Rotary Club of Harrison - The First Seventy Five Years

ROTARY CLUB OF HARRISON, ARKANSAS

1918 – Summer     Five Harrison businessmen met for lunch.  Robert A. Wilson suggested the men organize a Rotary Club in Harrison.  Wilson has been a guest at Rotary Clubs in Joplin and Kansas City.  Fred Wolin, one of the five businessmen, had belonged to a Rotary Club in Lonoke prior to moving to Harrison.  Tom Milburn, Frank Redus, and John R. Newman were also enthusiastic. 

            October 13^th -  The informal weekly lunch meetings were organized in a club on this date with fourteen men attending.  J. Sam Rowland was elected President, Fred Wolin was elected Vice-President, and Robert Wilson was elected Secretary-Treasurer.  This luncheon club meeting placed its emphasis on the members trading with each other for a mutual bond seeking closer relationship for the promotion of business.  Total membership became twenty-five.  First project was to sponsor a petition to pave the downtown square, or in the alternative, to oil the streets.

1919 – February 10 -  The formal application for membership into Rotary International was denied because the luncheon group failed to submit names of a board of directors and the meeting place, and some member classifications were incorrect.  Immediately, a board was elected to include Tom Milburn, Robert Wilson, Dr. J.E. Andrews, R.W. Milum, and Fred Wolin, and the other corrections were made.

            March 1 – Charter No. 450 out of a current number, as of March, 1994, of 26,675 Club Charters was issued.  In 1919 it was the opinion of Rotary International that a Rotary Club could not endure in a town of less that 10,000 population.  The Rotary Club of Harrison was among the smallest population (approximately 5,000) to be granted a Charter.  The Charter was granted under the direction of District Governor Hiliary Quinn of Meridian, Mississippi.  The Charter members were J.E. Andrews, J.W. Casey, R.D. Cline, G.C. Coffman, R.L. Crowdus, R.M. Fellows, John Hale, Marvin Hathcoat, Louis Keck, L.B. Kirby, Dr. Frank Kirby, W.H. Lewis, W.N. McDowell, T.E. Milburn, R.W. Milum, J.R. Newman, Rev. G. Orth, J.S. Reddoch, C.H. Redus, J. Sam Rowland, C.E. Veatch, R.A. Wilson, and Fred Wolin.  J. Sam Rowland was elected the Club’s first president. 

            Rotary Club undertook to foster community enterprises because there was no Chamber of Commerce or any other similar organization in Harrison.  Club sponsored a resolution calling for an annual clean-up day in the City.  Club paid for the installation of a public drinking fountain on the Courthouse Square.  Rotary Club’s first meetings were held in the old Bunch-Allison Building which adjoined the Boone County Hardware Co.  The Club also met at the hall over Fred Wolin’s variety store, known as the old Farmers Bank Building.

1920 – April -  Robert A. Wilson was chosen the second President of the Rotary Club of Harrison.  J. Sam Rowland and Ford M. Garvin were the first Rotarians to attend the International Convention held in Atlantic City.

            Summer of 1920 – The old Hopper place, known later as the city park, and then later known as the Harrison High School Plant was available at a reasonable price and the Rotary Club fostered the idea of buying it for a city park.  This early project was handled as a community project and the idea and plans for the project were worked out in the Club by the Club members.

1920-1921 – During the period of the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad strike, when every organization, lodge, and church was torn with dissension and factionalism, the Rotary Club of Harrison stood as a balance wheel for the community wherein the dissension and discord were never mentioned nor felt.

1921 – February 18 – Peoples National Bank of Harrison was robbed by Henry Starr.  Henry Starr was shot and killed by W.J. Myers, President of the bank.  Shortly afterward, the Rotary Club made Myers an honorary member of the Club, and gave him a commendation for his valuable service to the cause of good government and for distinguished community service.

            `September 24 – The earliest Club bulletin is preserved in the Club scrapbook.  First meeting did not publish a weekly bulletin.

1923 – Spring – Rotary Club moved to the ground floor of the Masonic Hall for Club meetings.  The Hall was equipped by the Club and used generally, in addition to Rotary Club and Lion Club meetings, for banquets, parties, and other community gatherings.

            November 8 – Club President Paul Ellis resigned.  Club Vice-President Sam B. Cecil assumed the office of President until the term was to expire on April 1, 1924.  However, during this time the Rotary year was changed from April to July.  Therefore, Mr. Cecil served as Club President from April 1, 1923, to June 30, 1925.  Sam B. Cecil has served the Club longest in the capacity of President.

