History of Rotary International 4 Articles

by rwnrose

Rotary International has the distinction of being the world's first service club started as the Rotary Club of Chicago on February 23rd, 1905 and was founded by Paul Harris an attorney by profession. It started as a fellow...read more

by Belinda Youlten

It was the boyhood memories of a small town spirit that inspired attorney Paul P Harris of Chicago, Illinois, to establish the first Rotary Club in 1905. Its name came about from the meetings being rotated among member's o...read more

by Darian Peters

Rotary International is an organization of service clubs, which they call Rotary Clubs, that can trace its ancestry back to 23rd February, 1905, when the first Rotary Club was formed in Chicago. The founding Chicago mem...read more

by E.D. Cameron

2005 marked the 100th anniversary of Rotary, which commerated worldwide with a variety of festivals and celebrations. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois the original mission of Rotary was to unite urban professionals in...read more