INTRODUCTION

At last, we have the story of Rotary by its Founder, Paul P. Harris. It is not merely a recital of what happened in 1905 or the years immediately following. It is an interesting story of Rotary—of yesterday, of today, and of tomorrow—written by one who had a fundamental idea and has witnessed and assisted in its development, and has developed with it. To Paul Harris, always a philosophic and persuasive leader in Rotary, the movement is greatly indebted. In the writing of this book he has again
placed us all under deep obligation to him—for the accurate, fair, discerning, and appreciative manner in which he has analyzed what has happened, what is happening, and what is likely to happen. If anyone is ever discouraged about being a Rotarian because there is not enough humanness to the movement, he will be put at ease by reading this work.
If one has been discouraged about the Rotary movement not being big enough or important enough for him to be associated with, this work surely will convince him otherwise.
That the Rotary movement is like a great musical production of many parts, through all of which runs a single motif—or perhaps a tapestry of many parts through all of which a single golden strand is discernible—is the impression that one must get from reading “This Rotarian Age,’ described to us so interestingly by one whom the movement has honored s, and who continues to honor and serve the movement by his own life and by his continued and faithful devotion to Rotary.

CHESLEY R. PERRY