In less than 17 months, the Faribault Rotary Club will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on May 1, 2020. This week’s historical highlight is from 1950.
Bob Reed was nominated for District Governor.
District assembly was held at Shattuck School July 8-9.
There was a football program with coaches and students as guests. The highlight of the program was the information that football was introduced in Faribault by a Professor Camp of Seabury who was the brother of Walter Camp, the first football coach at Yale.
Our club’s 31st President in 1950-51 was Edward E Slettom who was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture for Minnesota by the Governor in May of 1951. The last six weeks of his term saw a host of past presidents leading the meetings including our first president Frank McKellip who was one of only two remaining charter members. Harry Smith was the other. Another meeting was led by our second president, Fred U. Davis.