Version 01 01 History Rotary Today Famous Rotarians

Version 01. 01 History Rotary Today Famous Rotarians Foundatio n Geograph y New Generatio ns Women in Rotary Misc $100 $100 $200 $200 $300 $300 $500 $500 $700 $700 $1, 000 $1, 000

Name one thing you discovered in playing Rotary Jeopardy.

Why is the Rotary Information you learned today important?

THANK YOU!

History

History $100 Rotary’s Founding

History $100 What is February 23, 1905?

History $200 Rotary’s First Community Project

History $200 What are Comfort Stations in Downtown Chicago? (Proposed in 1907 and completed in 1909)

History $200

History $200 While attending the Association of Commerce meeting, Paul Harris heard a discussion concerning the need for public restrooms - “comfort stations” was the term used then. In those days, the only places women could find toilet facilities were inside department stores; men had to use the restrooms inside the many taverns. There was an implicit obligation to spend money with the merchant in exchange for using his facilities.

History $200 Chicago was building a new City Hall, and Paul Harris proposed that the Rotary club construct comfort stations for men and women outside the new structure. The club endorsed the idea, but it soon ran into formidable opposition. The Chicago Association of Brewers argued that its 6, 000 tavern-owning members already provided sufficient men’s rooms; the Association of Department Stores supported the bar owners’ position and

History $200 Follow Up Question This might be considered a “Community” Project, What was Rotary’s first Service Project?

History $200 What is bought a Horse for a Preacher? In 1907, Dr. Clark Hawley spoke to the club about a preacher from Joliet, 30 miles from Chicago, whose horse had died and he could not complete his rounds. The club responded and within two weeks bought the preacher a new horse.

History $300 Founders of Rotary

History $300

History $300 Who are Paul Harris, (Attorney) Gustavus Loehr, (Mining Engineer) Silvester Schiele (Coal Dealer) Hiram Shorey (Tailor)

History $500 Rotary’s First Logo

History $500 What is a Wagon Wheel? Attributed to Paul Harris symbolizing civilization and movement

History $500 Designs from 1909 to 1928

History $500 Follow Up Question Credited for the final design of the Rotary Logo

History $500 Engineer Oscar Bjorge From his hospital bed, where he was recovering from an appendectomy, Bjorge sketched out a new wheel with six spokes (some say emblematic of the six Objects of Rotary at that time) and 24 teeth. Finally, he added a keyway, which locks a wheel to a hub, thus making it a “worker and not an idler. ” In 1928, Bjorge’s exact specifications were written into the Manual of Procedure, and approved by the 1929 Dallas convention.

History $700 Rotary’s th 5 Member

History $700 Who is Harry Ruggles? (Printer)

History $700 Follow Up Question Why is that relevant? What is Harry known for?

History $700 Harry brought singing to Rotary in 1906

History $1, 000 Rotary Helped Facilitate the Forming of this Distinguished International Organization

History $1, 000 What is the United Nations? Rotary provided 23 Rotarian observers/facilitators at the United Nations Charter Meeting in April, 1945 in San Francisco (no other organization had more than 3)

Rotary Today

Rotary Today $100 Members Clubs and Countries

Rotary Today $100 What is over 1, 200, 000 members, over 35, 000 clubs, In about 200 countries

Rotary Today $200 Last Year’s Rotary Theme

Rotary Today $200 What is Rotary Connects the World Mark Maloney, RI President 2019 -2020

Rotary Today $200 Follow Up Question This Year’s Rotary Theme

Rotary Today $200 What is Rotary Opens Opportunities? Holger Knaack, RI President 2020 -2021

Rotary Today $300 Rotary’s Seven Areas of Focus

Rotary Today $300 What are: • Peacebuilding and conflict prevention* • Disease prevention and treatment • Water, sanitation, and hygiene* • Maternal and child health • Basic education and literacy • Community economic development* • Supporting the environment** *Changed in 2019 by The Rotary Foundation

Rotary Today $300 Follow Up Question Focus Area added July 1, 2020

Rotary Today $300 What is Supporting the Environment?

