Ryde Rotary Club A Brief Club History 1925 to 2000

Ryde Rotary Clubs A Brief Club History 1925 to 2000 by Ray Weeks

FOREWORD

An historian I am not, a sense of history I have, yet I felt innately alienated from the 1920s. Films and books of the period abound but any serious link with Rotarians of the past felt curiously empty - until, that is, I read this well crafted history of the Club.

Ray Weeks developing on the history recorded by Stan Bird has produced an absorbing and at times quite poignant insight into history and people of the club. The parallels and references to life in the

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