The Rotary Club of Kernersville, NC

100th Anniversary of Rotary Celebration

Rotary International celebrates 100 years, by Terri Womble - Lifestyles Reporter

The Kernersville chapter of the Rotary Club is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rotary International. The Rotary Club was founded on February 23, 1905 in Chicago, IL. by four business people. The club was named the Rotary Club because the four founders, who were all diverse, rotated the meeting place for the club between their offices.
Rotary International now has an excess of 1.2 million members in an excess of 160 countries around the world.
The Kernersville chapter of the Rotary Club was founded in November of 1987. Seven of its charter members remain members of the club. They are Jim Bland, Larry Cain, Ron Greene, Mike Huggins, Arnold King, Hamp Langdon and Dennis Wicker.

"These seven are very important to the founding of the Rotary Club as well as helping it remain successful," said Duane Long, president of the Rotary Club.

The Rotary Club, who's motto is "Service Above Self," has 60 members currently, inducting the sixtieth member on February 23.

In commemoration of the 100 year anniversary, the Rotary Club donated a clock to the town of Kernersville and to the old depot in a ceremony of the morning of February 23. The clock has been at the location for about nine months and the monument that stands in front of the clock about two weeks.

The monument states the purpose of the clock for Kernersville.

In further celebration and commemoration, 34 of the club's members attended a luncheon at the Four Seasons in Greensboro on February 23 including the 50 clubs in the Kernersville Rotary Club's 7690 district which extends from Virginia south to Sanford west to Elkin and east to Burlington.

The clock dedication was the Rotary Club's public commemoration. The Rotary Club has been conducting private commemoration since July of 2004 and will go on until the end of this year.

"The club is grateful to the Kernersville community for its support of our projects through which are able to raise funds to put back into the community," said Long.

For more information about Rotary International visit www.rotary.org and to contact the Kernersville RotaryClub visit www.kernersvillerotary.org.