• The first Rotary club meeting was in Chicago, IL on February 23, 1905.
• The first regular luncheon meetings were in Okland, CA, chartered in 1909.
• The first Rotary convention was in Chicago in 1910.
• The first Rotary club outside of the United States was chartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1910.
• The first Rotary club outside of North America was chartered in Dublin Ireland in 1911.
• The first Rotary club in a non-English-speaking country was in Havana, Cuba in 1916.
• Rotary established the first "Endowment Fund" in 1917 which became the forerunner of The Rotary Foundation.
• The first Rotary club in South America was chartered in Montevideo, Uraguay in 1918.
• The first Rotary club in Asia was chartered in Manila, Philippines in 1919.
• The first Rotary club in Africa was chartered in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1921.
• The first Rotary club in Australia was chartered in Melbourne in 1921.
• The Bentonville Rotary Club was organized on October 23, 1924 with 18 members meeting in the Hotel Massey and President Dave Peel presiding.  The Charter Meeting was held at the Hotel Massey on December 12 of that year. 
• In 1928 with 29 members, the Bentonville Rotary Club was meeting at the Presbyterian Church and paying 75 cents for meals.
• In 1968 the club had 49 members and worked at helping with such projects as the County Fair, Girls and Boys State and Boy Scouts.
• By the year 2000 the club had 115 members and was meeting at the Ramada Inn.
  
  

Bentonville/Bella Vista Noon Rotary Club
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