Rotary is an opportunity to build lifelong friendships and experience the personal fulfillment of providing volunteer service to others. An organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages 
high ethical standards in all vocations, and builds goodwill and peace in the world. The Rotary Club of St. Cloud was founded in 1925, and was among the first 10% of Rotary Clubs worldwide.
OBJECT OF ROTARY
To encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his or her occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
A BRIEF HISTORY
The world’s first service club, Rotary began with the formation of the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, on February 23, 1905. The club was started by a young lawyer, Paul P. Harris, and three of his friends. He wished to recapture the friendly spirit he had felt among business people in the small town where he had grown up. Their weekly meetings “rotated” among their offices, providing the new service club with its name. Today, Rotary flourishes with some 27,000 clubs and 1.2 million men and women as club members, providing community service in virtually every nation of the world.
The Rotary Club of St. Cloud was established on April 27, 1925 by 22 charter members from St. Cloud who labored for two years to establish the organization. The Rotary Club of St. Cloud was the 2007th club formed in the world—which today makes it among the oldest 5% of continuously operating clubs anywhere.
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ROTARY CLUB OF ST. CLOUD PAST PRESIDENTS
1925 - 2005
Presidential services for the year ending June 30:
1926 Dan Haslam 1965 Ernest Vogel
1927 James J. Quigley, Sr. 1966 (Stan Sahlstrom)*
1928 Henry W. Goehrs Cam Callan
1929 William J. Bohmer 1967 Gene Bakke
1930 Leo Rosenberger 1968 Don Watkins
1931 Arthur Wedge 1969 Raymond Benson
1932 Sylvester Fandel 1970 Kermit Eastman
1933 Julian McCutchan 1971 Jerry Weyrens
1934 John Gelz 1972 Wesley Streed
1935 William G. Freeman 1973 Leonard Carlson
1936 Michael F. Cook 1974 Milford Johnson
1937 Stan Vaill 1975 James Marmas
1938 Milton Mahlum 1976 Duane Niemi
1939 John Henry 1977 Warren Hutchens
1940 Donald Bohmer 1978 Don Mackinac
1941 Oscar Magnuson 1979 Donald Otto
1942 William Hilger 1980 Warren Teigen
1943 Byron Burdick 1981 Thomas Brown
1944 Vince Conlon 1982 Bob Murray
1945 Arthur Fitch 1983 Doug Holzkamp
1946 Frank Pickard, Sr. 1984 John Pucel
1947 Norb Holzknect 1985 Jerome Hirschfeld
1948 Caesar Copeland 1986 Conrad Overboe
1949 Ed Stockinger 1987 (Jack Conzemius)*
1950 Karl Ladner Terry Rothstein
1951 Hub Bartelme 1988 Terry Rothstein
1952 William English 1989 Jack Gibbons
1953 Herb Pence 1990 Michael Mullin
1954 Howard Flanagen 1991 Barrett Colombo
1955 Francis J. Bernick 1992 Gary Marsden
1956 James J. Quigley, Jr. 1993 William P. Maney
1957 Donald Cote 1994 Al Mesna
1958 Ed Zapp, Sr. 1995 Robert Helland
1959 Russell Roe 1996 Bob Strack
1960 Baldwin Glasrud 1997 Gordon Przybylski
1961 Harold Cater 1998 Wayne Schluchter
1962 Thomas Donlin, Sr. 1999 Gayla Holmgren
1963 Frederick Fandel 2000 Tim Keller
1964 Frank Pickard, Jr. 2001 Jim Schlenner
                                                             2002    Beth Engel
                                                                                  2003    Roland Specht Jarvis
                                                                                    2004    John Bestgen
                                                             2005    Sandy Neutzling
  * Didn't complete a whole term
Click on the Contact Us page for a list of Current Officers of Rotary Club of St. Cloud.
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