b'THE ROTARY CLUB OF DRIFFIELDROTARY INTERNATIONAL, WITH 1.2 MILLION MEMBERS WORLDWIDE, IS A TRIBUTE TOTHE VISION OF ONE MANPAUL HARRIS. The Chicago attorney formed the Rotary Club of Chicago on 23 February 1905, so that professionals with diverse backgrounds couldexchangeideas,formmeaningful, lifelong friendships, and give back to their communities.The name Rotary Club was adoptedduetothepracticeofrotating meetingsaroundthedifferenthomes, offices or premises of club members. The ideaquicklyspreadandmoreandmore clubs began to spring up so that by 1921InternationalinGreatBritainandIreland theorganisationwasrepresentedon(RIBI)wasformed.Tothisday,RIBIstill everycontinent,andthenameRotaryunitesalltheclubsintheUKwithinthe International was adopted in 1922.widerumbrellaofRotaryInternational. Amaleonlyorganisationtobeginwith, ClubsformedallacrosstheBritishIslesRotary eventually bowed to pressure and very early in the organisations history butchanged its rules to admit women in 1987, in1914,asWW1brokeout,maintainingalthoughadmittedly,inpractice,ittook communicationswithotherclubsaroundsometime before mixed clubs became the the world became very difficult so Rotarynorm.'