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Rotary International
Rotary International
Formation
1905
; 116 years ago
Type
Service club
Headquarters
Evanston, Illinois
,
United States
Location
Global (Over 200 countries and territories)
Coordinates
Coordinates
:
42.0458°N 87.6824°W
Membership
1.22 million
Official language
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish
President
Holger Knaack (July 2020 – present)
Key people
Paul P. Harris
(Founder)
John Hewko (CEO & General Secretary)
Publication
The Rotarian
Website
www
.rotary
.org
Map of the presence of Rotary International.
Rotary International
is an international
service organization
whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide
humanitarian service
and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
[1]
It is a non-political and non-religious organization open to all. There are over 35,000
[2]
member clubs worldwide, with a membership of 1.2 million individuals, known as Rotarians.
[1]
History
[
edit
]
Rotary
monument
in
Feira de Santana
,
Brazil
.
The first years of the Rotary Club
[
edit
]
The first Rotary Club was formed when attorney
Paul P. Harris
called together a meeting of three business acquaintances in downtown
Chicago
, United States, at Harris's friend
Gustave Loehr
's office in the
Unity Building
on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905.
[3]
In addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason
[4]
), Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who attended this first meeting. The members chose the name Rotary because initially they rotated subsequent weekly club meetings to each other's offices, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it became necessary to adopt the now-common practice of a regular meeting place.
The next four Rotary Clubs were organized in cities in the western United States, beginning with
San Francisco
,
[5]
then
Oakland
,
Seattle
,
[6]
and
Los Angeles
.
[7]
The National Association of Rotary Clubs in America was formed in 1910.
[8]
[9]
On November 3, 1910, a Rotary club began meeting in
Winnipeg, Manitoba
, Canada, the beginning of the organisation's internationality.
[10]
On 22 February 1911, the first meeting of the Rotary Club Dublin was held in Dublin, Ireland.
[11]
This was the first club established outside of North America. In April 1912, Rotary chartered the Winnipeg club
[
citation needed
]
marking the first establishment of an American-style service club outside the United States.
[12]
:45
To reflect the addition of a club outside of the United States, the name was changed to the
International Association of Rotary Clubs
in 1912.
[
citation needed
]
In August 1912, the Rotary Club of
London
received its charter from the Association, marking the first acknowledged Rotary club outside
North America
. It later became known that the
Dublin
club in Ireland was organized before the London club, but the Dublin club did not receive its charter until after the London club was chartered.
[
citation needed
]
During World War I, Rotary in Britain increased from 9 to 22 clubs,
[13]
and other early clubs in other nations included those in
Cuba
in 1916, Philippines in 1919 and India in 1920.
In 1922, the name was changed to Rotary International.
[12]
From 1923 to 1928, Rotary's office and headquarters were located on E 20th Street (now E Cullerton Street) in the Atwell Building (designed by famed Chicago architect,
Alfred S. Alschuler
[14]
).
[15]
During this same time, the monthly magazine
The Rotarian
was published mere floors below by Atwell Printing and Binding Company.
[16]
By 1925, Rotary had grown to 200 clubs with more than 20,000 members.
[17]
During the 1930s there was an expanding conflict in Asia between Japan and China and the fear of a confrontation between Japan and the United States. In hopes of helping resolve these issues, a leading Japanese international statesman
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa
was chosen as the Honorary Keynote Speaker at Rotary's Silver (25th) Anniversary Convention/Celebration held in 1930 in Chicago. Prince Tokugawa held the influential position of president of Japan's upper house of congress the
Diet
for 30 years. Tokugawa promoted democratic principles and international goodwill. It was only after his passing in 1940 that Japanese militants were able to push Japan into joining the Axis Powers in WWII.
[18]
[19]
World War II era in Europe
[
edit
]
Rotary Clubs in Spain ceased to operate shortly after the outbreak of the
Spanish Civil War
.
[20]
Clubs were disbanded
[
why?
]
across Europe as follows:
[20]
Netherlands
(1923)
[21]
Finland
(1926)
Austria (1938)
Italy (1939)
Czechoslovakia
(1940)
Estonia
,
Latvia
,
Lithuania
,
Poland
,
Yugoslavia
and
Luxembourg
(1941)
Hungary (1941/1942)
Rotary International has worked with the UN since the UN started in 1945. At that time Rotary was involved in 65 countries. The two organizations shared ideals around promoting peace. Rotary received consultative status at the UN in 1946–47.
[22]
[
citation needed
]
During the Third Reich, Rotary Clubs were grouped with
Freemasonry
as secret societies associated with Jews and banned Nazi officials from joining them. This was reversed in July 1933 after appeals but the club was forced to ban all Jews from membership. This led to several non-Jews quitting in solidarity. In order to survive the members tried to show their loyalty to the Nazi leadership, inviting government officials and high standing businesspeople like Hermann Schlosser who was a business manager for Degesch which supplied
Zyklon B
for use at Auschwitz-Birkenau. After 1945, the Rotary club tried to control the damage by preventing members such as
Hans Globke
and Wolfgang A. Wick from being appointed presidents.
[23]
From 1945 onward
[
edit
]
U.S. stamp commemorating Rotary International's 50th anniversary in 1955
Rotary clubs in Eastern Europe and other communist-regime nations were disbanded by 1945–46, but new Rotary clubs were organized in many other countries, and by the time of the national independence movements in
Africa
and
Asia
, the new nations already had Rotary clubs. After the relaxation of government control of community groups in Russia and former
Soviet satellite
nations, Rotarians were welcomed as club organizers, and clubs were formed in those countries, beginning with the
Moscow
club in 1990.
[
citation needed
]
In 1985, Rotary launched its PolioPlus program to immunize all of the world's children against polio. As of 2011, Rotary had contributed more than 900 million US dollars to the cause, resulting in the immunization of nearly two billion children worldwide.
[24]
As of 2006, Rotary had more than 1.2 million members in over 32,000 clubs among 200 countries and geographical areas, making it the most widespread by branches and second largest service club by membership, behind
Lions Clubs International
[
citation needed
]
. The number of Rotarians has slightly declined in recent years: Between 2002 and 2006, they went from 1,245,000 to 1,223,000 members. North America accounts for 450,000 members, Asia for 300,000, Europe for 250,000, Latin America for 100,000, Oceania for 100,000 and Africa for 30,000.
[
citat
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