1925 – Rotary Club adopts green coat, white trousers and white cap as the Club uniform.

1927 – December 15 – Club met at Masonic Hall  (Rotary Hall) site of DeLux Café, program was by Rotarian J. Lloyd Shouse on stay-at-home shopping in Harrison.  Meals served by the Mother’s Club.

1928 – May 10 – Rotarian W.H. (Harve) Lewis gives a Club program on the History of Harrison.

1929 – June 1 – A joint Club meeting is held with the Lions Club

1930 – February 6 – Rotary Club of Harrison adopted a resolution to give a portion of each Club program to consideration of the International Disarmament Conference taking place in London, England.

1938 – Rotary Club of Harrison sponsors Rotary Clubs in Cotter, Marshall, and Berryville.

            Rotary Club undertakes a program of “fireside meetings” wherein Club is divided into groups of ten members who then discuss assigned topics with a group leader.

            August – Harrison is the site for the Rotary District Assembly at the Hotel Seville.

1942 – January – Rotary Club purchases U.S. Savings Bonds to assist in war effort.

            August 20 – Rotary Club meets in Fellowship Hall of First Methodist Church, and was served by ladies of the Church due to Seville Hotel cancelling dining services for the duration of the war.

            November 12 – Rotary Club holds joint meeting with Lions Club at Fellowship Hall of First Methodist Church in observance of National Education Week.

            December 18 – Rotarian Hubert Brown resigns from Club due to tire and gas rationing restricting his ability to travel into town for Club meetings.

1943 – March – Club attendance averages 96% for the year.

            March 20 – Rotary Club participates in a joint meeting with the Lions Club at Fellowship Hall of First Methodist Church.  Featured speaker was Governor of Arkansas, Homer M. Adkins.

            August 5 – Rotary Club participates in a joint meeting with the Lions Club at Fellowship Hall of First Methodist Church.  Featured speaker was U.S. Congressman J.W. Fulbright.

            November 10 – Rotary Club met on a Wednesday in a joint meeting with the Lions Club at Fellowship Hall of First Methodist Church.  Featured speaker was Dr. Nolen Irby, President of State Teacher’s College in Conway, Arkansas.

1944 – April 16 – Rotarian Cole McKinney elected District Governor at District Conference held in Claremore, Oklahoma.

            November 16 – Rotary Club hosts an intercity meeting of area Rotary Clubs with members in attendance from Cotter, Mountain Home, Hollister-Branson, Berryville, Eureka Springs, and Marshall Rotary Clubs.

1945 – January 4 – Rotary Club meets again at Seville Hotel.  District Assembly in Joplin, Missouri, cancelled due to wartime regulations on more than fifty people from outside a host city’s trade area coming together.  District Assembly was held in three separate towns.

            July -  Rotarian John Sugg resigned as Club Secretary after twenty-five years of service as Club Secretary.

            August  23 – Club Bulletin reminds Club members it is now easier to make up a missed Club meeting by attending a nearby Club’s meeting now that gasoline rationing is over.

            October 4 – Rotarian Cole McKinney headed a delegation of local Rotarians to Joplin, Missouri, to meet Tom A. Warren, of Wolverhampton, England, the President of Rotary International.

            October 4 – Rotary meeting adjourned for the ballgame on radio broadcast.

            December – The Club Bulletin calls the annual Rotary-Ann Banquet the biggest social function of the year in Harrison.

1946 – January 3 – Rotarian Ed Fitton is recognized for perfect attendance for twenty-six years and four months.  The only reason the time is not longer than this is that this is only as long as Ed Fitton has been a Rotarian.

            March 21 – Club Bulletin announces twenty-six new club members since July 1, 1945.

            April 28 – District Conference held in Independence, Kansas, after a few years when no single conference was held due to wartime conditions.

1947 – July – Rotarian Ed Fitton could not attend the Rotary Club meeting due to illness and ended his twenty-seven years of club perfect Club attendance.

            July – Rotary Bulletin is published on plain white paper without heading due to the continued paper and ink scarcity during the war.

            July 10 – Rotarian J. Lloyd Shouse gave the program on democracy and communism.  He stated they are incompatible and, in world history, one of the other must go down and it wasn’t to be democracy.

            August 7 – Price of meals at Rotary Club is now 77¢.

