Rotary Club of Altrincham
Founded 1929 - Member of Rotary International - District 1050
www.altrinchamrotary.org.uk
“Service Above Self”
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Past Presidents
(F = Founder Member)
1929-31 D. Stanley Morrison (F)
1931-32 Richard Hesketh (F)
1932-33 Alfred Bateman (F)
1933-34 Thomas Dykes
1934-35 Charles H. Syers
1935-36 John Malley
1936-37 George H. Podmore
1037-38 Edward J. Horley
1938-39 William Davidson
1939-40 Robert G. McEwan
1940-41 William T. Pallthorpe
1941-42 Arthur Withington
1942-43 Richard W. R. Spelman
1943-44 Charles C. Sweet
1944-45 Alfred E. Willett
1945-46 Frederick Spink
1946-47 C. Frederick Shawcross
1947-48 T. Wilfred Mercer
1948-49 William H. Lord
1949-50 Reginald T. Ankers
1950-51 Norman A. Royle
1951-52 Edward H. Chorlton
1952-53 Walter Bateman
1953-54 Christopher W. Fisher
1954-55 Harold Wright
1955-56 Clifford Pollard
1956-57 George E. Wood
1957-58 Basil D. Morrison
1958-59 Frank Spink M.B.E.
1959-60 Harold P. Rawlinson
1960-61 Frank Gibson O.B.E.
1961-62 Bryan R. Byrom
1962-63 William Lloyd
1963-64 John (Ian) L. Harris
1964-65 Phillip B. Mayer
1965-66 Frank S. Guest
1966-67 Geoffrey F. Earl
1967-68 John Derbyshire
1968-69 James P. Jackson
1969-70 Cecil Harrison
1970-71 E. Graham Thomas
1971-72 J. O. Deem
1972-73 William E. Dodd
1973-74 Alec Fleming
1974-75 Arthur Shaw
1975-76 Kenneth N. G. Bailey
1976-77 Kenneth Newton
1977-78 Joe Morley
1978-79 Noel Shuttleworth
1979-80 Gordon G. Lewis
1980-81 Peter T. C. Vickerman
1981-82 Arthur Bright
1982-83 Wilf Brocklebank
1983-84 Peter Batten
1984-85 Roy Bancroft
1985-86 Don Crawford
1986-87 Eric Pownall
1987-88 John Bowie
1988-89 Richard Wilcox
1989-90 Ian G. Allan
1990-91 Cyril P. Goldberg
1991-92 Monty Samuels
1992-93 Alan Hayhurst
1993-94 Brendan Bates
1994-95 Denis Morren
1995-96 Roy Doorbar
1996-97 Robert Curry
1997-98 Mike Maudsley
1998-99 John Edwards
1999-00 Brian Soper
2000-01 Andras Jonas
2001-02 Robert A. Strachan
2002-03 Roger Barlow
2003-04 Mike Lumb
2004-05 John C. Pilling
2005-06 Geoff Hayes
2006-07 Chris Boyes
2007-08 Iain Bannerman
The Past
The Rotary year runs from July 1 to June 30 and in 2004-05 we celebrated both Rotary International's Centennial and the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the club. At that time we produced a history of the club for our current and past members. If you are a former member of the club or related to a former member of the club (we have a full list of all past and current members if you are not sure) we would be happy to provide you with a copy.
When the club was founded there were 25 members and over the years more than 300 local people have enjoyed being a member. Our current longest serving member joined in 1947.
The inaugural meeting was held at the Bowdon Assembly Rooms (currently the location of the Cinnamon Club). The regular, weekly meetings were held at lunchtime each Monday at The Unicorn Hotel. Some time in 1958 the club moved to the Woodlands Hotel in Timperley for its weekly meetings and then in 1978 to The Cresta Court Hotel, Altrincham. In 1988 the time of the weekly meeting was changed to 7.30pm and this remains the meeting time today.
Originally Rotary was a "business networking" organisation. Today it has evolved into "A Global Network of Community Volunteers" that is responsive to disaster relief requirements, local and international aid projects, and a provider of scholarships and other educational programmes around the world.
Worldwide, Rotary clubs are organised into Districts and The Rotary Club of Altrincham is a member of District 1050. Each year each District elects a member to be its District Governor and over the years two of our members have held this office while many others have served in some other capacity at District level.
One thing that has not changed over the years is that our members come from a wide and varied number of backgrounds. In 1987, after the United States Supreme Court ruled " that Rotary could no longer remain male only in its membership", all Rotary clubs became open to both genders.
The Present
Like many other organisations today, membership of a Rotary club is obtained "by invitation". But unlike many of these other organisations we are always on the lookout for new members and by simply contacting us we can arrange for someone who is curious to find out more about what we do and who we are, to come along to our meetings and discover it for themselves, all without any obligation.
A brief synopsis of what membership of Rotary can offer can be found on the Rotary Membership and Rotary International pages.
Our programme for the coming weeks can be viewed on the Programme page.
Website Awards
Also winner of "Best Website in District 1050" in 2003/4 and 2005/6.