The Presidents of Rotary International presidentshistories.org

• Paul P. Harris 1910-1912 (also see Philosophy)

  • Tribute by R.I.B.I. secretary and Rotarian editor Vivian Carter

  • What Paul Harris Wrote (a complete website of the writing of Paul Harris)

  • www.friendshiptrees.org

    • Sydney 1935

    • A North American looks South

    • Charlotte, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio, both in 1939

  • Paul Harris Articles in The Rotarian Magazine

    • 1911 Rational Rotarian

      • Response by David Nicholl

      • President's Corner June

      • November "Messages to Rotary"

    • 1912 Presidents messages

      • Messages to Rotarians (Paul's Plans for Rotary)

        • January

        • March

        • April

        • May

        • June

        • July

        • August

      • Annual report

      • Get your money's worth, even from an attorney

    • 1913 Two candles for Rotary's Birthday

      • The Old Guard June

    • 1914 The Distant Sense

    • 1915 Passing our Tenth Milestone

      • 1915 10th Anniversary Message

      • A Convention Message from Paul P. Harris

    • 1916 The Future of Rotary

    • 1917 12th Anniversary Message

      • A Man's Job to be a Rotarian

      • Rotary's Greatest Opportunity to Serve

    • 1918 issues of The Rotarian Magazine

      • At the 13^th Milestone of Rotary

      • The True Spirit of Service Can Redeem World

      • AN UNDIVIDED CHURCH?

      • Convention Message from Rotary's Founder

      • GUS LOEHR IS DEAD (A very poignant insight into one of the 1st 4)

    • 1919 The Invisible Power of Rotary

    • 1920 ROTARIANS, FRIENDS ‑ To All, GREETINGS

    • 1921 Issues of The Rotarian

      • The Faith of Rotary

      • Big Brothering Albert

      • Message of the President Emeritus

    • 1922

      • The Friendship of Rotary

      • The Chicago Roster of 1905, published with Harris' 1922 article

      • Paul's Sunday Habit

    • 1923

      • Barometers of Success 1923 Convention message

      • 18th Anniversary Message to All Rotarians

    • 1924

      • An Opinion about Rotary

      • MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT EMERITUS

    • 1925

      • A Sentimental Journey Through Hossierdom

      • 1925 Convention Message

      • International Friendliness and the Sixth Object

    • 1926

      • Some Miracles of California

    • 1927

      • Photo of Harris in Cuba

    • 1928

      • Harris photo in Zurich

      • Message to the Pacific Rotary Conference at Tokyo

    • 1930

      • If Rip, Jr., Should Wake Up!

    • 1932

      • He Lost a Castle to Gain a Home - Paul Harris on Rotary's 27th birthday and the great depression

      • Harris' 1932 trip to Europe, illustrated

    • 1936

      • A North American looks South

    • 1939

      • "Where is Rotary Going?"

    • 1940

      • Paul Harris' 1940 Guest Editorial: We Must Plan for Peace 

    • 1943

      • A Salute to Rotarians of 2043!

    • 1944

      • 39th Anniversary Message

      • How Rotarians Get That Way

    • 1945

      • The Best Is Yet to Be

      • My Friend ‘Chape’

      • Rotary’s Great Day

    • 1946

      • Fear and Hate Must Go!

      • Here Is a Job to Do, Mr. Rotarian!

    • 1947 Cover of The Rotarian honors Harris

    • A dozen pages honoring Paul Harris at the time of his death.

• Glenn C. Mead 1912-13

  • The biography of Glenn C. Mead, the first president of the "International Association" of Rotary Clubs

  • Tribute by Guy Gundaker

  • Humorous wedding announcement by the RI treasurer

  • Mead looks back in 1951

• Russell Greiner 1913-14

  • Biography

• Frank L. Mullholland 1914-15

  • Rotarian Bio Article

• Albert D. Albert 1915-16

  • The Tree That is Rotary

• Arch C. Klumph 1916-17

  • In The Rotarian (February 1915)

  • Bio from The Rotarian in 1916

  • An Appreciation for Arch Klumph by President McCullough

• E. Leslie Pidgeon 1917-1918

  • Bio in The Rotarian

  • Rotary as a Living Force

  • Obituary

  • Early Biography of Leslie Pidgeon, Preacher

• Rotary Bibliography

• "The Founder of Rotary" Paul Harris' own story of his life until 1928

• "This Rotarian Age," Paul's second book, a textbook on Rotary in 1935

  • Book Review

• Music in Rotary

  • Rotary Hymne by Franz Lehár

• Adventures in Service, 5th Printing 1950 http://www.rotarylibrary.org/adventures

• Walsh's "The First Rotarian in Japanese

• Critics/Shaw

• "Rotary! An historical, sociological and philosophical study

• Romance of Rotary in London, by Vivian Carter

• "The Meaning of Rotary" Vivian Carter 1926

• Where is David Shelly Nicholl?