            October 2 – The program speaker, County Agent Keeling, gave a very brief program on the county fair so that he was not in competition with the broadcast of the World Series.

            December 18 – Rotary Club has 100% attendance with eighty-two Club members.

1948 – January 15 – Ladies Night attendance for the first time was limited to Rotary members and their wife, mother or sweetheart due to limited seating space.  172 attended.

            March 18 – The Club Bulletin comments that to date, the Club has yet to contribute any money to the Rotary Foundation.  This oversight was soon corrected.

           April 15 – Bulletin note on Club membership.  For the first twenty years the Club averaged about forty members.  In the next ten years Club members averaged eighty-five.  The reason stated is the large number of early Club members who continuously maintained their memberships.  This fact testifies to the value of Rotary membership both to the member and the Club.

        June – The Rotarian magazine featured a picture and story on the  Rotary Club of Harrison Orchestra, which played for each meeting.  The five person orchestra was the result of the efforts of Rotarian Thomas M. Newman.  The orchestra was in existence for about ten years, and disbanded in 1949.

      July 4 – Rotary float included a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster convertible automobile.  The first convertible model after WWII.  The Fleetwood was driven by Jim Cecil, passenger was Bub Wheeler and rear passenger was Clay Holt.  The banner on the car celebrated Clay Holt as being “Rotary’s First Great Grandfather.”  Top prize went to Rotary’s float in the Independence Day Parade for the second consecutive year.

      August – Rotary picnic at Springlake Park, Bellefonte.  Approximately 150 members and guests attended.  Many Rotarians brought well-filled baskets and entire cakes.

     September 2 – Club program is a tour of Harrison Die Casting Company in North Harrison, one of Harrison’s newest and largest industries producing parking meters.

            September 8 – Club Assembly at Past District Governor Cole McKinney’s home with attendance of District Governor Charley Cross from Fayetteville.  McKinney’s home is located at 324 West Ridge which is now the Hathaway House where Rotary presently meets for its Christmas Open House Social.

            November – No meeting due to Armistice Day.

            December 23 – Members are asked to bring food contributions to aid efforts of Goodfellows at Christmas.

            December 30 – Board unanimously decided to cancel noon day meetings and substitute evening meetings at the grade school auditorium to hear speakers for the Institute of World Affairs on January 20, February 10, March 3, and March 24.

            Late 1948 – Walter Sims, of Sims Drug Store died of a heart attack at Rotary meeting.

1949 – President Joe Miller and Board feel too many are not showing full appreciation of member responsibility when Club attendance averaged 90.85%.

            January 27 – On the evening of the Ladies Night Banquet, Rotarian Bart Hudspeth was born.  His father, Rotarian Verl Hudspeth and the doctor, Rotarian Dr. Henry Kirby, had to leave the banquet to attend to the mother, Mrs. Burnelle Hudspeth.  Ladies Night was held at the Seville Hotel, with speaker Harry C. Meek of Rose, Dobyns, Meek & House Law Firm of Little Rock.  Mr. Meek was paid $15 for travel expenses.

            May 5 – Monthly dues raised to $6 effective June 1, 1949.

            May 19 – Speaker, Dr. W.A. Hudson, native of Newton County and world famous surgeon of  Detroit, Michigan.

            May 26 – Speaker, Glenn A. Green of Arkansas Free Enterprise Association on trend toward socialism and/or communism in the U.S.

            Late 1940’s – Rotary Club began the tradition of Christmas program by Eagle Heights Elementary School.

1950’s – During the early 1950’s the Club conducted a Womanless Wedding in the high school auditorium as a fund raiser.  Woodrow Magness was the “Bride,”  Lewis Moles was the “Groom,” Donald Raney was the “Mother of the Bride,” B.N. Holt was the “Ring bearer,” Dr. Henry V. Kirby was the “Mother of the Groom,” and Earnest Wilson was the “Minister.” 

            Mid 1950’s – Just prior to his first term as Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus was a Club speaker.  Faubus had a hole in his shoe, which became a running joke.

1952 – June  Dr. Ben Salzman begins long tradition of investing Club officers.

1954 – Rotary Club and Lions Club play charity basketball game and baseball game for the March of Dimes.

1958 – Rotary Club and Lions Club play charity touch-football game.

            October 9 – Rotary Club program postponed to a later date due to the final game of the World Series.

            November – Rotary Club appropriates $50 to sponsor a Rotary Club Float in the Christmas Parade.