Rotary Today $300

Rotary Today $300

Rotary Today $300

Rotary Today $300

Rotary Today $300

Rotary Today $300

Rotary Today $300 Promoting peace Fighting disease Providing clean water Rotarians understand that the whole world is their backyard. They can see the effects of climate change in communities they care about, and they haven’t Saving mothers and children waited to take action. In Supporting education environment, Growing local economies Supporting the environment supporting they’re tackling the problem the way they always do: coming up with projects, using their connections to change policy — and planning for the future.

Rotary Today $500 Clubs are grouped into Districts and Districts are grouped into these.

Rotary Today $500 What are Zones? There are 34 zones (We are in Zone 33)

Rotary Today $500 ZONE 33 Pennsylvania (as of July 2019) Georgia West Virginia Florida • • District 7280 District 7305 (was 7300 & 7330) District 7360 • • • District 7545 (was 7530 & 7550) • • Delaware, Maryland, DC • • District 7620 District 7630 Virginia and part of Tennessee • • • District 7570 District 7600 District 7610 North Carolina • District 7670 • District 7680 • District 7690 • District 7710 • District 7720 • District 7730 South Carolina • District 7750 • District 7770 ZONE 34 District 6900 District 6910 District 6920 District 6890 District 6930 District 6940 District 6950 District 6960 District 6970 District 6980 District 6990 Puerto Rico • District 7000 North Caribbean • District 7020 South Caribbean • District 7030

Rotary Today $700 Rotary’s Parliament

Rotary Today $700 What is the Council on Legislation? They meet every three years.

Rotary Today $1, 000 Rotary Secretariat

Rotary Today $1, 000 What is the Official Offices of Rotary, led by the John Hewko, General Secretary (John has a Law Degree from Harvard and a Masters from Oxford,

Rotary Today $1, 000 Follow Up Question The locations of the RI Offices

Rotary Today $1, 000 What are. . . World Headquarters Evanston, IL, USA Europe/Africa Zurich, Switzerland South Asia New Delhi, India Japan Tokyo, Japan Korea Seoul Korea South Pacific / Philippines Parramatta, Australia Brazil São Paulo, Brazil Southern South America Buenos Aires, Argentina

Famous Rotarians

Famous Rotarians $100 Created a buzz after planting a 4 -Way Test Pin on the moon

Famous Rotarians $100 Who is Buzz Aldrin? NASA Astronaut (Rotary Club of Space Center)

Famous Rotarians $200 Famous Explorer and Famous Aviator

Famous Rotarians $200 Who are Admiral Richard E. Byrd? Rotary Club of Winchester, VA and Orville Wright Rotary Club of Dayton, OH

Famous Rotarians $300 US Secretary of Commerce North Carolina Governor Rotary International President

Famous Rotarians $300 Who is Luther Hodges?

Famous Rotarians $500 US President Rotarians

Famous Rotarians $500 Who were: Warren Harding (29) (RC Washington, DC) and Gerald Ford (38) (RC Grand Rapids, MI) Other Honorary. . . Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Wilson, Carter, Nixon, Reagan, Bush

Famous Rotarians $700 Super Retailers

Famous Rotarians $700 Who are: Sam Walton RC of Bentonville, AR J. C. Penney RC of New York Charles Walgreen RC of Chicago Raymond Firestone RC of Akron, OH Joyce Hall (Hallmark) RC of

Famous Rotarians $1, 000 Non-presidential Political Figures

Famous Rotarians $1, 000 Diane Feinstein Richard Burr Jim De. Mint Sarah Palin Patrick Mc. Henry Dick Riley

Famous Rotarians $1, 000 John Fulbright Alan Simpson Lindsey Graham Bill Frist Jesse Helms Rush Limbaugh

Foundation $100 The Rotary Foundation began in this year and by whom.

