The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-05-10
ROTARIANS OF SAUK
CENTRE CHARTERED
100 Visitors Travel Miles to
Attend Impressive Cere-
mOny Last Evening
DINNER AT CLUB ROOMS
Personnel of Local Club
Ceremonies Were Delight
full, and Informal

Sank Centre Rotary Club No.
2848 with a charter membership
list of 10, became a fact April %,
1928, when District Governor Han
afford Cox, of Cloquet, assisted by
R. R. Ashley, of Fergus Falls, pre-
sented the charter in the presence
of 80 visiting Rotarians the Sank
Centre officials and a few other in
vited guests. Es
The ceremonies started with a
splendid dinner at the Community
Club rooms at $50 p. M, served
by the ladies of the Church of Our
Lady of the Angels.
The Rotary is the daddy of all
the service clubs, the idea was
brought into being in 1905 by Paul
Harris, a Chicago lawyer, who
was lonesome. He got in the ha-
bit of taking lunch with a few
friends who were in about his
state of mentality. They would
meet at the various places of bus
mess of the group and then have
lunch together. Hence the word
Rotary" was derived. The men,
bership is world wide today. Every
Club organized is still functioning.
The total membership is over $780,
900.
The ceremonies opened with a
bang when Jul MlcCutcheon, of St.
Cloud, started the gang off with a
number of Community songs. A.
A. Ashley who had charge of the
ceremonies called upon a quartet
of St. Cloud Rotarians consisting of
Paul Cook, Dan Haslom, Sylvester
F'andel and Jul McCutcheon. They
murdered "Adelaine," and one or
two other selections. Paul Cook
sang two beautiful tenor solos, and
the meeting was in full swing.
A peculiar viewpoint about the
Rotarian is that he is absolutely
sold on his organization. The Wis
itors came from Superior, Wis,
Fergus Falls, Minneapolis, st. Paul,
Rochester, Chicago, st. Cloud,
Staples, Brainerd, Fergus Falls,
Detroit Lakes, Moorhead, and 9TH
er places.
The gatherings are very inform
al. Every guy present addresses
his neighbor by his first name.
Mr.. Ashley presided and called
on representative of every visit
| ing community for talks. All
were snappy and timely. District
Governor Hanaford Cox presented
the charter, giving the newly elect
ed members some good advice,
admonishing them that they had
much to overcome in the next year,
but urged them to "stand by"
One of the high lights of the
meeting was the presentation to
President Herb Falk of a black
walnut gavel, properly inscribed
which the speaker said was made
from wood taken from a house
which had stood on the site of the
old Stockade of Indian days. May
be so.
The Herald hasn't the time or
space to cover the meeting in a
manner it's Importance warrants.
The following is the PERSONAL of
the charter members of the Sank
Centre Rotary Club:
Sank Centre Rotarians
Herb A. Falk, President; John
A. Fearon, first vice president;
George Berggreen, second vice
president; Peter Robischon, secre-
tary; D. B. Caughren, treasurer.
Directors-Herb F|alk, John A.,
Fearon, George Berggreen, D. B.
Caughren, V. G. Wedge, George
Borgmann, V. L. Burgess.
Members George O'Gara, ]. A.
Schoenhoff, r. E. Hansen, M. A.
Nye, Fred Unger, L. L. Kells, DIR.
j. F. Dubois, H. w. Bishop, Sig
urd Holme, Herman Vennewitz,
Harry Whitehead.
The names of the visiting Rotar-
ians will be published next week.
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