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• The Presidents of Rotary International presidentshistories.org

  • Paul P. Harris 1910-1912 (also see Philosophy)
    • Tribute by R.I.B.I. secretary and Rotarian editor Vivian Carter
    • What Paul Harris Wrote (a complete website of the writing of Paul Harris)
    • www.friendshiptrees.org
      • Sydney 1935
      • A North American looks South
      • Charlotte, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio, both in 1939
    • Paul Harris Articles in The Rotarian Magazine
      • 1911 Rational Rotarian
        • Response by David Nicholl
        • President's Corner June
        • November "Messages to Rotary"
      • 1912 Presidents messages
        • Messages to Rotarians (Paul's Plans for Rotary)
          • January
          • March
          • April
          • May
          • June
          • July
          • August
        • Annual report
        • Get your money's worth, even from an attorney
      • 1913 Two candles for Rotary's Birthday
        • The Old Guard June
      • 1914 The Distant Sense
      • 1915 Passing our Tenth Milestone
        • 1915 10th Anniversary Message
        • A Convention Message from Paul P. Harris
      • 1916 The Future of Rotary
      • 1917 12th Anniversary Message
        • A Man's Job to be a Rotarian
        • Rotary's Greatest Opportunity to Serve
      • 1918 issues of The Rotarian Magazine
        • At the 13^th Milestone of Rotary
        • The True Spirit of Service Can Redeem World
        • AN UNDIVIDED CHURCH?
        • Convention Message from Rotary's Founder
        • GUS LOEHR IS DEAD (A very poignant insight into one of the 1st 4)
      • 1919 The Invisible Power of Rotary
      • 1920 ROTARIANS, FRIENDS ‑ To All, GREETINGS
      • 1921 Issues of The Rotarian
        • The Faith of Rotary
        • Big Brothering Albert
        • Message of the President Emeritus
      • 1922
        • The Friendship of Rotary
        • The Chicago Roster of 1905, published with Harris' 1922 article
        • Paul's Sunday Habit
      • 1923
        • Barometers of Success 1923 Convention message
        • 18th Anniversary Message to All Rotarians
      • 1924
        • An Opinion about Rotary
        • MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT EMERITUS
      • 1925
        • A Sentimental Journey Through Hossierdom
        • 1925 Convention Message
        • International Friendliness and the Sixth Object
      • 1926

        • Some Miracles of California

      • 1927

        • Photo of Harris in Cuba

      • 1928

        • Harris photo in Zurich

        • Message to the Pacific Rotary Conference at Tokyo

      • 1930

        • If Rip, Jr., Should Wake Up!

      • 1932

        • He Lost a Castle to Gain a Home - Paul Harris on Rotary's 27th birthday and the great depression

        • Harris' 1932 trip to Europe, illustrated

      • 1936

        • A North American looks South

      • 1939

        • "Where is Rotary Going?"

      • 1940

        • Paul Harris' 1940 Guest Editorial: We Must Plan for Peace 

      • 1943

        • A Salute to Rotarians of 2043!

      • 1944

        • 39th Anniversary Message

        • How Rotarians Get That Way

      • 1945

        • The Best Is Yet to Be

        • My Friend ‘Chape’

        • Rotary’s Great Day

      • 1946

        • Fear and Hate Must Go!

        • Here Is a Job to Do, Mr. Rotarian!

      • 1947 Cover of The Rotarian honors Harris

      • A dozen pages honoring Paul Harris at the time of his death.

  • Glenn C. Mead 1912-13

    • The biography of Glenn C. Mead, the first president of the "International Association" of Rotary Clubs

    • Tribute by Guy Gundaker

    • Humorous wedding announcement by the RI treasurer

    • Mead looks back in 1951

  • Russell Greiner 1913-14

    • Biography

  • Frank L. Mullholland 1914-15

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Albert D. Albert 1915-16

    • The Tree That is Rotary

  • Arch C. Klumph 1916-17

    • In The Rotarian (February 1915)

