jack Selway · COMMITTEE ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/ralston/ - 48k -

Tom Warren

The strains that quickly emerged between Britain and the USA reflected, inevitably, in the Rotary movement as conflict between duty/service to the nation ...
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Answers

... an unparalleled period of prosperity through profits which she made by supplying war material before she entered the conflict on the side of the Allies. ...
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1932 Seattle

In his report, President Sydney W. Pascall talks about his extensive travels, Concerning the Sino-Japanese conflict in 1932, he admits: ...
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Freemasonry

... to try to convince the Papal authorities that Rotary was not Masonic, and that it was a movement which was not in conflict with any Catholic teaching. ...
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Homer W. Wood

Wood thought the idea of an organization where it would be comfortable for men to discuss business and avoid conflict was a very exciting idea. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/wood/ - 38k -

Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler

Global Conflict. German Rotary and WW II · J. Layton Ralston Canada at War · The history of Rotary Club of Munich, Germany ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/ziegler.htm - 96k -

Resolution 23-34

Fundamentally, Rotary is a philosophy of life that undertakes to reconcile the ever present conflict between the desire to profit for one's self and the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/headings/res_23-34.htm - 43k -

Eine Seite Geschichte

2The activity caused by San Francisco created the first major conflict within the Rotary Club of Chicago. Too much of the meeting time was being taken up ...
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1940 Havana

The Board of Directors conceived a document entitled 'Rotary Amid World Conflict'. This stated the official view: "It is outside the competence of the board ...
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Timeline

Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution established. 2000. Western Pacific declared polio-free ...
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1942 Toronto

Every age since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary has known the conflict of ideas and the clash of arms. Read the entire essay here. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1942/ - 48k -

1941 Denver

... Tom J Davis proclaimed that "Rotary was born in time of peace, but its program of service is even more necessary in a period of world conflict". ...
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Making New Friends

Jim Davidson visited countries whose names and political systems have since changed; countries where conflict and tragedy still exists; countries where ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/davidson/newfriends/ - 62k -

Sir Harry Lauder

Even towards the end of that conflict and just afterwards Sir Harry appeared at the docks when American food ships came into Glasgow to publicly thank the ...
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Life of Paul Harris

World conflict is again on the rise. The secretariat has moved to new offices. There's a heated debate about allowing more than one club in a city. ...
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Edinburgh #62

He formed a small circle of similarly minded men, but took care to ensure that they all had different businesses so that there was no conflict of interest. ...
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Racial Ridicule

None of us has the desire to slip into the indescribable horror of another world conflict. Our friends across the sea have no desire to drag their loved ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1914mulholland/racial.htm - 47k -

Oliver Wendell Holmes

None of our poets wrote more stirring war lyrics during the conflict; none was more national so far as loyalty, in a Websterian sense, to our country and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/holmes/ - 48k -

www.europeclubs.org

New Zealand · RI Archives · Global Conflict · Site Map · Tenets of Rotary ... 30000 PARTNERS · DISTRICT HISTORIES · CONFLICT · RIP CLUBS · RI CONV CLUBS ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/europe/ - 59k -

Rotary District 9200

... which unfortunately had to close down in 1972 due to political conflict in the country. District 921 consisted of Botswana, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/districts/districts/9200.htm - 54k -

www.latinamericaclubs.org

Histories · Global Conflict · Tenets of Rotary · History Speakers · Why I am a Rotarian · United Nations ... 30000 PARTNERS · DISTRICT HISTORIES · CONFLICT ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/southamerica/ - 50k -

www.historylibrary.org

New Zealand · RI Archives · Global Conflict · Site Map · Tenets of Rotary · History Speakers · Why I am a Rotarian · United Nations · Other Orgs ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/ - 53k -

First Club of each Rotary Country

Histories · Global Conflict · Tenets of Rotary · History Speakers ... 30000 PARTNERS · DISTRICT HISTORIES · CONFLICT · RIP CLUBS · RI CONV CLUBS ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/ - 277k -

'49 New York City

She wrote to dispel the apparent conflict:. “The Official Directory is correct, as is the ‘1949 Paid Registrants by Countries and Geographical Regions. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1949/ - 42k -

Dallas #39

The name was later changed to Rotagrams to avoid a name-conflict with the International Rotarian Magazine, after Rotary became international with Clubs in ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/cities/clubs/39dallas.htm - 42k -

www.newzealandclubs.org

30000 PARTNERS · DISTRICT HISTORIES · CONFLICT · PRESIDENTS' HOME CLUBS · CONVENTION HOST CLUBS · · COMMITTEE ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/australia/newzealand/ - 53k -

