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The world's first service club,
the Rotary Club of Chicago,
Illinois, USA, was formed on 23
February 1905 by Paul P. Harris,
an attorney who wished to
recapture in a professional club
the same friendly spirit he had
felt in the small towns of his
youth. The name "Rotary" derived
from the early practice of
rotating meetings among members'
offices.
Rotary's popularity spread
throughout the United States in
the decade that followed; clubs
were chartered from San
Francisco to New York. By 1921,
Rotary clubs had been formed on
six continents, and the
organization adopted the name
Rotary International a year
later.
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