Category: History

  • Rotarians Headed The Red Cross

    Rotarians Headed The Red Cross

    Rotarians Headed The Red Cross In Hong Kong / In Macao / In Mongolia By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 25 December 2020 In the District 3450 of Rotary International, there have been 5 prominent Rotarians served as the top leaders of the Red Cross in their respective countries. They were, in the…

  • Taiwan’s Journey to Host Rotary International Convention 2021

    Taiwan’s Journey to Host Rotary International Convention  2021

    Meet Taiwan-ICCA Bidding Workshop Taiwan’s Journey to Host the Rotary International Convention 2021 國際扶輪 前理事 謝三連 Jackson Hsieh 24 May, 2016 2021 Rotary International Convention in Taipei  1991-1993 Charter President of the RC of Taipei Sunrise  1998-1999 District Governor of District 3520  2008-2010 Director, Rotary International  2011-2015 Trustee, The Rotary Foundation…

  • RI President 2014-15 Gary CK Huang Global Travels Vol 1-3

    RI President 2014-15 Gary CK Huang Global Travels Vol 1-3

    Rotary International President 2014-2015 (District 345 Governor 1986-1987) Dr. Gary C. K. Huang & Mrs. Corinna Huang Global Visits Photo Album Vol. 1/12 國際扶輪社長黃其光博士伉儷 2014-2015 環球訪問圖片集第一輯 This album was edited by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) on 1o Oct. 2018 Gary C. K. Huang (黃其光) was born in 1945 in Foochow of Fukien…

  • RI President 2014-15 Gary CK Huang Global Travels Vol 4-6

    RI President 2014-15 Gary CK Huang Global Travels Vol 4-6

    Rotary International President 2014-2015 (District 345 Governor 1986-1987) Dr. Gary C. K. Huang & Mrs. Corinna Huang Global Visits Photo Album Vol. 4/12 國際扶輪社長黃其光博士伉儷 2014-2015 環球訪問圖片集第四輯 This album was edited by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) on 1o Oct. 2018

  • Revd. Dr. Robert Johnston McMullen (Hangchow) 明思德牧師 (杭州)

    Revd. Dr. Robert Johnston McMullen (Hangchow) 明思德牧師 (杭州)

    Hangchow Rotarian Revd. Robert Johnston McMullen American Missionary served refugees relief in Wartime China By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 May 2016 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 fore front of relief activities, among…

  • Speech by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek 1938 – What forms of service the women of China during war

    Speech by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek 1938 – What forms of service the women of China during war

    Speech by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Rotary Club of Hankow Ladies’ Night – 漢口扶輪社女賓夕 30 September 1938 What forms of service the women of China have been engaged in during war Ladies and Gentlemen: After the excellent program which we have had this evening, I feel that anything I have to say will be, as we…

  • Meeting with Mao Tse-Tung by Rotarian George A. Fitch – 扶輪社員費吳生會見毛澤東

    Meeting with Mao Tse-Tung by Rotarian George A. Fitch – 扶輪社員費吳生會見毛澤東

    中文版在第 9-13 頁 扶輪社員費吳生到延安會見毛澤東 Meeting with Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-Lai By Rotarian Missionary George A. Fitch A trip to Yan An the Communist Capital in 1940 By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 28 February 2015 費吳生(左)、毛澤東(中)、梁小初 George A. Fitch (left), Mao Tse-Tung (center), and S. C. Leung Dr. George Ashmore Fitch (費吳生博士)…

  • Schuhua Hu (Chungking) 胡庶華(重慶)

    Schuhua Hu (Chungking) 胡庶華(重慶)

    中文版在第 5-25 頁 胡庶華 — 教育家、冶金學家 重慶扶輪社 — 創社社員 1937 Educator & Metallurgist Schuhua Hu Chungking Rotary Club – Charter Member 1937 By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 15 March 2015 Schuhua Hu (胡庶華) (24 December 1886 – 17 June 1968), metallurgist, was one of the 30 charter members of the Chungking Rotary…