Doug Rudman, Historian

Global Conflict · J. Layton Ralston Canada at War · First Club of Every Country of Rotary. Early Leaders. Harry Ruggles. How Singing Really Started ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/rudman.htm - 66k -

Rotary Abbreviations

Action by the council on legislation which does not amend or conflict with the constitutional documents of RI but which expresses an opinion or makes a ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ history/headings/abbreviations.htm - 190k -

J. Layton Ralston

From the Atlantic to the Pacific she is throbbing with war activity. .... Read the entire article in our "Global Conflict" Section ...
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www.historytour.org

Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution established. 2000. (Rotary Global History Fellowship) is organized 11 October 2000 by club #43 in ...
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Allied Club

Also see Rotary in Conflict. One of the less well known Rotary Clubs and, indeed, one that was never chartered was the ALLIED ROTARY CLUB OF FRANCE. ...
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George Bernard Shaw in The Rotarian

Message to Garcia · Odds and Ends · Shaw "No War" · Shaw "Nations" · Sgt-at-Arms · Plagiarism in Rotary? Seven Milestones · We all Lie Alike ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/rotarian/shaw.htm - 35k -

Trees in War

Rotary history site with complete history from the birth of the founder to present day. Research, fun, orientation, Rotary enrichment.
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/trees/ - 33k -

Ralston

The estimated cost for its direct war effort, sketched in the foregoing ... To sum up quickly: For war alone this year Canada expects to spend on her own ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/ralston/ - 48k -

WW I

When the war ended, British Rotary had grown from 9 clubs to 22. ... Another effect of the war was to isolate British Rotary from the North American ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/ww1/ - 36k -

Racial Ridicule

Racial Ridicule–The Seeds of War. By Frank L. Mulholland ... For the past six months, the ghostly spectre of the fear of war has permeated the hearts of the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1914mulholland/racial.htm - 47k -

Global Conflict

Even in the period of World War One, from July 1914 through 1918, ... The war ended, but conflicts didn’t. Still, there was much of the world that hadn’t ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/ - 47k -

Shanghai District

In the following four years prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December ... After the outbreak of the 2nd World War, Shanghai Rotarians stopped ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/ asia/clubs/02shanghaidistrict.htm - 44k -

Marshall Carl-Gustaf Mannerheim

Mannerheim took part in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 as a staff officer in ... During the First World War Mannerheim first led operations against the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ clubs-of-rips/helsinki/mannerheim.htm - 63k -

Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.

"This charter is a compact, born of suffering and of war; with it now rests ... Even before celebrations for the end of World War II in Europe commenced, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/stettinius/ - 44k -

WW II Onset

The Onset of War Closed Clubs in the 1930s and 1940s ... Some Japanese clubs did continue informal meetings throughout the war years. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/ww2/onset/ - 42k -

1918 Kansas City

The war tones echoed throughout the Convention, often described as the War Convention ... The Secretary of War also paid tribute to Rotary's "assistance and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1918/ - 38k -

1941 Denver

Again, the dilemma of a world where some Rotarians were at war and others not dominated events. President Pereira made clear that he believed that Rotary ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1941/ - 39k -

Answers

Most of the Nations in Europe have been financially crippled by the War and ... Britain could have borne her own War expenditure, this debt to America was ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/ 1910harris/paulharris/political/answers.htm - 56k -

Germany

The Beuth-Table still met for several years during the war and created high interest ... The war made our meetings more and more difficult and they were ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/germany/ - 57k -

1942 Toronto

THE CARNAGE of war and the suffering in its wake are not new. Every age since the memory ... 6624 registered for the first Convention with the USA at war. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1942/ - 48k -

Sir Harry Lauder

Throughout the war, the patriotic Lauder worked unceasingly, raising huge ... Sir Harry's only child, John, was called up during the war and as Captain John ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/cities/clubs/60lauder.htm - 43k -

Townsville

In the early World War II years, (1939-1941) the club concentrated it's efforts on fund-raising ... It also purchased a war surplus building for use by the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/australia/clubs/townsville/ - 48k -

Tokyo 1921

With the change in political attitudes and against the background of the coming war, pressure was brought to bear on Japanese Rotary and the clubs were ...
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Madeleine Carroll

But it was not until the end of the war that I saw a sight which will be forever ... child prostitutes who, having lived by their wits during the war for ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/women/famous/carroll/ - 79k -

J. Layton Ralston

A war without casualty lists does seem unreal. After a year and a half, ... Canada is at war–to the finish. From the Atlantic to the Pacific she is ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/ralston/ - 42k -

