Rotary Club Formed by Susanville Men
December 4, 1925
At a meeting last night with Carl Dodge and Andrew Haight of Fallon, Nevada, steps for the organization of a Rotary Club for Susanville were taken.
International Rotary requires that at least fifteen may form a Rotary club. Twenty persons have signed in Susanville for a Rotary and the necessary signatures were taken to Fallon today by Messrs. Dodge and Andrew Haight. Each new Rotary Club is supposed to sponsor another club and Fallon has been the sponsor for Susanville.
Directors elected last night by the members were J. B. Spaulding, C. H. Bridges, J. A. Pardee, Tom Blight, J. C. Worley, B. D. Cardinal and A. J. Mathews. The directors elected as officers the following: President, Jno. B. Spaulding, Vice-President, J. A. Pardoe, Treasurer, C. H. Bridges, Secretary, E. L. Shirley and Sergeant at Arms Harry Coleman.
Wednesday was decided upon as the luncheon day and the meeting place as the Hotel Mt. Lassen where Mr. Coffin the lessee will have a private dining room capable of accommodating fifty persons.
The application for a charter will be forwarded at once by the Fallon Rotary to international and the charter will probably be received some time in January.
The Objects of Rotary Are:
To encourage and foster:
(a) The ideal of service as the basis of all worthy enterprise.
(b) High ethical standards in business and profession.
(c) The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business, and community life.
(d) The development of acquaintances as an opportunity for service.
(e) The recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
(f) The advancement of understanding, good-will, and international peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men united in the Rotary ideal of service.
