Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-02-19


in February; in Seattle, Washing
ton, in June; in New York City.
N. Y, in August. and in Boston,
Mass, in December.
Homer Wood of San Francis
co, after helping to organize the
San Francisco club, crossed the
bay to Oakland and interested
friends there and Club No. 3
was organized.
Wood. through his brother Wal
ton Wood, a Los Angeles attor-
ney, and Holman, through Jerry
Muma, the Los Angeles manager
of the Travellers Insurance Co.,
brought about the organization
of Club No in Los Angeles.
Thus, through the activities of
one Rotary missionary from the
parent club Manuel Munoz-
four new Rotary clubs were or
ganized along the Pacific coast
of the United States in a year
Fred Tweed, a member of the
Chicago club, went to New York
at the request of Paul Harris in
the summer of 1908, on exten-
sion work. He got Dan Cady and
Vernon WhitcomTb and their
friends together and organized
Club No. 6 in August. Thus the
first part of Paul Harris dream
of Rotary extension was fulfilled
and Rotary now stretched entire
ly across the continent
In December Club No. Z was
organized in Boston, Mass.
1910
am the year when Rotary
grew out of boyhood into a lusty
youth. During the first seven
months of 1910 nine more Rotary
clubs were added to the seven
previously organized All of these
nine were in the United States
They were Tacoma, Minneapolis
st. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans
] Kansas City. Mo, Lincoln, Neb,
Portland, Ore, and Detroit
Mich. in the order named.
The first convention of Rotary
was held in the Congress hotel,
Chicago, in August, 1910. The
National association of the Ro-
tary Clubs of America was or
ganfzed there with a member
ship of sixteen clubs A consti-
tition wasadopted and the prin-
ciples of Rotary, which had been
in more or less vague form, were
reduced to writing. Paul Harris
was elected president of the new
organization and Perry uas elect
ed secretary.
1911
The year 1911 was an eventful
season in the life of Rotary. Per-
haps the most significant event
was the organization of three
clubs in the Old World-Dublin,
in March, Belfast and London,
in August.
In 1911 also was the beginning
of The Rotarian, the magazine of
Rotary. The first issue was
published in January, 1911 About
5000 copies were printed and
distributed to the Rotarians Of
all the clubs. The name was
"The National Rotarian". A
second issue came out in July,
1911.
At the Portland convention was
adopted the platform of Rotary,
almost entirely the work of three
members of the Seattle Rotary
club-Sim Pinkham, Ernest Skeel,
and Roy Denny. 1t had been
adopted by the Seattle club and
was offered to the convention
as the platform of Rotary. Before
it was adopted there were added
to it the words "He profits most
who serves best, taken from an
address by A. F. Sheldon OF
Chicago, chairman of the com
plittee on Business Methods.
1t was during the Portland CON
vention also that another Rotary
slogan-"Service Above Self
was first voiced in public. Ro-
tartan Collins of Minneapolis be
ing it's author
1912
In 1912 Rotary, which had been
International in fact but national
in name, became international in
name as well ds in fact, when
the Winnipeg and London clubs
became members of the associa.
tion and the convention 4. d.
luth, Mimi, august, 1922 Off
cially changed the name of the
International Association of Ro
tary Clubs.
The Rotary club of Edinburgh
Scotland, was organized in Sept
ember, 1912 Several more clubs
were organized during the yeal
in Canada and the United States
1918
The fourth annual Rotary con
vention was held in Buffalo in
August, 1913 1t was real Inter
national gathering with delegates
not only from Canada and the
u. S., but also from England
| Scotland and Ireland.
At the convention in Buffalo
Russell F. Greiner. a lithographel
of Kansas City, Mo-, was elected
president. At that time there
were SO clubs in the association
/ with a membership of about 10,
900. Geriner was the first bust