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ROTARY BENEFIT!
Membership 1n Rotary provides as benefits: Making the acquaint-
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genuine, wholesome good fellow- ship; development of true and helpful friends, and enlightenment as to other men's work, problems
ance of men one ought to know;
and successes.
WELCOME
JIISITING RUTABIANS
We know that your District Confer- t i ence will beahuge success in keeping with ‘the outstanding work that Rotary has accomplished during the years it has
been in existence-
May your visit among us be a de-
lightful one and may you carry away the
thought of paying us further visits in the . .
i it ‘ future.
O I C O f’
Rotarlan ll. A. lilnsworth
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WELCOME VISITING
RDTARIANS
Success To Your Conference
i ' May your stay be a happy and prq. ‘fifablfi Dne and your memories of the
{Garden Province" be kept ever-green,
liotarian P. W. Turner
P. W. TURNER. General Chairman Convent!
Llesident of Charlottetown Rotary
anwm‘ JOHNSTONE Club
Tuesday Morning, June 22nd, 1848
9.30 am-Conference officially call ed to order by Conference Chair- man Percy W. Turner at the Prince Edward Theatre.
9.35 a.m.—Inv0catl0n by Rev. James T. Ibbott, Charlottetown. Singing: O Canada
Ode to Newfoundland. America.
9.40 arm-Address of Welcome by‘ His Honour Ila-Gov. J. A. Ber- nard. l
9.50 aim-Address of Welcome by Honourable J. Walter. Jones,; ‘Premier of Province of Prince ‘inward Island. i
10.00 chm-Address of Welcome by His Worship B. Earle MacDon-i aid, O.B.E., Mayor of Charlotte- ' town. _
10.10 a.m.—Address of Welcome by| Edwin C. Johnstone, President. of Host Club. I
10.20 B.m.—R8S]1)hSC by Harry E. Umphreys, Washburn.
10.30 am-Presentatlon. Past Dir- ectors. Past District Governors. and Special Guests, by the Chairman. i
10.35 arm-Singing led by Lowell Hancock, Summerside. Let's All
11.10 ram-Report on Necrologg, R. H. Rogers. Charlottetown. 11.15 a.m.—"New Frontiers of Zn- ternationai Servlce"- Interna- tional Representative, Leo E.
Golden, West Hartford, Conn.
11.40 am-Sing Song.
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. , May you ‘take home with you pleasant memories of Cara ‘Mia's Garden Province and may the impressions you gain lead 75o further visits in the future. it has been a pleasure having you, '“ with us and we know that your conference will _lead to putting
‘ROTARY: on an even higher level than it has already attained,
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it is with much sincerity we welcome you to “The ls|and.” We hope your too brief stay will be an enjoyable one and and that in the future you may see fit to make a longer one. E
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lie favorably Impressed with our "Garden Province."
VISIT 0 T A R
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It ls a pleasure ‘to ‘have you with ‘us and we hope you will
your conference be highly successful.
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ROTARY, PROGRAMME
11.45 a.m.—“Club Service-Making it Work"—C. Stanley Chapman, Camphellton.
12.06 noon-"Lets Make Him One Of Us"—P. F. Halley, St. John's, Newfoundland.
12.25 noon-“God save The King". Adjournment.
1 p.m.—Luncheon at The Char- lottetown. Address by John Fisher outstanding radio personalityu Presiding in Dining Room A- Percy W. Turner. Past District Governor. Presiding in Dining _R.oom B—J. Frank Arnett. Past President Summerslde Club.
Tuesday Af‘ u, June 22, 1948
3.30 para-Drive to "Anne of Green Gables" country.
'1 pm-Lobster Dinner Charlotte- town Hotel. Address by Charles Hunt Past International Dire:- tor, st. John's, Nfld. Presiding 1n Dining Room A-Charles J. Bur- chell, Halifax, Past Director. Pre- siding in Dining Room B-Geo. J. smith, St. John, Past District Governor.
9 p~me_'RAm
Wednesday Morning, June 23, 1948
Get ‘Together.
1040 Mm ._ Announcement; by 9.30 arm-Conference called to c:- Conference Secretary, Darrell d8!‘ by District Gflvefnflr. James Mcqmm , A. Ford at the Prince Edward
10.4»: ant-Report of District Co - Theatre. Invocation. Singing- erncr, James A. Floyd, Moi-later, Announcements by COHICICRC;
Secretary n. M. McGuire: 9.45_a.m.—R.eport of Registration
Committee, R. W. Manning. Re-
port of Credentials Committee-
Dr. J. A. Clark, Pest District Gov- ernor.