Foundation $100 What is 1917, Lead by RI President Arch Klumph (At the RI Convention in Atlanta)

Foundation $200 The Foundation’s First Contribution

Foundation $200 What is $26. 50? Given by the Rotary Club of Kansas City. When the club closed out an account, they discovered a surplus of $26. 50 and donated that money to start the Rotary Endowment Fund.

Foundation $300 The basic levels of giving to the Rotary Foundation

Foundation $300 What are. . . ? ANNUAL FUND or POLIO PLUS Amount Designation Level ANY EREY Every Rotarian Every Year $100 every year Sustaining Member $1, 000 accumulative Paul Harris Fellow $1, 000 every year Paul Harris Society $10, 000 accumulative Major Donor $250, 000 accumulative Arch Klumph Society ENDOWMENT FUND $1, 000 single will Benefactor single contribution or through

Foundation $500 We are This Close

Foundation $500 What is Rotary and Polio’s recent PR campaign?

Foundation $100 Foundation $500

Foundation $100 Foundation $500

Foundation $100 Foundation $500

Foundation $100 Foundation $500

Foundation $500 www. thisclose. endpolio. org

Foundation $700 The Foundation’s First Grant

Foundation $700 What is $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children

Foundation $700 1928 the fund’s name was changed to The Rotary Foundation, and it would be governed by a board of five trustees – (all past RI presidents) and would separate from the parent organization. 1929 After the stock market crash of 1929, donations dried up. The Rotary Foundation made its first donation of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children.

Foundation $700 Follow Up Question The International Society for Crippled Children became this organization

Foundation $700 What is Easter Seals?

Foundation $1, 000 Jewels in PHF Level 8 Pin

Foundation $1, 000 What are 3 Rubies?

Foundation $1, 000 Recognition Level Points or Cash Pin level Paul Harris Fellow 1, 000 to 1, 999 Plain PHF Level 1 2, 000 to 2, 999 Pin with 1 sapphire PHF Level 2 3, 000 to 3, 999 Pin with 2 sapphires PHF Level 3 4, 000 to 4, 999 Pin with 3 sapphires PHF Level 4 5, 000 to 5, 999 Pin with 4 sapphires PHF Level 5 6, 000 to 6, 999 Pin with 5 sapphires PHF Level 6 7, 000 to 7, 999 Pin with 1 ruby PHF Level 7 8, 000 to 8, 999 Pin with 2

Geography

Geography $100 Rotary International Headquarters Location

Geography $100 What is Evanston, IL

Geography $200 First Non-English Speaking Country to have a Rotary Club

Geography $200 What is Cuba? (Established in April 1916)

Geography $300 First Rotary Club Outside of North America

Geography $300 What is Dublin Ireland? (Established in February 1911)

Geography $500 Farthest Distance Traveled by a Rotary Banner

Geography $500 What is the Banner that Orbited the moon with Rotarian Frank Borman?

Geography $700 The Farthest North and South a Rotary Banner has been

Geography $700 What is the South Pole? (1922) and North Pole? (1926) Rotarian Admiral Richard Byrd (Rotary Club of Winchester, VA)

Geography $1, 000 Considered the most remote Rotary Club

Geography $1, 000 What is the Rotary Club of Papeeta, Tahiti? (Makeups are a challenge because their club is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean)

New Generations

New Generations $100 th 5 Rotary’s Avenue of Service

New Generations $100 What is Youth Services? (Created in 2010 as New Generations and changed to Youth Services by the Council on Legislature in 2013)

New Generations $100 Follow Up Question Rotary’s Other Avenues of Service

New Generations $100 Club Services Community Services International Services Vocational Services

New Generations $200 School Based Service Club for Youth 12 -18 years of age

New Generations $200 What is Interact? (designed for high school aged students)

New Generations $200 Follow-Up Question When and Where was it started?

