Rotary's Power for World Peace

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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