St. Charles Noon Rotary honors two with Paul Harris Fellows

Posted April 24, 2012 3:04 pm

Submitted by St. Charles Noon Rotary Club

The St. Charles Noon Rotary Club announced that two individuals recently received Rotary International’s Paul Harris Fellows.

Dave McNamara, a Noon Club member, and Diane Brown, a spouse of a Noon Club member, recently received this key recognition “in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among people of the world.”

Paul Harris, born in Racine, Wis., in 1868, received a law degree from the University of Iowa and then began his career in Chicago.

While in Chicago, Harris craved social connections, and with some others formed the first Rotary Group. Rotary gets its name because the group would rotate meeting locations each week.

By 1921, Rotary had groups on six continents; today more than 1.2 million men and women are Rotarians in nearly 34,000 clubs worldwide.

The St. Charles Noon Rotary Club is one of two clubs in St. Charles along with a Breakfast Club. For details, contact (Noon) Dustin Hawkins at (630) 584-2255 or (Breakfast) Tassie Brautigam at (630) 222-6311.

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