    • Bio from The Rotarian in 1916

    • An Appreciation for Arch Klumph by President McCullough

  • E. Leslie Pidgeon 1917-1918

    • Bio in The Rotarian

    • Rotary as a Living Force

    • Obituary

    • Early Biography of Leslie Pidgeon, Preacher

  • John Poole 1918-19

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Albert S. Adams 1919-20

    • Rotarian Bio Article

    • 1927 Tributes to President "Bert" Adams

      • Tribute to "Bert" Adams by Charles St. John

      • A Memorial to Bert Adams

      • Bert Adams, Rotarian - by Chesley R. Perry

      • The Bert Adams Memorial, by an Atlanta Rotarian

  • Estes "Pete" Snedecor 1920-1921

    • Inaugural Address of RI President Estes Snedecor

    • Obituary

    • Biography

  • Raymond M. Havens 1922-1923

    • Biography

    • An Opinion by President Havens

    • Autographed photo from the Ziegler Collection

  • Guy Gundaker 1923-24

    • Obituary by PRIP Everett W. Hill, 1924-25

  • Everett W. Hill 1924 - 1925

    • Biography

  • Donald A. Adams 1925-26

    • Biography

  • Arthur H. Sapp 1927-28

    • Obituary

  • M. Eugene Newsom 1929-30

    • Background

  • Almon Roth 1930-31

    • Rotary Article about..

  • Clinton P. Anderson

    • Today's Challenge, What it Means

  • John Nelson 1933-34

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Robert E. Lee Hill 1934-35

    • Obituary

  • Ed. R. Johnson 1935-36

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Will R. Manier, Jr 1936-37

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Maurice Duperrey 1937-1938

    • Background

  • George C. Hager 1938-39

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Walter D. Head 1939-40

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Armando de Arruda Pereira 1940-41

    • Background

  • Tom Davis 1941-42

    • "Peace will come" an essay

    • Rotarian Bio Article

    • Davis and Pereira show strength in times of war

  • Fernando Carbajal 1942-43

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Charles L. Wheeler 1943-44

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Richard H. Wells 1944-45

    • Obituary

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Richard C. Hedke 1946-47

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Angus S. Mitchell 1948-49

    • Speech in Los Angeles with Ronald Regan

  • Percy Hodgson 1949-50

    • Bio

  • H.J. Brunnier 1952-53

    • Bio

  • Joaquin Serratosa Cibils 1953-54

    • Bio

  • A. Z. Baker 1955-56

    • Bio

  • Gian Paolo Lang 1956-57

    • Rotarian Bio Article

  • Charles G. Tennent 1957-58

    • Bio

  • J. Edd McLaughlin 1960-61

    • Rotarian Bio Article

• Early Leaders of Rotary www.earlyleaders.org

  • Silvester Schiele

    • 1938 article on the start of Rotary

    • 1914 business change/success

    • Obituary

  • Harry Ruggles, The Fifth Rotarian

    • The Paul Harris I Knew

    • Ruggles at 84

  • Arthur Sheldon "He Profits Most Who Serves Best"

    • Business school ad in The Rotarian

  • James W. Davidson

    • "Making New Friends" by Lillian Dow Davidson

  • J. Layton Ralston

• The Secretariat

  • Chesley R. Perry, First Secretary

    • The awards of Rotary's first secretary Ches Perry

    • A visit to RI Headquarters

    • An article in the March 1914 Rotarian tells who Ches Perry really was

    • The retirement of Ches Perry in the 1942 Rotarian

    • Ches Perry speaks in memory of Paul Harris

    • THE QUESTION OF PLAGIARISM IN ROTARY

    • 1929 "Word to District Governors" From Ches Perry

    • Medal from the Osaka Rotary Club

    • Story of Cuba and Perry

    • RI's first headquarters in Evanston

  • Rufus Chapin, Rotary's first treasurer

    • Rufus writes his "Auto" biography for a 1918 issue of The Rotarian

    • Shingles and Shirts, by Rufus Chapin

    • Rufus Chapin, Rotary's Dollar-a-year Man

• The RGHF History Library www.historylibrary.org

  • Rotary Bibliography

  • "The Founder of Rotary" Paul Harris' own story of his life until 1928

  • "This Rotarian Age," Paul's second book, a textbook on Rotary in 1935

    • Book Review

  • Music in Rotary

    • Rotary Hymne by Franz Lehár

  • Adventures in Service, 5th Printing 1950 http://www.rotarylibrary.org/adventures

  • Walsh's "The First Rotarian in Japanese

  • Critics/Shaw

  • "Rotary! An historical, sociological and philosophical study

  • Romance of Rotary in London, by Vivian Carter

  • "The Meaning of Rotary" Vivian Carter 1926

  • Where is David Shelly Nicholl?

