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Home of RI President  Paulo V. C. Costa, 1990-1991, convention history
The Rotary Club of Santos, founded on 26 February 1927 and accepted on May
21, 1927, when its charter was issued establishing the Rotary International, is
the third club in Brazil. The
first, previously noted, was the Rotary Club of Rio de Janeiro, founded on
December 15, 1922 (accepted on 28 February 1923), and the second was the Rotary
Club of Sao Paulo, founded on 13 February 1924 (admission on March 24, 1924).
After
several talks, met at the office building of the honorable Citty Co.
Dr. Bernard F. Browne, manager
of Cia Citty, Dr.
Ismael Coelho de Souza, the
CiaDocks of Santos and Joao Carlos de Mello, exporter of coffee, to
discuss the foundation in the city of Santos, a Rotary Club.
The
Rotarian Henry Irving Gallyon, 1st Secretary
of the Rotary Club of Sao Paulo (this is the best club of the unit
in training), also came to help and guide its creation. He
made extensive explanation about Rotary and the Ideal of Service
could provide real benefits to their community and the businessmen
and professionals, disseminating professional ethics in classes that
would represent the original members.
After other
necessary clarifications, the Rotarian Gallyon finalized
suggesting sending a
circular to businessmen and professionals from the council, calling
forthem to
complete in a noble order, making him one of the founding members of
the Rotary Club of Santos.
A circular distributed was received with general sympathy that the
invited meeting is on February 26, 1927 in the building no. which
was transformed into a meeting attended by 25 businessmen and
professionals.
The meeting on February 26 was transformed into the Foundation
Board. chaired
the proceedings and did extensive exposure on the purpose of a
Rotary Club and the benefits it could provide to the community
Santos. Read
the most important points of the Statute and the Rules, to know the
present.
As interpreter of the feelings
of all present, Mr. Paulo Fernandes Gasgon then
proposed that the Assembly, by acclamation, was elected the first
Board of Directors of Rotary Club of Santos thus constituted:
President Vice President Treasurer
1st
Secretary Marshall; 2nd Secretary The proposal was accepted unanimously with warm applause.
The inaugural meeting of the
Rotary Club of Santos, held on March 3, 1927, in the hall of the
restaurant of the Club's Scholarship, was the attendance of the 25
founder members and the following Rotarian visitors: IB Suthar, the
Rotary Club of Tampico; Oscar Weinshenk, T. all
of the Rotary Club of Rio de Janeiro, and
Paulo Moraes Barros, Irving Henru Gallyon, Jorge
de Moraes Barros, Cantidio de Moura
Campos and
Herminio Gomes Moreira, affiliated with the Rotary Club of Sao
Paulo.
acknowledgements to Otoniel Santos Neto
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