1959 – January – Rotarians paid 10¢ per meeting in support of Rotary Hospital for Crippled Adults in Memphis, Tennessee, which replaced the annual auction as the fund raiser for the hospital.

            June – Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett was the program speaker on the problem of the integration-segregation controversy.  The state policy is to put as many legal obstacles as possible in the path of integration to delay the process.

            October – Rotary Club donate funds for purpose of Christmas lights to be installed in the city of Harrison.

            October 8 – U.S. Senator J.W. Fulbright was the club speaker.

1961 – May – Crooked Creek floods downtown Harrison leaving four dead and damage in the millions.  Rotarian Doug Hudson displays good humor and optimism by painting “Smile!” on the last remaining piece of window glass in his grocery store on the square.  No Club meetings are cancelled due to the Harrison Flood.

           September 19 – Program was Mr. Ralph W. Cook of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.  He told about space satellites and how they are guided into orbit by instruments.

            October 5 – The program yielded to the World Series.

            October 12 – The speaker was Mr. Henry Bujol from Cuba.

            November – Meeting with Lions Club.  Speaker was Congressman Jim Trimble on Americanism.

1962 – April 19 – Program was an intercity meeting.  Among Club’s attending will be the baby Club of this area, Bull Shoals-Lakeview.  Dr. Ben Salzman was the speaker.

1963 – August – August 8 and August 15 meetings were at the Presbyterian Church.  August 22 meeting at Capps Community Building was an evening family picnic.

            September 16 – Club usually met at Hotel Seville, but due to unforeseen difficulties in getting supplies, Club met at Holiday Inn this week only.

            September 30 – Club program was the World Series.

1964 – January 27 – Combined meeting of Rotary and Lions Clubs with the subject of State Government by David Pryor.

            October 5 – Rotary program was the World Series.

            November 9 – O.C. Estes, member of program committee and manager of our county hospital, served the Club a meal after which the Club was conducted through the new nursing home connected to the hospital.

1964 – June – Rotary Club moves its meeting place from Hotel Seville to Coachman Restaurant.

            September 27 – No meeting at Harrison.  Meeting was at Mountain Home instead.

            October 4 – “The Rotary Meeting of a Lifetime,” was the statement made by many a Rotarian and Rotary-Ann.  Dr. Ben Salzman and his wife took the President of Rotary International and his Rotary-Ann to Mountain Home for the weekend.  Monday evening seventy-four Harrison Rotarians and their Rotary-Anns made the trip to Mountain Home.  The meeting was at the Elk’s Club, approximately 250 people present.  Rotarians had come as far as Denver.  Harrison was one of four host Clubs.

1966 – August – President Bill Dillen locks back door so early leaving Rotarians had to exit by the door near the head table.  Actually, the wind blew the door shut and it jammed.

            August – Rotarian Frank Crawley became the first Rotarian to receive the “Rotarian of  the Month” award.

            October – Rotary Club collects pennies in Pennies for People Program to raise money for vaccinations and hospitals in India.  Club goal is $80.

           November – Rotarians John Paul Hammerschmidt is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and continues service for thirteen terms retiring in January, 1993.

            November – Rotary Club president Bill Dillen is invested by the program speaker, W.F. McIntosh, head of the Creek Indian Nation of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1967 – January – The original Club Charter is returned to the Club by the Seville Hotel and placed in the Coachman Restaurant meeting place.

            February 13 – An unpredicted seven-inch snowstorm kept about half of the Club members from the weekly meeting.

            July 3 – Rotarian J. Lloyd Shouse retires from his official capacity as inductor of new Club members.  Induction could last up to 30 minutes with a lesson on Rotary.

1968 – July 18 – Rotary program was a preview show of Billy Graham’s film “Restless Ones” scheduled to be shown at the Lyric Theater.

            September – Rotary Club supports the First Annual United Way Fund Drive in Boone County.  The goal was $28,143.50.

            September 6 – Rotary program was U of A head basketball coach, P.T. “Duddy” Waller.

            October – Rotary program is last game of World Series.  The Cardinals lost.

1969 – February – Ladies Night Banquet attended by 165 Rotarians and their guests.  The program was a musical group from John Brown University, The Sound Generation, a musical group similar to Up With People.

            March – Club meets at Twin Lakes Vocational Technical School Cafeteria.

            May 1 – Former Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus spoke to the Rotary Club of Harrison in his capacity as President o Dogpatch, U.S.A.

