Vivian Carter was the author of, "The Romance of Rotary In London" published in 1947. He had served as secretary of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland from 1921-1928 and then left for Chicago where he became the the second editor of The Rotarian, following the publication's founder and Rotary's first secretary Chesley R. Perry. Carter was the editor until 1935. Carter writes that he had a great deal of contact with Harris. Both as secretary of R.I.B.I and also as the magazine's editor. Though many Rotarians, primarily in the UK, have Carter's book on Rotary, it is a rare. We are fortunate to have Carter's observations.
There has been much written about Paul Harris, the founder of Rotary, but a careful reading of what Vivian Carter has…
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