1940 Havana

War did affect the Rotary program as no night meetings could function due to the blackout. Vocational Service took on new meaning due to War. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1940/ - 44k -

1943 St. Louis

One great irony of the war years was that the number of clubs and members actually grew. ... Even in war torn Britain, 3 new clubs were established. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1943/ - 39k -

Sacramento 97

After the war, the club was able to more liberally support charities, lending new support to the Girl Scouts, St. Patrick’s Home, and Sacramento Cancer ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ clubs/cities/clubs/97sacramento.htm - 47k -

WW II End

In the decades following the ending of the Second World War, some countries ... Whatever the reason, the ending of the war did not automatically lead to the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/ww2end/ - 39k -

The RIBI Magazine

Eventually, with the outbreak of war in 1939, both RIBI magazines would be ... Blair attacked American Rotary’s neutral stance in early World War Two. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ireland-uk/magazine/ - 62k -

1917 Atlanta

War could be a blessing in disguise as it could allow Rotary to ... The British Clubs argued that war had actually helped in the formation of clubs as ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1917/ - 40k -

Mackay

During the war years special trains were running daily, closely following on ... Maintained an open welcome to all on War Service as guests of Rotarians. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/australia/clubs/mackay/ - 55k -

'15 San Francisco

The climate was clearly affected by the Great War that had erupted in Europe. ... Incoming President Allen D. Albert, a former war correspondent and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1915/ - 22k -

History of RIBI

When he returned from war service, first in Civil Defence in London and then with ... The First World War—The Rotary Wheel— war-time activities— the Bantam ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/levy/ - 76k -

2002 25/26 Institute

And that brings me to my story: "The Spanish American War and How Rotary Came to ... And that's how the Spanish American War played a role in the success of ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ library/presentations/20020918.htm - 71k -

Sofia Bulgaria

This was the result of government action restricting membership in organisations with foreign connections during the war years. The Communists who took over ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/bulgaria/ - 98k -

Rotary history site with complete history from the birth of the ...

The country of YUGOSLAVIA was created after the first world war, and the first Rotary Club was not inaugurated till 1929. In the period between 1929 and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/yugoslavia/ - 34k -

Beveridge Report

Rotary would itself play an important role in post-war reconstruction. The Rotary Clubs of London published a report of its own on that exact subject ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ cities/clubs/50london/beveridge.htm - 42k -

Tom Warren

The darkest hours of the Rotary movement - World War Two saw Tom Warren emerge ... But the meetings still went ahead despite the war with attendances better ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ireland-uk/warren.htm - 43k -

Birmingham, UK

During the war, the Birmingham Club became involved in a considerable amount ... After the war, Rotary began to spread its wings and the Birmingham Club was ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ clubs-with-conventions/birmingham/ - 42k -

Hamilton

During the 1939/45 war period, the Club was much engaged in-patriotic works, ... At the conclusion of the War, Guy Bindon became President and put the Club ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/ australia/newzealand/hamilton/ - 66k -

North Sydney

Between the end of World War II and about 1975 it ceded territory to ... During the post war years of the 1950s and 1960s disadvantaged children were ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/australia/clubs/northsydney/ - 51k -

Newcastle

A number of these served with distinction in the First World War, ... The expanded project eventuated as the War Memorial Cultural Centre with a floor ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/australia/clubs/newcastle/ - 52k -

Silvester Schiele

Silvester (3rd from left) served during the Spanish American War which began in ... The likelihood is therefore that it was either taken just before the war ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/schiele/ - 56k -

Pearl Buck

IN the chasm left at the end of that war, the young Communist ... I am sure that even governments are anxious to prevent war, in spite of their tricks and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/women/famous/buck/ - 97k -

Amsterdam

During the first World War when Holland was neutral, Jan van Tyen who had ... During the 1939/45 war, Rotary was banned by the Germans as it had been in all ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/europe/amsterdam/ - 43k -

THE OUTPOST CLUB OF ROTARY IN ENGLAND

During World War One, a special Rotary Club was inaugurated in Paris for Allied ... In the second World War, a different but equally special club was ...
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Ziegler Collection

Memorabilia of Chesley Perry, Spanish American War 1898, Rotary Club of Chicago 1908, Secretary of Rotary from 1910-1942 ...
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Basil Lewis

The Allied Rotary Club of France Where America's World War One Soldiers gathered ... The formation of RC of Tokyo, the war and reconstruction. Wolverhampton ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/lewis.htm - 63k -

Theodore Roosevelt

During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider ... He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/roosevelttheodore/ - 41k -

