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Brief histories of the
first clubs of each geographic region
Rotary Clubs of Kaunas & Vilnius,
the First Clubs of Lithuania
Rotary International
District 1480
Part of our section on the History of
Rotary in Europe |
In 1934, the capital of LITHUANIA was the city of Kaunas and it
was there that the first Rotary Club of the country was
inaugurated on November 6, 1934. The new club received its
charter the following May in the Town Hall in Kaunas from
District Governor and later RI Director Carl Harald Trolle of
Kalmar, Sweden. The Charter President, Karolis Zalkauskas, a
lawyer by profession, remained the club's President until the
club was forced to close down in 1940, when Soviet forces having
occupied Lithuania and the other Baltic countries, forbade all
Rotary activities in Lithuania. At the time, there were two
clubs in the country, Kaunas and Slauliai, the latter having
been inaugurated on September 17, 1937. A third club, in
Klaipeda, was inaugurated on April 25, 1938 but it had already
had its charter terminated on June 16, 1939. The other
Lithuanian Clubs were terminated on October 10, 1940. Charter
programs and other relevant material can be found in the RI
Archives.
In 1992, Rotary returned to Lithuania, with a club in the new
capital of Vilnius, and within a year both Kaunas and Slauliai
had clubs as well.Posted 16 December 2005 by
Historian Basil Lewis |
Pirmųjų Rotary klubų
istorija internete
Rimvydas Žiemys iš Vilkaviškio
RK nurodė svetainę
The Original Rotary Global History, kurioje galima
rasti informacijos apie įvairių
šalių pirmuosius Rotary klubus.
Apie Lietuvoje 1934 metais
įsikūrusį pirmąjį Rotary klubą
pastabose rašoma: "Kaunas,
Lituania was first club in
country from 14 November, 1934
till 10 October 1940, but was
not the first club to be granted
re-admittance in the 1990s".
Svetainės steigėjas
Jack Selway norėtų
daugiau sužinoti apie Rotary
judėjimą Lietuvoje, todėl
turintys informacijos prašome ją
persiųsti John M. Sekway (nuoroda
aktyvi).
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