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Walt Disney, who brought
some of the Harris tales to the movie screen, was an honorary member of
the Rotary Club of Palm Springs, California, U.S.A. |
Another daring adventurer,
Thor Heyerdahl, is an honorary
member of the Rotary Club of Larvik, Norway. |
Marshall Carl-Gustaf
Mannerheim who was a honorary member of The
Rotary Club of
Helsinki from 1934 until his death in 1951. Submitted by:
PDG Kari Tallberg |
H.M. Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy,
honorary member of
Rotary Club of Rome |
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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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The Presidents of the United States that were Honorary
Rotarians are: Woodrow Wilson (RC of Birmingham, AL) (TR April 1915 p.76),
Calvin Coolidge, (Obituary) |
Other honorary U.S.,
Presidents were Herbert Hoover, ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(honorary member of the RC of Albany,, |
Harry S. Truman, ...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower,
(honorary member of the RC of Abilene, Kansas (1942), Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania (1952), and Newport, Rhode Island, (1957)),
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John F. Kennedy have been
honorary Rotarians. . |
Richard Nixon - Whittier, CA since 1948 |
Ronald W. Reagan - Pacific
Palisades, CA |
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George W. Bush -
RC of Washington DC (made an honorary
member by RI Past President Frank Devlyn at a ceremony on 2 July, 2001 at
the White House) |
There is royalty in Rotary. |
HRH the Prince of Wales, honorary member Windsor, Ontario, Canada,
from The Rotarian May 1921, also see King Edward 8 (Dr.
Wolfgang Ziegler) |
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor - Honorary member of two
Canadian Rotary clubs. TR March 1936 p. 27. |
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H.R.H. the Duke of Aosta
was honorary member of RC Naples, Italy, District 2100.
(provided by
Pietro Brunoldi)
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Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, Birmingham, UK |
Another honorary
member was Associate
Justice William O. Douglas.
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Sir Winston Churchill was an
honorary member of the
Rotary Club of London, England. |
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Albert I
King of
Belgium |
The honorary president of
the Rotary Cub of Monaco, Monaco, is Prince Rainier III.
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King Baudouin I of Belgium, is an honorary member of the
Rotary Cub of Brussels.
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King Hassan II of Morocco,
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I. K. Gujaral, Prime Minister |
H. R. H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - honorary member
of the Rotary Club of Windsor and Eton, England - TR June 1970 p. 28
an honorary member of the
Rotary Club of Edinburgh. |
Charles
H.R.H the Prince of Wales,
Honorary
Member, Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan, D1010 UK
(webmaster Rtn. Chris Engle) |
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King Carl VI Gustav of
Sweden, and ... |
Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands are patrons of Rotary in their countries.
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General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, chief executive of Chile,
was, at one time, an honorary member of the Rotary Club of
Santiago. |
Many of the world's leading
industrialists and businessmen are Rotarians. |
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Dr. Karl A. Menninger, M.D. - Chairman of the Board of
Trustees Menninger Foundation - Honorary Member Rotary Club of Topeka,
Kansas. Rotary International Archives / Central Files-Subject Files /
Notables - General. Letter dated 28 January, 1977 from Claire Hettinger, DG
571. |
Nobel Prize winner Dr.
Albert Schweitzer, philosopher and physician, was an honorary member of the
Rotary clubs of Colmar, France, and Passau, Germany. |
The opera
singer Florence MacBeth, born in
Mankato/Minnesota, Primadonna of the Chicago Civic Opera, was made
honorary member of the RC St. Paul, Minnesota as early as 1915. |
Crown Prince
Umberto of Savoia, was honorary member of the Rotary Club of Cuneo
(district 2030, Italy), because this city was his born place.
(provided by
Pietro Brunoldi) |
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Rotarians are impressive
travelers. Sir Edmund Hillary, an honorary member of the
Rotary
Club of Auckland, New Zealand, has trekked to the top of Mt. Everest.
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Another
honorary Rotarian
has flown to the moon! Former U.S. astronaut Neil
A. Armstrong is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Wapakoneta, Ohio,
U.S.A. |
Former astronaut Alan B. Shephard, Jr.,
was an honorary Rotarian in
Derry, New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper was once a
down-to-earth honorary Rotarian in Space Center (Houston) Texas, U.S.A |
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Frank Borman, Astronaut,
Houston #53 |
Charles Lindberg, First Trans-Atlantic Flight |
Thomas A. Edison - Inventor - Honorary member of the RC of
Orange, NJ - The Weekly Letter Monday, 26, 1931 page 1. |
General John J. Pershing - WWI US General - Honorary member
of the RC of Lincoln, NB
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General Douglas MacArthur
- WWII US General - Honorary
member of the RC of Tokyo, Japan (Approximately April or May 1949) The
Rotarian - July 1949 page 21. |
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - 1990 |
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