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The World’s Longest Dancing Chinese Dragon 1991 by HK Rotarians and Rotaractors
Entered The Guinness Book of World Records 1991 The World’s Longest Dancing Chinese Dragon by Hong Kong Rotarians and Rotaractors District 3450 Rotaract Chair 1990-1991-1992 1 August 2017 In a summer night of 10 August 1991, highlight of the 3rd International Abilympics (第三屆國際展能節) hosted by the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation (香港復康會) and to celebrate…
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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. Fong Foo-Sec (Shanghai) 鄺富灼博士 (上海) #2
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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Chung Chi College Rotaract Club – Rural Village Project 2006 – 崇基學院扶輪青年服團
From December 28, 2006, to January 2, 2007, thirty-one undergraduate students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Chung Chi College Rotaract Club conducted a service exchange project at Datuntou Primary School in Xitan Town, Qingxin County, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. The event, titled “Love and Qingyuan, Warmth in the Mountains,” aimed to provide support…
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A Day of Outing for 30 Blind Girls at the Holiday Camp – Hong Kong Rotary Club
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General History of Rotary International
General History of Rotary International1 January 2017 In its early years, Rotary clubs served as a respite for their members from the rampant corruption and fraud of the day. After a few years of conducting business with their fellow club members, Rotarians understood that one of the organization’s great strengths was the unusually high ethical…
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William Benter (Kowloon North) – 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…
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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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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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Ricardo Lin (Taipei East) 林A新(_北|^)
中文版在第 4-27 頁 台北東區扶輪社 — 林華新 從政治囚徒到國際扶輪 345 地區總監 Taipei East Rotary Club – Ricardo Lin From political prisoner to Rotary International District 345 Governor By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 31 July 2025 Ricardo Lin (林華新) (1921-2010) was a prominent Taiwanese entrepreneur, philanthropist, calligrapher, and highly respected civic leader. He survived mid-century…
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75 Years of Rotary in China – 扶輪在中國75年
Extract from the Rotarian 1994 The establishment of Shanghai Rotary Club and its initial service plan When Rotary was founded in Shanghai in 1919, at that time, Shanghai, the largest port in the Yangtze River Estuary in China, and it is also the country’s largest port The main window for the opening of the world.…
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The Birth of The Hong Kong Island West Rotary Club in 1954
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The Hong Kong Workshop – Preparing for the return of Rotary – 1994
SPECIAL REPORT The Hong Kong Workshop Preparing for the return of Rotary T s the R.I. Board of Directors and adjacent non-Rotary countries.” able to the Hong Kong Workshop. reviewed the notable prog A second key difference was the ress made to date in extend other goals: to design a comprehen- political stance of governments.…
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Rotary in China commenced with The Birth of the Shanghai Rotary Club in 1919
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The Hon. Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton (Hong Kong)
Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton Charter Member & Director of Hong Kong Rotary Club in 1930 1 February 2015 Birth of The Rotary Club of Hong Kong The British Crown Colony Hong Kong located at the south China coast was the first prospect of Rotary International to extend Rotary landing on the continent of Asia.…
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The History of District 3450
By Past District Governor Peter K. P. Hall From a lonely man’s hunger for friendship, Rotary has become the most influential international service organization today. For one club with only four members 103 years ago, Rotary today has more than 32,000 clubs with an estimated 1,200,000 Rotarians in 200 countries and regions.
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The Original Purposes of Rotary
The original purposes of Rotary By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 23 February 2014. In 1930, the Rotary Club of Chicago —The Rotary Club Number One— has a committee at work in the endeavor to prepare a history of the Club. An examination was made of all the available literature of the early…
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Dr. The Hon. Wong Po-Yan (Kowloon West) 黃保欣博士(九龍西區)
中文版在第 10-16 頁 九龍西區扶輪人 — 黃保欣博士 香港機場管理局首任主席 Kowloon West Rotarian Dr. Wong Po-Yan, GBM, CBE, DBA, DSSc, JP The First Chairman of Airport Authority Hong Kong 15 August 2019 Dr. The Honorable Wong Po-Yan (黃保欣), G.B.M., C.B.E., D.B,A., D.S.Sc., J.P. (1923-2019), the first Chairman 1995-1999 of The Airport Authority Hong Kong (香港機場管理局), was President 1974-1975…
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Dr. The Hon. Tang Ping-Yuan (Wusih/Shanghai) 唐炳源博士(無錫/上海)
中文版在第 14-24 頁 無錫扶輪人實業家和教育家 — 唐炳源博士 香港公益金創始人暨首任會長 Wusih Rotarian Industrialist & Educator — Tang Ping-Yuan, CBE, LLD Founder & First President of The Community Chest of Hong Kong 1 September 2017 Co-Founder of The Community Chest of Hong Kong The dramatic growth of Hong Kong’s population in the 1960s came with social problems that caught…
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Dr. The Hon. Sir Rogerio Hyndman Lobo (Hong Kong) 羅保爵士
Dr. The Honourable Sir Rogerio “Roger” Hyndman Lobo the Brother-in-Law of two District 345 Governors and the Father-in-Law of a District 3450 Governor 1 August 2015 The Rotary Club of Hong Kong (香港扶輪社) is used to be the home of a number of prominent Rotarians who were bestowed Knight Bachelors by the King or Queen…
