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The State College Downtown Rotary club was founded in November 1986. Our sponsoring club (helping to get us established) was the State College Rotary club known affectionately as the “senior club, the evening club, or the singing club.”) At the time of our founding the District Governor was from the Chambersburg Rotary club. His name was Robert Harrison. Other Rotarians instrumental in getting our club established were Bus Fowler and Don Tressler-both of whom are former District Governors and members of the evening club. Bus was an honorary member of our club. The charter membership included 26 men. Four of these men are active 23 years later in 2009. Three of them, Joe Guise, Jim Eberly, and Marc Meckstroth have been continuously active. Women had not joined Rotary yet. It would be three years before women joined the club after the Supreme Court decision concerning the Duarte, California, Rotary club in 1989. Our club is the present home to two past district governors, Carl Hill (1984-1985), and Carol Walsh (2001-2002). We'd like to claim Bus Fowler PDG from 1988-1989 as our third PDG, but the evening club was his home club. The charter members were (* denotes active):
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A remembrance from our club's good friend Geoff Wilson from the evening club:
“I think that I may have been the first out-of-town Rotarian visitor to the club, at a time when Russell Brooks (whom I had met previously) was President. During my five years of teaching in North Carolina I was a member of the Charlotte Top-of-the-Week club, but came back to State College in the winter and summer vacation periods and needed weekly make-ups. I heard of the formation of the new club, and remember that I arrived at a meeting at Cafe 210 West by bicycle (not, of course, from Charlotte but from my home here).”
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