Rotary Club of Lynchburg (Va.), papers 1917-2001 1923-1995.

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Rotary Club of Lynchburg (Va.), papers 1917-2001 1923-1995.

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The collection consists of records of the Rotary Club of Lynchburg, Virginia, including minutes of regular meetings and meetings of the Board of Directors which contain committee reports and recommendations by the Board regarding club activities and various projects. Also included are membership and officer lists, financial reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, club memorabilia, and correspondence. Of special interest is the Club's project of the care, adoption, and education of seven orphaned children of the Henry family. The collection also includes a history, First seventy-five years of Lynchburg Rotary Club, by T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr., a history of the Henry family, Lynchburg Rotary's adopted family - the Henrys, by John Mills Turner, and a speech by Edwin Alaric Henry

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Lynchburg Public Library

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Lynchburg Public Library

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Rotary international

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An intertnational organization of business and professional leaders founded in Chicago in 1905 for the purpose of fostering humanitarian service, peace and goodwill. The organization has over 1 million members in 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 167 countries. Districts 5610, 5650, 5970 and 6000 include the Iowa clubs. From the description of Rotary International records pertaining to Iowa clubs, 1923- [ongoing] (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 64578103 Men'...

Henry, Edwin Alaric, 1918-1993.

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Hobbs, T. Gibson

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Engineer, historian, genealogist, author, b. Dec. 25, 1917, Lynchburg, Va., son of Thomas Gibson Hobbs and Sarah Melville Bolling; served as aviator during World War II aboard U.S.S. Enterprise (CV-6); served on Board of Trustees, Lynchburg College for 39 years; served on Board of Directors of Engineering Foundation of the University of Virginia; member of Rotary Club of Lynchburg (Va.), wrote history of the Club; member of the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society; director emeritus, American...

Turner, John Mills, 1908-

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Rotary Club of Lynchburg (Va.)

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The Rotary Club of Lynchburg, Virginia, No. 280, was organized on February 3, 1917, and admitted to Rotary International on March 1, 1917. The Club has participated in local and international projects including a bone marrow donor program, a world-wide polio eradication project and a Sister City program. One unique project was the care, adoption, and education of the seven orphan children of the Henry Family of Bedford County. After moving the family to Lynchburg, the ch...

Henry family.

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