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Brief histories of the "RotarioLatinAmerica" Clubs Rotario Club of Havana, First Club of Latin America 1 June 1916 Rotario International Distrito Rotary International Convention Host Club 1940 Part of our Rotary Global History in Central American/Caribbean Section
Also see the Rotary Club of Matanzas, Cuba's #3
For the Havana
Club, the first in which English was not the local language, Rotary
headquarters were concerned that it might become merely an American club
in a foreign country. This was the tendency in some Asian countries
where the membership was largely made up of ex-pats. Secretary Chesley
Perry perceived the potential problem and wrote to Alexander Kent, a
lawyer and representative in Havana of the Red Feather Cinematograph
Company giving him authority to form a club in Havana, but with the
proviso that "You are also advised and directed to make up the Rotary
Club of Havana with not more than 25 percent of American and not less
than 75 percent of Cubans or Spanish-Cubans. What we want to do is to
spread Rotary among the native people of other countries more than among
our
American brethren who happen to be in other countries."
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