Donation of Painting by Arch Klumph. When the Host Organising committee started out to make a promotion DVD for the 100^th Rotary International Convention they were unaware what direction into a piece of Rotary History it would take them. 

They had established that Paul Harris had given his first speech to a British Rotary Club at Birmingham in 1928 and that during his visit to the area had made visits to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth and Stratford-on-Avon. The HOC therefore took President D.K. to visit those places plus many others and called their DVD ‘Walking in the Footsteps of Paul Harris’. 

When they looked further into why Paul Harris had visited these towns they found he went to Stratford-on-Avon to see a picture in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre that his friend Arch Klumph had presented on behalf of the American Rotary Clubs.  

We looked into the story behind this and found that Arch Klumph had visited the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and saw the paintings on display of Shakespearean actors from around the world but no one from the United States. He returned to the states and set about putting that right. MORE...