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The 38th convention - San Francisco, June 8-12 with 14,678 in attendance

Richard Hedke, Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tributes to Paul Harris from the 1947 Convention here...

 
June 8-12 and 14,678 Rotarians gathered in the City of the Golden Gate.  Rotary had returned for the 3rd time to the second club, the last being only nine years earlier for the opening of world's most famous bridge. This time it was less than five months after the death of Rotary International's founder, Paul P. Harris. And, from the Wolfgang Ziegler collection, this is the speech by retired RI general secretary Ches Perry (right). It was Perry and Harris, in many ways who created Rotary and in between the lines you can read some of that relationship and then compare it with some of the biographies of Rotary's "early leaders."
Richard C. Hedke, RI President, 1946-1947, Detroit, Michigan Ches Perry's memorial to Paul Harris. Note the broken "Wheel." Note who Ches credits as the cofounders of Rotary. No mention of the "other" two from Room 711 is made. Ches spends this page on Paul's illness which began at the end his two year term as president of the NARC.
It is a solid tribute by the one man who knew best, besides his close friend Silvester Schiele, what Paul Harris gave to Rotary and at what cost. Today, each of us continues to honor the memory of Paul Harris with our support of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International RI general secretary Lovejoy with his article upon the death of Paul P. Harris   San Francisco circa 47

It is interesting to note, though Paul Harris died on January 27, that "By May 1st, over 600 gifts to the Paul Harris Memorial Fund within the Foundation, totaling upward of $ 125,000, had been received. 118 of these were from clubs sending in checks in amounts equal to $10 or more per member."

President Hedke, talking about the Foundation Fellowships, said: "This year, because of your response to the Paul Harris Memorial Fund, the awards I am announcing tonight will be called, because of your generosity in that cause, "The Paul Harris Memorial Foundation Fellowships".
 

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