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October 10, 2024
Vol. 12 No. 40
Kemptville Rotary celebrate 90 years of service
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Members of Kemptville Rotary in the 1940's by David Shanahan On a Monday evening in September, 1934, a group of local businessmen gathered at the Town Hall on Water Street in Kemptville to discuss a major move that would result in 90 years of service to the community of Kemptville and surrounding district. The men were members of the Kemptville 100 Service Club, first established in the village in 1929, and they were considering transitioning from that organisation to Rotary. Earlier in the year, members of the 100 Club had heard a talk on Rotary by a local resident, James Morton, and had been impressed by his description of the Club and its work. So, on that September evening in 1934, 120 members of Rotary clubs from Ottawa, Hull, Smiths Falls and Brockville had come
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to Kemptville to help those interested in forming a new Rotary chapter. Cyril Washington, W. B. George, Os Beamish and Lorne Reddick, all members of the 100 Club, had made an application to form the new Rotary Club, and by the end of the meeting at the Town Hall that night, the decision was made. As Pam Gordon noted in her account of the meeting: “Rev. H.L. Morrison of the Kemptville 100 Service Club moved a motion: ‘We here and now proceed to form a Rotary Club in Kemptville.’ A.C. Thompson seconded the motion and stated ‘Kemptville needed Rotary because we want to tell the world what kind of town we have and if we are to form a Rotary Club we must do it now.’” When a provisional meeting was advertised for September 28, thirty-five individuals attended at the
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