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 This
section is dedicated to Rotary Peace Monuments and the
desire of those who created them toward world peace. It
was a passion of Rotary International Founder Paul P.
Harris to convey the worth of promoting world peace.
These monuments are our effort to visualize that
promise. This section was
originated, and now edited by
Ted Lollis, of Knoxville, TN, USA
Also
see the following sections:
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Rotary Peace
& Friendship Monuments |
| "A la Amistad" by Frautino
Aizkorbe, Rotary Club gift to Valadolid, Spain, for its fourth
century as a city, 1998. |
International Peace Grove,
Tilden Park, Berkeley, CA, USA,
via Inspiration Point, 1955 |
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, US/Canada,
Glacier Park/Waterton Park, 1932
More on this
project by Tom Davis |
International Friendship Gardens & Peace
Bell, Michigan City, Indiana, USA. Intl Friendship Gardens, 1933 |
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| *Peace Monument,
Georgia, Milledgeville, USA. |
Plaza of Peace & Friendship, Mexico, Puerto
Vallarta, Calle Irurbide, 1997 |
International Peace Plaza,
Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Rotary Park, 1998 |
Monumento Rotario a la Paz, Mexico,
Matamoros |
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| *Rotary Peace City Monument,
East Los Angeles, East LA Community College, CA, USA. 1996 |
*Peace Monument,
Ivan Jack Drive, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia. 1993 |
Rotary Peace Park,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, downtown on Yukon River |
Rotary International Peace Park,
Waterloo, ON, Canada, RIM Park, 2005 |
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| *Rotary Peace Park, Parksville,
BC, Canada, on
Vancouver Island, 2004 |
Rotary Peace Park, Vegreville,
AB, Canada, near Ukrainian egg |
Chandigarh, India (the city designed by
French architect LeCoubusier) |
“The Peace Memorial was to have been
dedicated by the 1940-41 RI President
Armando de Arruda Pereira of Sao Paulo, Brazil, but
inclement weather made the dedication impossible.
“Perhaps, fortuitously, the RI President who would serve for
the Rotary year 1941-42, Thomas Davis
of Butte, Montana was able to return to
Colorado for the
formal dedication.
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An International Park between the U.S. and Mexico in the Big
Bend area of Texas, Chihuahua and Coahuila was
first proposed in 1935.
Over 400 Rotarians from both districts helped to dedicate
the project and encourage its completion when Past RI President
Jim Lacy presided over a ceremony on Nov. 8, 1998 at
Chamizal National Memorial. |
Rotary Peace Monument, Canada-ON, Windsor,
Roseland... The object of the monument is to
bring together people in our community in the promotion of
lasting peace through fellowship, international understanding
and goodwill and encouraging and fostering respect for the life
and dignity of every person. The Rotary Club of Windsor Roseland
facilitates activities associated with the monument and the
promotion of international peace in our community. Anna
Jurak, PP
Rotary Club of Windsor Roseland |
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Arnold-area residents are not giving up on peace just
because some thug tore down their monument to global harmony.
The Arnold Rotary Club dedicated a second peace pole in White
Pines Park on Saturday morning. The first one, erected in
September 2001, was cut down in July 2003. A suspect was never
identified and the pole was not recovered. Bearing the message
"May peace prevail on earth," in four languages, the new 16-foot
pole was put in place before a crowd of about 35 people in the
park's Rotary grove. |
Ambassador Martin J. Silverstein and Hector Rubio Sica,
president of the Rotary Club of Montevideo, laid flowers at
the base of a monument and unveiled a new bust of U.S. President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Monday (April 12, 2004). The statue of
Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. president, had been destroyed with
dynamite by terrorists in 1979. The bust of the late president
was replaced by the Rotary Club in 1997, only to be stolen in
2002. Speaking before the small crowd, Rubio Sica said the
Rotary Club’s work in this project, “demonstrates that there is
no specific reason for men to hate each other; that because of
differences in cultures and races or for different reasons or
bad interpretations, we have not reached a liberal
understanding. We should find the precise formula to work
successfully for universal peace. If we succeed in accomplishing
this, the highest Rotarian aspirations will come true.”
