Paul Harris and Jean Thomson Harris, alone at Comely Bank

"Jean is essentially a home girl, a lover of good books and of the wholesome things of life.  She and Paul spend their evenings, as a rule, in “Comely Bank,” reading together.  When it is Paul’s turn to read, Jean’s busy fingers fashion garments for the fatherless babes that are born at Cook County hospital.  She has made hundreds of such garments during the course of years.  Had Jean been a different type, Paul’s course could not have been as it was.  In her way she has made material though inconspicuous contribution to the cause of Rotary." Paul Harris

"...  tuneful redbirds, the milkman's flashlight, newspaper boy, mystic sunrise, plodding mailman, friendly neighbors, and at eventide gleaming headlights of thousands of gliding motorcars bearing wearing city toilers to the light, warmth and love of their homes." Photo and text from "My Road to Rotary" by Paul P. Harris, 1947

Jean is essentially a home girl, a lover of good books and of the wholesome things of life. She and Paul spend their evenings, as a rule, in “Comely Bank,” reading together. When it is Paul’s turn to read, Jean’s busy fingers fashion garments for the fatherless babes that are born at Cook County hospital. She has made hundreds of such garments during the course of years. Had Jean been a different type, Paul’s course could not have been as it was. In her way she has made material though inconspicuous contribution to the cause of Rotary. Paul P. Harris, "The Founder of Rotary" 1928, page 122