New Generations $200 Melbourne, Florida in 1962 There are over 6, 800 clubs in 104 countries.

New Generations $300 College and Community Based Service Club for Youth 19 -30 years of age

New Generations $300 What is Rotaract? (designed for college aged students and beyond - 18 -30)

New Generations $300 Follow-Up Question When and Where was it started?

New Generations $300

New Generations $300 Charlotte, NC in 1968 Chartered by The Rotary Club of Charlotte North There are over 6, 600 clubs in 161 countries.

New Generations $500 Rotary Youth Learning

New Generations $500 What are and

New Generations $700 CSRYE, SCANEX, ESSEX, OHIOERIE

New Generations $700 What are Multi-District Rotary Youth Exchange Organizations?

New Generations $700 • • CSRYE = Central States Rotary Youth Exchange SCRYE = South Central Rotary Youth Exchange SCANEX = Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Utah Rotary Youth Exchange ESSEX = Eastern States Student Exchange

New Generations $700 Follow Up Question When did Rotary Youth Exchange Begin?

New Generations $700 1927 (started in Europe) Students between 15 -19 placed in another country from a few weeks to a year About 7, 000 participate each year

New Generations $1, 000 “Every Rotarian an Example to Youth”

New Generations $1, 000 What was Rotary’s Slogan adapted in 1949

Woman in Rotary

Women in Rotary $100 First Woman President of a Rotary Club

Women in Rotary $100 Who is Sylvia Whitlock? (Rotary Club of Duarte, California)

Women in Rotary $200 Rotary’s Original First Lady

Women in Rotary $200 Who is Jean Harris?

Women in Rotary $300 The club for Rotarians wife's in the mid-century

Women in Rotary $300 What is the Inner Wheel?

Women in Rotary $500 Year woman were allowed in Rotary

Women in Rotary $500 What is 1987?

Women in Rotary $500 Actually, the first Women were admitted in 1977 by the Rotary Club of Duarte

Women in Rotary $500 Rotary International terminated the club in March 1978. The club renamed itself “Ex Rotary Club of Duarte” and filed a lawsuit

Women in Rotary $500 In 1987, the US Supreme Court found in favor of Duarte (7 -0)

Women in Rotary $500 In 1989, the RI Constitution was amended to eliminate the requirement that membership in Rotary clubs be limited to men.

Women in Rotary $500 Follow-Up Question Percentage of Women in Rotary Today

Women in Rotary $500 What is 22%

Women in Rotary $700 Nicknames For Rotary Spouses In 1914

Women in Rotary $700 Who Were Rotary Ann’s?

Women in Rotary $700 Named for Ann Brunnier & Ann Gundaker From the 1914 Convention Both became Rotary First Ladies

Women in Rotary $1, 000 Rotary’s First Woman Vice President

Women in Rotary $1, 000 Who is Anne L. Matthews

Miscellanous

Misc $100 PDG GSE DDF PETS PRIP RYE

Misc $100 What are: PDG Past District Governor GSE Group Study Exchange DDF District Designated Funds PETS President Elect Training Seminar PRIP Past Rotary International President

Misc $100 Follow Up Question RIBI

Misc $100 What is Rotary of Great Britain and Ireland (Founded in 1914 by the two countries)

Misc $200 The first National Convention

Misc $200 What is Chicago August 15 -17, 1910? 14 of the 16 clubs were represented.

Misc $200 The National Association of Rotary Clubs was formed. Paul Harris was elected president of the Association and served two terms.

Misc $200 Follow Up Question How many delegates Attended? And what is the most to date?

Misc $200 There were 60 delegates to the Chicago Convention. In 1978, the largest RI Convention had 39, 834 participants.

Misc $300 Date of the First National Newsletter (predecessor to The Rotarian)

Misc $300 What was January 1911?