  • Chinese Rotarians served Judges of International Court of Justice – 最早的兩位國際法院華籍法官都是中國的扶輪社員

    Chinese Rotarians served Judges of International Court of Justice – 最早的兩位國際法院華籍法官都是中國的扶輪社員

    中文版在第 16-30 頁 最早的兩位國際法院華籍法官都是中國的扶輪社員 Chinese Rotarians served Judges of International Court of Justice By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 December 2016 徐謨大法官 Judge Hsu Mo 顧維鈞大法官 Judge V. K. Wellington Koo The first two Chinese judges of International Court of Justice in The Hague were Rotarians from The Republic of China: Dr.…

  • Dr. O. S. Lieu-劉鴻生博士

    Dr. O. S. Lieu-劉鴻生博士

    中文版在第 15-29 頁 上海扶輪社的「中華企業之王」– 劉鴻生博士 Shanghai Rotarian Dr. O. S. Lieu  The King of Enterprises in China By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 January 2015 Dr. O. S. Lieu (Lieu Ong-Sung) (劉鴻生博士) (1888-1956), an Honorary Doctorate of St. John’s University, Shanghai, was a Shanghai Rotary Club (上海扶輪社) member in the 1930s.…

  • V. Fong Lam

    V. Fong Lam

    中文版在第 6-10 頁 從上海扶輪社的林允方到廣州市副市長的林志澄 Shanghai Rotarian V. Fong Lam  From Engine Builder to Deputy Mayor By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 June 2015 V. Fong Lam 林允方 (林志澄) The Shanghai Rotarian Naval Architect V. Fong Lam (Lam Von-Fong) (林允方) (1891-1987) (name changed to Lam Chi-Ching 林志 澄 since 1930) (Rotary Nickname…

  • Dr. Lin Ching-Jun

    Dr. Lin Ching-Jun

    中文版在第 12-15 頁 林景潤博士 — 福州扶輪社的教育家 Dr. Lin Ching-Jun – Foochow Rotarian Educationist By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 December 2014 Dr. Lin Ching-Jun (林景潤博士), PhD (Wesley), MA (Harvard), MA (Oberlin), BA (Fukien), was a member, and later Director 1938-1939 of Foochow Rotary Club (福州扶輪社) when he was the President of Fukien…

  • Dr. Yen Te-Ching (Peking/Nanking) 顏德慶博士(北京/南京)

    Dr. Yen Te-Ching (Peking/Nanking) 顏德慶博士(北京/南京)

    中文版在第 10-17 頁 國際扶輪史上第二位華籍理事 — 顏德慶博士 Dr. Yen Te-Ching The Second Chinese Director in History of Rotary International By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 July 2014 Dr. Yen Te-Ching 顏德慶博士 T. Strong Yen the Rotarian Dr. Yen Te-Ching (顏德慶博士), HonLLD (Lehigh), MEng (Lehigh), BEng (Virginia), (aka T. Strong Yen to the Americans)…

  • Report of Rotary in China ~January / June / December 2007 – Christopher Bo Bramsen

    Report of Rotary in China ~January / June / December 2007 – Christopher Bo Bramsen

    NEWSLETTER from Christopher Bo Bramsen RI SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO CHINA 9 January, 2007 Dear fellow Rotarians As we leave 2006, the charter year of the two Rotary clubs in Beijing and Shanghai, I am sending you this Newsletter in order to inform you of the develop- ments of Rotary in China during 2006. As newly…

  • Dr. T. C. Tsao (Hangchow) 趙曾珏博士(杭州)

    Dr. T. C. Tsao (Hangchow) 趙曾珏博士(杭州)