• Allied Rotary Club of France

• The Rotarian Magazine

  • Harris solicits ads for The National Rotarian in January of 1911

  • History is not merely a vague and distant subject

  • Articles by Paul P. Harris

    • Paul's Health

  • Article by J. Edgar Hoover

  • Advertising policy on liquor

  • The Rotary Reader

  • THE QUESTION OF PLAGIARISM IN ROTARY

  • Seven Milestones in Rotary Global History

  • 1940 "Scrapbook" history of Rotary

    • Public Comfort Station

  • After the War’s Over

  • 1943 visit by The Rotarian to Comely Bank, the home of Paul and Jean Harris

  • The "Message to Garcia"

  • Early Rotarian Humor

  • An Historian Looks at Rotary

  • Pershing is Compassionate

  • Boy... Then Founder

  • Odds and Ends from The Rotarian Magazine (and other Rotary messages)

    • Paul and Jean in Japan

    • The Luncheon Habit

    • 1934 Presentation of a Paul Harris Sculpture

    • Two Cartoons in the January 1929 issue of The Rotarian

    • Scientist Einstein in the May 1944 issue of The Rotarian

    • A Rhyme for Membership

    • A Square Deal for the Horse

    • Wages and Guilty

    • John F. Kennedy speaking in New Hampshire

    • Rotary Fleet at Corpus Christi Pass

    • Let's Go Fishing for Scrap

    • More on the “Crooked Spire”

    • Long and Short

    • Big Wheels

    • Murdered Good Samaritan

    • A Rotary Club Napkin

    • The Smallest Town (with a Rotary Club)

    • Some interesting "Rotary" products

    • The good ship "Rotarian"

    • Avoid Victory Garden Waste

  • George Bernard Shaw, "Never another World War"

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson in the June 1912 issue

  • In Flanders Fields

  • Tall Jimmie Fricke of Phoenix 100

  • Rotarian killed being a "Good Samaritan"

  • Here Comes the Sergeant-at-Arms

  • "We all lie like that."

  • 1941 Photos

    • The "Objects of Rotary" with Perry and Harris

    • Photos and an article on Harris' paintings

    • Harris with Seattle Rotary Pioneer Roy Denny

  • 1942 Photos

    • Paul Harris' office, February

    • Harris has "serious surgery" but recovers to speak at Clinton, NY

    • Harris featured in a major article on "Rotary in Australia"

General History

• Did Rotary begin in 1904 or 1905? (1 February 2005)

• An Early Rotary Songbook

• Famous Rotarians

  • John F. Kennedy speaking in New Hampshire

  • President Woodrow Wilson obituary

  • Famous Rotarian, Nobel Laureate Friederich Bergius

• Global Conflict

  • German Rotary and WW II

  • J. Layton Ralston Canada at War

  • The history of Rotary Club of Munich, Germany

  • 1945 graphic on The cost of war

• Benjamin Franklin creates a club similar to "Rotary"

• The champion of youth, Charles E. Barker

• Article in "Rotary Magazine" in Germany

• Other Organizations

  • Masons and Rotary

  • Knights of Columbus

  • Photos of other organization pins and medals

• Rotary Wheels

• 1 The University of Chicago takes a look at Rotary's first club.

  • The 1905 roster of ROTARY/One

  • Chicago's presidents from 1905 - 1920

• 6 New York City

  • Obituary, in 1911, of Bradford Bullock, Vice President of NARC and the charter president of  NYC #6

  • 1922 "London Bell" story, from The Rotarian

  • 1922 prosperity campaign

• 8 "That Something" a 1924 copyright book from RC of Tacoma #8

• 13 Kansas City

  • Harris Speaks to the Kansas City Rotary Club "by telephone."

