On 23 February 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Loehr’s office in Chicago for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting. Harris’s desire for camaraderie among business associates brought together these four men and eventually led to an international organization of service and fellowship. More on history of Rotary....

 

Also check out RI Pres. Ian Riseley Recalling Rotary's Roots...  

 

Paul Keeley is a member of Rotary Club of Newcastle Gosforth UK and Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group ESRAG. He is Managing Director of Sustainable Global Garden, Paul and his wife Carol gave us a presentation of the Rotary Tree planting project which has a focus on improvements in education, water supply, child nutrition as well as community development in East Africa. By January 2018 there are 22 Rotary clubs donating to this project and 13 Tanzanian clubs organising the planting.  They are hoping to plant as many as 100,000 trees before the end of Ian Riseley's RI presidency in June 2018, they are looking for Rotary clubs interested in being a partner in the ESRAG project.

 

Our visitors today were Victor Wu from Taipei and Maria S.