Marietta Journal

October 23, 1919

Marietta is the smallest city that can boast of having a Rotary Club duly affiliated with the great International Rotary Clubs of America. Marietta can also boast of having the "baby" member of this great organization for Thursday night the Rotary Club of Marietta was duly instituted and its charter presented to its president J. W. Hancock by District Governor Truman L. McGill, of Shreveport, Louisiana, at the Golf Club where the ceremony took place.

The evening was marked throughout with a series of delightful diversions, featured by a delicious dinner prepared and served under the direction of Mrs. Henry Wyatt, Sr., assisted by a number of ladies. A musical program by Misses Glenis Hancock and Rebecca Clark and Miss Sarah Patton was indeed a "headliner" and the young ladies drew a burst of applause from their audience who could only be satisfied by a number of encores.

In addition to the 21 charter members of the Rotary Club of Marietta there were present a number of Rotarians from Rome, which was organized by J. W. Hancock, of the Marietta Rotary. Atlanta was represented by an equally large section, in addition to Albert S. Adams, President of the International Rotary Clubs of America. Birmingham, Macon, Augusta, Savannah, and others were also represented.

The charter of the Rotary Club of Marietta was delivered by Governor Truman McGill, who made a very fitting address, pointing to the ethics and ideals of Rotary and urging its members in accepting it to hold true to the course of Rotary....

In behalf of the Rotary Club of Marietta J. W. Hancock, its president, accepted the charter in a gracious manner and thanked the officers of the association for the kindness shown its organizers and at the same time gave assurances that International Rotary would always be proud of Marietta Rotary.

The big reception hall of the Golf Club never looked prettier than it did Thursday night. Its decoration scheme of blue and gold, Rotary colors, was carried out and Rotary emblems were prominent throughout the big hall. Rotary wheels, symbolic of Rotary, were everywhere in evidence.

Those assisting Mrs. Wyatt so ably at serving the dinner were: Mesdames M. M. Sessions, R. W. Northcutt, R. J. Hancock, J. W. Hancock, A. N. Holland, J. R. Brumby and J. E. Masses; Misses Mabel Courtelyou, Lois Gardner, Nancy Boston, Margaret McNeel, Elizabeth Anderson, Irene Malone, Annie Waddell, Harriett Leake, Lucile Sessions, Cora Brown and Rebecca Wyatt.

Charter members of the Rotary Club of Marietta present were J. W. Hancock, John H. Boston, J. R. Brumby, Mack D. Hodges, J. E. Massey, A. V. Cortelyou, M. L. McNeel, William Tate Holland, Ralph W. Northcutt, T. M. Brumby, Jr., N. K. Smith, Dr. Sam L. Rambo, Bolan G. Brumby, Doyle Butler, Ben C. Baldwin, Moultrie M. Sessions, Otis A. Brumby, Ralph J. Hancock, E. P. Dobbs, George E. Daniell, and W. H. Wyatt, Sr.