BRC News & History
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BRC History: Meeting Places Part 2
During the 1960s and 1970s, the club was continually plagued by the lack of a permanent and adequate meeting place. Most often, members met in a large dining room at the Harvest House Hotel, now the Millennium Hotel on 28th Street, but frequently had to give up that...
BRC History: Banners and Make Ups
In Rotary’s earlier days it was customary to keep close track of attendance. Many Rotarians achieved lengthy records – years! – of perfect attendance. If you weren’t able to attend your regular club meeting, you could visit another club anywhere in the world and get a...
BRC History: Kids Christmas Parties
In the 1990s, in addition to holiday festivities for the grownups, Boulder Rotary also held Christmas parties for the children and grandchildren of club members. The RiB reported in 1991, “Despite the fact that Boulder schools were not yet out for the vacation, there...
BRC History: RI Foundation and Paul Harris Fellows
In 1971 and 1972, Boulder Rotary President Harold Short turned the club’s attention to supporting The Rotary Foundation, a charitable arm of Rotary that was started in 1917. In 1975, Harold became the first Boulder Rotarian to become a Paul Harris Fellow. That...
BRC History: Birth of the RiB
As reported by John B. Schoolland in 1969 The RiB. It comes to you every week, and it stands for Rotary in Boulder. Or Rotary International Boulder. The translation varied occasionally through the years. The correct spelling is capital R, lowercase i, capital B. As...
BRC History: Rotary Babies
One of our first female Rotarians was also our first Rotary mom. This was unusual enough that it was deemed worthy of a front-page story in the Daily Camera. Alice Seigal’s son Max was born Feb. 21, 1988, just a few months after Alice, a veterinarian, joined the club...
BRC History: Women Join Rotary
A Daily Camera story on July 13, 1987, was headlined, “Service clubs admitting women.” The story said that Boulder service clubs were dropping bans against women members in the wake of two United States Supreme Court decisions that call such bans discriminatory....
BRC History: Rotary Youth Exchange
Boulder Rotary has hosted and sent abroad a long list of young people, and some older ones, through Rotary International programs such as youth exchange, Ambassadorial scholars, and Group Study Exchange. Our first youth exchange student, Patricia Heimann of Remagen,...
BRC History: Polio and the March of Dimes
* Reported by Bob Bradfield Polio was a tragedy and a concern for millions of people, particularly after President Franklin D. Roosevelt fell victim to the disease. In the 1940s and 50s, the March of Dimes literally collected dimes to eradicate polio, many of them...
BRC History: Boulder from the 50s to the 70s
* Reported by John Schoolland Boulder did not “just happen,” said Schoolland. Its future was envisioned by its early leaders. Struck with the potential of the area, the climate, the beauty of the setting, the natural resources, they envisioned a community that would...
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