Rotary History
The founder of Rotary
Who is Paul Harris?
American professional baseball player, manager, and team owner, five-times World Series Winner
Who is Connie Mack?
This Leonardo DiCaprio movie features a scene with a Rotary Club meeting.
What is Catch Me If You Can.
What year did Rotary launch its first PolioPlus initiative?
What is 1985?
"Provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.”
What is Rotary's Mission Statement?
The city in which the first Rotary Club was started.
What is Chicago?
Founding member of Rotary Club of Jeffersonville, IN
Who is the 'Colonel' Harland Sanders?
In the 1992 film The Bodyguard, Kevin Costner's character is assigned to protect a guest speaker at a meeting of which fictional Rotary Club?
What is The Rotary Club of Iowa Rapids.
What percentage of global polio cases has been eliminated since 1985?
What is 99%?
PHF
What is "Paul Harris Fellow"?
The year the name "Rotary International" was adopted.
What is 1922?
Author of The Power of Positive Thinking, Minister, Motivational speaker, RI Public Relations Committee & a member of Rotary Club of New York, NY
Who is Norman Vincent Peale?
Which U.S. President, a famous Rotarian, suffered from polio, the disease Rotary International was determined to eradicate with its PolioPlus program?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Today, polio is endemic in only these countries in the world.
What are Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Club Service; Vocational Service; Community Service, International Service; Youth Service.
What are Rotary's Avenues of Service?
The year in which women were allowed to join Rotary.
What is 1987?
This former Prime Minister of England and was a member of the Rotary Club of London.
Who is Sir Winston Churchill?
This American astronaut took a Rotary Club banner on his orbit around the moon in the Apollo 8 mission.
Who is Astronaut Frank Borman, of the Rotary Club of Space Center Houston.
Donations to Rotary for polio eradication will be matched 2 to 1 by this partnering organization.
What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
RAG
What is "Rotarian Action Group"?
Independent, Rotary-affiliated groups made up of experts from around the world offering their technical expertise and support to help clubs plan and implement projects to increase our impact, one of Rotary's strategic priorities.
The Father of The Rotary Foundation.
Who is Arch C. Klumph?
This founder of Wal-Mart was a member of the Rotary Club of Bentonville, AK.
Who is Sam Walton?
Average cost to fully protect a child against polio.
What is $3?
EREY
What is Every Rotarian Every Year—means that each Rotarian contributes at least $25 to The Rotary Foundation’s annual fund?