• 14 Lincoln

  • Bio of General "Black Jack" Pershing

    • 1921 Photo

• 19 Philadelphia

  • Liberty Bell from RC of Philadelphia

• 35 Winnipeg (membership pin)

• 43 Pueblo

  • 1921 flood and Rotary help

  • Rotarian killed being a "Good Samaritan"

  • RI Director Roy J. Weaver

  • 1913 Article in The Rotarian

  • Flood and Postmaster General articles

• 50 London

  • Stanley Leverton and his three Rotary sons

• 53 Houston

  • 50th Anniversary cover and Duplicate Charter

• 65 Dublin

  • Rotarian report of 1914

• 69 District 7600, Richmond 69 History

• 100 Phoenix Tall Jimmie Fricke

• Zurich photo

• Our complete history of Rotary in Cuba

• 1925 Photos

  • Rotary Club of Launceston Tasmania

  • Photo of The Rotary Club of St. John's

  • Photos of early Hamilton, Bermuda

  • Inaugural photo of RC of Guatemala

  • Anniversary photo of RC of London

  • Ethics Committee

• 1928 Cologne, Germany

• 1928 Hamburg

  • History of Germany's first club

  • Address to the 1928 convention by the founder of RC of Hamburg

• Osaka, Japan

• Seoul, Korea

• Rotary Club of Stockholm, the First Club of Sweden

• Rotary Club of Kyoto, Japan 1925

• Over the Great Wall of China

• 1910 Chicago

  • The First National Convention of The Rotary Clubs of America

    • Harris' first comments to the convention

    • Convention Banquet

    • Harris as banquet toastmaster

    • Harris' first address as the new president

• 1911 Portland

  • Harris' report

• 1912 Duluth

  • The Official Call to the 1912 convention at Duluth

  • Two "women" delegates of a "certain" age the 1912 Duluth Convention.

• 1913 Buffalo

  • Harris' message

• 1914 Houston

  • Harris' message

• 1916 Cincinnati

  • Paul Harris' message to a "Round Table"

• 1917 Atlanta

  • "This is our first war convention, may it also be the last" Harris' message to the 1917 convention in Atlanta

• 1918 Kansas City

  • Election Results

• 1921 Edinburgh 

• 1922 Los Angeles

  • Convention Cover

  • Membership for Women Impossible

• 1925 Cleveland

  • message to the Cleveland Convention of 1925

• 1926 Denver

  • Message from Paul Harris

• 1927 Ostende

  • Message from Paul Harris

• 1928 Minneapolis

  • Message from Paul Harris

• 1929 Dallas

  • Message from Paul Harris

• 1930 Chicago (25th)

  • Harris' Greeting

  • Harris' message, delivered in person

  • RI President Newsom's message

• 1931 Vienna

  • 5th Rotary Redoute in Vienna 2003

  • Paul Harris' report to the Vienna Convention of 1931

• 1932 Seattle

  • Harris' 1932 message to the Seattle Convention

• 1933 Boston

  • 1933 Convention Speech

• 1935 Mexico City

  • History of the 1935 Mexico City Convention

• 1934 Detroit

  • Harris' 1934 address to the Detroit Convention

• 1935 Mexico City

  • Paul Harris traveled to Mexico City to deliver this speech on "peace"

  • 1935 convention speech on Vocational Service

• 1936 Atlantic City

  • Harris' message

• 1937 Nice  

  • Harris' message

• 1938 San Francisco

  • Harris' message

  • Perry's report

  • Duperrey's speech

• 1939 Cleveland

  • Harris' message

• 1940 Havana 

  • Harris' message

• 1941 Denver

  • Harris' message

• 1942 Toronto

  • Harris' message

  • Mrs. Paul Harris' greeting

  • Quote from Harris in The Rotarian

• 1943 St. Louis

  • Mrs. Paul Harris' introduction

  • Harris' message

• 1944 Chicago

  • Harris' message

• 1945 Chicago

  • The single convention where Paul Harris did not have a message

• 1946 Atlantic City

  • Harris' message

• 1947 San Francisco

  • All of the tributes to Paul Harris

• 1950 Detroit

• 1951 Atlantic City

• 1952 Mexico City

• 1953 Paris

• 1954 Seattle

• 1955 Chicago 

• 1962 Los Angeles

• 1911 Rational Rotarianism

• 1915 Conference speech in Chicago by Paul Harris (7 February 2005)

• Harris challenges Ches Perry to write the philosophy

• Paul Harris' 10th Anniversary Message

• Paul Harris' 12th Anniversary Message