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The International Rotary
Club commission to Mr. James H. Roth for which it took to his
position, among others, the work to found the rotaries on the Republic
del Ecuador, and the 25 of May of 1927, summoned by Mr. Roth met the
gentlemen: Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno, Augusto Dillon V., Víctor S.
Henriques, Jose Antonio Gomez Gault, Alfredo Tinajero, Dr. Carlos
Noboa Cooke, Agustin Febres Cordero, Rafael Guerrero, Gustavo Chanange,
Alexander Food, Otto Berg Von Linde, Eduardo Puig Arosemena, Aurelio
Carrera Calvo, doctor Herman B. Parker, doctor Pedro Holtz, Santiago
Castillo and Onofre Castells.
They were excused: by
absence, in Quito, Forest the Rose Yoder; and in Bucay, E.C. Heal; and
by diverse reasons Luis Orrantia, Isidro Iturralde Plaza, Jaime
Castells, Santiago Perez Conto and Vicente Illingworth.
Proceeded to the election of
Directors, with the following result: Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno,
Augusto Dillon, Víctor Henriques, Alfredo Tinajero, doctor Herman
Parker, Secundino Sáenz de Tejada and Otto Von Linde.
The presents solved that in
one proximate reunion the directors elegising
the dignitaries.
This reunion took place and
is as I structure the first directory, that I am conformed of the
following way:
President, Rodolfo Baquerizo
Moreno; Vice-president, Herman B. Parker; Secretary, Secundino Saén de
Tejada; Treasurer, Víctor E. Henriques; Censor, Alfredo Tinajero; and
Vowel: Otto Berh Von Linde.
They were its Partners
Founders: Eduardo Puig Arosemena, Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno, Aurelio
Carrera Calvo, Jaime Castells, Onofre Castells, Jose Santiago
Castillo, Gustavo L. Chanange, Augusto Dillon Valdez, Agustín Febres
Cordero, Jose Antonio Gomez Gault, Rafael Guerrero, E.C. Heal, Víctor
E. Henriques, Pedro Holst, Vicente Illingworth, Carlos Noboa Cooke,
Luis Orrantia, Herman B. Parker, Santiago Perez Conto, Secundino Sáenz
de Tejada, Alfredo Tinajero, Alexander Food, Otto Berg Von Linde,
Forest the Rose Yoder and Isidro Iturralde Plaza.
It is clarified that all the
partners’ founders were proposed to the Rotary International, and all
were accepted, having received the rising Club their Corporate charter
the 13 of Julio of 1927, being the first Club established in the
Republic of Ecuador.
As of 1927, the Club Rotary
of Guayaquil has come fulfilling all the rotaries postulates. We need
many hours to describe the works that, in benefit of the city, of the
province and the country, the institution has made that, in its 76
years of existence has had the fortune to be directed, successively,
from Mr. Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno, its first president, by 69
Presidents, being his septuagesimo, for the period that culminated the
30 of next June, Angel Duarte Valverde.
However, we think that in
this fast historical revision of the Club Rotary of Guayaquil, amerita
to make mention express, of between so many and so many works,
performances and managements, of which, to our modest one to seem,
they are of exceptional importance or particular importance and
meaning.
Clean port was not still
Guayaquil indeed class To in 1927, when the Directory lunder the
presidency Mr. Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno I manage above Illustrious
Municipality of Guayaquil the canalization and the paving of our city,
workings that undertaked just a short time after the Withe campaign;
as well as I finance and installed the first publics faucets so that
the potable water could be within reach of the thousands of
inhabitants who still did not have domiciliary facilities.
Months later, the same
Directory obtained that the Rotary Club of Panama sent a strong
vaccine shipment to us for the eradication of the typhoid fever that
in 1928 habia punished inclementemente the town of our city.
Under the presidency of
doctor Cesar D. Andrade, the Club I found a dependency of the House
Cradle on the district of the Shipyard, in 1931; and in the following
year I sponsor and I help to finance the construction of an asylum for
tuberculosos in Alausi, for a time at which the terrible white plague
still did not have fast remedies like at the present time and the
mountain climate was recommended for the slow lightening and recovery
of the patients.
In 1933 the Club endorsement
the management of the fiscal and municipal educative authorities so
that it begins, in the coast the rural primary education with the
denominated schools predials, and in the following year donates a
gymnasium to the House Cradle of Guayaquil.
In 1939, under the
presidency of Mr. Carlos Roca Carbo, the Club to sended an important
material aid for the victims of the earthquake of Chile, thus relieved
his spirit of collaboration with the American brothers in misfortune.
And, in 1941, under the presidency of Mr. Carlos Estrada Sartre a
campaign for the approach of the towns began Ecuadorian and Peruvian
later of the international war of that year, emphasizing the feeling
of brotherhood between the nations that is one of the main
characteristics of the universal rotarismo.
