...at the first RI convention
Monday, August 15, 1910.
The Convention was called to order at 10 o'clock a. m., in the Green Room of the Congress Hotel, by Mr. Paul P. Harris, Chairman of the National Board of Commissioners, Mr. Chesley R. Perry, Secretary of the National Board of Commissioners, acting as Secretary. The full text of the proceedings follows:
Chairman Harris. Delegates from North, South, East and West, delegates from all parts of the United States: We have been called here to organize a national association of Rotary Clubs, and we have a great deal of business to transact. It will not be an occasion of long addresses. We of the Chicago club do not believe very much in oratory. We believe that an orator is a man who intoxicates himself with his own emotions and is likely to say a great many things he had not intended to say.
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