Dallas #39

The US entered the James H. Doolittle “Great War" in 1917, and Price Cross ... He would later lead the first bombing raid on Tokyo early in World War II. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/cities/clubs/39dallas.htm - 42k -

Early Clubs

The reason was, probably, that the enduring Great War crystallised men's feelings of duty and community ... London Rotary Club's War Service is impressive. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ cities/clubs/50london/early.htm - 41k -

More Critics

The Great War had seen Government positively encourage such local volunteerism. War, however, also led to much disillusionment and the complacent club ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/morecritics/ - 55k -

Asia History

"The back-to-Rotary movement immediately started after the war. Considering sad memories of the war not to be forgotten as easily as Japanese might want to ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/asia/history/ - 42k -

Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario

The Post-War Era. During the last fifty years the Rotary Club of Trenton has been involved on three levels: local, national and international. ...
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12th Anniverary

Had the great war not put a stop to proceedings, Rotary undoubtedly would ... It is an easier matter to interest men in war than it is to interest them in ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/ harris/02_1917rotarian.htm - 70k -

Life of Paul Harris

War breaks out in Europe and Harris sends a message to the Atlanta convention. ... We have no record of Paul Harris attending the second Chicago "war" ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1910harris/paulharris/ - 138k -

Biography

After the World War, when the university came to honor those who had made the supreme sacrifice for their country, it was Bob to whom they turned as the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1934hill/bio.htm - 58k -

Hosted Rotary Conventions in Canada

PRIP Walter Head – Rotary’s Role in Post-War Planning ... She sang beautiful war-time songs with a clarity of tone and feeling and she sang humorous ballads ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/canada/conventions.htm - 89k -

Latin America

The world has been hearing quite enough of international pacts, treaties and agreements. The have more frequently led to war than war than from it."1 ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/trees/southamerica/ - 57k -

Eleanor Roosevelt

Rotary gave the “power of the press” to FDR efforts, and, less than two years later, when America was dragged into World War II, Rotary was encouraged to ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/women/famous/roosevelt.htm - 57k -

David Grayson

In 1918, Wilson dispatched Baker to Europe as his special agent to study the war situation. When the war ended, Baker acted as Wilson's press secretary ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/grayson/ - 39k -

Emil Ludwig

In 1906 he moved to Switzerland but during World War I he worked as a ... He returned to Switzerland after the war and died in 1948, in Moscia, near Ascona. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/ludwig/ - 38k -

'49 New York City

One of the first women to ever address a Rotary International Convention, her keynote was given less than four years after the end of the War, and 38 years ...
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1937 Nice

Ironically, considering the gathering storm of war, the Frenchman was proposed for office by a German Rotarian. Manier Bio. Wolfgang Ziegler ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1937/ - 39k -

1919 Salt Lake City

As it turned out, the war was over by then, and so the Rotary International “Victory Convention” came to Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Club made many ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1919/ - 50k -

Cardiff, Wales

By the end of the War in 1918, numbers in Cardiff had risen to 74 and the following year to 95. The Golden Jubilee book records that on December 11, 1922; ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/wales/ - 40k -

Douglas

During the war the main activities of the Club were providing parcels for ... Post-war, the efforts of the club were to provide employment for many of the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/man/ - 37k -

Rotary Club of Macau

However, due to the Pacific War, the idea did not become a reality at that time. In 1946 when Macau and Hong Kong began to recover from the effects of the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/macau/ - 43k -

#1000 York

The war years saw many members involved in active service, but meetings continued ... Following the war the Attendance rule was tightened and some members ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/200+/1000york/ - 42k -

Manchester 66

Before the Great War began, Manchester started its first daughter club, in Sheffield. With the onset of war, the Manchester Club became much involved in ...
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BARC History

The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 would ensure that BARC was ... War effectively severed the direct links between Chicago and London due to ...
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Glasgow #60

No sooner was it formed than the nation was involved in he First World War and the Club found expression for its civic duty in many ways. ...
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Allied Club

So it was that a few months before the end of the First World War, on August 23, 1918, the club was launched at an evening meal at the Hotel Continental in ...
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Singapore

World War II smothered the Rotary flame, but after the war, in 1945, the Club started to function again with a membership of 42. ...
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Montreal #85

In Social Service, the club contributed to help needy families with aid estimated at some $750 up to World War Two. During the war, Montreal Rotarians ...
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ROTARY/One Timeline

1944 War time convention draws less than 500 Rotarians. 1945 Second Chicago War time convention draws 141, next year there will be 10958 in Atlantic City ...
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Rotary District 5650

The ensuing war years took a toll on Rotary, and wartime events caused the ... Following the end of World War II, the first Rotary Graduate Fellowships ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/districts/districts/5650.htm - 43k -