In 1945, relieved its
constant preoccupation by the childhood, the Club, under the
presidency of Mr. Forest the Rose Yoder impulse and financed the
construction of the first infantile park of Guayaquil. In 1947, the
medico
outstanding salubrista doctor Jorge Higgins
Jaramillo with the Directory who it
military prison gave
to the Main
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Directorate of Medical
Services the clinic, structure of concrete and two plants, totally
equipped, that still works in the Olmedo Avenue, and therefore has
been, for 55 years, to the service of the poor town of Guayaquil.

In 1949, the Club, directed
by Don Juan Valverde Rumbea collaborated with an important amount of
money for the aid to the victims of the terrible earthquake of Ambato
and constructed a pavilion destined to the children of tuberculoses
parents, annexed to the building of the Asylum "Bethlehem of the
Orphan", in the street the Gold, of our city.
In 1953, the Directory of
whom was President in that year, Don Gustavo Chanange, created and
financed a program of complete scholarships for bachelors of modest
economic resources so that they can continue his superior studies.
Whichever professionals must their titles to our Club.
The following year, the
Club, presided over then by Don Pedro J. Menéndez Navarro took to its
position the integral reorganization from the Correctional School from
Work No. 2. The material work still lasts.
In 1955, the President of
the Club, Don Cesar Arcentales with the aid of the distinguished
partners Atilio Descalzi Mendoza and Hugo Suárez Baquerizo and other
members of his Directory obtained the donation of the land where today
the host building of our institution rises windy, in the street
Emeralds. The respective public writing was subscribed the 11 of
April of 1956 by the gentlemen Emilio Estrada Ycaza and doctor the
Faustus Benítez, Mayor and Solicitor Receiver of the Municipality of
Guayaquil and by Don Cesar Arcentales, still in functions of President
of our Club.
Don Augusto Alvarado Olea,
distinguished leader of our community presided over, in 1956, the
Directory who completely equipped a room for the hospitalisation of
the cancer patients, which they go to SOLCA. The room takes the name
of our Club.
In 1958, under the presidency of
Don Alfredo Albán the construction of our social seat in the land of
the street began Emeralds, and there it worked, until 1970, the Social
School on watch, when it was transferred to the Catholic University of
Guayaquil so that withdrawn his they can have academic hierarchy.
When doctor Emilio Romero
Menendez managed the Club, in 1961, among other works of meaning tells
the monument to the Rotary International that I locate to the entrance
of the Airport the International of Guayaquil.
In 1965, under the
presidency of doctor Eduardo Seminario Ponce de Leon beginning the
construction of the Vacacional Camping for poor children of the city,
in the lands that I donate Mrs. Isabel Estrada de Jurado in General
Villamil - Beaches -, and in 1966, being president of the Club
Capita'n Cesar Monge concluded this work of eminent social purpose.
In 1967, the Directory who
presided over Don Alberto Lantermo I construct to the Communal Center
of the Suburb in 40 streets and the B. The physical work gave in
commodity to the Association Pro Well-being of Ecuadorian Family
APROFE and the writing publishes respective was subscribed day 12 of
Julio of 1968, having taken part by APROFE doctor Pablo Marangoni; and
by our Club its president in functions, Don Alberto Lantermo.
Obvious, the persevere commodity and the scientific work and of I
authenticate social content continues being made, daily, in the
premises donated by the rotaries guayaquileño.
In 1972, the Club under the
direction of Coronel Agustín Alban Borja, in functions of President,
donated a pavilion for mental ill children in the interior of the
psychiatric hospital "Lorenzo Ponce".
In 1976, time of the Presidency of
doctor Eduardo Peña Astudillo, the Club effected an important material
contribution to the old asylum of "San Jose Home", Guayaquil.
In 1984, under the
Presidency of Don Felipe Costa Echeverria the Club I construct to the
pavilion of weld and technical drawing of the School of Arts and
Offices "Anzoátegui" of the Meritorious Philanthropic Society of the
Guayas, and the following year, the Club, this time directed by Don
Luis Hidalgo Febres Cordero I construct the School "Néstor Astudillo"
in the suburban sector of the Guasmo.
Between 1988 and 1989, the
directories who, in their order, presided over Don Francisco Feraud
Aroca and Don Jose Ycaza Henriques, initiated and concluded the
shelter for incurables patients. And, in 1997, the enthusiasm of Don
Antonio Baduy and its dynamic Directory, and the untiring motor of the
doctor Mercedes Huerta de Baduy, its beautiful and intelligent spouse,
crystallized beautiful a social work and that dignify to the woman of
the suburb of Guayaquil, the denominated communal banks, next to the
Clinic for Prenatal Control that comes greatly serving to the future
poor mothers as Guayaquil and the province in the sector of the Guasmo.
During year 2001, the Board
of directors of the Club promovio a denominated program "To return to
see" for cirugia of cataracts of indigents people. And, in 2002,
under the presidency of Mr. Ricardo Koenig the Club I construct a
popular dining room to take care of 250 and young poor men old. In
rotary year 2003-2004, the Board of directors of the Club has solved
to construct to the room of calculation for use of the children of the
State school "John Rockeffeller" who gratuitously works in the
building of property of the Club and the construction of medical
center in the corner Eloy Alfaro, for poor people.
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