PortoBelloRotary.com
Title
Rotary Club of Portobello
Description
The following web pages contain the background and history of the Rotary Club of Portobello and were written to commemorate the Club's 50th Anniverary celebrations held in February 2004.
IN 1953 THE EDINBURGH ROTARY CLUB decided to sponsor a new Rotary club to serve the district of Portobello so on 11 September, 1953, twenty eight founder members and guests attended an Inaugural Meeting & Dinner in a local hotel. The members elected Robert A Scott as Interim President and Dr. Arthur Wright as Interim Vice President. The Charter was presented by Percy Hopkins, District Governor No 2 District, to President Robert A Scott at the Charter Dinner on Wednesday 10 February, 1954. Among the guests were the President of R.I.B.I. Spencer Holland and also the Lord Provost of Edinburgh The Right Honourable Sir James Millar, and so the Rotary Club of Portobello began.
There have been four distinct phases in the history of the club, the first of which saw membership quickly building up as local businessmen joined. People such as Douglas Menzies, the manager of the Portobello branch of the Bank of Scotland; Frank Bush, manufacturers agent; Lyn Watkins, veterinary surgeon; Bob Fairful, local solicitor; Archie Grandison, headmaster; Bob Nicol, coal merchant; Jim Dunsmore, sports shopkeeper; Eugene Lampard, motor dealership owner; George Smith, builders merchant and Bob Spreng, local butcher joining the club. The Meetings were held at lunchtime at several seafront hotels in the area over the first twenty five years of the clubs existence, on a Tuesday every week at 12.45pm prompt and departed at 2pm equally promptly. In those early years the Club worked well and frequently on many projects and special efforts designed to help the local and wider communities.
Languages
English
Contact
- BMMedia
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- EAST LOTHIAN
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland EH21 8QA
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- +44.01316632700
