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Editors Contributors Humor Liquor ad Policy Harris' Articles J. Edgar Hoover
Message to Garcia Odds and Ends Shaw "No War" Shaw "Nations" Sgt-at-Arms Plagiarism in Rotary?
Seven Milestones We all Lie Alike M. Chiang Kai-shek Perry to 1929 DG's 1940 Scrapbook 1943 Comely Bank Story
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Editors

First editor of the magazine (1911-1928) was Chesley R. Perry , who was also the first secretary of Rotary International. (1910 - 1942)

Copyright notice, printed in the July 1914 issue of The Rotarian

Graphic from Wolfgang Ziegler
Vivian Carter of England was the second editor (1928-1935). Leland D. Case followed (1935-1950). Karl K. Krueger next took the reins (1952-1973) Karl was followed by Willmont L. White, who served as editor (1974-1996).
   
2003

Vince Aversano: editor-in-chief. Janice Chambers: managing editor. Edward A. Schimmelpfennig: advertising manager. 

Contributors

Seventeen Nobel Prize recipients and 19 Pulitzer Prize recipients have written for the magazine. A partial list of eminent contributors includes: Thomas Mann, Edith Wharton, Knute Rockne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Vincent Peale, Pearl S. Buck, Lowell Thomas, Betty Friedan, Willy Brandt, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Armour, J. Edgar Hoover, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Rabbi Harold Kushner, Isaac Asimov, Cleveland Amory, Octavio Pax and Jimmy Carter.

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