Tag: Clubs

Hong Kong Rotarian Commissioners of Civil Aid Service By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 September 2015 The Civil Aid Service (CAS) (民眾安全服務隊) of Hong Kong is a civil organization that assists in a variety of auxiliary emergency roles, including search and rescue operations in Hong Kong. CAS is funded by the Hong…

DROUGHT RELIEF BENEFIT By R. S. HALI THE NANKING ROTARY CLUB IT is well known, but should be more widely realized that the phenomenal drought of last summer brought about the almost complete failure of crops in many regions about Nanking. Forty percent of the farmers in Kiangning Hsien alone, having had no rice to…

Hong Kong Rotary Club—A Colorful History of the first 38 years By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 15 May 2025 The below report is quoted from《The Rotarian》magazine May 1968: Members of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong have been running back and forth for 38 years without catching their breaths. They thought it…

In January 1992, the Kowloon Golden Mile Rotary Club in Hong Kong became the first Rotary Club in the region to distribute a weekly bulletin via fax directly to its members using computer technology. Club Secretary Alfred W. Croucher explained that the widespread availability of fax machines among local businessmen, combined with free local faxing,…

Hong Kong Island West Rotary Club World’s First 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club – 1975 by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 April 2014 Forty-seven years after receiving its first donation (US$26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.), The Rotary Foundation has marked two significant milestones in 1975 on its…

Chinese classics continue to impart wisdom T he Rotary Club of Hong Kong Northwest is involved in an effort to print classic Chinese texts for distribution in China’s schools. The project is aimed at strengthening literacy skills for the country’s youth and exposing them to venerable, mostly Confucianist works. The club has already printed some…

Foreword by Rotary Club of Hong Kong Northwest We are proud to have made a mountain out of a molehill. One of the four avenues of service of every Rotary Club is community service. So when the directors of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Northwest (the Club) took office at the start of the…

The Hong Kong Rotary Club Bulletin dated November 16, 1948, reports on a meeting featuring Major L. Way, an old resident of Tientsin, who delivered a historically rich talk on “Old Tientsin.” Major Way described Tientsin (now Tianjin) as a prosperous seaport with extreme seasonal temperatures and traced its significance as a gateway to Northern…

Anna Kennedy arrived in the People’s Republic of China (中華人民共和國) in January 2004 unsure of what to expect. Two months later, the exchange student from Gawler, Australia, departed for home with memories of a vibrant, friendly, country she intended to visit. “I am a very curious person, and I wanted to know more about [China’s]…

The Rotary Club of Beijing has maintained active engagement in various activities and events from 2017 through early 2025, as documented on www.beijing1980.com. Highlights include the 100th anniversary celebration held on 20 April 2024, marking a century of Rotary presence in Beijing with nearly 200 guests attending a formal dinner featuring entertainment and socializing. The…

The Rotary Club of Tientsin, the second Rotary Club established in the Republic of China, was organized in October 1922 within the international settlements of the Treaty Port of Tientsin (now Tianjin). Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Shanghai through the efforts of Albert Charles Row and Theodore Judson Worthman, the club was officially organized…

The Christmas-tide of Shanghai Rotary Club Project “Toys Hospital” in 1930s-40s By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 23 December 2016 It was the tradition of Shanghai Rotary Club, Republic of China (中華民國上海扶輪社), to distribute Christmas packs to children, since the Club’s inception in 1919. Toys gift is always the popular item to children…

Shanghai Rotary Club initiated National Campaign against Smallpox, 1926 By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 December 2015 Since the inception of the 6 Areas of Focus by Rotary International in recent years, December every year is designated as “Disease Prevention and Treatment Month”, commencing from this Rotary Year 2015-2016. The concern on…

Translation – In May 1945, the Chengtu Rotary Club launched a tuberculosis (TB) prevention campaign covering three cities or counties in Chengtu, in collaboration with the Provincial Health Bureau, Department of Education, Municipal Government, and Municipal Sanitation Affairs Institute. A preparatory meeting was held on May 3 at the YMCA, chaired by Lu Dexin of…

SCMP.COM Companies Hong Kong’s Rotary and Land Rover clubs turn an old truck into a mobile clinic for Mongolia’s poor Clubs raise over HK$800,000 to renovate Aussie six-wheel drive and send it on a cancer- screening mission to Ulan Bator Topic | Motoring William Wadsworth Published: 2:52pm, 16 Jun, 2017 Hong Kong’s Rotarians could soon…

Rotary Club Ball in aid of poor children is a success Newspaper clipping dated: 15 April 1950 More than 600 people packed the Sky Room ballroom last night on the occasion of the Hong Kong Rotary Club’s dinner-dance in aid of Kamp for Kids. Beginning at 8:30 p.m., the affair lasted until 1 a.m. It…

Hong Kong Rotarians donate computers to Mongolian high schools The Rotary Club of Kowloon North, Hong Kong, donated U.S. $25,000 worth of computers to high schools in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Pictured: William Benter, past president of the Rotary Club of Kowloon North, points to one of the new computers, while RI Vice-President Gary Huang (left)…

Provisional club heads AIDS charity event Members of China’s provisional Rotary Club took a significant step toward raising AIDS awareness by hosting the country’s first major AIDS charity event. The black-tie affair, organized by members of the Provisional Rotary Club of Beijing, established in 2001, featured a formal dinner and performances by some of the…

By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 January 2024 During the second half of the Rotary Year of 1987-1988 when Dr. Raymond C. W. Wong (黃志偉醫師) (九龍東區扶輪社) (Surgeon), of Kowloon East Rotary Club in Hong Kong, serving his first term as District 345 Governor of Rotary International, there was the proposal from a…

Nanking Rotary Club Marked Foundation Day in 1936 By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 23 February 2016 “Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves. ” ~~Paul Harris, Rotary founder Rotary started with the vision of one man — Paul Percy Harris (19…