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SELECTED HISTORIES OF BRAZILIAN ROTARY CLUBS
17). The Rotary Club of Rio Grande
The inaugural session took place on 1 December 1928, and the magazine “Rotary Brazil” is quoted as saying "like
most of the inaugural meetings of Rotary, the lunch was fine."
In their pre-arranged places at the table sat:- Gustavo
Poock Junior; Jesus B. Vieira; Dr. Miro Alves; Commander Fernando Bromberg; Albino Vaz Dias; Waldemar Thiesen;
Renato Penigotti; Eduardo Daniel; Carlos Malloni; Angelo Zanotta; Arthur Lewison; Dr. Fernando Duprat da Silva;
and Edgar Fontoura, all linked to this new unit of Rotáry.
Furthermore, Colonel Justinian Simoes Lopes; Antonio Mendes Filho; Lorea Luiz Alberto de Sá Rheingantz;
Alcides Barcellos; Dr. Jose Francisco Dias da Costa; Mario R de Oliveira; and Alípio Cadaval; representing the
Rotary Club of Pelotas, and also James Roth, an official of Rotary International.
With that opportunity, the first president of the Club, Gustavo Poock Junior, was elected and sworn in.
The representatives of the Rotary Club of Pelotas took this opportunity of suggesting that the two clubs should jointly
propose to Rheingantz Francisco, for the immediate construction of a highway linking the two cities.
The Rotary Club of Rio Grande was admitted to Rotary
International on January 20, 1929.
18). The Rotary Club of Campos
It was the year 1928. Miranda Jordan, then president of the
Rotary Club of Rio de Janeiro, receives correspondence from the eminent lawyer Godofredo Saturnino da Silva Pinto
and presents it to the American James Roth.
"Jim" asked him to meet the most prominent and
diverse community of professionals in the fields in order to hear him talk about the thinking and beliefs of a citizen
who dreamed one day compose a force in world media that serve the understanding between men as a basis for Peace and
Global Understanding.
On 5 October 1928, in the meeting hall of the former prime
Commercial Association, attended the following professionals: Adalberto Marques Cardoso, accounting; Carmelo Anthony,
vicar;; Atiliano Chrisóstomo de Oliveira, sugar manufacturing; Carlos Alfredo de Azevedo , Fine fabrics - retail;
Cicero Alves Cruz, medical doctor; Christopher Pereira Devoto, distributor of Ford; Sunday Vianna da Motta Faria,
steel foundry; Eduardo Moura, finance - commercial bank; Emidgio Vieira de Morais, hydraulic engineering; Francisco
Ribeiro Vasconcelos; Godofredo Saturnino da Silva Pinto, law – lawyer; Gregorio Pereira of Mirando Pinto,
advocate; Perlingeiro José Junior, sugar - buying and selling; Lafayette Roquete, banking; Luiz Guarana, alcohol -
manufacturing; Manoel Ferreira Machado; Manoel Ferreira Machado, dry and wet - cement; Tolipan Mark Berman, jewelry -
manufacturing; Mario Sampaio Ferraz; Perlingeiro Miguel Neto, federal farm - collection; Temístocles Silva, graphic
arts - typography.
To highlight a historical fact: it was the first Rotary Club in Brazil to include in its social frameworks a priest.
The Rotary Club De Campos was admitted to Rotary
International on 19 November 1928.
19). Rotary Club of Recife.
In the first days of April 1931, Mr. James H.
Roth, Special Commissioner of Rotary International, held the last preliminary meeting for the founding of the
Rotary Club of Recife at the residence of Dr. Oscar Berardo Carneiro da Cunha and there attended all founding members:
Harold William Atkinson; Joaquim Bandeira; Fernando Simões Barboza; Oscar Berardo Carneiro da Cunha; Jose Bezerra
Filho; Lauro Barbosa; Manoel Britto; Joao Cardoso Ayres Filho; Antonio de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Arthur de Siqueira
Cavalcanti; Caio de Lima Cavalcanti; Joao Cleophas Oliveira; Joao Aureliano Correa de Araujo; Ulisses F Correia;
Ramiro Antonio Costa; Tomaso Fabaro; Joaquim Arruda Falcao; Innes Gent; Frederick S Goodman; Peter Jurisch; Murillo
Lagreca; Edgard Teixeira Leite; Joao Magalhaes Filho; Lacerda Luiz de Menezes; Jose Apolinario Morais de Oliveira;
Jose Albino Pimentel; Luiz Salazar; Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti; and Manoel Baptista Mendes da Silva.
On April 08 from the inaugural meeting was
held, in the halls of the Hotel Central, when the same Dr. Jose Bezerra Filho was sworn in the office of President;
Manoel Baptista Mendes da Silva (vice president); Luiz Lacerda de Menezes (secretary); Antonio Ramiro Costa (Treasurer);
Joaquim de Arruda Falcon (Sergeant at Arms) and Peter Jurisch (Director of Protocol).
The foundation of the Rotary Club of Recife
was signed by Rotary International which, through telegram addressed to Jim Roth, it said that 150 thousand Rotarians
from around the world expressed their joy at the formation of the new club.
The Rotary Club of Recife was admitted to Rotary
International on May 16, 1931, under Charter number 3454
20). The Rotary Club of Aracuja
After some preliminary meetings in the residence of Tavares of
Braganza, with the Rotarian mentors from the Rotary Club of
Bahia, and other people of this capital amidst festivities, the
meeting was held on 4 December 1934, at Hotel Marozzi.
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professionals and businessmen of the capital, chosen for their
education, high professional ethics or business and social life
and family standing, met with the aim of founding the Rotary
Club of Aracaju.
The inaugural meeting included Moraes Sarmento, the Governor
of District 72; Lauro Borba from the Rotary Club of Recife; and
Jaime Tavares representing the Rotary Club of Bahia, sponsoring
club of Aracaju.
The founding members present were:
Adalberto Carvalho; Antonio Cabral; Antonio Carvalho of Braganza;
Amynthas Bernard; Carlos Dantas; Constâncio Vieira; Epiphanio
Dória da Fonseca; Francisco Leite Neto; Godofredo Diniz
Gonçalves;
Gonçalo Rolemberg Leite; Heitor Arlie Tavares; Joao Firpo Filho;
Joao Quintiliano da Fonseca; Jorge de Campos Maynard; Jose Couto
de Faria; Jose Garcês Vieira; Jose Vieira de Santana; Jose
Vieira de Vasconcelos; Quintiliano da F Sobral; Juliano Calazans
Simoe; Julio Pinto Filho; Leonardo de Carvalho Leite; Manuel
Franco Freire; Maximino Ribeiro;
Nicola Mandarino; Oscar Nascimento; Otto Watson Leite; Sabino
Ribeiro; Waldemar Mendonça.
Manuel Franco da Fonseca Freire and Epiphanio Dória were,
respectively, the first president and first secretary of the new
Club.
The
Rotary Club of Aracaju was admitted to Rotary International on
11 April 1935.
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