by Boulder Rotary Club | Nov 20, 2018 | BRC100
In 1971 and 1972, Boulder Rotary President Harold Short turned the club’s attention to supporting The Rotary Foundation, a charitable arm of Rotary that was started in 1917. In 1975, Harold became the first Boulder Rotarian to become a Paul Harris Fellow. That...
by Boulder Rotary Club | Nov 9, 2018 | BRC100
As reported by John B. Schoolland in 1969 The RiB. It comes to you every week, and it stands for Rotary in Boulder. Or Rotary International Boulder. The translation varied occasionally through the years. The correct spelling is capital R, lowercase i, capital B. As...
by Boulder Rotary Club | Nov 6, 2018 | BRC100
One of our first female Rotarians was also our first Rotary mom. This was unusual enough that it was deemed worthy of a front-page story in the Daily Camera. Alice Seigal’s son Max was born Feb. 21, 1988, just a few months after Alice, a veterinarian, joined the club...
by Boulder Rotary Club | Oct 30, 2018 | BRC100
A Daily Camera story on July 13, 1987, was headlined, “Service clubs admitting women.” The story said that Boulder service clubs were dropping bans against women members in the wake of two United States Supreme Court decisions that call such bans discriminatory....
by Boulder Rotary Club | Oct 22, 2018 | BRC100
Boulder Rotary has hosted and sent abroad a long list of young people, and some older ones, through Rotary International programs such as youth exchange, Ambassadorial scholars, and Group Study Exchange. Our first youth exchange student, Patricia Heimann of Remagen,...
by Boulder Rotary Club | Oct 16, 2018 | BRC100
* Reported by Bob Bradfield Polio was a tragedy and a concern for millions of people, particularly after President Franklin D. Roosevelt fell victim to the disease. In the 1940s and 50s, the March of Dimes literally collected dimes to eradicate polio, many of them...
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