Copyright 1935
By Paul P. Harris
 This
book is affectionately dedicated to Rotary in the advancement of
whose idea the author in company with
thousands of other admires loves to serve.
Paul Harris
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 with the title of President Emeritus, 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
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