Long Road Home

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, war often disrupted Rotary activities. ... Rotarians who fled war zones in other parts of China gathered in Shanghai and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/asia/clubs/longroad.htm - 49k -

Calcutta

The Rotary clubs of Manila and Shanghai were established a few months earlier but the former became inoperative for four years during World War II and the ...
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Rawlins Survey

This asked for opinions about the situation in post war Europe and the ... With the Second World War but five years ahead and the disbanding of the Rotary ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/ 1910harris/paulharris/political/ - 52k -

Adventures-1950

By 1927 our community work is found around the world, The war years. ... A medical van in Shanghai and war ravaged Europe, A Rotary Fellowship Plan is being ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/adventures/ - 68k -

Rockhampton

During the War and post-War the club ran big events to raise funds for the Red Cross, Food for Britain etc. In an appeal for Clothes for Britain a couple of ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/australia/clubs/rockhampton/ - 48k -

Ballarat

In the troubled years of World War 11, energies were directed to the war effort; members not on active service being involved in a multiplicity of major and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/australia/clubs/ballarat/ - 44k -

Wollongong

Despite the problems of war, Rotary continued to thrive in the local area with Bowral Club sponsored in 1940, Port Kembla in 1946, Camden in 1947 and Bulli ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/australia/clubs/wollongong/ - 47k -

Albury

During World War II we packed and sent food parcels overseas and erected and ... After the war we assisted migrants arriving from overseas at Bonegilla ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/australia/clubs/albury/ - 55k -

Adelaide

During the Second World War an Advisory Service was organized for Defence ... A Food Parcel programme for the UK was operated during the Post War period to ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/australia/clubs/adelaide/ - 43k -

Palmerston North

The war years involved members with voluntary participation in some form or another for the Dominion war effort. Assistance was given to the Food for ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/ australia/newzealand/palmerstonnorth/ - 47k -

Melbourne

He was a very close friend of Paul Harris and is credited with the re-establishment of Rotary in Japan after the end of World War II. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/australia/clubs/melbourne/ - 47k -

Rotary & the UN

The charter took place at the newly constructed War Memorial complex in San Francisco, General Dwight Eisenhower was later "reported" to have said that ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/history/un/ - 54k -

Australia History

During the war years, they all remained in contact but nothing could be done until 1920. In February 1921 the board of the International Association of ...
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Hastings

The early participants included war veterans wearing their medals and swapping stories that went back as far as 1840. The Assembly Hall and adjoining ...
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Launceston

Clothing and food parcels were sent to Britain during World War 11. The Post- War decades saw youth work continued with youth camps, a free kindergarten, ...
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Brighton #9

During the war years of 1914-1918, Brighton and Hove Rotary became involved ... Funds for allotments, war bonds and for workshops for disabled soldiers were ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the civil war broke out, this conservative poet, who had taken little part in ... None of our poets wrote more stirring war lyrics during the conflict; ...
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Rotary District 6680

The Rotary year of 1942-43 was a good year, even in the heart of the war. ... Due to the war situation and restricted travel, it was decided not to have a ...
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John Greenleaf Whittier

"In War Time," followed in 1864;. and in 1863, "Snow Bound." In 1860 I was chosen a member of the Electoral College of Massachusetts, and also in 1864. ...
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Rotary District 7620

Silver Spring and Sykesville-South Carroll were chartered before World War II. The next club to be chartered was Kingsville 1n1946. ...
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Scotland

The concept of service has been established and recognised and when faced with the challenges of depression or war it grows even stronger. ...
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The Message to Garcia

At dinner, Hubbard's son, Bert, claimed that the true hero of a particular Spanish-American war battle was Rowan -- a messenger who braved death by carrying ...
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Doug Rudman, Historian

Racial Ridicule - The Seeds of War. Arch Klumph 1916-17. Lesson from an old Memory ... Davis and Pereira show strength in times of war. General History ...
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www.historytour.org

War - British Clubs involved in relief work eg, housing Belgian refugees. 1915. The term "Governor" is established for districts. ...
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History of Rotary in Europe

In some of the countries, there is a small section about what happened during the Second World War, when many clubs were closed and others badly disrupted. ...
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First Fifty Years

He had responded to his country’s call in its time of need, serving in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Clearly he was eligible. ...
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[PDF] 1 HISTORICAL BINDERS OF TERMINATED CLUBS Country Club name admitted

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admission letters on war conditions. And 50+page booklet on Rotary in ... 1943, but continued to exist throughout the war years. China. Wuchang. 1937-mar-8 ...
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