Misc $500 The First General Secretary of Rotary International

Misc $500 Who was Chesley R. Perry? Served for 32 years

Misc $500

Misc $700 Written in 1932 to help state an approach to ethical business

Misc $700 What is the 4 -Way Test?

Misc $700 Follow Up Question Author and History of the 4 -Way Test

Misc $700 Who is Herbert J. Taylor?

Misc $700 1932 In the great depression, Herb was asked to take over the near-bankrupt Club Aluminum company. With no money, low employee morale, and ruthless competition, Herb developed this 24 -word code to help him with daily decisions. He found the morale compass to be so good, he asked his department heads to do the same. The company turned around and made millions, which Herb credited the Four-Way Test.

Misc $700 1943 Four-Way test is adopted by 1954 Herb donates the copyright to 1954 Herb becomes RI President Rotary

Misc $700 Follow Up - Follow Up Question National drug chain that still uses the 4 -way test (and you would find these plaques over the desks of the Pharmacists)

Misc $700 What is Walgreens? Off the Walgreens website

Misc $1, 000 Paul Harris 711 Club

Misc $1, 000 What is the non-profit that oversaw the moving of Gus Loehr’s office

Misc $1, 000

Misc $1, 000 22 Rotarians created a non-profit to save the historic office and have it moved to the RI Headquarters in 1989. Thousands see the restored office every year.

What is Rotary Topics A. Definition B. Purpose C. Organization Discussion Items: 1. When did Rotary Begin? Why? 2. Who was Rotary's Founder? 3. What are the Core Values of Rotary? 4. What is the Object of Rotary? 5. How is Rotary Organized? 6. Does Rotary Have a Strategic Plan? 7. Does Rotary have a motto? What is it?

Does Rotary Have A Charity? Topics A. The Rotary Foundation B. What is its Goal and Purpose? C. What are its Programs? Discussion Items: 1. "Enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. " 2. What is "Future Vision"? 3. Are there areas of focus under "Future Vision"? 4. And, what are they? Peace and conflict prevention /resolution Disease prevention and treatment Water and sanitation Maternal and child health Basic education and literacy Economic and community development 5. Are their grants that a club and I or district can apply for under the Future Vision Plan in the areas of focus? District Grants Global Grants Page 3 Packaged Grants 6. Polio 7. Ways of "Giving" to your charity a. Annual Programs Fund I. EREV ii. Sustaining Member b. Permanent Fund I. Benefactor

Ill Areas of Service in Rotary Topics A. Community B. Club c. Vocational D. World E. New Generations Discussion Items: 1. What are examples of these Areas of Service in your individual clubs? 2. What kinds of projects does your club have to promote these five Areas of Service? 3. What is The Four Way Test? Why is it important to Rotarians? 4. What is RVLA? Why is it important to the youth in your

Misc $100 Xxxxxx

Misc $100 Xxxxxx

Foundation $100 Rotary became International

Foundation $100 What is 1912? Rotary becomes international with admittance of the Rotary Club in Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada, followed later by clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. The club was organized in November of 1910 and Chartered April 13, 1912.

Foundation $100 th 5 Avenue of Service

Foundation $100 What is New Generations

History $1, 000 Year when Rotary become a Service oriented club

History $1, 000 When is 1906? In 1905 Rotary’s original two objectives were : First. The promotion of the business interests of its members. Second. The promotion of good fellowship and other desiderata ordinarily incident to social clubs. Don Carter, a patent attorney joined in 1906, and recommended a third objective to the constitution: Third. The advancement of the best interests of Chicago and the spreading of the spirit of civic pride and loyalty among its citizens. This was added to the club constitution in 1906, was adopted by all future Rotary clubs and changed forever the focus of the movement.

History $1, 000 The community service idea became the very soul of Rotary

Rotary's Global History Challenge Version 01. 01 History Rotary Today Famous Rotarians Foundatio n Geograph y New Generatio ns Misc $100 $100 $200 $200 $300 $300 $500 $500 $700 $700 $1, 000 $1, 000