Rotary Club transfers historical archives to Doylestown Historical Society
Posted by John Halderson
on Oct 25, 2014
On Oct 22, 2014, at the 90th anniversary celebration of the Rotary Club of Doylestown, president John Ortolf transferred the club's 90 years of historical archives to the Doylestown Historical Society. From the beginning days in 1924, the Rotary members saw the value in saving its history, from meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, photos, and artifacts.After 90 years, the club decided it needed help in organizing the vast amount of documents and items. It also wanted to improve its current storage methods which consisted of dusty cardboard boxes in basements and garages.
The Doylestown Historical Society offered to take all that the Rotary Club wanted to give. The DHS will organize the items, catalog them, digitize them into their database, and store them in their environmentally controlled archival storage room.
President John Ortolf (left) signs the document transferring the Rotary Club of Doylestown archives to the Doylestown Historical Society. Representing the Doylestown Historical Society is John Halderson (also a Rotarian).