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Compliments of Gougeon Man St Downtown Georgetown Rotation BOB GOUGtON THE ROTARY Wednesday April Page ENTRE 282 Guelph St Georgetown Market Plan 8770411 Compliments of COZENS MACHINE TOOL WORKS 33 Armstrong Ave Georgetown 8771715 Rotarian George Cozens The day it all started the five who launched Rotary It was February 1905 The automobile was still evoking cries of Get a horse The airplane had yet to stay aloft for more than a few minutes though the Wright brothers had shown a little more than a year earlier than heavier than air flight was possible The first motion pi dure theatre was soon to open in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA with a film entitled The Great Train Robbery The ice cream cone had just appear the American scene a first concrete can tile was being built in Marion Iowa USA It was the year Einstein introduced his theory of and James J Jeffries retired as the world a heavy weight boxing champion In Chicago Illinois USA PAUL P HARRIS Rotary Founder on this particular day four men met in Room of the Unity Building on Dearborn Street They were Paul P Hams a lawyer Silvester Schiele a coal dea us lav us a mining engineer and Hiram a merchant tailor The office of Gus was typical of its time a small room not too gh led with a desk and four uncomfortable chairs a coat rack in the corner one or two pictures and an engineering chart on the wnll They talk ed about an idea that Paul Hams had been pondering for five years It was simply this That business relations could and should foster friendly relations They need not thought Paul Harris be a barrier to friendship What kind of men were these that Paul Harris had brought together The founder of Botary answered these questions in his book This Age say Ing In the city by the lake a drama was to be enacted the importance of which could he foreseen The dramatis were men of ordinary walks of life business and professional men While lacking qualities which would have distinguished them from others of their kind it may nevertheless be said thai ihey were fairly live of what common parlance would have been termed the belter element They were all natural products of the times and subject to its usual frailties All were friendly and congenial and each repre sented a recognized and honorable vocation different from that of the others They had been selected without regard to religious racial or political differences Though they dldn t decide there and then to call it a Rotary club that meeting on ihe night of February was the first meeting of the world first Rotary club The next day a fifth member joined Ihe group having been invited to do so by Paul Harris He was Harry a printer He in turn interested a real estate dealer named Will It was Ruggles who at an early meeting one evening jumped on a chair Letssng He liked to sing and It was his infectious enthusiasm for it that started Rotary Club of Chicago on its way as the forerunner of the many clubs which today making singing part of their weekly pro- Soon after and came In the organ of the new club was completed at a eeting In Schiele office The first pres dent was Schiele with as corresponding se cretary Shorey as recording secretary and Buggies as treasurer Paul Harris modestly de- to accept any office in the new club at that time In fact it was not until that Harris was elected president of the Club of Chlca go The r JAMES BOMAR JR Rotary President 1979- Botary chosen at one of the early meetings Its proposer being Paul Hams who pointed out that he world aptly convey the original plan of the members to meet in rota lion at their various places of business With the name decided upon Montague Bear an engraver who had joined the club thought it was time to have an emblem He came up with a sketch of a plain wagon wheel bol thai won full approval Today Monty Bear wheel though much changed in des has hundreds of thousands of descendants in the form of familiar cogwheel emblem on he lapels of across the world The first printed roster of the Rotary Club of Chicago had members but at he end of 1905 there were 30 members Paul Harris later wrote of these first mem There were no drones in the 1905 group Everyone was interested and busy Practically every member contributed one or more ideas Several of these ideas are In operation today for example the mid day meeting the practice of us photographs in rosters he presentation of papers on vocational service subjects and many others Five years after Rotary birth there were 18 Rotary clubs and approximately l Within the same period the lion became international w with ihe formation of a club In Winnipeg Canada in 1910 Today Rotary spans six continents with clubs in ap proximately 150 countries and geographical regions Congnrtirfcrffoiis from Congratulations from Congratulations on your 25th dub