Notable Rotarians 01/03/17

Posted by Shane Immelt on Jan 03, 2017
 
While pondering the updates to this fine periodical (?) and TRYING to keep up with the ECR Newsletter Pioneer-Larry Wepler I wondered if any of our past presidents were Rotarians.
 
So a quick Google Search (no, I didn't ask SIRI or ALEXA) I found a few articles that answered my question. Take a look below of just a shortened compilation of past notable Rotarians.
 

  • Dr. Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, college basketball coach and Basketball Hall of Fame member

  • Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, astronaut and second man to walk on the moon, USA

  • Neil Armstrong, astronaut and first man to walk on the moon, USA

  • Frank Borman, astronaut, USA

  • George W. Bush, president, USA

  • Jimmy Carter, president, USA

  • Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister, England

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Senator (2000-2009); US Secretary of State (2009–), USA

  • Calvin Coolidge, president; Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA

  • L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut, USA (RC Space Center (Houston, Texas)

  • William H. Davidson, former CEO of Harley-Davidson and son of founder

  • Walt Disney, animation filmmaker, USA

  • Major General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, leader of the United States Army “Doolittle Raid” in WWII

  • William O. Douglas, associate justice of the Supreme Court, USA

  • Thomas A. Edison, inventor, USA

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, president, USA

  • Gerald R. Ford, president, USA

  • J. William Fulbright, senator, USA

  • William H. Gates, Sr., Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

  • Warren G. Harding, president, USA

  • Herbert Hoover, president, USA

  • John F. Kennedy, president, USA

  • Charles A. Lindbergh, aviator, USA

  • Douglas MacArthur, army general, USA

  • Cornelius “Connie Mack” McGillicuddie, baseball manager and team owner, USA

  • George C. Marshall, army general and Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA

  • Wayne L. Morse, US Senator, USA

  • Chester W. Nimitz, admiral, USA

  • Richard Nixon, president, USA

  • Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author, USA

  • James Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co., USA

  • John J. Pershing, army general, USA

  • Branch Rickey, president of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, USA

  • Ronald Reagan, president, USA

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, president, USA

  • Dr. Albert Sabin, scientist who developed oral polio vaccine, USA

  • Alan B. Shephard, Jr., astronaut, USA

  • Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, USA; ambassador to the United Nations

  • Margaret Thatcher, prime minister, England

  • Harry S. Truman, president, USA

  • Earl Warren, chief justice of Supreme Court, USA

  • Woodrow Wilson, president, USA; Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA

  • Orville Wright, aviation pioneer, USA