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Walter Drummond

 

Black and white photographic portrait of Walter Drummond.  Tag on the frame states "Walter Drummond one of the organizers of the Melbourne Australia [Rotary Club] and its first secretary".

It was Australian Walter Drummond who, after a visit to the Rotary Club of Chicago in December 1913,  twice visited the Harrises at their home in Comely Bank to find out about starting Rotary in his own country, but it was not until the end of the war in Europe that this was done. Drummond later became the second secretary of the Melbourne Club.  He died young and it was to his memory that Paul Harris planted the first tree in his goodwill garden at Comely Bank.  (see Friendship Trees)

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We acknowledge the assistance of David Templin of the Chicago RC with providing many of the pictures used in this section.

After you see the museum office, meet his partners and office workers at Harris Dodds & Brown. (A page of photographs of the actual office in the early 2000's)

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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  
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