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    Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world. The mission of Rotary, as stated on its website, is to "provide service...
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  • Look up rotary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rotary may refer to: Rotary motion Rotary dial, a rotating telephone dial Rotary engine (disambiguation)...
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  • Kalyan Banerjee was the President of Rotary International, one of the largest humanitarian service organizations in the world, for the year 2011–12. He...
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  • Rotary International is an international service organization based in Evanston, Illinois, US. Members of Rotary clubs are called "Rotarians." This is...
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    Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) is a Rotary International student exchange program for secondary school students. Since 1929, Rotary International has sent...
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  • The Rotary Foundation is a non-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international...
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    attorney. He founded the club that became the humanitarian organisation Rotary International in 1905. Harris was born in Racine, Wisconsin, to George and Cornilia...
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  • The Rotary Lombardi Award is an award for college football in the United States. Awarded by the Rotary Club of Houston, Texas annually to the college football...
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    dedicated member of the Rotary International movement, becoming Rotarian in 1987 as a Charter Member of The Source of the Nile Rotary Club now in Jinja City...
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    known as "International Inner Wheel Day". This organisation was originally established for the wives and daughters of Rotarians although no Rotary connection...
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    John Hewko (category Rotary International leaders)
    current General Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. Hewko worked for the Chicago-based law firm Baker...
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    their business." Rotary International, the first world-wide community service organization, was formed in Chicago in 1905. Rotary's founder Paul P. Harris...
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    (/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion. The concept was proven...
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    Rotaract (category Rotary International)
    Rotaract originally began as a Rotary International youth program in 1968 at Charlotte North Rotary Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, and...
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  • Rotary International offers a number of scholarships worldwide for periods of 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years. The purpose of the Ambassadorial...
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    communities. From 2010 to 2011, he served as the District Governor of Rotary International for District 3810, the oldest District in the Philippines consisting...
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    of Mount Everest while on the Rotary Centennial Everest Expedition. They also hoisted the flag of Rotary International, a club with which Dorjee has frequently...
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  • The Rotary Smith Award was created in 1988 to honor the most outstanding college baseball player of the year. The award was founded by the Greater Houston...
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  • The Four-Way Test (category Rotary International)
    Company from bankruptcy. It was later adopted by Rotary International, the global federation of Rotary service clubs. In 1932, Herbert J. Taylor set out...
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    World Polio Day (category Rotary International)
    World Polio Day (24 October) was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine...
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  • “winged wheel” Rotary logo was introduced in 1925 and has since then undergone minor changes in appearance. Rotary became an international company selling...
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    Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia, US. In 2008 four organizations (Rotary International, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
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    Jennifer E. Jones (category Rotary International leaders)
    of Rotary International for 2022–23, the first woman to be selected in the 117-year history of the organization. Jones first experienced a Rotary meeting...
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    Rotary International's "This Close" public service campaign to end polio. In support of women's rights, she has partnered with Amnesty International to...
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    The Mazda Wankel engines are a family of Wankel rotary combustion car engines produced by Mazda. Wankel engines were invented in 1950s by Felix Wankel...
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    A rotary valve (also called rotary-motion valve) is a type of valve in which the rotation of a passage or passages in a transverse plug regulates the flow...
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    Luther H. Hodges (category Rotary International leaders)
    Triangle Park. In 1967, he served a one-year term as president of Rotary International. In 1959, Hodges became involved in the Kissing Case, where two young...
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    by Polio. In 2013, she was honored with a commemorative plaque by Rotary International for her efforts in the fight against polio. At the age of 21, she...
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    became president of the Rotary Club of Duarte making her the first woman to hold such a position within Rotary International. The chapter's charter had...
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  • Australia Award for Community Service, and made Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International. She was married to the Australian ophthalmologist Fred Hollows from...
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