            July 10 – Rotary Vice-President Eddie Milburn was the first to be caught under a new fine system for not wearing his Club badge.  The fine was 25¢.

            October 16 – Rotary program was baseball World Series game.  Mets 5, Baltimore Orioles 3.

            October 23, - Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller was the guest speaker.

            November – Rotary Club program on the hippie situation on the West Coast.  The program included personal observations of hippies during a recent trip to the West Coast by the Reverend Max Wolfe, Rotarian.

1970 – Bob Wheeler was President of the Lions Club.  His brother, W.J. Wheeler was President of the Rotary Club.  Lions Club and Rotary Club held a Ladies Night Banquet together at Marble Falls Convention Center.  This is the only annual banquet held outside Boone County.

             March – Former Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus spoke to the Rotary Club of Harrison in his capacity as President of Dogpatch USA.

            June 30 – Rotary Crippled Adult Hospital in Memphis closes after 47 years of operation.

            September – Rotary Club program is a tour of the new fourth floor of Boone County Hospital (North Arkansas Medical Center).

            October – A TV Club program – The World Series.

1971 October  Professor Richard Jefferson, English Professor at Jackson State College presented a program on the stereotype picture of the black man in American literature.  Professor Jefferson was the first African-American to speak before the Rotary Club of Harrison.

            October – A TV special beamer the Rotary program.  The Baltimore Orioles played the Pittsburg Pirates in the World Series.

1972 – September 21 – Marvin A. Hathcoat, born June 4, 1880, at Bellefonte, Arkansas, died on September 12, 1972.  he was the last remaining Charter member of the Rotary Club of Harrison.

1974 – May – Rotarian Ernest B. Wilson recognized for perfect attendance since February 15, 1951, when he entered the Club.

            May 16 – Club went to hospital lobby and met by members of the hospital staff for a tour of the hospital for National Hospital Week.

            July – Rotary Club pledges $1,950 for purchase of Lite Cast Machine for Boone County Hospital (North Arkansas Medical Center).

            November – Rotarian John Paul Hammerschmidt is re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by defeating a young law professor named Bill Clinton

            December – Club Parade Float won first place at Harrison Christmas Parade.

1975 -  January 9 – Program was Lewis Spencer, Administrator of Boone County Hospital.  Hospital opened in 1950.  First patient to be admitted to hospital was Rotarian J. Lloyd Shouse.

            March – Rotary Club of Harrison meets for the first time at Ramada Inn.

            August – Paul McGaughey named the first Paul Harris Fellow by the Club in recognition of his twenty-five year service to the Club as Secretary.

1976 – April 8 – Arkansas Governor David Pryor was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club meeting in concert with the formal dedication of NACC which opened in 1974.

            May – General William C. Westmoreland was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club meeting.

            November – Rotary Club has largest float in the Christmas Parade.

1977  January  - Annual Ladies Night Banquet was attended by 145 Rotarians and guests with entertainment provided by the “Foggy River Boys” of Branson, Missouri.

            July – Rotarian Paul McGaughey permits a fellow Rotarian from Rio Ranch, New Mexico, to use his driver’s license number for a rental car when the traveling Rotarian had misplaced his license while visiting in Harrison.

            November – Rotary agrees to sponsor an Explorer Post.

1978 – Rotary Club of Harrison reached 100 members for the first time.

            February – Tulsa Rotary Men of Note presented the program for the Ladies Night Banquet.  One hundred and forty-nine Rotarians and guests attended.  Ernie B. Wilson became a Paul Harris Fellow from the Rotary Club of Harrison in recognition of 27 years of  perfect attendance.

            November – Club Board of Directors approves purchase of a Badge Box for the Club.

            November  - Club Board approves schedule of monthly board meetings.  Board meetings were to be a breakfast meeting on the first Tuesday of each month.

1979 – June 21 – One hundred and five Rotarians and guests attend meeting with guest speaker Basketball Coach Eddie Sutton of the U of A Razorbacks.

            December – Rotary Club of Harrison supports Harrison High School Band for travel to Mexico City.

            Late 1970’s – Rotarians broke tea glasses by keeping time with knives in enthusiastic response to the words Tick Tock in the “Grandfather’s Clock.”

1980 – February 23 – Club celebrates 75^th Anniversary of first Rotary meeting held on February  23, 1905.

            Rotary President Larry Brandt hosts a Christmas Open House for the Club at his home.

1981 – Ray Fox becomes the first Rotarian of the Year.

