Local and District Information
This Rotary district serves Southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
What is Rotary District 6840?
What Chicago attorney founded Rotary with three friends?
Who is Paul Harris?
Chomical most commonly added to drinking water to kill harmful bacteria.
What is Chlorine?
Rotary operates in more than this many countries and regions.
What are 200+ countries and regions
Founded in 1882 by Captain William H. Hardy, this Mississippi city was named after his wife.
What is the Hattiesburg?
With nearly 50 clubs, this district includes communities such as Hattiesburg, Biloxi, Covington, and Bay St. Louis.
What is District 6840?
“Who is the Italian Rotarian from Ragusa who became Rotary International President in 2025?”
Who is Francesco Arezzo?
Rotary Club of Ragusa, Italy
The process by which water evaporates, forms clouds, and returns as precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
Rotary's global humanitarian arm is called this.
What is The Rotary Foundation?
This nickname for Hattiesburg reflects its role as a crossroads for commerce, education, and culture.
What is "The Hub City"?
This global Rotary focus area, highlighted every March, emphasizes clean water, sanitation, and hygiene.
What is WASH — Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene?
This trio of Rotary’s Five Avenues of Service includes the work clubs do in their communities, the way members support one another, and the projects they carry out beyond their own borders.
What are Club Service, Community Service, and International Service
This is the basic necessity Rotary projects aim to provide when they build wells or water systems.
What is access to clean drinking water?
Rotary helped lead the global effort to eradicate this disease.
What is Polio?
This famous Mississippian created Kermit the Frog.
Who is Jim Henson?
This Louisiana Rotarian served as District Governor beginning July 1, 2022, promoting the theme “Imagine Rotary.”
Who is Regina Wedig?
These three Rotary Areas of Focus include improving health for mothers and children, supporting education around the world, and promoting peace through conflict resolution.
What is
This process removes salt from seawater to produce freshwater.
What is desalination?
This organization partners with Rotary in the fight against Polio.
What is the World Health Organization?
Once a booming lumber center, Hattiesburg grew rapidly thanks to this natural resource that surrounded the region.
What is Pine timber or Pine forests?
This club celebrated its 75th anniversary on March 1, 1993, and is the second oldest of District 6840.
What is Rotary of Hattiesburg?
The year in which women were allowed to join Rotary.
What is 1987?
Access to clean water reduces illnesses and supports this Rotary focus related to disease prevention.
What is Disease Prevention and Treatment?
Rotary promotes learning through this focus area
What is basic education and literacy?
This Mississippi cleaning product was invented in 1929 in Jackson.
What is Pine sol?