SALISBURY ROTARY

The following is excerpted from remarks made by Dr. A.R. Keppel upon the induction of Dr. Frederick Spencer Jr. into the Salisbury Rotary on June 24, 1958... When you become better acquainted with Rotary's history, you will understand more clearly what I am trying to say. For Rotary was given birth in the heart of a lonely man-a man who craved not civic prominence, not social prestige, not glamorous publicity, but rather sincere friendship, satisfying fellowship and sympathetic understanding. Paul Harris, who unknowingly founded this great organization in 1905, soon discovered that to gain such friendship, such fellowship and such understanding, one must first give it. And that is Rotary's secret today... Rotary has no formal creed, is not bound by prejudices, is not confined by tradition. Rotary is as broad and as open as the human heart. Its emblem is the cogged wheel-the cogs representing the human contacts, and the spokes radiating from the hub, representing the..