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Important Dates
January:
January 7 at 12:00 at La Bella Via: Club Assembly
January 10 at 9:30: Volunteer at River of Life Food Pantry
Week of January 12: Meals at Home deliveries
January 14 at 12:00 at La Bella Via (tentative): Danielle's speaker rescheduled; possibly Frank will speak on the Foundation or Marian's speaker
January 20 at 12:00 Board Meeting; at Debbie's house; take out from Eatery 519
January 21 at 12:00 at Gambino's, 1210 Knox Ave., Easton: Marian's speaker, College Hill Dental Group; buffet
January 28 at 6:00; Pizza Village Cafe #4; Carol's speaker, Coach Carlos Ferrara
February:
February 4 at 12:00 at La Bella Via: Celebrate Phillipsburg Rotary’s birthday and kick off Corks & Forks
Week of February 9: Meals at Home deliveries
February 11 at 12:00 at La Bella Via: Bob Valcich’s speaker, Joe Manley from Harkers
February 17 at 12:00: Board meeting at Pizza Village Café #4
February 18 at 12:00 at La Bella Via: Meeting; Kate and Denise’s speaker; final End Hunger work
February 20 from 4-6:00: Set up for End Hunger
February 21 from 9-3:00: End Hunger food packing event at Abilities in Washington
February 22 from 7-11:00: Breakfast at Huntington Firehouse
February 25 from 6-8:00: Social at La Bella Via
Other important dates:
February 21 from 9:00-3:00: End Hunger 3.6 Food Packing Event at Abilities in Washington; hosted by the 5 Warren County Rotary Clubs
April 27 at 6:00 at Architects: Corks & Forks
September 18: Golf Outing at Harkers
History of Rotary
"Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves. "
Paul Harris
Rotary founder
Paul P. Harris, the founder of Rotary, was a lawyer who established his business in Chicago in 1896. On the evening of February 23, 1905, Paul P. Harris, at the age of thirty-seven, asked three friends to meet with him. He presented a problem that had been on his mind for some time: How might they as a group enlarge their circle of business and professional acquaintance? Would there not be a mutual benefit in sharing fellowship with representatives of other vocations?
Out of the discussion that followed came the idea of a club whose membership would be limited to one representative from each business and profession. Meetings were to be held at each member’s place of business. Since this arrangement meant that meetings would have to be held in rotation, the name ROTARY was suggested and adopted.
Paul Harris was the third president of the Chicago club and the first president of the National Association of Rotary Clubs formed in 1910. He was President Emeritus of Rotary International at the time of his death in 1947. During the time he served as President, he was also prominent in civic and professional work.
Rotary continued to grow and when the first Rotary Convention was held in Chicago in 1910, there were sixteen clubs with 1,500 members. Today, there are 34,216 clubs with 1.2 million Rotarians throughout the world making up Rotary International. Women were first welcomed into the Rotary in 1989. Rotary International just celebrated its 119th Anniversary.