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 Founder of
Rotary in Peru and "El Rotario Peruano"
Fernando Carbajal Segura
I have reviewed a series of documents which speak of Fernando Carbajal Segura, of its life, his restlessness, his conduct,
his desires and perspective of the life... And I found whereupon everybody spoke of him, as if one was a being come from
another planet, whose general characteristics only bear relation to the aspirations and ideals that all human beings have of
the perfect beings... If it is that in other planets there are beings like the humans... And if there are them, they
are perfect.
If in this running by history, I found a young man like any other, of twenty years, a joker, friendly and became fond
of the guitar, who finished culminating his studies in the School of Engineers with remarkable qualifications.
A different World opened for this young person in Lima in 1905, populated nearly less than 500.000 people, where social
differences generated auto-like answers where few could offer their arm of support to many, whose ancients farmers
had virtually impelled them towards the great city, where they thought was newness and perspective of a better world.
Conscious of that destiny by his formation familiar and eager to offer,
goes immediately to the Peruvian Forest, to get up itself to a group of
adventurers who tried to furrow the rivers to signalize new maps of
those days.
Meanwhile, in the United States, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, on
23rd February of same year 1905, a group of four friends, between whom
it honors the young lawyer Paul Harris, they discuss on the necessity
that who have been favored in something by the fortune, they are
organized to serve the human communities and to solve something of its
necessities.
And this way, they decide to meet periodically in the house of each one
of them and they were committed to invite their friends who wish to add
themselves to this group. It is as well as it is born this singular
institution, whose characteristic is to meet rotating by the houses, of
all the partners.
The forest, the insurmountable Peruvian Forest, catapult to a group of
engineer young people towards the novel construction of the Panama
Canal, where Fernando de Lesseps tries a gigantic work that will
culminate with the communication of the Oceans Atlantic and Pacific,
having allowed to lighten the time of the transporting boats of goods
and services of and for America.
Between those engineer young people, hardly 21 years old, the anxious
Fernando Carbajal Segura gets ready, who from then will be tempering in
suffering that positive sensitivity that a man of good and with deep
love by his resemblances will do of him. The friends and all those whom
he has known and seen who has disappeared in the squalid Panamanian forest, and many are many
to those who he has seen be started of the claws of the death in that
tenacious fight by the survival. This hard experience of nearly 30 months,
from 1905 to 1907, in that a man returns at the tender age of 23 years with a
maturity carved in his body with the hardness of the experience and the
percipient sensitivity of the other people's pain, as they only perceive
that have felt in own meat the pain...
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In the
United States, the seed fertilized with the love of the four young
people of Chicago, has begun to give its fruits. The singular
Institution by them formed and led by Paul Harris, already has good
number of partners and from different States from the Union, the letters
are multiple that moved receive coming from very distant places, where
other young people of heart want to know how to make a group themselves
and thus organized to work to support the community.
Already there are who
identify like "home rotary", that is those that "rotate by the houses",
that in the long run will be identified solely like the "Rotary".
1907, Lima are still a city of streets paved with dim lights
in each corner, with struggle to incorporate to its style, something of
the great cities, preside over Peru Don Jose Pardo.
Fernando Carbajal, that young person of our history, is named by the
Government to go to the United States and Cuba, to discover and learn the
works of cleaning that are made in those nations.
During his permanence in Panama, he enjoyed the special friendship of
the Peruvian Diplomat Don Fernando Alfonso Pezet, who at that time
occupied the position of "In charge of Businesses of Peru" in Panama. In
1919, the movement founded by Paul Harris already had transposed the
borders of the great country of North, and existed the "International
Association of Rotary" that year asks for to Don Federico Alfonso Pezet,
the organization of Clubs Rotarios in center and South America. Serious
problem, because exactly our diplomat (Pezet) received this request, simultaneously
received
nomination as Ambassador of Peru in the United States.
Then consultation the situation with its intimate friend of 34 years,
Ing. Fernando Carbajal Segura, who welcomes the idea with great
enthusiasm and receives this order of second hand with fervent
persistence.
In 1920, Fernando Carbajal leaves the service to the State and is named
civil employee of high level of the Peruvian Telephones Company, of
which he would be General Manager and Vice-president of the Directory.
That year, the 18 of July 1920, to be exact, to order of this prominent
meet twelve people to found the Rotary Club of Lima, that would
eventually
receive the official recognition on 01 of July 1922.
The task was hard. One was an Institution with methodologies different
from the known ones until then, nevertheless, the foundation of this
Rotarian Club was the departure point for many Clubs in our country.
Fernando Carbajal held all the positions in his Club. Nevertheless, to
insistences, just he accepted to be his President in 1934.
The rest of history, You know it.
Fernando Carbajal represents for all the Peruvian Rotarians the example
of the effort and the love our resemblances. Giving of himself before
thinking about himself, never had an own name in our country and well
done to assign with merit the name of Fernando Carbajal Segura.
C.R. VICTOR YAÑEZ AGUIRRE ROTARY CLUB the RíMAC
(This article was published in edition 438. First Trimester of year
1985.)
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EL ROTARIO PERUANO pág. 53, Nº 500 Year LXII
Julio, August and September of the 2000.
Official regional magazine of RI for Districts 4450, 4460 and 4300
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