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ROTARIANS attending the
1931 RI convention in Vienna, Austria, |
were thrilled by a
performance of Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow" operetta |
conducted by the composer
himself. |
Local Rotarians took extra pleasure in the performance,
for Lehar was an active member of the
Rotary Club of Vienna.
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Other Rotarian composers
have included Jean Sibelius, once a member of the
Rotary Club of Helsinki- Helsingfors, Finland; and ... |
Sigmund Romberg (the
operetta, "May time"), a former member of the Rotary
Club
of New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Rotarians have been, and
are, prominent in other areas of the arts.
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German novelist Thomas
Mann was an active member of the Rotary Club of Munich.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 |
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U.S. poet James Whitcomb
Riley was a member of the Rotary Club of
Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Edgar A. Guest (a frequent
contributor to THE ROTARIAN) was also a Rotarian in
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
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Joel Chandler
Harris, Jr., son of the author
of the "Uncle Remus" stories, was an active Rotarian, and a district governor and member of the
Rotary
Club of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
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Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the
intrepid Arctic explorer, was a member of the Rotary Club of Winchester,
Virginia, U.S.A. (See
a flag presented to Paul Harris) |
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Science fiction author Jack
Williamson comes down to earth to meet with the Rotary Club of Portales,
New Mexico, U.S.A.
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His fellow writer, John
Jakes – author of an extremely popular series of novels about U.S.
history – is also a Rotarian. |
Sir
Nigel Gresley. There are probably few if
any Rotarians who have had a mainline railway steam engine named after
them. A founder member of the Doncaster Rotary Club, he was elected as
one of the first two Vice Presidents. |
Friederich
Bergius, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was born on
October 11, 1884, in Goldschmieden near Breslau, and died on March 31,
1949, in Buenos Aires, Argentine. |
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Many of the illustrious
figures in world affairs have been and are Rotarians. Royalty and
elected political officials have been drawn to Rotary's ideal of
"Service Above Self."
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Another "Real Rotarian"
was Warren G. Harding - Member
Washington
D.C. Rotary Club since December 10, 1920. See The Rotarian March, 1921 Vol.
XVIII No. 3. |
Gerald R. Ford -
Grand Rapids, MI
since 1966 |
Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S.
Ambassador to the UN and governor of Illinois, was a member of the
Rotary Club of Springfield in that state. |
...Earl Warren, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, was a Rotarian, ... |
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as was Associate
Justice William O. Douglas. |
Wayne Morse, former U.S.
senator from Oregon, was a past president of the Rotary Club of Eugene.
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Mark O. Hatfield, former
governor of and present U.S. senator from Oregon, was also a member of
the Eugene club. |
J. Millard Tawes, former governor of
Maryland, was a charter member of the Rotary Cub of Crisfield. |
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Two former RI presidents,
Luther H. Hodges
(1967-68) (Mr. Hodges served as
governor of North Carolina and U.S. secretary of commerce). and |
Clinton
P. Anderson (1932-33) achieved levels of importance in U.S. (Mr. Anderson served as U.S.
secretary of agriculture and U.S. senator from New Mexico.)
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Carlos P. Romulo,
Rotary
Club of Manila - Philippine Brigadier General in WWII,
Ambassador of the Philippines to the US, Permanent Representative to the UN,
President of the 4th session of the United Nations 1949 and
Past Director of
Rotary International. (speech by Romulo at UN page) |
Guglielmo Marconi inventor of the wireless, was
an active member of the Rotary Club of Bologna, Italy.
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Aesgeir Asgeirsson, former
president of Iceland, was a charter member of the Rotary Club of
Reykjavik. |
Jan Masaryk, former president of the
former Republic of Czechoslovakia,
and ... |
Eduard Benes, former minister of foreign affairs for that country, were
members of the Rotary Club of Prague. (Then RI District 66) (Today, according to the Rotary International
Directory 2005-2006 - District 2240 there are some 40 clubs in The
Czech Republic and 11 in The Republic of Slovakia. |
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There is royalty in Rotary. |
Italian politician and couturier Emilio Pucci,
is a member of the Rotary Club of Florence. |
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Many of the world's leading
industrialists and businessmen are Rotarians. |
Konosuke Matsushita,
president of Japan's Matsushita Electric Company was a member of the
Rotary Club of Osaka. |
The late J.C. Penney,
founder and chairman of the board for the J.C. Penney stores, was a
member of the
Rotary Cub of New York, New York, U.S.A. |
Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.,
chairman of the board of the Walgreen Drug Company, is a member of the
Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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U.S. sports figures Tris
Speaker and .... |
Cornelius "Connie Mack"
McGillicuddie
were Rotarians |
as was Olympic gold medalist
swimmer Duke Kahanamoko. |
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Dr. Charles H. Mayo,
co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A., is a
member of that city's Rotary club. |
Francoise
Barre-Sinoussi along with her partner Jean-Claude Chermann (right)
isolated the aids virus at the Pasteur Institute |
They are both PHF of "La
Rochelle-Aunis D1690" The first publication of the
discovery of AIDS
Virus was in 1983. |
The Kentucky Colonel, Harlan Sanders belonged to
several Rotary Clubs, early in Rotary's history.
more... |
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PHOTOS Pierre Belujon
PP-PHF
La Rochelle - Aunis
d1690 |
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Clarence Birdseye - Gloucester, Mass, USA - Developer of a
process for quick freezing food. - TR December 1935 p. 27 |
H. E. Soleiman Frangieh,
Republic President of Lebanon,
1969-75, founding member of RC Tripoli - Tripoli, Lebanon,
January 1950. |
One
of Lincoln Rotary’s best known members was William Jennings Bryan.
He became an honorary member when he moved his residence to Florida. |
Aviation pioneer Orville
Wright was an active member of the
Rotary Club of Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. |
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Provided
by
PAG Dr. Michel P. Jazzar RC of Zgharta-Zawié
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Author, minister, and
lecturer, Norman Vincent Peale, a former member of the RI public
relations committee, belongs to the
New York, New York, U.S.A., club. |
Influential and internationally famed editor
of the Emporia (Kansas, U.S.A.) Gazette, William Allen White, was a
Rotarian |
Gordon Selfridge, Store Owner,
London #50 |
Swedish
photographers Lennart Nilsson ("Behold Man") and Karl Gullers are Rotarians.
(Linnart is a
member of the Rotary Club of Stockholm.)Karl, who was
profiled in the April 1975 issue of THE ROTARIAN, is a
Phoenix, Arizona,
U.S.A., Rotarian. |
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Diane Feinstein, U. S.
Senator,
RC of San Francisco |
Richard Lugar,
U.
S. Senator,
Indianapolis #58 |
Jimmy Carter - Americus, GA since 1995 |
Charles 'Chic' Sale, Writer, Film, Performer,
Scarsdale, NY |
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Sir Harry Lauder, Vaudeville
Comedian,
Glasgow, SC #60
Also see "Music
in Rotary" |
R. G. Knowles,
RC London. This Canadian born artist was a popular and clever
entertainer. |
Another member of the London Club between the wars was
Arthur Prince.
Prince was born in 1881 in London and died in 1948. |
Harry Tate,
Senior, was another London Rotarian with the classification of
'Comedian'. |
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Bransby
Williams, an entertainer, became member number 298 of the London
Rotary Club |
Gerald Walcan
Bright, by now at the top of his profession, joined the London
Rotary Club |
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