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Paul Harris Index
www.harrisoffice.org
- See photos of RGHF's Tenth Anniversary visit to the Harris Office
www.rghf101010.org
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PAUL'S OFFICE: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
(The room was
removed in 2014. These pages are the only public record of these items,
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Welcome to
the Paul Harris Office "Gallery" which was once in RI Center in Evanston. In this room,
which was on the 18th floor of the world headquarters, (right), you
could have found a
collection of souvenirs, gifts & other items acquired by Paul Harris
over many years.
In Rotary
Center in Evanston, the office which was used by Paul Harris as
President Emeritus, had been re-created. It contained many souvenirs
from his journeys round the Rotary world, as well as gifts and awards
presented to him and photographs of other distinguished Rotarians. The room,
shown below, in 2010,
no longer exists.
This part of our website shows you some of the
items which had been on show.
 The entire room was removed in 2014. This
website with dozens of pages is the only public record. The items are in
storage and may be shown, from time to time at One Rotary Center.
The
RGHF Gallery contains a large number of photographs of people, events, and
scenes some of which we have not reproduced on this site as yet because
we do not wish to infringe any photographer's copyright.
This advice
comes from the Legal Department of RI even though almost all are at
least 60 years old, and most over 70.
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 At
the entrance to the former Paul Harris Gallery a life size statue of Paul
Harris welcomes you in with outstretched hand. A report in the Rotarian
in 1993 tells the story of this figure.
"The statue, a gift to RI on behalf of the Rotarians of Japan, is the
product of two generations of artists and Rotarians. The head is
modeled after a sculpture created by Isao Morioka of Tokyo based
Rittaishashinzo Studios. The sculptor met Paul Harris in 1935, when Paul
sat for a bust that the Japanese artist made. The finished bronze bust
was given to Paul as a gift by Ukemichi Yoneyama, founder of Rotary in
Japan.
 The
original bust is now on display in Paul's boyhood home.
Wallingford, Vermont,
USA at the "little red schoolhouse", meeting place of the
Rotary Club of Wallingford. The new statue's body was completed in 1993
by Isao's son, Kimihiko Morioka, president of Rittaishashinzo Studios
and past President of the Rotary club of Tokyo-Keihin.
The completed statue is of bronze-finish fibreglass. It was broken down
into three sections for the trip from Japan, and delivered to Evanston
personally by Kimihiko, who reassembled it with nuts, bolts and epoxy.
The statue was dedicated on March 27, 1993."
This article was written by Candy Isaac of RI and was reproduced in the
Rotary History and Heritage International Fellowship newsletter in 1998.
We would like to thank all concerned for this article.
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This ongoing project is the work of
RGHF senior historian Basil Lewis,
first posted 7 April 2006. This section is maintained by RGHF webmasters,
the late
Paul D. McLain and
Jack
Selway. If you can help identify or supply more
information about anything on this page, please contact us at
www.historycomment.org
We acknowledge the assistance of
DG 11/12 David Templin, ROTARY/One (RGHF Member), Neil Dahlmann of Rotary
Club of Highland Park in District 6440, and Jack Selway, USA, with providing
photos used
in this section.
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