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Harris' Art Paul P. Harris Paul's Health On Internationalism Paul's 1918 Office On The Mayflower?
Memberships Early Cemetery Cemetery Map Memorial Obituary Paul's Office Today
A Gift for Paul Global Views of PH Argentina Scotland Turkey Rawlins Survey
Rawlins Answers Restless Years Signatures Harris Autographs Harris Checks Doc's & Charters
Harris Letters This Rotarian Age Speech, 1928 "Friendship Trees" Wallingford, VT South Africa 1934
Tribute to Harris Peregrinations My Road To Rotary Founder of Rotary Europe 1932 European Tour 1928
RIP Letters PH in The Rotarian Harris Philosophy Radio Speech 1933 30th Anniversary Jean & Paul
Photo Gallery Distant Sense A Road Traveled Perry by Harris Paul's Bio of Jean Harris Timeline
Books All Harris Writing Rotarian Articles Convention Messages Meet Paul Harris  
Chair: Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler Committee What's New? Updates
Paul Harris' Memberships & Honors

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23 February 1905 - Organized First Informal Gathering (provisional)
23 February 1907 - October 1907 President Rotary Club of Chicago
24 August 1909 - Elected an honorary member Rotary Club of New York City #6
1910 - 1912 - President: National Association of Rotary Clubs
1 July 1912 Named President Emeritus of the newly formed "International Association of Rotary Clubs"

Professional Associations:

  Chicago Bar Association

  Chairman - Committee on professional ethics

  Delegate - International Congress on Comparative Law at the Hague

  Illinois State Bar Association

  American Bar Association

Recognitions:

  Doctor of Laws (University of Vermont)

  Silver Buffalo Award (Boy Scouts of America)

  Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil)

  Order of Merit (Chile)

  Order of Merit (Ecuador)

  Order of Cristobal Colon (Dominican Republic)

  Officer of Legion of Honor (France)

  Order of the Sun (Peru)

  Doctor honoris causa (College of Law, Lima, Peru)
Receiving the top honor of the Boy Scouts in 1934 Paul Harris becoming an Officer of the French Legion The Medal was presented during the 1937 convention at Nice which Paul Harris was able to attend

Wolfgang Ziegler (both)
The awards of Paul Harris, From "My Road to Rotary" Award from the Dominican Republic in 1944 at the Chicago Convention of that year. The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway is a new national monument dedicated to the spirit of service in America. Honoring heroes of our Nation’s service movement, the Extra Mile comprises a series of bronze medallions forming a one-mile walking path just blocks from the White House.

Wolfgang Ziegler

 Medallion
 

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