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 Welcome To The Rotary
Club of Mentor
We were not the first Club in Lake County but we are one of the
largest and most active. In the early sixties,
both Painesville and Willoughby were incorporated cities with their own Rotary
Clubs. Mentor was still just a Village with a surrounding Township. Rotarians
who lived or worked in Mentor belonged to either the Painesville or Willoughby
Clubs.
In 1963 Mentor was incorporated as a
City. Around that same time, Joe Lanzi moved into the area to take a
position as a Principal in the Mentor School System. Mr. Lanzi had
been a Rotarian for some time in his former location and wanted to
affiliate with a local club when he moved into this area. Upon
discovering that his new hometown didn’t have its own club, Mr. Lanzi
immediately gathered some of his new friends and associates and set
about chartering a club for Mentor.
With help and guidance from the then President Bosley of the
Painesville Club, the Rotary Club of Mentor was chartered by Rotary
International in 1967 with fifteen charter members. It has since grown to almost one hundred active members.
Mentor Rotary is an active member and
integral part of Rotary International. Rotary International is the
world's first service club. It was founded as the Rotary Club of
Chicago in 1905 by Paul Harris, an attorney, who wished to recapture
in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the
small towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived from the early
practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.
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"Of the things we think,
say or do:
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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
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