  • Allied Rotary Club of France

  • The Rotarian Magazine

    • Harris solicits ads for The National Rotarian in January of 1911

    • History is not merely a vague and distant subject

    • Articles by Paul P. Harris

      • Paul's Health

    • Article by J. Edgar Hoover

    • Advertising policy on liquor

    • The Rotary Reader

    • THE QUESTION OF PLAGIARISM IN ROTARY

    • Seven Milestones in Rotary Global History

    • 1940 "Scrapbook" history of Rotary

      • Public Comfort Station

    • After the War’s Over

    • 1943 visit by The Rotarian to Comely Bank, the home of Paul and Jean Harris

    • The "Message to Garcia"

    • Early Rotarian Humor

    • An Historian Looks at Rotary

    • Pershing is Compassionate

    • Boy... Then Founder

    • Odds and Ends from The Rotarian Magazine (and other Rotary messages)

      • Paul and Jean in Japan

      • The Luncheon Habit

      • 1934 Presentation of a Paul Harris Sculpture

      • Two Cartoons in the January 1929 issue of The Rotarian

      • Scientist Einstein in the May 1944 issue of The Rotarian

      • A Rhyme for Membership

      • A Square Deal for the Horse

      • Wages and Guilty

      • John F. Kennedy speaking in New Hampshire

      • Rotary Fleet at Corpus Christi Pass

      • Let's Go Fishing for Scrap

      • More on the “Crooked Spire”

      • Long and Short

      • Big Wheels

      • Murdered Good Samaritan

      • A Rotary Club Napkin

      • The Smallest Town (with a Rotary Club)

      • Some interesting "Rotary" products

      • The good ship "Rotarian"

      • Avoid Victory Garden Waste

    • George Bernard Shaw, "Never another World War"

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson in the June 1912 issue

    • In Flanders Fields

    • Tall Jimmie Fricke of Phoenix 100

    • Rotarian killed being a "Good Samaritan"

    • Here Comes the Sergeant-at-Arms

    • "We all lie like that."

    • 1941 Photos

      • The "Objects of Rotary" with Perry and Harris

      • Photos and an article on Harris' paintings

      • Harris with Seattle Rotary Pioneer Roy Denny

    • 1942 Photos

      • Paul Harris' office, February

      • Harris has "serious surgery" but recovers to speak at Clinton, NY

      • Harris featured in a major article on "Rotary in Australia"

• General History

  • Did Rotary begin in 1904 or 1905? (1 February 2005)

  • An Early Rotary Songbook

  • Famous Rotarians

    • John F. Kennedy speaking in New Hampshire

    • President Woodrow Wilson obituary

    • Famous Rotarian, Nobel Laureate Friederich Bergius

  • Global Conflict

    • German Rotary and WW II

    • J. Layton Ralston Canada at War

    • The history of Rotary Club of Munich, Germany

    • 1945 graphic on The cost of war

  • Benjamin Franklin creates a club similar to "Rotary"

  • The champion of youth, Charles E. Barker

  • Article in "Rotary Magazine" in Germany

  • Other Organizations

    • Masons and Rotary

    • Knights of Columbus

    • Photos of other organization pins and medals

  • Rotary Wheels

• Club Histories

  • 1 The University of Chicago takes a look at Rotary's first club.

    • The 1905 roster of ROTARY/One

    • Chicago's presidents from 1905 - 1920

  • 6 New York City

    • Obituary, in 1911, of Bradford Bullock, Vice President of NARC and the charter president of  NYC #6

    • 1922 "London Bell" story, from The Rotarian

    • 1922 prosperity campaign

  • 8 "That Something" a 1924 copyright book from RC of Tacoma #8

  • 13 Kansas City

    • Harris Speaks to the Kansas City Rotary Club "by telephone."

  • 14 Lincoln

    • Bio of General "Black Jack" Pershing

      • 1921 Photo

  • 19 Philadelphia

    • Liberty Bell from RC of Philadelphia

  • 35 Winnipeg (membership pin)

  • 43 Pueblo

    • 1921 flood and Rotary help

    • Rotarian killed being a "Good Samaritan"

    • RI Director Roy J. Weaver

    • 1913 Article in The Rotarian

    • Flood and Postmaster General articles

  • 50 London

    • Stanley Leverton and his three Rotary sons

  • 53 Houston

    • 50th Anniversary cover and Duplicate Charter

  • 65 Dublin

    • Rotarian report of 1914

  • 69 District 7600, Richmond 69 History

  • 100 Phoenix Tall Jimmie Fricke

  • Zurich photo

  • Our complete history of Rotary in Cuba

  • 1925 Photos

    • Rotary Club of Launceston Tasmania

    • Photo of The Rotary Club of St. John's

    • Photos of early Hamilton, Bermuda

    • Inaugural photo of RC of Guatemala

    • Anniversary photo of RC of London

    • Ethics Committee

  • 1928 Cologne, Germany

  • 1928 Hamburg

    • History of Germany's first club

    • Address to the 1928 convention by the founder of RC of Hamburg

  • Osaka, Japan

  • Seoul, Korea

  • Rotary Club of Stockholm, the First Club of Sweden

  • Rotary Club of Kyoto, Japan 1925

  • Over the Great Wall of China

• District Histories

  • 1920 Graphic for District 17

• Rotary International Conventions:

