Honorary
Member and Senior Global Webmaster for
www.districthistory.org
www.regionalhistory.org and
www.11october.org
"Rotary Global History Day" Oldham Gregory (Greg) Barlow, joined this project in October of 2003, and was the first
supporter from the country of Malaysia. He provided the project with the history of the first club of
Malaysia, Seremban.
He has been a member of Rotary eClub London Centenary and the RC Seremban.
Greg lives in Seremban, Malaysia, living in Malaysia under "Second Home Program",
(a special retirement visa program for expats designed by the Malaysian Government) ex Australian, retired
Chartered Accountant, involved in export/import businesses.
"My love for Rotary is a very short story of only a few enjoyable years but studying the history of Rotary
gave me great joy that I wanted to continue after leaving the local Rotary Club.
After settling a 75 year long debate on which was the first Rotary Club of Malaysia and presenting histories of RC Seremban
and of our district since its inception, the histories of clubs in other parts of the world prompted me to join RGHF several
years ago and now, to join such illustrious Rotarians and historians as Jack Selway, one of Rotary's greater benefactors. I only
hope I can be a worthy co-worker to such notable historians.
I am now particularly interested in
developing greater representation of non-English language
pages in our massive data-base.
Filling in the missing District histories
provides great enjoyment and the ability to chat with people
from many countries.
Even living in Malaysia, being
mono-linguistic is embarrassing, but communicating with
Rotarians from Arabic to Chinese languages is even more so.
RGHF offers so many interesting facts and
information on Clubs, Districts and personalities within
this great organisation.
It is a daily pleasure to work on these
projects and to contribute in some small way, to the
recorded history of Rotary around the world.
