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 3rd Convention - Duluth, MN USA, August 6-9 with 598 in attendance

Founder Paul Harris' final term as president. At the Duluth convention he sees his organization become international and he is elected president emeritus.

 

Visit Paul Harris' president's home page

The Road I Have Traveled

 The Call to the convention

 

Chicago provided delegates from different generations! Three and 81 years old!
Club Presidents in 1912 Platform and Objects The Rotarian Tell the whole story. Telegram announces the formation of Edinburgh - 1912
In 1912 the movement became the International Association of Rotary Clubs in Duluth, the Zenith City of the USA. The motion to change names was made by C E Fletcher of Winnipeg Rotary Club, Canada - the only 'international' club present. Telegrams from the British Isles were received at the Convention. Fletcher, incidentally, declined the offer of Vice-President for Canada and was replaced by W J Clubb.

Glenn C Mead was the new President of the Rotary movement. Mead was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1870 and educated at Harvard, graduating in 1891. Mead became an instructor in classics at the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia and studied law part-time. He gained admission to the bar in Philadelphia in 1900. Glenn Mead was an independent Republican and reformer and was elected Assistant City Solicitor in 1911. In 1908 Mead began his own law practice and helped organize the Philadelphia Rotary Club in 1910, becoming its first President.

Harris told the Convention in his Report of the spread of Rotary but was concerned with the slow progress in the South. He also said, "If you, Brother Rotarian, think that you have a great mission to perform in Rotary, remember that great missions are serious undertakings.		  Do not expect to perform great missions in a day. First, live with the principles of Rotary till they are as familiar to you as your own business, and associate with Rotarians until they constitute your warmest and closest friends. If your desire is results, mould your propaganda to conform to the recognised principles of Rotary before attempting to make it a part of Rotary."

Rotarian Aldrich of St Louis Rotary Club moved that Mead's predecessor Paul Harris be made President Emeritus.

The Duluth Convention was reported in 'The Rotarian' of September 1912 (before the official proceedings reports) and shows the Objects of Rotary as adopted on August 9th 1912. We also see a telegram from Stuart Morrow telling the Convention that a new club has been formed - Edinburgh.

Doug Rudman & Calum Thomson

The Call to the convention

 
 

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