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During Club 25’s Pioneer
Administration of 1911, charter member Ed Filiatrault was sent to the
Portland National Convention. With the assistance of the Twin Cities
clubs, he landed the 1912 National Convention for Duluth.
In the fall of 1911,
Filiatrault then turned his attention to establishing a Rotary Club in
Superior. He began many trips to Superior to feel out the possibilities
of this idea with Superior businessmen George Yale and Byron Culbertson.
By March of 1912,
Messers.Yale and Culbertson made up a list of 20 Superior businessmen
and sent an invitation to meet at the Superior Commercial Club, on April
1, 1912. The invitation did not state the purpose of the meeting. All 20
attended, plus 30 Duluth Rotary members. With Ed Filiatrault presiding,
the principles of Rotary were explained. Adolph Ritzman of Superior, who
was appointed Temporary Secretary, recorded, "Upon motion duly made and
seconded, it was decided to organize a Superior Rotary Club."
The motion was unanimously
accepted. Officers were elected with B.J. Culbertson, president; George
Yale, vice president; E.L. Cass, treasurer; and Clarence J. Hartley,
secretary.
At the next meeting, on April
10, 1912, "A motion was made and seconded that the Club apply to the
National Association of Rotary Clubs for a charter at once." The names
of 24 charter members were listed.
On May 12, the Superior
Rotary Club, #40, was elected to National membership. On May 15, just
six weeks after the Superior club was organized, Dr. Gillespie, chairman
of the Duluth reception committee for the National Convention, requested
the Superior club appoint a committee to act with and assist his
committee. A committee of five was appointed from Superior. Although the
Superior club had only $150 in its treasury, it voted $100 for expenses
for the Duluth National Convention of 1912.
This was the start of Ed
Filiatrault’s term as president of Duluth Rotary Club #25 from 1912-1913
-- known as the Dynamic Administration.
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