| 1994 | Our
club joins with the Kiwanis Club of High Point and the Business and Professional
Men's Club to form Business Buddies, a partnership designed to increase business
involvement in High Point's schools. |
| 1992 |
Art Linkletter is the special guest of the three Rotary clubs in High Point at
their annual Thanksgiving luncheon. |
| 1992 | The
club's first annual Rotary-Greenway 5K race is held to support completion of the
Greenway project. |
| 1991 | Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale presents the Thanksgiving program for High Point's three
Rotary clubs. |
| 1991 | Chip
Wood brings honor to the Club when he is recognized with the Distinguished Service
Award by Rotary International, one of its highest honors. |
| 1988 | $78,000
is pledged by members of the club for Polio Plus, Rotary International's campaign
to eradicate polio throughout the world by 2005 |
| 1983 | Our
club's members provide and build a ranger's house for the Boy Scouts at Camp Uwharrie. |
| 1978 | The
North High Point Rotary Club, now known as the Triad Rotary Club, is chartered
with sponsorship from the Rotary Club of High Point |
| 1975 | Presidential
hopeful and former California Governor Ronald Reagan speaks to hundreds at a weekly
meeting of the Club. |
| 1971 |
High Point's second Rotary
club, Furnitureland Rotary, is chartered with sponsorship from the Rotary Club
of High Point. |
| 1962 |
Our club sponsors the first Rotary Career Day in High Point's high schools. |
| 1961 |
$2,100 is raised for the House of Prayer, beginning an association that eventually
leads to donations of more than $75,000, and garners a Paul Harris Award for the
club from Rotary International. |
| 1959 |
Rotary International President Harold Thomas visits the club to celebrate its
fortieth birthday. |
| 1958 |
The first Rotary Barbecue and Auction is conducted by the club and raises nearly
$6,000 for Camp Cheerio. Items for auction include a Jaguar Mark VII and a 1959
Plymouth. This event would become the club's primary fund raiser for nearly thirty
years. |
| 1953 |
The first of many generations of High Point children enjoy riding the kiddie train
at City Lake Park, thanks to its purchase by the Rotary Club of High Point. |
| 1952 |
A little-known entertainer named Andy Griffith, along with his wife, perform at
the club's annual Ladies Night for a fee of $50. Four months later Griffith's
career takes off with his hit recording of What It Was, Was Football. |
| 1948 |
Tune Times, a musicale to benefit the cripple children's fund is a tremendous
success. In addition, the club also provides High Point's first iron lung machine. |
| 1946 |
Our club starts and underwrites the first driver training program in the North
Carolina public schools. This was also the first program of its kind in the South. |
| 1939 |
Paul Harris visits Greensboro and is hosted by the local Rotary clubs for a speech
at the O'Henry Hotel. |
| 1930 |
The Sheraton Hotel is the club's meeting place beginning in the thirties and on
through the fifties. |
| 1927 |
The Rotary Club of High Point begins an association with the Boy Scouts that continues
to this day. |
| May
1920 |
A formal charter dinner is held at the Commercial Club (where the Holiday Inn
is now located). The club's official charter is presented by two representatives
from Rotary International. The club grows slowly in its early years due to Rotary
regulations at the time that permit only two new members per year. The club does
grow quickly however in the area of service, becoming involved with most causes
in High Point. High Point's first Rotarians were instrumental in organizing the
Chamber of Commerce, the Southern Furniture Exposition Building, the Sheraton
Hotel, the hospital, and the YMCA. |
|
February
1920 |
With sponsorship from the Greensboro Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of High Point
is chartered as club number 617. The club's twenty charter members, the maximum
allowed by Rotary International were:
A. S.
Caldwell
Carter Dalton
J. J. Farris
C. M. Hauser
H. B. Hiatt | W.
C. Idol
C. F. Long
W. M. Marr
G. A. Matton
J. E. Millis
| A.
S. Parker
John R. Peacock
J. P. Rawley
Harry Raymond
L. C. Sinclair | Fred
N. Tate
R. B. Terry
S. H. Tomlinson
R. H. Walker
Frank Wineskie |
|
| October
1919 | A
group of men meet on Frank Wineskie's side porch on North Main Street in High
Point, North Carolina to organize the city's first service club. |
| HISTORICAL
HIGHLIGHTS OF ROTARY The
first four Rotarians in the world met on the evening of February 23, 1905 in a
rather dreary office in the Unity Building on Chicago's Dearborn Street. They
were Paul P. Harris, a lawyer, Silvester Shiele, a colal dealer, Gudtavus E. Loehr,
a mining engineer, and Hiram E,. Shorey, a merchant tailor. They
met to discuss an idea that Paul Harris had been pondering for five years. Quite
simply it was this: that business relations not only could, but should, foster
friendly relations. Harris was convinced that there was no reason why business
should be a barrier to friendship. As
the men talked of ways to foster business-social relations, they decided in agreement
with Paul Harris, that the formation of a club might beest serve their aims. Althogh
there was nothing formal about the discussion that evening, it was in reality
the first meeting of the world's first Rotary club. By
the end of 1905 there were thirty Rotarians in Chicago. The new club was named
Rotary because the members met, in rotation, in their various places of business. Now,
years later, this idea of Paul Harris has grown to become an organization of 1.2
million members in over 27,000 Rotary clubs in 150 countries throughout the world. |
