05-Rotary-DayProclamation 2005-05
WHEREAS Chicago lawyer Paul Harris met with a coal dealer, a merchant tailor, and a mining engineer and formed the world’s first Rotary Club on February 23, 1905; and
WHEREAS From that humble beginning Rotary International has grown into a worldwide organization of 1.2 million men and women in more than 32,000 clubs in 165 counties, all dedicated
to the principal of “Service Above Self”; and
WHEREAS Rotary International has been a force for good for the past one hundred years, most recently leading the massive effort to eradicate polio from the face of the earth; and
WHEREAS The Rotary Club of Huntsville, Texas has been vitally interested in, and an important part of, any movement pertaining to the betterment of the City of Huntsville since its
charter in January, 1923;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY PROCLAIMED, by the power vested in me as Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Huntsville, Texas, that:
February 23, 2005
be declared:
“Rotary Day”
in Huntsville, Texas.
PROCLAIMED AND SIGNED this the 15th day of February, 2005.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
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STEED SMITH, MAYOR PRO TEM