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Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan (Peking)
史上第一位華籍扶輪社社長-蔡廷幹海軍上將 Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan The First Chinese Rotary Club President in History 1 July 2014 Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan 蔡廷幹海軍上將 The First Chinese Rotary Club President in History After the establishment of Shanghai Rotary Club (上海扶輪社) in 1919, followed by Tients in Rotary Club(天津扶輪社) in 1923, a group of outstanding persons in Peking (Beijing) gathered together…
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Rotary International President Percy Hodgson – Visit to Hong Kong & Canton in 1949
Rotary International President Percy Hodgson Visit to Hong Kong and Canton in 1949 by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian)1 July 2015Percy HodgsonThe Presidential TravelThe pattern for a year marked with inspiration, enthusiasm and achievement, was set by Rotary International President 1949-1950 Percy Hodgson of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.A., when, as President Nominee, he…
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The 30 Years of Women in Rotary
The 30 Years of Women in RotaryBy Herbert K. Lau(劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian)1July 2019July 2019 marks the 100th year of Rotary in Shanghai, as well as in Greater China. In these 100 years, Md.Terri Lau (劉麗賢), a Hong Kong native Chinese, is the third woman to serve president of Shanghai Rotary Club (上海扶輪社)in 2019-2020. However,…
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Women Serving Rotary
Women Serving Rotary8 March, 2017 –International Women’s DaySome 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, these groups served, and continue to serve, as…
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Rotary in China (2001) – 扶輪在中國 (2001
Rotary in China by Christopher Bo BramsenTuesday, 20 February 2001(Note by Editor: Christopher Bo Bramsen was a member of the Rotary Club of Copenhagen, Denmark, and is the RoyalDanish Ambassador to China, concurrently to Mongolia and North Korea. This article is the key-note speech delivered at the 70th Anniversary Meeting of The Rotary Club of…
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Rotary International early policies paving Rotary’s Road back to China
Rotary International early policies paving Rotary’s Road back to China1 December, 2016.This article aims to give readers some historical facts on the vision of our Rotary leaders about thirty years ago, and how was their wisdom put through in contrast to the Rotary movement realized today in China Mainland.The leaders of Rotary International, of course,…
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Dr. Arthur W. Woo (Hong Kong) 胡惠德醫生 (香港)
Dr. Arthur W. Woo Rejuvenated the broken Hong Kong Rotary Club in 1945 1 September 2015 Rejuvenated the broken Hong Kong Rotary Club Dr. Arthur W. Woo (胡惠德醫生), O.B.E, C.St.J., F.R.C.S., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., J.P., (1888-1964) was an obstetrician and gynecologist missionary. He was the Rotarian who rejuvenated the broken Rotary Club of Hong…
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Paul P. Harris visited Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1935
Paul P. Harris visited Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1935 23 February 2015 “Rotary has satisfactorily demonstrated the fact that friendship can easily hurdle national and religious boundary lines.” ~~ Paul P. Harris, Founder, 1935 FEBRUARY is the anniversary month of Rotary. The February in 1935 was the 30th Anniversarywhich was very remarkableto the 2…
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Peace and Conflict Prevention-Resolution Month
Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution Month Paul P. Harris planted a Tree of Friendship in Shanghai 1935 1 February 2018 “Imagine all the people living life in peace …” John Lennon. FEBRUARY is designated《Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution Month》on the Rotary calendar, since 2015, in lieu of the previous observation《World Understanding Month》. The month also includes the…
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Pacific Rotary Conference 1935, Manila, The Philippines
Rotary Conference in the Pacific 1935 1 February2015 Since 1926, every two years, representative Rotarians from shores washed by the Pacific Ocean gathered at a common meeting place. Here, these men of many nations and varied races and creeds discussed not only as a melting pot for ideas on matters of purely Rotary concern, but…