    臺灣新竹「國立交通大學」之父 杭州扶輪社 1935-1936 年度社長 — 趙曾珏博士 劉敬恒 (中華扶輪史研究員) 2016 年 3 月 12 日 1931 年在中華民國浙江省省會杭州市,趙曾珏(T. C. Tsao)與 23 位社會領袖和跨界別精英,組織了 杭州扶輪社(Hangchow Rotary Club)。杭州扶輪社是中華扶輪的第五家扶輪社,也是中華扶輪史上 「第一家華語扶輪社」。國際扶輪秘書處已經確認並記錄在案,1934 年 1 月號和 4 月號的英文扶輪雜誌 《The Rotarian》還有報導。 趙曾珏是杭州扶輪社的創社社員,當時他是浙江省電話管理局局長兼總工程師,職業分類是「電信 業」。1935-1936 年擔任社長;1937 年在英文扶輪雜誌《The Rotarian》4 月號發表文章《A Chinese View of Rotary》,闡述中華哲學「修身、齊家、治國、平天下」與扶輪理想的異曲同工。(英文全文 見第 7 頁) 中華電信業的先驅 趙曾珏(1901-2001),字真覺,1901 年出生於大清國江蘇省上海縣。小時候,跟隨叔父在湖南省 長沙市明德學堂讀書。1921 年,考入交通大學上海學校(交大)電機科學習。交大當時曾規定:「學生 學業成績在 85 分以上者、操行列為甲等者,准於免交該學期學費。」趙曾珏因學習成績優秀,而成為 免交學費的學生。 1924 年趙曾珏畢業於交通大學電機工程學系,赴英國曼徹斯特茂偉電機製造廠(Metropolitan-…

  • Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead (Tientsin) 伍德海(天津)

    Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead (Tientsin) 伍德海(天津)

    伍德海–天津扶輪社 1924-1925 年度社長 Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead, CBE Journalist / Author / Tientsin Rotary Club President 1924-1925 By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 15 March 2020 Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead ( 伍 德 海 ), CBE, (27 November 1883-1959), Briton, was one of the 24 charter members and then later President in 1924-1925…

  • Amanda Wen-Lin Ko (San Chung South) 柯玟伶(三重南區)

    Amanda Wen-Lin Ko (San Chung South) 柯玟伶(三重南區)

    柯玟伶 — 中華扶輪史上首位女性總監 Amanda Ko – The first female District Governor in Rotary China History 中華扶輪史研究員 劉敬恒 2022 年 12 月 1 日 柯玟伶議員(The Honourable Amanda Wen-Lin Ko, 1947 – 2022) 在一百多年的中華扶 輪史上,領銜了四個第一:  第一位女性扶輪社社長(臺灣三重南區扶輪社 1989-1990-1991 年度創社社長)  第一位女性出任國際扶輪 3490 地區總監(1997-1998 年度)  國際扶輪東北亞洲第一位女性地區總監  扶輪領導學院(Rotary Leadership Institute)臺灣分部第一期的班長 1989 年 1 月 26 日國際扶輪於新加坡舉行的立法會議,制定案#89154 正式立法:1989…

  • Letter to ‘The Rotarian’ Editor from Tientsin Rotary Club

    Letter to ‘The Rotarian’ Editor from Tientsin Rotary Club

    Letter to ‘The Rotarian’ Editor from Tientsin Rotary Club on 1 March 1928 by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 March 2013 It was eighty-five years ago today, the Rotary Club of Tientsin (天津扶輪社), Republic of China (中 華民國), sent a complaint letter to the Editor of《The Rotarian》Magazine. Excerpt of the full text…

  • Women in Rotary

    Women in Rotary

    By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 8 March 2017 — International Women’s Day Some very significant programs of Rotary service are conducted not by Rotarians but by organizations of Rotarians’ wives and other female relatives associated with Rotary clubs around the world. Generally organized before Rotary clubs admitted women to membership since 1989,…

  • George A. Fitch – Aid Mainland Refugee Chinese Intellectuals to Taiwan

    George A. Fitch – Aid Mainland Refugee Chinese Intellectuals to Taiwan

    In the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (中華人民共和國) in 1949, many intellectuals and professionals sought refuge from the communist regime. The United States, amidst the Cold War tensions, initiated the Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals program (ARCI) to support these individuals, recognizing their potential value in…