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BarkIn Altinok CARL CARDEY MATTS INGEMANSON PAUL MCLAIN PDG AMU SHAH
PDG INGE ANDERSSON JEAN CONSTANT JOE KAGLE DGN DON MURPHY PDG DENS SHAO
PDG JAMES ANGUS FRANK DEAVER BASIL LEWIS PDG JOHN ÖRTENGREN TOM SHANAHAN
PDG GERI APPEL PRID JOHN EBERHARD EDWARD LOLLIS PDG FRED OTTO PDG KARI TALLBERG
O. GREG BARLOW PDG DAVE EWING frank longoria MIKE RAULIN CALUM THOMSON
RAJINDER BEDI JOSE FERNANDEZ-MESA RAY MACFARLANE WILBUR REDUBLADO PDG MEL TAUNT
PDG EDDIE BLENDER PRID TED GIFFORD PDG JUDY MAGUB PDG HELEN REISLER TIM TUCKER
MAUREEN BOND DAMIEN HARRIS MALEK MAHMASSANI SAM SAMU NORM WINTERBOTTOM
PIETRO FABRIZIO BRUNOLDI VIMAL HEMANI VIJAY MAKHIJA PDG RON SEKKEL GIL TOLENTINO
CARLOS CALZADA FLORENCE HUI DICK MCKAY FOUNDER JACK SELWAY WOLFGANG ZIEGLER - #1
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Bound In Friendship

Essays by RGHF Historian Norm Winterbottom
We cannot ever know the innermost motives which prompted Paul Harris to found our wonderful movement, and thus, the Fellowships that have grown from it. We can only accept the motives that have been stated. However, while we honour him for his perception, I believe we do not pay proper homage to Sylvester Schiele.

In the early days of #1, when Paul Harris became disenchanted, and on several occasions, contemplated closing the Chicago club, it was Sylvester Schiele who successfully counselled against it. As a result, you and I have lasting friendships with some of the finest people on God's good earth, and they are the more special, for in almost every case, none of us have ever, nor are likely to, meet face to face.. Yet, despite differences in race, colour, creed and language, we are inextricably bound to each other in friendship by some indeterminate factor that defies definition.

If only all mankind could be so joined, what a wonderful world it would be.

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RGHF Mission: As an effort to serve others, RGHF accumulates and preserves the complete history, values and philosophy of the Rotary movement, as well as encourages others to do the same at every level of the Rotary movement, and publishes those histories, values and philosophies on the internet, as well as other forms of media as expedient. 17 March 2003, amended 20 December 2007, Rotary Global History Fellowship Board of Directors.

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