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ROTARIANS attending the 1931
RI convention in Vienna, Austria,
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were thrilled
by a performance ofFranz
Lehar's "The Merry Widow" operetta
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conducted by the composer himself.
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Local Rotarians took extra pleasure in the performance, for
Lehar was an active member of the Rotary
Club of Vienna.
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Other Rotarian
composers have included Jean
Sibelius, once a member of the Rotary
Club of Helsinki- Helsingfors, Finland; and ...
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Sigmund Romberg (the
operetta, "May time"), a former member of the Rotary Club
of New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Rotarians have
been, and are, prominent in other areas of the arts.
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German
novelist Thomas Mann was
an active member of the Rotary Club of Munich.
The
Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 |
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U.S.
poet James
Whitcomb Rileywas
a member of the Rotary Club of
Indianapolis,
Indiana.
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Edgar
A. Guest (a
frequent contributor to THE ROTARIAN) was also a Rotarian in Detroit,
Michigan, U.S.A.
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Joel
Chandler Harris,
Jr., son of the author of the "Uncle Remus" stories, was
an active Rotarian, and a district governor and member of the Rotary
Club of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
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Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the intrepid
Arctic explorer, was a member of the Rotary Club of Winchester,
Virginia, U.S.A. (See
a flag presented to Paul Harris)
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Science fiction
author Jack
Williamson comes
down to earth to meet with the Rotary Club of Portales, New
Mexico, U.S.A.
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His
fellow writer, John
Jakes –
author of an extremely popular series of novels about U.S.
history – is also a Rotarian.
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Sir Nigel
Gresley. There are probably few if any Rotarians who
have had a mainline railway steam engine named after them. A
founder member of the Doncaster Rotary Club, he was elected as
one of the first two Vice Presidents.
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Friederich Bergius,
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was born on October 11, 1884, in
Goldschmieden near Breslau, and died on March 31, 1949, in
Buenos Aires, Argentine.
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Many of the
illustrious figures in world affairs have been and are
Rotarians. Royalty and elected political officials have been
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Another "Real
Rotarian" was U.S. President, Warren
G. Harding -
Member Washington
D.C. Rotary Club since
December 10, 1920. See The Rotarian March, 1921 Vol. XVIII No.
3.
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U.S.
President, Gerald
R. Ford -Grand
Rapids, MI since
1966
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Adlai
E. Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to
the UN and governor of Illinois, was a member of the Rotary
Club of Springfield in
that state.
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Earl
Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
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Associate
Justice William
O. Douglas.
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Wayne
Morse, former U.S. senator from
Oregon, was a past president of the Rotary Club of Eugene.
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Mark
O. Hatfield, former governor of
and present U.S. senator from Oregon, was also a member of the
Eugene club.
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J.
Millard Tawes, former governor of
Maryland, was a charter member of the Rotary Cub of Crisfield.
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Former RI president Luther
H. Hodges (1967-68)
served as governor of North Carolina and U.S. secretary of
commerce.
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Clinton P. Anderson (1932-33)
achieved levels of importance in U.S., served as U.S. secretary
of agriculture and U.S. senator from New Mexico.
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Carlos
P. Romulo, Rotary
Club of Manila -
Philippine Brigadier General in WWII, Ambassador of the
Philippines to the US, Permanent Representative to the UN,
President of the 4th session of the United
Nations 1949 and Past
Director of Rotary International. (speech by Romulo at UN
page)
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Guglielmo Marconi inventor
of the wireless, was an active member of the Rotary Club of
Bologna, Italy.
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Aesgeir Asgeirsson, former
president of Iceland, charter member of the Rotary Club of
Reykjavik.
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Jan Masaryk,
former president of the former Republic of Czechoslovakia, and
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Eduard
Benes, former minister of foreign
affairs for that country, were members of the Rotary Club of
Prague. (Then RI District 66) (Today, according to the Rotary
International Directory 2005-2006 - District 2240 there are some
40 clubs in The Czech Republic and 11 in The Republic of
Slovakia.
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Joyce
C. Hall,
founder of Hallmark Cards - Rotary
Club of Kansas City
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There is
royalty in Rotary.
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Italian politician
and couturier Emilio
Pucci, is a member of the Rotary Club of Florence.
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Many of the
world's leading industrialists and businessmen are Rotarians.
