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The Rotary Lombardi Award is an award for college football in the United States.Awarded by the Rotary Club of Houston, Texas annually to the college football player "who best embodies the values and spirit of NFL's legendary coach Vince Lombardi" [1] the Rotary Lombardi Award program was created in 1970 shortly after the death of Lombardi. [2]
Underhill was a member of the Rotary Club of New York among several other organizations. He received special recognition for his 25 years as a Rotary Club member in 1938. [ 4 ] Underhill was present at the funeral of Pirie MacDonald, another professional photographer and Rotarian in 1942.
The Leonardo da Vinci International Award was founded in 1975 by the Rotary Club of Florence in collaboration with the Athens, Tours and Wien-Ring Rotary Clubs. Since its foundation, seven more European Rotary clubs have joined the initiative: [5] [6] 1981: Madrid; 1983: Brussels; 1984: London; 1984: Würzburg; 1989: Amsterdam; 2006: Dublin ...
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The Rotary Club is the basic unit of Rotary activity, and each club determines its own membership. Clubs originally were limited to a single club per city, municipality, or town, but Rotary International has encouraged the formation of one or more additional clubs in the largest cities when practical.
Ambassadorial Scholarships (founded 1947) was a program of the Rotary Foundation.The program ended in 2013 and was replaced by the Rotary Global Grant Scholarship, which expands on the Ambassadorial mission, by now ensuring that every Rotary Scholar advance Rotary's International mission to " promote service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace." .
In 1905, Harris organized the first Rotary Club "in fellowship and friendship" with three clients and local businessmen, Silvester Schele, Gustavus Loehr, and Hiram Shorey. His initial goal was solely to create a club of professional and business men for friendship and fellowship. Soon, Harris realized that Rotary needed a greater purpose.
Dianne Feinstein, US Senator from California, Rotary Club of San Francisco, CA [3] [2] Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, Canada. Gerald R. Ford, US President, Rotary Club of Grand Rapids, MI [3] [2] Suleiman Frangieh, President of Lebanon 1969–75, founded the Rotary Club of Tripoli, Lebanon 1950; Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church, Bishop ...