            May 1 – Rotary sponsors coffee break at District Conference in Eureka Springs.

            May 16 – Rotary sponsors Rotary Run ’81  10,000 meters or 6.2 miles.

            July 1 – rotary Club has 103 members.

            October 30 – A substitute guest speaker gave the shortest program in Club history.  The nervous speaker  (who will remain anonymous) spoke for three minutes on the dangers of Halloween

1982 – 1983 – Roy Lee Eoff was President of Harrison Club.  Jim Eoff was President of Monticello Rotary Club.  Roy and Jim are brothers, and knew nothing of the other’s position until almost the end of the year.

 1983 – April – Rotary contributes $1,000 to Special Olympics in Boone County.

            May 19 – Rotary Club visits Mass Merchandisers, Inc.. for Club Meeting and business tour.

1984 – Rotary contributes $1,000 to Boone County Library for the purchase of the Library building.

            December – Rotary contributes to Harrison High School Band to participate in Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C.

1985 – July – Rotary fund raiser is yogurt sales on Harrison Town Square with proceeds of $47.86.

1986 – Polio Plus Program begins.

1987 – April – Rotary Club visits Quail Tree for vocational tour as club meeting.

            December – Helen Clothier becomes the first woman to receive a Paul Harris Fellow recognition through the Rotary Club of Harrison.

1988 January – Club raises $29,136 for Polio Plus.

            April – GSE Team from Australia visits Club.

            September – Rotary contributes $1,500 to new Youth Center Building Project.  Rotary has contributed a total of $2,700 to this project by 1990.

            October – Club toured Duncan Industries.  There was a prior visit to Duncan in 1948 when the company was known as Harrison Die Cast Company.

1989 – April 12 – Rotary Club donates $500 to Boone County Historical and Railroad Society, Inc., in honor of Rotarian Dr. Henry V. Kirby.

            June – Rotary donates $1,000 for Harrison High School Computer Resource Room.

            August 31 – U.S. Congressman Tommy Robinson was the guest speaker.

            November – First Rotary Adopt-A-Highway clean-up.

1990 – Rotary Club and District Sponsor two Harrison High School students summer visit to Germany.

            In honor of 20^th Anniversary of Earth Day, Club initiates a waste recycling project.  Proceeds of approximately $1,000 from the recycled materials donated to assist rebuilding project at Ozark Humane Society.            

            July – Club bulletin name changed to The Rotarrison.

            December – Club begins annual Christmas Open-House as a social event at Ramada Inn.  Christmas Open House is moved to the Hathaway House Bed and Breakfast beginning in December, 1991.

1991 – January 10 – Club program is Dr. Terry Yamauchi, Director of Arkansas Department of Human Services.

            March – Harrison Chamber of Commerce names Club as “Outstanding Organization of the Year” in recognition of recycling project.

            April – GSE Team from South Africa hosted by the Club.  Carrie Myers from Harrison represented the Club and District as GSE team member visiting South Africa.

            April 26 – Club donates and plants seven red maple trees at new Harrison High School for Arbor Day celebration.

            December – Club assists in annual Share & Care Christmas Basket distribution.

1992 – January 30 – Club program speaker is John Star, Managing Editor of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

            May – Club recognizes its first benefactor of Rotary International Foundation, Ernest Hume.

            September 19-20 – Club sponsors booth at Coca-Cola Airshow of the Ozarks.  Due to cool, rainy weather, sno-cone sales were limited.

            October 8 – Club tours Rock-Tenn carton manufacturing plant.

1993 – April – Club receives at District Conference the “Balanced Club Achievement Award” for Club activities in the four areas of Rotary Service.

            May – Club expands high school scholarship grants to two outstanding students, one boy and one girl.

            September – Club Board of Directors approves Frances Salmon, piano player for weekly Club meetings, as honorary member of the Club.

            September – Club teams up with Circle J Bar-B-Q for sale of food at Coca Cola Airshow of the Ozarks.  Good weather along with great food and sno cones sales result in large profit for Club projects.

            September – Club Historian Dr. Henry V. Kirby, a Rotarian for over fifty-nine years, dies.

            November – Club participates in local elementary school Adopt-A-Room program by donation of funds for encyclopedias

            December – Christmas Parade float wins first prize in its division.

1994 – March 3 – Club celebrates 75^th Anniversary meeting with special program which includes proclamations by the Harrison Mayor and Boone County Judge as “Rotary Day.”