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Sam Walton,
1953-54 president, RC of Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. Founder of
Wall-Mart
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Duke
Kahanamoku, Olympic gold medalist. Regarded as the father
of surfing. Member
of RC of Honolulu
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Konosuke Matsushita, president
of Japan's Matsushita Electric Company was a member of the
Rotary
Club of Osaka.
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J.C. Penney,
founder and chairman of the board for the J.C. Penney stores,
was a member of the Rotary
Cub of New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., chairman
of the board of the Walgreen Drug Company, is a member of the Rotary
Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA
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U.S.
baseball player Tris
Speaker
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Cornelius "Connie Mack" McGillicuddie,
U.S. baseball player
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Dr. Charles
H. Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A., is a member of that city's
Rotary club.
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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi along with
her partner Jean-Claude
Chermann(right) isolated the aids virus at the Pasteur
Institute
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They
are both PHF of "La
Rochelle-Aunis D1690" The first publication of the
discovery of AIDS Virus was in 1983.
PHOTOS Pierre Belujon PP-PHF
La
Rochelle - Aunis d1690 |
The Kentucky
Colonel, Harlan
Sanders belonged
to several Rotary Clubs, early in Rotary's history. more...
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Clarence Birdseye -
Gloucester, Mass, USA - Developer of a process for quick
freezing food. - TR December 1935 p. 27
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H. E.
Soleiman Frangieh, Republic
President of Lebanon, 1969-75, founding member of RC Tripoli -
Tripoli, Lebanon, January 1950.
Provided by PAG
Dr. Michel P. Jazzar RC of Zgharta-Zawié |
One of Lincoln
Rotary’s best
known members was William
Jennings Bryan. He became an honorary member when he
moved his residence to Florida.
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Aviation pioneer Orville
Wright was
an active member of the Rotary
Club of Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.
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Author,
minister, and lecturer, Norman
Vincent Peale, a former member of the RI public relations
committee, belonged to the New
York, New York, U.S.A., club.
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Influential and
internationally famed editor of the Emporia (Kansas, U.S.A.)
Gazette, William
Allen White, was a Rotarian
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Gordon
Selfridge, Store Owner,
London
#50
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Swedish photographers Lennart
Nilsson ("Behold
Man") andKarl
Gullers are
Rotarians. (Lennartis
a member of the Rotary Club of Stockholm.)Karl, who
was profiled in the April 1975 issue of THE ROTARIAN, is a Phoenix,
Arizona, U.S.A., Rotarian.
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Diane
Feinstein, U. S. Senator, RC
of San Francisco
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Richard Lugar, U.
S. Senator,
Indianapolis
#58
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Gerald Walcan Bright, by now at the top of his profession,
joined the London Rotary Club
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Charles 'Chic' Sale, Writer, Film, Performer, Scarsdale,
NY
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Sir
Harry Lauder, Vaudeville Comedian, Glasgow,
SC #60
Also
see "Music
in Rotary"
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R. G. Knowles, RC London. This Canadian born artist was a
popular and clever entertainer.
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Another
member of the London Club between the wars was Arthur
Prince. Prince was born in 1881 in London and died in 1948.
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Harry Tate, Senior, was another London Rotarian with the
classification of 'Comedian'.
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Bransby Williams, an entertainer, became member number 298
of the London Rotary Club
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Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, world champion professional
boxer and politician, RC Manila 101, Philippines
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Sidney "Charlie Chan"
Toler. 1874-1947 In the 30's & 40's Toler starred as "Charlie
Chan" in more than a dozen movies. He has an interesting
connection to our Club. Between 1914-17 Toler, an American, was
living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, working as an actor and
playwright. He joined the
Rotary
Club of Halifax #81 and
was a member in the year his club sponsored the Rotary Club of
Charlottetown. Toler left Halifax & went on to became a Broadway
star. In the 1930's he took on the role for which he is most
remembered: Charlie Chan.
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Edgar
"Daddy" Allan 1862-1937
Founder of the Easter
Seals organization dedicated to helping people with physical
disabilities. He was first an honorary member, then an active
member, of the Rotary Club of Elyria, Ohio. His organization got
underway when he convinced several Rotary clubs in Ohio to
fund-raise to help address the needs of the many children
physically devastated by polio. His organization was the first
grant recipient of the Rotary International Foundation.
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