10.00 ams-"Serydce Unlimited"- Frank W. l-lussey. Presquc Isle.
10.20 amm-"Know Your Commun- 1t_y"--Kenneth A. Parker Sack- ville.
10.4O sour-Sing Song.
10.50 am-“Building Bridges of Understandlnf-W. G. Condit, Houiton.
11.10 lam-Discussion Period.
11.25 a.m.—Add.'ress - Thomas C’.
oNabb, ‘Past District Governor, elm-bet of Canadian Advisory Committee, Saint John.
11.40 a.m. — "Rio Convention"- George P. Flndlen. Past District Governor, Fort Falrfield. .
11.50 arm-God Save The King. Altlournment.
13.00 noon-Group Photograph. Wednesday Af‘ , June 23, 1.00 pun-Luncheon at~ "The Charlottetown." Address by W. Fred Lrane, Moncton, “Wit and Humor". Presiding ‘in Dining Room A—Edwin C. Johnstonc, President Charlottetown Club. Presiding in Dining Room B—'1'.
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3.00 pun-Conference called to or-
der by District Governor, James A. Ford, at the Prince Edward Theatre. Announcements, etc.
3.10 p.m.—"Rotary Builds for Tc- morrow"-R. Roland lilclntyre, Sydney.
3.30 p.m.—District Buslnessz-Re- port of Election Committee ‘u. Ward Murdock, Truro. Invitation for 1949 District Conference. Ro-
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Paul P. Harris, the beloved Pre- sident Emeritus of our world wide organization. builded better and greater than he knew when in the spirit of friendliness and good fel- lowship he invited a few of his ac- quaintances to meet with him in a social get-together each week; f0: out of such a small beginning has grown the mighty movement which is known as Rotary International. That was in February, 1005. The little company grew in numbers and became organized. Other clubs were formed on the same pattern. Slowly at first, and then at a steadily accelerating rate, their numbers increased. Twelve years later there were over three hun- dred clubs in the United States and Canada; and in October, 1017, the three hundred and thirty-third was chartered in the City of Charlotte town. Today there are over 5000 clubs with about 210,000 members. It may be of interest to relate a few facts connected with the 1n- stltution and development of the premier service club of the city. Mr. W. Harry Tidmarsh was im- pressed with the need of an assoc- iation for our younger business men in which they might co-oper- ate in efforts for community wel- fare, and obtain practice in public speaking. Hearing of the " Rotary Clubs, and thinking such an organ- ization might afford the solution of his problem, he went to consid- erable trouble to obtain informa- tfon by correspondence and visited Halifax to study the working of the Rotary Club there.
Thoroughly satisfied -with what he had learned he discussed the project of organizing a Rotary Club 1n Charlottetown with Messrs. W. A. Stewart, H. M. VanBusklrl: and Walter S. Grant. They entered heartily into the plan; other citi- zens were interviewed, full infor- mation concerning the Rotary movement and its methods was obtained, the co-operation of Hali- fax Rotarians was given enthus- iastically, and on the evening of September 8th, 1017, an informal dinner party was held at the Knzy Korner Tea Rooms, which resolved itself into a temporary association to apply for a charter as a Rotary Club. This meeting was addressed by tlvo prominent R-otarians from Halifax, Dr. D.‘A. McRae, then governor, and Mr, C. J. Brut-hill,
International District. The Char- lottetown men present. all of whom enthusiastically pledged their sup
port, were as follows: W. H. Tid- marsh, Dr. A. B. Reid, E. G. Saund- ers, Arch Irwin, F. T. Wat-ids, A. A. Pomeroy, W. A. Stewart, J. A. Clark, Prof. J. E. MoLarty, C. H. Chandler, G. S. Inman, J. O. l-Iyndman, Walter S. Grant. H. M. VanBuskirk, Dr. I. J. Yeo, J. A. Webster, J. R. Burnett, R. H. Jen- kins, C. H. Black.
