Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world. The self-declared mission of Rotary, as stated on its website, is to "provide...
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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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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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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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Jean Thomson Harris (category Rotary International leaders)
November 1963) was the wife of Paul Harris, a lawyer who founded the first Rotary Club in Chicago in 1905. She supported the organisation but was never allowed...
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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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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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Lombardi Award (redirect from Rotary Lombardi Award)
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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Inner Wheel (redirect from International Inner Wheel)
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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Morgan Park, Chicago (section Rotary International)
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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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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Wankel engine (redirect from Wankel rotary engine)
(/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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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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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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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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Clunies Ross, the first chair of the International House Council. Clunies Ross was the Chair of Rotary International's Service Committee at the time and...
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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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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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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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Sylvia Whitlock (section Rotary Club of Duarte)
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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“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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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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Rotary Botanical Gardens is a non-profit 20-acre (81,000 m2) botanical garden located in Janesville, Wisconsin that is open to the public. The 20-acre...
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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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The rotary engine is an early type of internal combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration. The...
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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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