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1930sFree

Dakar, Senegal

1939
Home of the Rotary Club of Dakar, the first Rotary club in Senegal, chartered 10 July 1939.
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Sydney W. Pascall: Biography

1931–32
Of the Rotary Club of London and a famous manufacturing confectioner was the first British and European President of Rotary International in 1931. His achievements far surpass that interesting statistic.
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Tom A. Warren: Biography

1945–46
Tom Warren was Rotary International Association for Great Britain and Ireland 's President in 1937-38 and Rotary International President 1945-46 – the second Briton to hold the office.
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Fernando Carbajal: Biography

1942–43
He revisado una serie de documentos donde se habla de Fernando Carbajal Segura, de su vida, sus inquietudes, su conducta, sus deseos y perspectivas de la vida… Y me encontré con que todo el mundo habla de él, como si se tratara de un ser venido de otro planeta, cuyas características generales sólo guardan relación con la aspiración, ideal que
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Robert E. Lee Hill: Biography

1934–35
Robert E. Lee "Bob" Hill was President of Rotary International in 1934-1935.
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James Wheeler Davidson

Calgary Rotarian (1872–1933) who, largely at his own expense, established the first Rotary clubs across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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Rufus F. Chapin

Chicago Rotarian who served as Treasurer of Rotary International from 1912 to 1945 and was a charter trustee of the Rotary Endowment Fund.
1920s★ Member

Vivian Carter and The Romance of Rotary in London

1921 – 1935
Vivian Carter, secretary of R.I.B.I. from 1921 to 1928 and editor of The Rotarian, and his tribute to Paul Harris in The Romance of Rotary in London.
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Friendship Trees in New Zealand and Australia

1938-03
Paul and Jean Harris's 1935 tour of Australia and New Zealand and the Friendship Trees planted on the way, including a pine at the Montrose Home, Brisbane.
1940s★ Member

The Philosophy of History and the Writings of Rotarians

1944
Hendrik Willem van Loon's 1944 Rotarian essay on why every man should be a historian, with Paul Harris's own view that Rotary's ideas were not new.