PAST PRESIDENTS

2009 Marjette Upshur

2008 Jackie Asbury

2007 Jim Martin

2006 Nate McClure

2005 Burton Gerhardt

2004 Tamara Stinson

2003 Bill Perkins

2002 Nancy Young

2001 David Bowen

2000 Paul Whitehead, Jr.

1999 William Goodman, Jr.

1998 Yuille Holt, III

1997 William Garner

1996 Belle Wheelan

1995 Frank Britt

1994 Hugh Toler

1993 Neville Rowland

1992 T. Ashby Watts, III

1991 Tom Hickey

1990 Joe Clark

1989 A. Pierre Guillermin

1988 James Hutter, III

1987 Herbert Cox

1986 John Stone

1985 Waller Wills, III

1984 Walker Sydnor

1983 Edward Temple, Jr.

1982 William Quillian, Jr.

1981 James Huston

1980 James Shircliff

1979 R. L. Hatcher

1978  W. R. Hubble

          Owen Goolsby

1977 James Fulton

1976 Ben Newton

1975 J. Burton Linker

1974 Cary Hurter

1973 William Hemphill

1972 V. Howard Belcher

1971 L. H. McCue, Jr.

1970 J. Horsley Putt, Jr.

1969 John Catherwood

1968 Thomas Waller

1967 David Brodie

1966 William Blackwell

1965 T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr.

1964 James Hutter, Jr.

1963 George Hughes

1962 James Stewart

1961 Leland Moffitt

1960 Yuille Holt

1959 Edward Hall

1958 Marshall Mauney

1957 Louis Basten

1956 Paul Morrison

1955 Morris Whiteaker

1954 Earl Gerhardt

1953 Theo Bergman

1952 J. Holmes Kyle

1951 J. Edward Key

1950 John Turner, Jr.

1949 John Wilson

1948 A. D. F. White

1947 R. Q. Davis

1946 G. Everett Bond

1945 Clem Sydnor, Jr.

1944 Wirt Coleman

1943 Herbert Wells

1942 B. L. Maulsby

         Herbert Wells

1941 James Gorman

1940 Theo Jack

1939 Harry Forsyth

1938 Omer Carmichael

1937 Robert Atherholt

1936 C. Raine Pettyjohn

1935 William Doyle

1934 John Early Jackson

1933 James Noell, Sr.

1932 James Noell, Jr.

1931 C. L. McPherson

1930 James Scott

1929 Will Cartlich

1928 Paul Fleet

1927 Herbert Harris

1926 James Morrison

1925 Fred McWane

1924 Clarence Burton

1923 Edward Hancock

1922 W.W. Dickerson

1921 G. Evans Caskie, Jr.

1920 John Faulkner

1919 Walker Pettyjohn

1918 Wistar Heald

1917 Fred Harper

The Four-Way Test

The world’s first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, was formed on Februray 23, 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to capture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth.  The Rotary name derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members’ offices.

Rotary’s popularity spread, and within a decade, clubs were chartered from San Francisco to New York to Winnipeg, Canada.  By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents.  The organization adopted the Rotary International name in 1922.

As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving club members’ professional and social interests.  Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need.  The organization’s dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its motto: Service Above Self.

In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created The Four-Way Test, a code of ethics adopted by Rotary in 1943.  The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:

Of the things we think, say or do…

1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?