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[the article below was taken from the Mt. Pulaski 1836-1936 History
Book]
Three hundred Rotarians and
Rotary Anns were present at the Charter Night program and banquet
of
the
Mt. Pulaski Rotary Club #4030 (now #3278) at the Mt. Pulaski High
School gymnasium
on Friday evening,
November 19, 1936, to participate in the charter presentation
ceremonies.
The formation of a Rotary Club
in this city was sponsored by the Lincoln Rotary Club.
Harry Wible was elected as the first Mt. Pulaski Rotary Club President.
The meeting was attended by representatives of
over twenty Rotary Clubs in Illinois. The
Mt. Pulaski
Rotary Club has been very fortunate in having exceptionally good
officers.
Virgil Wynd was elected the first
secretary (1936-1941). Other secretaries of note were:
Walter Schafer, Joe Doud, Fran Myrick, and Rick
Volle, our current secretary. Steven Evens
was the 1985-1986
president, and Larry Medaris was president elect
for 1986-1987.
The local Rotary Club is an offshoot of the first
club, which was begun in Chicago in 1905
by an attorney, Paul P.
Harris. From that beginning, the original club became an
international
service club with over 962,500 members in 159
countries with 21,000 clubs.
The object of Rotary is to promote the ideal of
service, high business standards, and international
good will.
Our local club assists the International Rotary Foundation, and
assists locally the Foreign Exchange Student Program, Senior Citizen
Coffee, St. Jude's Bike-a-thon, Mt. Pulaski Community
Pride, Inc., C.R.O.P. and the Boy Scouts.
Members of the
1986 Mt. Pulaski Rotary Club were:
Charles Anderson, Dave Bassett,
Glen Baumann, John Biesemeier, Wally
Carlson, Jeff Clements, Gene Downing, Eugene Eddy,
Steven Evens,
Roland Halstead, Robert Hamm, Marvin Harp, Matthew Klumpp, Paul
Mason,
Larry Medaris, Larry Montgomery, Sr., Bob Mueller, Fran
Myrick, Frank Palazzolo, Mike Patridge,
Pat Pryzkopanski, Duane
Shanle, Dennis Space, Carl Stahl, Wilbur Stoll, Harold Tendick,
Harry Van Hook, Rick Volle, Harold Weber. |
