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1 March 1914 |
| "other 100th clubs" | |||
| On this day, as with the first day
of each month, new charters were granted by the, then, International
Association of Rotary Clubs. On Sunday, March First of 1914 there were
eight (8) completed applications. All were of "equal" standing. In
February charter number 97 had been assigned to Sacramento, in
California, USA. No one will really ever know how the decision was made to create the order of the clubs listed on this page. If "rotaryfirst100.org" had not been created, it might not have been much of an issue. But we're recording history and details like this must be dealt with. This section of our website is the result of the research of Rotary Global History senior historian Basil Lewis with the assistance of the Rotary International Archives Department, particularly Cyndi Beck. "Some order had to be assigned and we can only assume it was chance. The organization date was irrelevant to Rotary purposes. Many clubs took longer to be ready to proceed to apply for Rotary International Association membership. Those clubs that were speedier in the process were not penalized by those who weren't." (From the Rotary International Archives) Regarding membership in the Association, according to the Constitution & Bylaws in force in 1914 (text at this link) "In the beginning, Rotary numbered the clubs in the order in which they became affiliated with Rotary International and they were assigned a charter number based on the date that they were elected to membership in Rotary International. After WWII in about 1951, Rotary stopped using the numbering system that it had before the war. Today's assigned numbers are for financial purposes and are not placed on the charter nor should they be considered for order of entry into Rotary International. After a club is terminated (for any reason) should they be re-affiliated within a year, they would retain their original charter date. If more than a year has passed, then they will receive a new charter date and the old affiliation will no longer count as to anniversary, etc." Cyndi Beck, Rotary Archives CHARTERING AND THE NUMBERING OF CLUBS Officially a Rotary Club only moves from the 'interim' (provisional) stage to full membership when it receives its Charter. In the early period of Rotary, clubs had to apply for affiliation to the newly formed National (or from 1912, International) Association of Rotary Clubs. Sometimes because of administrative delays or even lack of knowledge of the correct procedure, some of Rotary's earliest clubs failed to be chartered for several months or even years after their inaugural meeting. Thus, Winnipeg was formed at a meeting on November 3, 1910, but did not receive its Charter until 1912. A similar situation occurred with the clubs in Britain where news of their creation could take a long time to reach Chicago. Because there was occasionally some dispute about the amount of the affiliation fee, not all clubs joined immediately. This has led to discrepancies in the numbering of the clubs. Thus- In the above list apart from the transposition of London and Belfast, the RIBI numbering follows the order of the club's creation. The RI numbering on the other hand reflects the order of the issuing of the club's official charter by the payment of an affiliation fee to the IARC in America. Thus, Dublin did not affiliate until April 4, 1913 and Belfast until May 4, 1914. A good example of this delay is the Brighton Club. After an initial meeting in January 1913, the club was 'officially' inaugurated on April 8, 1913 as the Brighton and Hove Rotary Club. However, it was not until January 4, 1917, that the club affiliated to the B.A.R.C. and received an official number. Although the names of the founder members is known, no one has yet been able to trace how the club came to be a 'Rotary Club' following the general principles of the Rotary movement at that time. |
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