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The 19th Convention, Minneapolis |
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June 18-22 with 9,428 in attendance Arthur Sapp, Huntington #300, Indiana |
 Rotary Foundation trustee
Arch Klumph reported on the Endowment funds progress - worth over $4,000
- to the Convention and reiterated story one member had said to him
regarding the fund. The member said:"Arch…I took out a $1,000 life insurance policy payable to Rotary International." When asked why he had acted in this way, the member went on, "When I am gone, I have a feeling now that I am going to continue to pay my $50 a year into Rotary for the next two thousand years, and that is really the theory of the endowment fund". Paul Harris, on a visit to Europe, sent a short message to the Convention asking - "Whither Are We Going and Why?". He added, "We are going to the hill top, because the creator had man's welfare in mind when he created the eternal hills for men to climb".  There
was much talk about Honorary membership. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy
had been made an honorary district governor of the 46th District and
King Albert of Belgium, an honorary district governor of the 61st
District. Charles Lindbergh had also been made an honorary member of the
Rotary Club of Mexico City (amongst other clubs).Questions arose as to whether honorary membership should extend to those outside the territorial limits of the club. It was felt that distinguished people could be so honoured. A contentious resolution appeared to create more than one Rotary Club in cities of over 200,000. This idea was backed by the leadership. The Rotary Club of London had seen 20 Clubs appear in their metropolis. At the time, more than one Club could be established if the city population was larger than one million. Discussion focused on whether cities could and did have distinct commercial and trade centers. It would be possible to create a new club if the District Governor or the Board of Directors of the mother club so wished. Rotarian Mather of Chicago (a club long opposed to such extension) said that when "you endevour to spread Rotary out over 200,000 areas, you are going to thin it out so that you are going to get into the class of some of the other service clubs". Calum Thomson Address to the convention by German Rotarian, and founder of RC of Hamburg, Wilhelm Cuno Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler |
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