Officers Harry J. Schilling, President George L. Roberts, Vice President Ernest R. Brown, Secretary Edward W. Korty, Treasurer Bert V. Force, Sergeant-at-Arms Directors Edward W. Korty Spencer Carson Orson G. Lloyd Bruce Warner Wallace Wolfe International President Arthur H. Sapp Huntington, Indiana International Convention Minneapolis, Minnesota Delegate: George Roberts District Governor Charles O. Grafton, (20th) Muncie, Indiana District Convention West Baden, Indiana February 21-22, 1928 New Members Earl Cass Howard E. Enders Harry I. Metzger William Zimmerman This was the year that Rotary entered Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, South America. The year Rotary went to Germany, clubs being organized at Hamburg, Frankfurt-am-Main and Cologne, three thousand of them the world over now. Already Frank Riedel was beginning to get perfect attendance medals and pins. Knute Rockne was the guest speaker one Tuesday, and another time it was Mr. Insull on "Utilities." At the District Conference held at West Baden a new Indiana Rotary-Riley hospital committee was named with Robert E. Huen of Richmond, chairman. This committee worked until the goal of two hundred and fifth thousand dollars was reached and exceeded. Ten past District Governors and many International officers attended this conference. The club now had a membership of eighty. In August, perhaps for the first time, the club held a meeting at Camp Cary. George Roberts, Bruce Warner and Charley Burnett attended the International Convention at Minneapolis and George in making his report spoke of the two addresses made by International President Arthur Sapp, the one in which he spoke of the growth in numbers and in nations and in objects; and the other in which he welcomed the clubs in countries into which Rotary had gone during the past year. Answering President Sapp in the latter address of welcome was Rotarian Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany in 1922 and 1923, who said: "I studied Rotary's organization, system and principles; they are so sound and so necessary for every human being, for nations and for continents, and, more than that, they are the only successful remedy for a suffering world, that I decided to support Rotary by founding the first Rotary Club at Hamburg." Charley Burnett spoke quite at length at the Assembly on International Trade Relations, the assembly presided over by Nils Parmann of the Oslo, Norway, Rotary Club. Rotarian Parmann at this most interesting group meeting spoke of the national characteristics of his people, a silent and retiring disposition, and the great change Rotary made to him and to many other Norwegians. Also, in bringing to the Convention the greetings of the Rotarians from Suomi˜Finland we call it˜he said: "It is a beautiful country with an interesting people, fond of their land, the land of a thousand lakes." Copyright © 2000 Lafayette Indiana Rotary Club. Please contact Webmaster with any technical comments or questions about this site.