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Wilmette Rotary Club

The Wilmette Rotary Club charter was granted on May 6, 1924, upon application of twenty-two men and under the sponsorship of the Evanston Rotary Club. The Club's weekly luncheon meetings were held at the Pyranees Restaurant, and later at the Tower Garden Restaurant, but moved to the Michigan Shores Club in 1972. The Club publishes a weekly newsletter, "The Spoke."

Box #1

• History and inventory
• Charter documents
• Minutes, weekly and Board meetings, 1924-1930
• Minutes, weekly and Board meetings, 1930-1941
• Minutes, Board of Directors, 1938-1944
• Minutes, Board of Directors, 1944-1949
• Minutes, Board of Directors, 1951-1957
• Minutes, Board of Directors, 1960-1962
• Minutes, Board of Directors, 1966-1965
• Minutes, Board of Directors, 1965-1969

Box #2

• History and inventory
• The Spoke, Vols. I, II, & III, 1924-1926
• The Spoke, Vols. 4, 5, 6, 7, 1927-1933
• The Spoke, Vols. 11-14, 1934-1936
• The Spoke, Vols. 15-17, 1937-1939
• The Spoke, Vols. 18-21, 1939-1943
• The Spoke, Vols. 21A-25, 1943-1948
• The Spoke, Vol. 26, 1927; 1948-1950
• The Spoke, Vol. 28, 1929, 1950-1952; Blank Spoke forms, officers & committees, 1950-1951
• The Spoke, duplicates
• The Spoke, Vol. 43-45, 1966-1969
• Notesa of The Spoke, editorial committee, 1962

Box #3

• Correspondence and reports, 1960-1961
• Correspondence and reports, 1967-1968
• List of Charter Members, officers and committees, 1924-1943
• Membership lists, directories
• Attendance, reports, rules and classification
• Membership correspondence, 1948
• Treasurers' reports, books, 1943-1944, 1963
• Club history book, 1974 [50th anniversary]
• Miscellaneous

Box #4

• History and inventory
• Speeches by L. Hollister, Rotary official
• Treasurer, Rotary International
• Rotary information
• Rotary International newsletter
• 25th Birthday greetings from students
• Student Project Manual 644
• International student project, early records
• Japan, 1963
• Japanese correspondence, 1966
• Student letters
• Resolution presented to conference of District 644, 1967
• Charles deHaes, District student, 1961-1962
• Student addresses and miscellaneous
• Student project report
• Split of student projects, 642-644, 1967
• Students
• Students' photographs
• Photographs of Rotary International events
• Song books, convention programs, History of Rotary, 1905-1955, plaques awarded to Mr. Hollister [loose]