This week at Rotary
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Lunch Buffet
11:30AM START
At
Kitchi Gammi Club
Our speaker: Kevin Quarmby
Associate Professor and Rose Warner Endowed Professor of English
College of St. Scholastica
Notable 1911: Euro-Royal Partygoing versus Rotary Club #25
1911 was an eventful year in Duluth’s Rotary calendar with the founding of Club #25. In London, far more extravagant celebrations fundraised a specific artistic cause. United for the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, the crowned heads and royal entourages of Europe partied their Shakespeare-themed night away in the Royal Albert Hall, ostensibly to sponsor a future National Theatre. Kings, queens, princes, princesses, even a Kaiser, re-enacted scenes and characters from Shakespeare with aristocratic excess. Dr. Quarmby commemorates both 1911 events and discusses the serendipitous association between two disparate moments in history that led him to Duluth.
Golden Nuggets of Club 25 History
Rotary Club of Duluth – Chartered July 17, 1911
By Jerry Thoreson
A Look Back at Previous End of the Year or New Year's Gimlets. How time flies!
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