Officers Thomas F. Moran, President William A. Shipley, Vice President Karl R. Bachman, Secretary James C. Farrington, Treasurer Directors Moses Schultz Abner E. Werkhoff Lewis M. Ellis Orin L. Foster Charles Radersdorf International President Allen D. Albert, 1915-16 Paris, Illinois Arch C. Klumph, 1916-17 Cleveland, Ohio International Convention Cincinnati, Ohio Delegate: Thomas F. Moran District Governor Herbert C. Angster (8th), 1915-16 Chicago, Illinois Frank P. Manly (8th) Indianapolis, Indiana District Convention Danville, Illinois February 22,1917 New Members Edward Ayres Clarence M. Bivins Charles Bradshaw Stanley E. Coulter Thomas Duncan Cecil G. Fowler C. Francis Harding George F. Keiper Lawrence C. Kigin Richard B. Moore John S. Morrison Levi Oppenheimer David E.S. Perry R. Joseph Plaistridge Edward L. Pottlitzer Charles C. Pyke George L. Roberts Herbert G. Sattler Winthrop E. Stone Burr S. Swezey Roy Wallace (honorary) Charles A. Woodbury (honorary) Allen D. Albert of Paris, Illinois, was International President of Rotary for the first two months of the Lafayette Club's life, with Arch C. Klumph of Cleveland, Ohio, elected for the following year, July 1st, 1916, to June 30th, 1917. The District, No. 8, into which the Lafayette Club entered was composed of Illinois and Indiana. Herbert C. Angster, of Chicago, was the Governor for those first two months, and Frank P. Hanley of Indianapolis for the ensuing first full year of the club's existence. In this story of Rotary at Lafayette and at Purdue we are heading each year with the organization of the club, its officers and directors, followed by the name and home of the International President, the name and home of the District Governor, with the number of this changing district of ours, and then a bit of a story of that year. By no means is this more than an attempt to sketch a few of the interesting things that have happened to Rotary here in Lafayette. Thomas Bailey Aldrich states it well, for we know we have remembered many little things, possibly leaving out the important facts and figures, the failures and accomplishments. "My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour - 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue moon in May - The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then, pausing here, set down its load Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly Two pews from the wild-rose tree." The Secretary wrote early in May that President Thomas Moran would be the official delegate to the Cincinnati International Convention, and that Abner Werkhoff would also attend. "We also wish to call to your attention," he wrote, "that Lafayette is situated on what is know as a Dustless Air Line and is now a part of the National Highway," And again he wrote, "Keep your eye on the Kid." We suppose the "kid" our first Secretary referred to, was the "club". The Club issued a monthly publication named "THE ACORN, from which a mighty oak will grow." Looking back to those first fourteen months of Lafayette Rotary it seems far away and long ago. The Lusitania had just been sunk by a German submarine; Henry Ford's Peace Ship had sailed to Europe, and returned entirely unsuccessful. Dr. Winthrop E. Stone was President of Purdue University, a school of twenty-four hundred students. The Ladies Hall stood on the Campus; there was no Union building, not a single building in Stuart Field or on beyond. Before Rotarian Thomas Moran's term expired the United States had declared war on the "natural foe to liberty;" the first division of American soldiers had embarked for France; and ten million men had registered in the United States under the selective draft law.