The Club had one of its August luncheons at the Boy Scout camp, Camp Cary; and this was to become an
annual affair.Dick Holden, returning from the Channel Islands, told the Club about beautiful Guernsey and Jersey; and Norris Shreve of his experiences in California. John Stemm and Jimmy Cattell became members and
there was "the last day of Nelson Kellogg." How rapidly the Club changes even the meager records show.
On the first Sunday in April the Club attended Trinity Church in a body, this to honor
its President, the Reverend Fred Williams. Even those who usually played golf, fished or worked with the Salvation Army, were among the attendants.
In June Bob Heun of Richmond opened the 24th International Convention at Boston, Massachusetts. This was a most successful convention; the attendance large, with
delegates from fifty-seven countries, the widest representation ever reached at any convention; the entertainment unusually fine; and the accomplishments most worth while.
Every convention has its House of Friendship where Rotarians meet each other, rest, and receive the hundred and one services furnished by the officers of the
convention. Here in Boston Rotarians met in the huge Mechanics Hall, a masterpiece of the mid-Victorian Era. The age old walls outside were decorated with
flags and banners, the interior in blue and silver with great panels of paintings of various scenes typical of different parts of the United States—the wheat fields of the
West, the deserts of the Southwest, the oil fields of Oklahoma and Texas, the cotton fields of the South, and the sky line of Boston. A forest of blossom laden
branches with Apple Blossom Allee down the center. Several of the Cape Cod clubs had built a replica of a two hundred year old Cape Cod cottage, and there was an
exquisite miniature reproduction of the Massachusetts State House with its guilded dome, a masterpiece of Bulfinch architecture. Surrounding this a miniature Beacon Hill with typical New England picket fences and hedges.
Then there was the glorious boat ride in six excursion boats one hot afternoon and evening, followed by dancing and fireworks.
International Night found hundreds of New Englanders dressed in the garb of their
Puritan and Pilgrim ancestors.
Yes, the setting of these Conventions is something to talk about and remember all of one's lifetime.
This was the year the German Reichtag building in Berlin was destroyed by fire; the year the United States Marines left Nicaragua, and the year of the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Rising
Sun, Indiana, joined Rotary.