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Rotary Club members and Ambassador Silverstein
pose in front of new FDR bust. |
| PEACE ISLAND... Members of the
Rotary Club of Saipan unveil the Rotary Peace Monument at the
American Memorial Park as part of the group's effort to promote
peace and understanding around the world. |
A 40+ year old Rotary friendship garden in
Evanston, IL |
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Statue of Peace "New
Leaves"
Completed: May 9, 1966 - Built by: Hiroshima
South District Rotary Club
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monument is engraved with the following words of Dr. Hideki
Yukawa: "O god of evil, do not come this way again. This place
is reserved for those who pray for peace." ("God of evil" means
a god who brings calamity and bad luck.)
When Dr. Yukawa, developer of the Neutron
Theory, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his achievement,
he became the first Japanese recipient of a Nobel Prize. Dr.
Yukawa was shocked by the US test of a hydrogen bomb in 1954 and
thereafter continually appealed for the abolition of nuclear
weapons and war. He sponsored for example, the Conference on
Science and World Affairs (Pugwash Conference).
Dr. Yukawa said, "I am proud of the search for
truth and am confident of my abilities. I worked for that search
my entire life. I have no regrets. But when I heard what
happened in August 6, I knew that scientists must bear the
responsibility for what occurred."
The statue of a child standing next to a deer was made by
sculptor Katsuzo Entsuba who was born in Mitsugi-cho, Hiroshima
Prefecture.
Source: Hiroshima Peace Site |
 Paul
P. Harris, founder of Rotary International, and
renowned spokesperson for world peace. "If we are not above indulging in
flights of imagination, we may perchance find our usually staid and
unemotional selves raised to a sense of exaltations as we contemplate the
coming of the day when the genius of men will all be directed to
constructive undertakings and the roar of cannons heard no more. merely a
gesture to be sure, but dire have been the consequences of gestures of ill
will and there have been an abundance of them. It is high time that there be
more gestures of good will, and what better or more appropriate than the
planting of trees, the living, growing hope of the realization of
the
highest concept known to man -- universal peace?" Paul Harris
Friendship and Peace Monuments planted by the
founder of Rotary who believed that neighborliness alone
would do more than treaties and contracts.
www.friendshiptrees.org
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Australia |
North America |
Europe |
South America |
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would like to think well of us; in fact, nothing could give them greater
happiness than to believe sincerely that the "Colossus of the North" is
really a friendly, kindly Colossus who would not intrude upon their rights
as members of the family of nations, who would consider South American
countries by reason of their position it the western hemisphere entitled to
the friendly appellation which our present Roosevelt has given them, "Our
neighbors on the South".I like the term neighbor
and always did. I like it so well that I have for years had a wood sign
permanently attached to my house near the front door overlooking our
friendship garden. The bears the legend, "Neighborliness makes for
Happiness" and so it does. Neighborly people are happy people, while those
who keep shut within their own walls are likely to be the very
opposite.
"The world has been hearing quite enough of international
pacts, treaties and agreements. They have more frequently led to war than war
than from it."
www.paulharrishome.com |
| A photograph of
the bust of Paul Harris erected in
Bangalore in the centennial year. |
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This is a list of peace
& friendship monuments only.
To me, a "peace monument" is any physical and public object
(usually but not necessarily outdoors), including a park or
garden, which is named or dedicated for "peace." The list
does NOT necessarily include other Rotary projects which
contribute to peace, including so-called Rotary Peace
Cities, although five of the 14 listed monuments (*as
indicated with asterisks) are in cities said to be Rotary
Peace Cities.
This list is in no particular order. Date is year of
dedication (if known).
Also note that all information is unconfirmed and that
Rotary's connection to each monument may vary, e.g. in some
instances may be limited to the original idea or creation of
the monument and not necessarily to present-day ownership or
other on-going connection.
Edward W. (Ted) Lollis,
Knoxville, TN 37922, USA
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 Edward
W. Lollis began this portion of our history website.
Photo made Aug. 9, 2005, the 60th
anniversary of the Nagasaki bomb, of Ted reading during a
ceremony at the International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge, TN.
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