  • 1910 Chicago

    • The First National Convention of The Rotary Clubs of America

      • Harris' first comments to the convention

      • Convention Banquet

      • Harris as banquet toastmaster

      • Harris' first address as the new president

  • 1911 Portland

    • Harris' report

  • 1912 Duluth

    • The Official Call to the 1912 convention at Duluth

    • Two "women" delegates of a "certain" age the 1912 Duluth Convention.

  • 1913 Buffalo

    • Harris' message

  • 1914 Houston

    • Harris' message

  • 1916 Cincinnati

    • Paul Harris' message to a "Round Table"

  • 1917 Atlanta

    • "This is our first war convention, may it also be the last" Harris' message to the 1917 convention in Atlanta

  • 1918 Kansas City

    • Election Results

  • 1921 Edinburgh 

  • 1922 Los Angeles

    • Convention Cover

    • Membership for Women Impossible

  • 1925 Cleveland

    • message to the Cleveland Convention of 1925

  • 1926 Denver

    • Message from Paul Harris

  • 1927 Ostende

    • Message from Paul Harris

  • 1928 Minneapolis

    • Message from Paul Harris

  • 1929 Dallas

    • Message from Paul Harris

  • 1930 Chicago (25th)

    • Harris' Greeting

    • Harris' message, delivered in person

    • RI President Newsom's message

  • 1931 Vienna

    • 5th Rotary Redoute in Vienna 2003

    • Paul Harris' report to the Vienna Convention of 1931

  • 1932 Seattle

    • Harris' 1932 message to the Seattle Convention

  • 1933 Boston

    • 1933 Convention Speech

  • 1935 Mexico City

    • History of the 1935 Mexico City Convention

  • 1934 Detroit

    • Harris' 1934 address to the Detroit Convention

  • 1935 Mexico City

    • Paul Harris traveled to Mexico City to deliver this speech on "peace"

    • 1935 convention speech on Vocational Service

  • 1936 Atlantic City

    • Harris' message

  • 1937 Nice  

    • Harris' message

  • 1938 San Francisco

    • Harris' message

    • Perry's report

    • Duperrey's speech

  • 1939 Cleveland

    • Harris' message

  • 1940 Havana 

    • Harris' message

  • 1941 Denver

    • Harris' message

  • 1942 Toronto

    • Harris' message

    • Mrs. Paul Harris' greeting

    • Quote from Harris in The Rotarian

  • 1943 St. Louis

    • Mrs. Paul Harris' introduction

    • Harris' message

  • 1944 Chicago

    • Harris' message

  • 1945 Chicago

    • The single convention where Paul Harris did not have a message

  • 1946 Atlantic City

    • Harris' message

  • 1947 San Francisco

    • All of the tributes to Paul Harris

  • 1950 Detroit

  • 1951 Atlantic City

  • 1952 Mexico City

  • 1953 Paris

  • 1954 Seattle

  • 1955 Chicago 

  • 1962 Los Angeles

• Women and Rotary

  • Famous Women

    • Pearl Buck

    • Madeleine Carroll (Bob Hope's favorite blonde)

    • Helen Keller

    • Opera Singer Florence MacBeth

  • Early Women

    • 1911 President

    • The First Twenty Years 1987-2007

  • Retirements

• The Rotary Foundation

  • The Endowment Fund

• Translation Project

  • RGHF History in German

  • German Language Project

    • Über die Große Mauer (Over the Great Wall)

    • Early Clubs of Germany

    • Rotary is 100

    • Perspectives of the Centennial

    • Leserbrief zum Artikel „Ein Club, dem Guten verpflichtet“, von Marianne Heuwagen in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 23. Februar 2005

    •  "Other Organizations", and Rotary Global History, by a German Scholar

      • The Knights of Columbus

  • Translation of RGHF History

  • Rotary Magazin (German Rotary Magazine) articles by Wolfgang Ziegler

    • Articles for 2003 to present

    • 2005 December article about Mead and Taylor

• The Philosophy of Rotary

  • 1911 Rational Rotarianism

  • 1915 Conference speech in Chicago by Paul Harris (7 February 2005)

  • Harris challenges Ches Perry to write the philosophy

  • Paul Harris' 10th Anniversary Message

  • Paul Harris' 12th Anniversary Message