On March 16 2008, the Concord Rotary Club celebrated its first 80th anniversary on 20th March, a plaque was erected in the House of Friendship headquarters of the Rotary Club Concordia, located in 311 Hipólito Irigoyen Street of our city, in tribute to its founder members. We can relate that in March 1928 James H. Roth came to Concordia accompanied by Eng Donato gamin with the aim of founding in this city a Rotary Club. James Roth was special representative of Rotary International and Don Donato Gamin, a member of the Rotary Club of Montevideo and Governor of Rotary district Nro. 63. This District covering the republics of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay and Don Donato gamin was its first governor.
At that time, there were very few Rotary Clubs in the three republics of the River Plate. The oldest was the Rotary Club of Montevideo, founded in 1918, which was also the oldest in South America. Montevideo was followed by: Buenos…
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