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FORTY YEARS OF THE CIVIC SOCIETY
If
Scarborough Rotary Club keeps some sort of "Roll of Honour" recording
its achievements over the years, I trust that there is a special entry
for the year 1964 when Rotary brought to birth the Scarborough and
District Civic Society.
President of Rotary then was Neville
Gray, who tells how the idea came from a Civic Trust film he was shown,
about what had been achieved by the Civic Society in Windsor. He was so
impressed by it he became determined to do the same thing in
Scarborough.
It is Rotary policy to kick start organization's which
may benefit their locality, and once they are running under their own
steam Rotary will withdraw and start work on something else. Another
Rotary achievement in Scarborough is the Flower Fund Homes.
A Public
Meeting was called in the Library Concert Room. A good deal of work
was done beforehand to persuade people to support the new venture, and
Meredith Whittaker became the first Chairman.
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