In ‘Peregrinations 3’, Paul Harris wrote:- So far as Rotary is concerned, Chile is one of the most intensively organized countries in the world, That country now stands fifth in number clubs, being outranked only by the United States, Great Britain and Ireland, Canada and France. Chile’s remarkable record is due to the devoted and capable organization work of the good pioneer Dr Eduardo Moore, past VP of Rotary International.” Harris wrote this in 1936 about Moore who had been selected to introduce Harris at the Ibero (South) American conference and to accompany him at various times during his stay in Chile.
Eduardo Moore’s interest in Rotary had been aroused in 1916 when he attended a meeting of the Chicago RC with an American lawyer, Richard Momsen, who had served as U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro. At the same meeting, Herbert Coates, an English businessman who lived and worked in Montevideo, Uruguay,…
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