Rotary Global History Fellowship

Home at Comely Bank

Date
1928 – 1947
Type
club_history
Era
Founding · 1905

Jean is essentially a home girl, a lover of good books and of the wholesome things of life. She and Paul spend their evenings, as a rule, in “Comely Bank,” reading together. When it is Paul’s turn to read, Jean’s busy fingers fashion garments for the fatherless babes that are born at Cook County hospital. She has made hundreds of such garments during the course of years. Had Jean been a different type, Paul’s course could not have been as it was. In her way she has made material though inconspicuous contribution to the cause of Rotary.

THE SUNROOM WAS PAUL AND JEAN'S FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX "… tuneful redbirds, the milkman's flashlight, newspaper boy, mystic sunrise, plodding mailman, friendly neighbors, and at eventide gleaming headlights of…

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