In 2 years the Faribault Rotary Club will celebrate its 100 year anniversary on May 1, 2020. Each week the bulletin is published until that day, I will include a brief historical highlight from a year in our history of fellowship and Service above Self starting in 1920.
The Faribault Rotary Club was established 98 years ago today on May 1, 1920 as Rotary's 596th club with 22 charter members and by the end of the first year membership had reached a total of 35.
E.B. Johnson, representing the district governor of the International Rotary Clubs, and three other members of the Minneapolis Rotary Club met with our charter members. The first President of the Faribault Rotary Club was Frank W. McKellip.
Meetings were held on the first and third Monday of each month and on the evening of the fourth Monday.