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The Archives/Early Expansion, 1912-1929

The Rotary Bell

Date
1921
Type
source_document
Era
Early Expansion · 1912

The little known history our our beloved Rotary Bell.

Rotary bell with a gavel and Rotary booklet on a table, surrounded by flowers

The Centennial Bell

RGHF Secretary/Treasurer Emeritus rings the first Centennial Bell in Chicago

RGHF Secretary/Treasurer Emeritus rings the first Centennial Bell in Chicago

Rotary bell in a triangular brass frame, topped with a gear emblem

Rotary Bell from the Ziegler Collection 1921

Brass Rotary bell displayed between two Rotary plaques
Newspaper article about a Rotary bell presented to New York Rotary after an attendance contest and used on a World War I ship

Article from New York

The Rotary Club of Ndola in Zambia, the Northern Rhodesia.

The bell (gong) donated by our charter club The Rotary Club of Bulawayo in 1955

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