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Rotary Club of Tsinan (Brochure April 1936) – 濟南扶輪社 (1936小冊)
Tsinan (Li-cheng-hsien city) is the capital and largest city of Shantung Province in the Republic of China. Geographically and commercially it is well situated as the centre of the Province which is 56,000 square miles in area. Tsinan (Lat: 36°40’N; Long: 14°00’E lies in about the same latitude as Tokyo, Japan; Nash-ville, Tenn, U.S.A.; Gibraltar…
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The First Decade of Rotary in the Tientsin Foreign Concessions
The First Decade of Rotary in the Tientsin Foreign Concessions 1 September 2014 The Treaty Port Tientsin The concessions in Tientsin (Tianjin) (天津) were concession territories ceded by the Imperial Qing (Manchu Dynasty) (大清國) to a number of European countries, the United States and Imperial Japan within the city of Tientsin. There were nine concessions…
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Shenyang City – the unique home of 3 Rotary Clubs under 3 Different Regimes
Shenyang City – the unique home of 3 Rotary Clubs under 3 Different Regimes 1 December 2019 Shenyang City (瀋陽/沈阳), a major Chinese sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Liaoning Province (遼寧省), has been the home of 3 Rotary clubs under 3 different regimes: (1) 1929 — The State of Manchuria (Manchukuo) (滿洲國) –…
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Tientsin Rotary Club Booklet 1934
TIENTSIN NORTH CHINA 津天 竹 旅旗 ROTARY THE ROTARY CLUB OF TIENTSIN No 1444 JANUARY 1934 TIENTSIN, NORTH CHINA. THE PORT, ITS HISTORY, AND ROTARY CLUB ACTIVITIES. TER ROTARY RNATION Issued by the ROTARY CLUB OF TIENTSIN. No. 1444. January, 1934. 501 Grade 1/36 tions, This pamphlet has been prepared by Past President W. V.…
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Former Shanghai-Chungking-Taipei Rotarian – Aid Mainland Refugee Chinese Intellectuals to Taiwan
Former Shanghai/Chungking/Taipei Rotarian Aid Mainland Refugee Chinese Intellectuals to Taiwan 1 May 2015 George Ashmore Fitch ( 費吳生) and wife Geraldine This is the story of George Ashmore Fitch (費吳生) (1883-1979), born in an American missionary’s family at Soochow (Suzhou) (蘇州), Imperial Ch’ing (大清國), who was an active member of Shanghai Rotary Club (上海扶輪社), and…
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Dissolved the 3 Rotary Districts in China in 1951
Dissolved the 3 Rotary Districts in China in 1951 The Proximate Cause by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 July 2016 The Decision Though there had been vision and mission on 1 July 1937 to develop 2,000 Rotary clubs in The Republic of China (中華民國), the 3 Rotary districts spread on most of…
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Hangchow Rotarian Rev. Robert Johnson McMullen – American Missionary served refugees relief in Wartime China
Hangchow Rotarian Rev. Robert Johnson McMullen American Missionary served refugees relief in Wartime China 1 May 2014 This small photo is illustrated by a piece of very short news reported in the Page 52, September 1938 Issue of《The Rotarian》Magazine: “In the forefront of relief activities, among 26,000 refugees, in Hangchow, China, are these seven Rotarians…
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War Refugee Rotarians’ Fellowship Groups
1 War Refugee Rotarians’ Fellowship Groups by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 3 September 2015 (70th Anniversary of Victory Over Japan Day) It was the Second Sino-Japanese War which was a military conflict initiated by the Imperial Japan’s full scale aggression to the Republic of China (中華民國) from 7 July 1937 until Japan’s…
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Rotary in the State of Manchuria
Rotary in the State of Manchuria on the Northeastern Chinese Mainland 18 September 2016 (85 years of the Mukden Incident) Located at the northeastern Chinese mainland, officially the “State of Manchuria” prior to 1934 and the “Empire of (Great) Manchuria” (大滿洲帝國) after 1934, Manchukuo (滿洲國) was a puppet state of the Japanese Empire in Manchuria…
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Minor Planet No. 12935 was named after the 1948 Rotary Foundation Fellow Cheng Che-Min – 扶輪基金1948年受獎人鄭哲敏院士獲小行星命名殊榮
1 中文版在第 12-25頁 扶輪基金1948年受獎人鄭哲敏院士獲小行星命名殊榮 Minor Planet No. 12935 was named after The 1948 Rotary Foundation Fellow Cheng Che-Min By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 November 2016 1952 – Dr. Cheng Che-Min (Zheng Zhemin) 鄭哲敏 博士 Five minor planets have been named after top Chinese scientists, including Cheng Che-Min (known today as Zheng…
