Elgin Rotary Club

Welcome to Elgin Rotary Club's website. Here you will find a brief introduction to the club and its history as well as a little bit of information on the local area and its landmarks.

Elgin Rotary Club is part of the 1010 District which stretches from Fife in the South to the Shetland Isles in the North, a small but vital part of the Rotary International organisation that stretches over 200 countries with approximately 1.2 million Rotarians.

Currently the club has 68 members +4 honorary members. An extremely active club, Elgin is involved in most aspects of Rotary where service and fellowship apply. Visitors to our club will find a warm welcome awaits them. Come along and enjoy our Thursday lunch, the speaker and meeting the members.

Meetings are held every Thursday in the Mansion House Hotel in Elgin (off the Tesco roundabout) at 12:45pm for 1pm

01343 548811

reception@mhelgin.co.uk

Elgin Rotary Club News *July* The date of the next Elgin Rotary Marafun town centre relay marathon is to be Sunday 7th June 2009. No entries are being taken at present but please mark your calendar and check back here for more information and entry forms early next year. *June* On Sunday 1st June MOTORFUN sponsored by Robertson was a great success for charities and the public, despite the weather. Click here for some pictures of the day. Warning - This page may load slowly, especially if you have a dial-up connection.



Projects
Read about Elgin Rotary Club's Work including the NEWAH project and Treks to Build in Nepal click here.

Club Roll of Honour 2008- 2009

Honorary Members

HRH The Princess Royal; Mr Grenville Johnston, Lord Lieutenant of Moray; Mr Frank Strang

A Brief History of the club

The first meeting took place in the Burgh Courthouse on 13th May 1926.

The charter was presented in Kilmolymock Freemasons' Hall on 25th November 1927.

There were 24 Founder Members and the founder President was the late E.S. Harrison of Johnstons of Elgin (later to become Lord Provost of Elgin).

The founder secretary was the late F.A. Ritson, C.A.

The Charter was signed by Arthur Supp, President of Rotary International and presented by J.H. Weston, Chairman of the Scottish District.

The Club was visited and addressed by Rotary International President and founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, on 2nd of June 1934, when he and Mrs Harris visited Elgin.
In 2005, HRH princess Royal accepted honorary Membership of the Club

Contacting the WebMaster

Club members wishing to have news or articles included on the site or to have errors or omissions corrected may e-mail the webmaster by clicking on the link at the bottom left of the page.

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