Second Meeting
A week later a second meeting was held. The report of the mem- bership committee, adding the names of A. W. Hyndman and l‘. J. Nash to those previously men- tioned, was approved; a constitu- l.lon and by-laws, based on the model set furnished by the Inter- national Assoclation, were adopted; it was resolved to apply immed- iately for affiliation with the In- ternational Association of Rotary Clubs and the following officials were elected: W. H. Tidlmareh, President; H. M. vanBuskirk, Vice- President: W. S. Grant, Secretary: W. A. Stewart; J. R. Burnett, A. A. Pomeroy, and J. O. Hyndman, Directors; J. E. Mclnrty, Sergeant- at-Arms. -
The first mid-day luncheon o: lthe Club was held on September‘ 20th. On Nov. 8th the institution; meeting of the Rotary Club, No.‘ 333. was held. No less than four-‘ teen members of the Halifax Club were present including District Governor Dr. D. A. McRae. ‘fuel charter was formally presented? Rotarian Prof. H. L. tewart ol Halifax delivered an eloquent ad- dress on-the principles of Rotary. and the District Governor and several other visitors also spoke on phases of Rotary activity. Premier, (later Mr. Justice Arsenault) and the United States Consul, Mr. W. A. Pierce, made eloquent speeches, heartily endorsing the principles of Rotary. _
From that date to this, Rotary Club No. 333 has carried on with unabated enthusiasm and with ever-growing consciousness of the greet Rotary mission. Our club has always had well qualified rep- resentatives to speak and act for us at International ‘ Conventions and District Conferences and Al- aemblles. Members of this cluu have taken an active and influen- tial part in the work of these higher Rotary bodies. with the re- suit that they have been honored by being called to exatted positions‘
"been a member of the
past governor, of the eighteenth '
Was Formed In October; Of 1917i
tar B. Grant. another charter mem- ber of this club, was chosen Dis.- trict Governor.
Later in i935 Rotarian Percy w, Turner and again in 1069, Rotar- ian Dr. J. A. Clark, held this high‘ office. Mr. Turner and Mr. Clark have served on the Canadian Ad.- visory Committee of Rotary Inter- national, the latter as chair-luau, Dr. Clark was Chairman of the Agricultural Section of Vocational craftAssemblies at the last two International Conventions and has Election Arrangements Commlttoe and the Nominating Committee for Inter- national President.
On two other occasions the Dis- trict Conference was held here, namely in 1932 and 1930.
The membership of the club has usually numbered between fifty and sixty business and profession- al men of Charlottetown. A dis- tinctive feature of Rotary is the principle of classification, The principal is that each craft or vo- cation,--business, professional on lnstitutionah-is represented 1n the club by one person, only. who is re- quired to be a leader in his vo- cation. There are a few slight mod-
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ifications of thi! principle. but in the‘ main it is strictly applied 1n the selection of members. these bc- ing admitted not upon their own application but by the invitation of the club. The club is, therefore, as Rotarians are wont to express it. a cross-section of the business, professional and institutional lilo of the community. In Charlotte- town, where the variety of busi- ness enterprise, especially in man- ufacturing, is somewhat limited, the classifications of potential Ro- tary membership are correspond- ingly few, and this fact has tend- ed to keep our numbers down. Al: present the membership is '15. 1n recent years the policy has been to elect young men; for though there is no age limit it is recosnized that Rotary must be made up of me_n in the full tide of their careers.
At the weekly meetings of the Club held at The Charlottetown on Monday at one o'clock, luncheon is parteken of and matters of busi- ness are dealt with. There is mum singing; grace before meat. sun! by the members at the opening; b stanza of the National Anthem in honouring the toast to The Kmlzl "O Canada" at the close; and be‘ tween courses several number! conducted by an official song lead- er. After the luncheon there is an address of about half an hour. The club has been successful secur- ing the services of many excellent speakers including some of 1N1 eminence. ‘Travellers, scholars. 11"‘ llticlans, authors, clergymen, busi- nessmen and others, visitors to 011i‘ city, have brought a great variety of messages to the Rotary C1110- Many members of the club as wvll as citizen neat-members have alw from time to time been heard m this popular forum. The wealth of information and inspiration tin! brought to Rotations inevitably 6X: erts a broadening and illuminating influence, and is one of the ch!!! values attached eo membership- M times when a programme oi 5066' ial importance is being carried out- the members of other Service Clubs‘ are invited to attend. 0n wit" occasions in the put when 1:116 numbers of farmers foreilmel“ in the City to _ . activities of Farmers‘ Week. W?’ were entertained at luncheon the Club, and these meetinll Pm": ed exceed! gly interesting and dc iightful to all Pfmlli- /
June ‘ao-(crl-
ln the institution. Not less than four of our members have served
1010 ltotarian. the late George S. ‘Inman was elected a Governor of the District. During his incum- beucy the Rotary Club of Honc- ,tou was constituted and a number id our mtlubera assisted in the ia- murai ceremonies. fu the umu, year our club acted for the first time u hosts to the District Cell ferenx which was vary. e
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as District Governor. Aa early as‘
u T _ rm McLaughlin, 20-year-old °"_ onlo sailor from the luv-l CH3’ dlan Yacht Club today W" u‘
Olympic Games after winninl W’. straight firatlln the final national
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