SMOKETOWN ROTARY CLUB

That the Rotary Club of Brunswick, Maryland conducted its weekly meetings in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad YMCA, adjacent to the sprawling Brunswick rail yard, comes as no surprise, when one understands the centrality of both organizations in the life of this company town. For nearly seven decades, from 1927 to 1993, the Rotary Club of Brunswick was a vital Service Club in what was termed Rotary International District 180 - and later 762 - the precursor of today's RI District 7620, encompassing Central Maryland and the District of Columbia... According to Brunswick Rotarian David E. Carmack, who served three times as Club President: "In early 1927 a small group of citizens of Brunswick, led and inspired by Dr. Ignatius Bjorlee, for many years the head of the Maryland State School for the Deaf and a member of the Frederick Rotary Club, decided to form a Rotary Club in Brunswick."... After a series of meetings at the home of Charles Meyer and at the B&O Railroad YMCA, an..