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| Celebrating Rotary's First 100 years |
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Rotary Club of Calcutta (District 3290) has been added to the Rotary History Fellowship. Click below: Links
page:www.rotaryfirst100.org
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http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/link.htm
http://www.historyarchivelinks.org
This 500 page web site is dedicated to recognizing the founding principles and founding clubs of Rotary International whether in 1905 or 2001. At our own club's web site you can learn how Rotary Club of Calcutta spread "Rotary 100 Spirit" in the Indian subcontinent. click here >>
Now on this web site you can learn about all
100 of the first clubs. As the site grows, you'll find information to enrich
your own Rotary experience.
There are individual pages for each of the First100 clubs pointing the way for
visitors to the "First100Cities"
www.rotaryfirst100.org/cities as well as interesting hints of history.
One of the pages lists the clubs in order of admittance into Rotary at
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs
Links to the club, district and zone web sites are also provided.
Another section of the web site recognizes all Rotary organizations
participating in this project.
www.rotary30000.org This page is for clubs 101-30,000 as well as their
districts and zones. This page also includes individual Rotarians, such as:
www.frankdevlyn.org/links.htm
Frank J. Devlyn, RC Anahuac, Mexico, President 2000-2001
Is history important? This is what RI Past President Frank Devlin wrote to the
RotaryHistory.org staff: "Your web site is an instrumental tool for those
forward thinking people who wish to learn from our history, in order to guide
our future."
The first club in the world, Chicago, known as ROTARY/One has an extensive site
produced and maintained by RotaryHistory.org. This site will be a source of
information regarding Chicago's 2005 centennial. The Chicago/RotaryHistory.org
site is gathering information about Paul and Jean Harris that many Rotarians
would not know.
The story of the clubs in Great Britain and Ireland is developing at
RotaryHistory.
www.rotaryireland-uk.org This is a very interesting and is one reason
why the site expanded to 100 clubs. David Liddiatt, 2001-2002 President of RIBI
(Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland) writes: "This web site
allows us to reflect on our past and also view the clubs of today through links
to zones and districts which fan out to reach the globe. It has become our
collective history - combining the pioneering spirit of the early clubs on the
one hand with the founding spirit of the men and women chartering our new clubs
today."
"The Spirit of Rotary is one member's initial talent - a latent talent -
developed and enhanced by service to others through Clubs, Districts and Rotary
International worldwide." David Liddiatt, President, RIBI; Ex-Officio
RotaryHistory, 30 July 2001
One other expanding and interesting part of "RotaryHistory" is the "room" where
Rotary began. RotaryHistory.org is the producer and host for "The Paul Harris -
Room 711 Club" www.room711.org where four men on 23 February 1905 met to hear
what was on Chicago attorney Paul Harris's mind. He told them, "Each of you must
have several friends," and with that they "rotated" the meeting to the next
person's office with "more" friends until today, Paul Harris, would now have
well over a million friends in 30,000 "rotating" clubs.
Here's what 2001-2002 RI President Rick King had to say about the "RotaryHistory"
web site and why it is important for our club and our neighbor clubs.
"I would like to congratulate you for your efforts in creation and expansion of
"rotaryfirstfifty" to
www.rotaryfirst100.org (Now expanded to include
www.rotaryhistory.org ) This is an
informative web site, which aids communication, shares information and tells the
stories of Rotary's first one hundred clubs in a useful and informative manner.
On behalf of Rotary International, I would like to express my appreciation for
your hard work and commitment to increasing communication among clubs, while
also informing people about the history of Rotary.
I hope that Rotary Clubs will be able to utilize this resource as a means to
make contacts with others and to share the history of our organization with
prospective members. ... I am counting on you to demonstrate to the world that
for Rotarians everywhere, Mankind is Our Business" Richard D. King President, 13
July 2001
The most popular feature of the project is a "RotaryMinute" sent each week by
email. "What Paul Harris Said" features quotes from the founder's writing with
brief commentary and is used by clubs around the world. Subscriptions are free
and can be obtained at www.paulharris.info
. Another new feature is
www.onepagehistory.org , a single page that "tells it all," which you can
copy and past to your website. It includes links to the three history websites
already built in.
In 2002 the website began a project to collect the contributions and stories of
the "early leaders" of Rotary at
www.earlyleaders.org to recognize the "First Lady" of Rotary with a website
of her own at www.jeanharris.org
and to follow the world wide goodwill tour of Jean and Paul Harris at
www.friendshiptrees.org In 2002 the
project completed its third website,
www.rotarylibrary.org to house portions of out-of-print books and other
publications. Also the website was chosen first place in its category in the
2002 "Best of the Web" recognitions by ROTi/ICUFR.
The project is a global history effort with lists of the first clubs on each
continent posted on separate websites listed below. The web site was started by
Rotary Club of Pueblo #43, in October of 2000, and is managed by a committee of
dedicated Rotarians from throughout the world Visit
www.rotaryhistory.org/ and
find for yourself who the "other" early clubs where and how they really got
started.
Rotary's Global History Project Websites:
One Page History -
www.onepagehistory.org
General History -
www.rotaryhistory.org
Rotary's First 100 Clubs -
www.rotaryfirst100.org
Books, publications & exhibits -
www.rotarylibrary.org
"This is a changing world; we must be prepared to change with it. The story of
Rotary will have to be written again and again!" ~ Paul P. Harris
Short-Cut Addresses:
www.onepagehistory.org
(Copy This for Your Website)
www.rotarytimeline.org (Get
Lost in Rotary History here)
www.room711.org (Where Paul and
Friends First Met)
www.1905.info (The First Rotary Club)
www.whatpaulharrissaid.org
(A Paul Harris Rotary Minute)
www.myroadtorotary.org
(Rotary, In Paul Harris's Own Words)
www.findingpaulharris.org
(All About Paul Harris)
www.earlyleaders.org (Those who
created Rotary)
www.friendshiptrees.org (The
Goodwill trips of Jean and Paul Harris)
www.comelybank.org (Saving the
Founder's Home)
www.jeanharris.org (The Founder's
Wife)
Your gateway to the global history of Rotary
www.rotaryafrica.org
www.rotaryasia.org
www.rotaryaustralia.org
www.rotarynewzealand.org
www.rotaryeurope.org
www.rotarynorthamerica.org
www.rotarycanada.org
www.rotaryireland-uk.org
www.rotarysouthamerica.org
Contact: Jack Selway,
Chairman, RotaryHistory.org
231 Dittmer Avenue, Pueblo, CO 81004-1020 USA,
1-800-973-5929 USA only,
or 719-583-9798,
Email: chairman@rotaryhistory.org
2002/0515
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