Club History Corner 2-22-2016

Our Club Newsletter:  Over the years, our club newsletter has gone by three different names.  Originally published on May 10, 1926, The Rotary Reveille was a one page weekly newsletter covering topics like: upcoming speaker, speaker presentations of the previous week, announcements, poems, cartoons, count of guests and Rotarians in attendance.  At least monthly, there was also a summary of attendance. Attendance in the first year of publication ran from a low of 75% to a high of 100%!

 

Later, the publication became the Saccarappa Scribbler and eventually the Presumpscot Scribbler.  Pictured is our very first newsletter.

 

 

Many years worth of Reveilles and Scribblers are stored at the Westbrook Historical Society.  However, there are none in the archives from the 30s, very few from the early 40s only, none from the early 60s , none from the early 80s, with the last ones in storage from 1991.

 

If you or a family member may have saved our newsletters over the years, we'd love to see them.   We hope you would consider donating them to the Westbrook Historical Society to help fill in some gaps in the record.

 

Here is another great example from our 60th year.  "Bob Nunley gave us an assist at the piano, but the singing was not enthusiastic".   Also, see the story about Wayne Lopez's trip to the Far East.   The Editor, Mr Greenwood, sure had a great sense of humor!

 

 

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Fun Fact:  Our Rotary District number has changed many times over the years due to the growth of Rotary.   Note that Westbrook-Gorham was chartered just before the District changed from 8 to 38.  So we have been part of seven different districts in our 90 years!