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The first Rotary meeting was held on the evening of 23rd February 1905 in the office of Gustavus E. Loehr, a mining engineer. The exact address was Room 711 of the Unity Building at 127 North Dearbon Street, Chicago, USA. Others present on the occasion were Rotary's Founder and convener Paul Harris, a lawyer and two of his other friends coal dealer Silvester Schiele and merchant tailor Hiram Shorey. This day is considered to be the birthday of Rotary and was later declared by Rotary International as "International Understanding and Peace Day". The month of February was designated as the "World Understanding Month". Each club, on that day, gives special recognition and emphasis to Rotary's commitment to international understanding, friendship, and peace.

To commemorate this special event the Rotary Club of Calcutta initiated a Rotary Oration on
23-February-1998. Today we observe the 14th oration to be delivered by General Shankar Roychowdhury

Our Previous speakers were:

No. Date Speaker President

01 23-Feb-98 PDG Ramesh Agarwal Dr Dipak Sarbadhikari
02 23-Feb-99 Mr L M Singhvi AK Rungta
03 28-Feb-00 Abid Hossain KK Khemka
04 13-Mar-01 Mr Hiroshi Hirabayashi Dileep Rohatgi
05 23-Feb-02 Dr Vandana Siva Anshu Banerjee
06 23-Feb-03 Soli Sorabjee Dr Pravash Sengupta
07 23-Feb-04 Shri Amar Singh Chitrak Mitra
08 23-Feb-05 Mr K P S Gill Vikram Somany
09 23-Feb-06 Swami Jitamanandi Maharaj Dr SK Sharma
10 23-Feb-07 PDG K R Ravindran Sutanu Ghosh
11 19-Feb-08 Shri Anand Sharma Partha Sadhan Bose
12 23-Feb-09 Krishnan Srinivasan Nandita Sen
13 23-Feb-10 Prof Bikash Sinha Sutanu Ghosh (Dilip Sircar) Rotary Sadan
14 23-Feb-11 RI Director-elect Shekhar Mehta (Sushil Bagla)
15 23-Feb-12 Dr Barun De (O P Malhotra)

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