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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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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…
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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
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 Zhemin)…
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War Refugee Rotarians’ Fellowship Groups
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 surrender…
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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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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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Dr. Herman C. E. Liu – The Shanghai Rotarian assassinated by Imperial Japan’s Agents – 被日本帝國特工暗殺的上海扶輪社員–劉湛恩博士
中文版在第 20-29 頁 被日本帝國特工暗殺的上海扶輪社員–劉湛恩博士 Dr. Herman C. E. Liu The Shanghai Rotarian assassinated by Imperial Japan’s agents 1 December 2016 Dr. Herman C. E. Liu (劉湛恩博士), President of the Shanghai University (滬江大學), was assassinated by Imperial Japan’s agents in 1938. This is in the Rotary China History that a Rotarian educator, even not a politician…
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R.I. District 3450 First All-Medical Group Study Exchange Team to Beijing
First all-medical GSE team to Beijing The traditional Chinese proverb, “you rely on friends when you are not at home,” couldn’t have found a better example than the first all- medical Group Study Exchange (GSE) with a non-Rotary country, between physicians from Beijing, People’s Republic of China, and their counterparts in Hong Kong and Macau.…
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District 3450 raised fund for PolioPlus Partners Program
Rotarians raise $220.000 District 3450 has been a generous supporter of the PolioPlus Partners program, through which Rotary clubs, districts, and individual Rotarians volunteer time and “I led a team there,” says Wong. “[But the 1999 effort] can’t be compared to this one, in terms of the amount of money involved.” for PolioPlus Partners District…
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Hong Kong Clubs mark Centennial with Nature Project -2005
Hong Kong clubs mark centennial with nature project FOR THEIR centennial project, six Rotary clubs in Hong Kong will contribute HK$500.000 to renovate a nature center and build a wetland conservation research center. The Rotary clubs of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island West, Hong Kong Northwest, The Peak, City Northwest Hong Kong, and Mid-Level will…
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Khuree Rotary Club – Project Test for Life
on 15 December 2016 (1) Mongolian Project Test for Life In order to provide health information to the public, with women in particular, about cervical cancer early detection, awareness and prevention, the Rotary Club of Khuree, Mongolia, started broadcasting 10-minute radio programs twice a week on FM stations in Ulaanbaatar, with the support of the…
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Ulaanbaatar Rotary Club – Australian Rotarians rescue a life in Mongolia – 1995
Australian Rotarians rescue a life in Mongolia BY PHILLIP HINTON Hishigzul is a playful, robust two-year-old Mongolian girl. Her rosy cheeks and inquisitive eyes would certainly qualify her to be the star of a movie or a television program. In November 1994, how- ever, she was experiencing severe ham problems loacaneilaring help her, Hishigzul’s life…
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New Ways for Old – Application of The Four-Way Test in Taipei
The idea of selling an article for a fixed price, one that can’t be “beat down” by haggling, is comparatively new in the marts of trade. Until midway in the 19th Century, even the simplest retail purchase often became a contest between buyer and seller. It still is today in many parts of the world,…
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Kowloon West Rotary Club – Project Aid for Addicts 1965
AID FOR ADDICTS A new venture aimed at solving drug-addiction problems is under way in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and the Rotary Club of Kowloon West had a hand in starting it. At a meeting early this year the Club handed over to the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society a deed to premises where the Society…
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Peninsula and Peninsula Sunrise Rotary clubs – Literacy Program in Dongguan 1997
A journey worth making Since 1997, members of the Rotary clubs of Peninsula and Peninsular Sunrise, Hong Kong, China, have made a six-hour trip to and from Liaopu, Dongguan Province, every Saturday without fail. The reason for the long trek? Their desire to participate in a vital literacy program that is organized at a local…
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Refugees and Human Rights – by Karl L. Stumpf
GERMAN NOVELIST Heinrich Ball, commenting on the estimated 16 million refugees in the world, calls our era “the century of refugees and prisoners.” The 1981 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, underscores what has been described as an ‘unfortunate reality’ of our time. This is the…
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Hong Kong – Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign
truly was a worldwide effort, Scott points to the estimated $50 million contribution from U.S. clubs and districts. “If not for Rotary and the United States, this polio eradication] initiative would really be in financial straits,” he says. Lou Piconi, chair of the North American PEFC Committee, notes the contributions of young people in Interact…
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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 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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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…
