This evening we welcome our District Governor and other distinguished guests with a song that takes us back to the very early days of Rotary. Let Me Call You Sweetheart (song 196 on page 39 of our Song Book) was one of the big hits of 1910. Its special significance to Rotarians is that it was the first song ever sung at a Rotary meeting. (see below)
Harry Ruggles, known as the fifth Rotarian because he joined the Chicago Club at its second meeting on 9 March 1905, was also its first song master. At a rather dull club meeting one evening in the Sherman Hotel, he suddenly shouted…
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