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RGHF
MISSION AND VISION
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  RGHF
Mission:
As an effort to serve others, RGHF offers history training for Rotary
leaders. The fellowship accumulates and preserves the complete
history, values, and philosophy of the Rotary movement, as well as
encourages others to do the same at every level of the Rotary
movement, and publishes those histories, values, and philosophies on
the internet, as well as other forms of media as expedient.
17 March 2003,
amended 20 December 2007, 8 October 2008, and 12 September 2010, Rotary Global History
Fellowship
Board
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 The Founder's
Wish
for Rotary: Page 210 THIS ROTARIAN AGE:
"Rotary International has been extremely fortunate in its selection of
presidents. It would be impossible for the writer to over-express his
appreciation of their joint and several contributions to the movement; it would
be impossible for him to over-estimate their loyalty, their devotion, the
sacrificial spirit which they have so frequently made manifest. He wishes that
it might be permitted him to write the stories of their various administrations,
but to do so would be to write the history of the movement and would require
several volumes. The writer has no doubt that it will be accomplished in the
course of time."
Paul P. Harris,
page 210 from "This Rotarian Age" 1935 (in 2010
honorary membership
in RGHF was voted posthumously)
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 “It's
such a pleasure to be here this morning, and to be receiving this honor from
all of you. I am of course a very proud member of the Rotary Global History
Fellowship, and when I was planning my remarks for this morning I wanted to
do justice to the occasion with some appropriate historical references. So I
was thinking a bit about what is probably the most famous line out there
having to do with history: that those who forget history are doomed to
repeat it.
But then it occurred to me that in Rotary, perhaps it might be the other way
around—that those who forget our history will not get the chance to repeat
it, or at least, to repeat its success.”
Kalyan Banerjee, RI President 11/12
(At
the RGHF 2011
annual meeting. He is a member of RGHF)
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 "I believe
that knowledge of history is vital in developing the type of tolerance
advocated by our founder, Paul Harris, and it is through such tolerance that
Rotary effectively promotes international understanding, goodwill, and
peace." July 2010, President 10/11
Ray Klinginsmith, USA (in a July 2010 letter to RGHF,
Ray is an RGHF member) |
 Greetings,
I would like to thank all who have been involved in this important work of
providing encouragement and information to Rotarians and their Clubs. In my
opinion, in this electronic age, this is a very valuable resource. I offer
my congratulations and sincere appreciation to all who have been involved
and I urge you to keep up your good work.
Sincerely,
Wilf Wilkinson, President 2007/08 (Past President
Wilf is an
RGHF Member) |
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 Another
President's Greeting: "Your web site is an instrumental tool for those forward-thinking people who
wish to learn from our history, in order to guide our future."
Frank J. Devlyn, Rotary International President 2000-2001,
Chairman of The Rotary Foundation 2005-2006 &
RGHF Member,
20 June
2001 letter, Past President Frank is also a charter member of the
RGHF Alumni Association.
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  Letter
to history project founder Jack Selway from RI President Rick King
(an RGHF member) |
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 "The
best investment you will ever make in Rotary, is to join RGHF and
participate in preserving Rotary Global History. This will encourage and
support all the good that Rotarians do."
Jack Selway, RGHF
Founder 2007...
"We
must find a handful of Rotarians who will dedicate their
lives to history, so that thousands more might dedicate
their lives to Rotary." 2010
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  Best of the Rest for
2003
First
Place for "Best
of the Rest" 2002
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