Meeting Paul Harris

The idea of meeting Paul Harris peaks my interest. It is the kind of thing that "Why I Am A Rotarian" does in this website for Rotary Global History. It is an essential part of all that you, Jack Selway, and many other hands have done. It is needed. It fits the website and its future. No one knows where speculation goes but it should be an adventure that RGHF continues and that we all embark upon. There will be some of us who have traveled with Paul Harris on this (even when we do not write anything to go with what he started in Chicago or Jack Selway created with RGHF). What we would do if we met Paul Harris is up to each individual but what I would do is first say, “It is real privilege to meet you. I have admired you for years,” then I would say, “Thank you for starting Rotary. We listened and learned.”

Hopefully, we would share stories. I would tell him this one: “The other night a superior but silent student came up to me after class and said, "All semester a question has stuck in my head: Why are you teaching here at this two year college? I have taken classes at Rice and the U. of Texas. You should be…