Charter Members

The Pembroke Rotary Club was formed as a consequence of several members from  Hamilton Club seeing the need to establish a Breakfast club in Bermuda.  On December 16th 1980, The Hamilton Rotary Club approved the organization of an additional club within its territorial limits.  The committee was made up of the District Governor Eddie Berger along with then Hamilton members, Bryan Gibbons (referred to as Godfather), Bills Masters, Ed Rego, Danny Manus, Owen Darrell and Walter Maddocks.

On March 12th, 1981 a meeting was held at the Rum Runners restaurant by the steering committee and a nucleus of new members.  At that meeting, Rum Runners was confirmed as the weekly meeting place on Thursday mornings commencing at 7:30am.  In order to establish the club in its own right a minimum membership of 20 was required, whilst at that point there were only 10 prospective members in attendance.

On March 19th, 1981 at the club's third meeting, it was agreed that the Club would be called the Pembroke Rotary Club.  The total attendance at that meeting was 25, of which 17 signed membership forms and, by the next meeting, an application for membership in Rotary International was completed with 32 charter members.

The Club received its Charter on May 12th, 1981 and it was officially presented to the Club by then District Governor Alan Nemlich of Scarsdale, New York on July 25th, 1981.

The first president was Leonard O. Gibbons, who went on to serve as Chamber of Commerce President, a Member of Parliament and Minister of Government.

After a ballot taken during the first meeting it was decided to name, from several names put forward, a weekly chronicle called The Pembroke Rotary Chronicle.

The following is a list of Charter Members: