Rotary Global History Fellowship

The First Rotarian: On the Day Harris Died

Date
1947-01-27
Type
chapter
Era
Postwar Growth, 1946-1969

The First Rotarian

On the day Harris died…

…a wave of grief swept through the world of Rotary

Book cover of "The First Rotarian: The Life and Times of Paul Percy Harris, Founder of Rotary" by James P. Walsh, with a sketched portrait of Harris

James P. Walsh “The First Rotarian”

Chapter 42 ‘Never Send to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls’

What it was like that day, that weekend.

Page 277 of the book, Chapter 42, describing Paul Harris's death on 27 January 1947 and the funeral service Lee Tuttle attended in a Chicago snowstorm

The service…

The First Rotarian: On the Day Harris Died