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Dr. Fong Foo-Sec (Shanghai) 鄺富灼博士 (上海)
中文版在第6-7頁The First Chinese Director of Rotary International Dr. Fong Foo-Sec and the Business of Teaching English 1 June 2014Dr. Fong Foo-Sec (鄺富灼博士), B.A.(UCBerkeley); M.A., M.Ed.(Columbia); LL.D.(Pomona), (1869-1938), a Guangdong native, joined the Shanghai Rotary Club (上海扶輪社) on 4 April 1922(Classification: Books Publishing), was the first Chinese who served as a director of Rotary International in…
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Tong Yuen-Chan – 唐元湛
中文版在第 8-13頁 史上首位華籍扶輪社員 — 唐元湛 Tong Yuen-Chan The First Chinese Rotarian in History By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 December 2021 “I consider my membership in Rotary as the only Chinese representative one of the greatest honors that I have ever received, and I am truly grateful that I have the good…
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Rotary International leaders from the Republic of China in the 100 Years – 中華扶輪百年的國際層領袖
中華扶輪百年的國際層領袖劉敬恒(中華扶輪史研究員)2019年7月1日 Rotary International leaders from the Republic of China in the 100 Years By Herbert K. Lau(Rotary China Historian) 1 July 2019 國際扶輪在中華始於1919年7月，當時在中華民國成立的第一家扶輪社是位於上海公共租界的上海扶輪社。到了2019年7月，扶輪運動在中華開展了100年。在這100年當中，多位中華民國的傑出國民出任了國際扶輪理事會的領導層。Rotary in China began in July of 1919 when the first Rotary Club of Shanghai was established in the Shanghai International Settlement, The Republic of China. July in 2019 marks the 100 years…
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Some Famous Firsts in Rotary
Some ‘Famous Firsts’ in Rotary by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 January 2015 Was Paul Harris the first president of a Rotary Club? NO Was Paul Harris the first president of Rotary International? YES There is an easy explanation to this apparent contradiction. Although Paul Harris was the founder and organizer of…
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Dr. The Honourable Li Shu-Fan – Governor of the 96th District 1947-1948 李樹芬醫生 (香港)
Dr. Li Shu-Fan -Governor of the 96th District 1947-1948 Conducted the First-Ever Rotary District Conference in Hong Kong 1 February2016“ One of the main philosophic convictions of my life has been the desire to leave the world a little richer than when I found it.”~~ Li Shu-Fan李樹芬Despite difficulties after the Pacific War (a chapter of…
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Flag and Banner of Rotary International
Flag and Banner of Rotary International1 September2013The Old FashionAn official flag was formally adopted by Rotary International at the 1929 InternationalConvention in Dallas, Texas, United States. The Rotary flag consists of white field with the official wheel emblem emblazoned in gold in the center of the field. The four depressed spaces on the rim of…
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Golden Anniversary of Rotary International in 1955
Golden Anniversary of Rotary International in 1955 23 February 2015 Today is the 110th Anniversary of Rotary International since its inception in 1905. Certainly, 60 years ago today, there was the Golden Anniversary. Commencing the year of 1954-1955, Golden Anniversary congratulatory messages from heads of State flew in Rotary International from all parts of the…
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End Polio Now – The First National Immunization Days in China 1993-94
End Polio Now–The First National Immunization Days in China 1993-941 October 2016 October 24 is Rotary’s World Polio Day 2016. Twenty plus years ago, there were the first National Polio Immunization Days in China, which made China reached 100 million children in historic immunization campaign. On December 5, 1993, the People’s Republic of China launched…
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Rotary in Hong Kong and Kowloon in 1952
Rotary in Hong Kong and Kowloon in 19521 December 2015This is the cover of the April 1952 Issue of《The Rotarian》magazine, and this was the first time the beautiful Victoria Harbourscene used on the cover of this global magazine with pictorial story telling Rotarians world-wide how the then British Crown Colony Hong Kong was recovering from…
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Bill Benter – In the Cards
I was about to turn 40 when I joined Rotary. The timing was perfect. I’d wandered into a profession, computer software development, where I was disconnected from any community. I was developing a somewhat complex database program for betting on horse races, based on 70 variables for each horse that enabled me and my colleagues…
