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As part of the Rotary's centennial celebration, RI encouraged
clubs to participate twin club program. In the program, two
clubs from different countries established strong ties and
agreed to team up to carry out a centennial-year effort, be it
an international service project, Rotary Youth Exchange, or
Friendship Exchange. The program proved to be quite popular.
More than 1,000 clubs formalized twin club partnerships.
Twin clubs were invited to share the stories with RI for
possible use as news items; however, no official forms or formal
reporting procedures were created for this.
I found 21 references to the centennial twin club project in
past issues of
The Rotarian. You can see the results list
and click through to individual articles at
http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22twin+club%22+centennial&tbs=,bkt:m,bkms:1168684103302644226.
Some articles may prove more useful than others.
The July 2003 issue of The Rotarian says that twin clubs were to
register with RI. I do not see any record of this in the
current database nor did I find any additional information about
the program.
Sincerely,
Susan Hanf (RGHF Honorary Member)
Rotary History
Specialist
History
& Archives Department
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