Joined the Rotary Club of Thibodaux, La in 1998 and moved his membership to Rotary Club of Marble Falls in 2008. He was the Club of President in 2010-11 and was Assistant Governor from 2014 to 2017. In 2018-19 he was the District Trainer and became our District Governor for the Rotary year 2020-21. Rick was President of the Hill Country Passport Rotary Club in 2023 - 24. He currently is our District's Youth Services Chair.
Rick shared some very interesting history of the first Rotary Clubs and how they came into being.
1905: Rotary begins, attorney Paul P. Harris convenes the first Rotary meeting on 23 February in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Harris envisions a professional club that brings together local men from a variety of vocations.
1908: Rotary's second city, San Francisco, California, USA, becomes the second city to have a Rotary club in November.
1943: The Four Way Test
Rotary adopts The Four-Way Test, one of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics. Herbert J. Taylor, a member of the Rotary Club of Chicago, drafted the test in 1932 to help an aluminum company on the verge of bankruptcy during the Great Depression.
