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Rotary International is the organization of service clubs with the largest membership in the world, with 1.9 million volunteers, including all the members of clubs that make up the Rotary family, namely Rotary, Interact and Rotaract clubs.
Sir Clem Renouf, Australian accountant, Rotary Club of Nambour, Queensland; President, Rotary International 1978-79; Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist, founded the Rotary Club of Morimondo Abbazia, Italy; Frank Richman, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, Nuremberg trials judge, charter member and President of the Rotary Club of Columbus, IN
Rotaract originally began as a Rotary International youth program in 1968 [1] at Charlotte North Rotary Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, and has grown into a major organization of ~9,000 clubs and nearly 120,000 members in 189 countries and geographic areas. [2]
The Rotary Club of Lancaster is part of Rotary International, the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. The Lancaster Rotary Club ...
In March 1986, the Rotary clubs' federation Rotary International was ordered by a state appellate court to reinstate the Rotary Club of Duarte it had ousted in 1983 for admitting three women members, and three years later the University Club in Pasadena decided also to admit women. The all-male club had voted against the idea twice before ...
While the Keene Elm City Rotary club sends money to the city itself, the Keene Rotary Club is donating $5,500 — $4,500 from the board and the rest from members — to the Einbeck-Northeim Rotary ...
A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members. Service clubs, lineage societies, and secret societies are among the fraternal organizations listed here.
Most clubs meet monthly, often with a speaker at the meeting but members meet socially on a regular basis. Clubs raise and donate money to a huge variety of charities. Helena Foster, who was the President in 1969–70, proposed that "Inner Wheel Day" should be celebrated on 10 January each year on the day that the original Manchester group ...