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Asteroid was named after former Nanking Rotarian Dr. Ching-Sung Yu ~ 南京紫金山天文臺創建人南京扶輪社余青松博士
Asteroid 3797 Was Named After Former Nanking Rotarian Dr. Ching-Sung Yu 南京紫金山天文臺創建人南京扶輪社 (1934)創社社員-余青松博士 22January 2017 Dr. Ching-SungYu 余青松博士Asteroid 3797 was named in memory of Dr. Ching-Sung Yu (余青松博士) (1897-1978), Chinese-American astrophysicist, whose spectro photometric measurements of 91 stars at the Lick Observatory in the early 1920s represented a milestone in research on stellar energy distribution.…
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Boys Work by Shanghai Rotary Club in 1920–1940
Boys Work by Shanghai Rotary Club in1920–1940 by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian)1 July 2015 May is the “Youth Service Month” of Rotary International designated since the Year 2015-2016. This is to replace the previous special focus“September –New Generations Month” of which had been observed for some twenty years.Rotary International’s structured programs for…
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Boys Work by Tientsin Rotary Club in the 1920s
Boys Work by Tientsin Rotary Club in the 1920s 1 September 2014 Initiation of the Boys Work Program in 1919Prior to the establishment of the “Interact Club” program in 1962 for both boys and girls, Rotary’s service to the younger generations was focused on “Boys Work”. Initiation of the “Boys Work” program could be traced…
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Kingspark Hong Kong Rotary Club – Legal Career Project for Students
HONG KONG HOLDING COURT The Rotary Club of Kingspark, Hong Kong, decided the best way to teach some students a lesson was to take them to court – or at least a mock court. The club was participating in a project in which 10 clubs in District 3450 (Hong Kong; Macau; Mongolia) teamed up with…
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Kowloon East Rotary Club – First 100% Major Donor Club of The Rotary Foundation
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION HAS SCORED A MAJOR MILESTONE that even founder Arch C. Klumph might not have envisioned. (“I’m happy to announce tonight that we have our first 100% Major Donor Club: the Rotary Club of Kowloon East in Hong Kong,” said 2006-07 Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Luis Gay at the RI Convention’s Major Donor…
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Rotary Club of Bayview Sunshine Hong Kong – Walk for a Polio Free World
Polio campaign Setting the pace to end polio More than 2,000 people converged at scenic Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, on 10 November 2002 to participate in the three-mile Walk for a Polio-Free World. The Rotary Club of Bayview Sunshine organized the event, which raised US$50.000 for the polio eradication fundraising campaign from sponsors who pledged…
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Tolo Harbour Rotary Club supported End Polio in Africa
Tolo Harbour Rotary Club supported End Polio in Africa — 1997 Charter President 1987-1988-1989, Tolo Harbour Rotary Club 24 October 2015 PolioPlus Program World Polio Day is 24 October. PolioPlus, the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history, is the volunteer arm of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. For the last three decades, Rotary has led…
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Kowloon East Rotary Club – Rotary Villages Project in Jiangsu China
The Rotary Club of Kowloon East Rotary Villages Project in Jiangsu Province, China, 1992 九龍東區扶輪社 1992 年中國江蘇省扶輪新村項目 China- Jiangsu Province residents join Tommy Wan of the Rotary Club of Kowloon East commemorating the building of the first of two Rotary Club villages in mainland China. Each village includes 110 houses, which the Rotarians donated to…
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Kwun Tong Rotary Club – Project Music Across the Ocean
The spirit of internationality “Music Across the Ocean was the theme of an international service project which brought together Rotarians of Kieran To B, gruitan E aspha and Santa Philippines. Members of the three clubs sponsored a singing tour of the Philippines for the 54 members of the Kwun Tong Children’s Chorus. The Kwun Tong…
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Kowloon Rotary Club – Project Mobile Dental Clinic
《The Rotarian》 September 1968 (NOTE) Leader of the Lutheran World Service, then, was Rev. Karl Ludwig Stumpf (施同福牧師), German, President 1964-1965 of the Rotary Club of Kowloon (九龍扶輪社), Hong Kong. More than 25,000 patients have been started on the road to dental health in this compact mo- bile dental clinic, fully equipped for surgery, which…
