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The 38th convention -
San Francisco,
June 8-12 with 14,678 in attendance |
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 Richard
Hedke,
Detroit, Michigan
Tributes to Paul Harris from the 1947 Convention here...
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| 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.
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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." |
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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. |
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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
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San Francisco circa 47 |
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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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