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BANQUET
tendered to
THE FIRST NATIONAL CONVENTION
of
the
ROTARY CLUBS OF AMERICA
by
ROTARY CLUB OF CHICAGO
Wednesday Evening, August Seventeenth,
Nineteen Hundred Ten.
Gold Room, Congress Hotel.
Presiding Officer: Mr. A. M. Ramsay, President
Chicago Rotary Club.
Toastmaster: Mr. Paul P. Harris, Founder of the
Rotary Clubs of America.
An
excellent menu was provided, to which all did full justice.
Above the speakers' table were displayed the pennants with the
names of the various cities which had been used in the
Convention.
Mrs. Robert Langrith, soprano, assisted by Miss Emma Roelle at
the piano, sang several songs, which were greatly appreciated.
The Glee Cub, under the leadership of Professor Wm. Boeppler,
rendered a number of selections in a most excellent manner, and
the audience itself heartily joined in a number of the Chicago
Rotary Club songs.
In
one corner of the room the visiting ladies from cities other
than Chicago were seated.
At
the conclusion of the banquet, the following postprandial
proceedings took place:
[Toastmaster Harris]
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