In
June 1972, a group of senior Rotarians gathered at the
American Club, Ice House Street, Hong Kong to discuss the
formation of a new Rotary Club on the southern part of the
island of
Hong Kong. This meeting was chaired by the
then District Governor Robert Chao and representatives of
three Rotary Clubs on the Island. It was during this
discussion that Past President Dennis Ting of the Hong Kong
Island East Club, later to become Charter President of the
Rotary Club of Hong Kong South, was asked to a make a
feasibility study for the founding of the new club. Past
President Dennis, as special representative for the new
club, gathered a number of socially active executives within
this district who basically had keen interest in Rotary, and
several meetings were held at the Hong Kong Country Club
with the intent of forming the new club. It was at these
meetings that it was decided the official name was to be the
Rotary Club of Hong Kong South. Our official application
for the inauguration of the new club was sent to Rotary
International on the 26th of January 1973.
Towards the end of April, 1973 we were informed that Rotary
International had accepted the application for our Club.
The official charter was handed over on the eve of the 15th
of June, 1973, our Charter Night.
Officers elected from the 33
charter members were Dennis Ting as Charter President,
Victor Steiner as Vice President, Fred Lewis as Honorary
Secretary, Alf Taylor as Honorary Treasurer, and the
following Directors : Roger Gunn, L.S. Leung, Donald Chanwai,
Joe Lemaire, Ian McKelvie, Ed Jones.
The Club’s territorial limits
are all that area of Hong Kong Island to the south of a line
drawn due west from the Eastern Coast to Pottinger Peak and
extended by straight lines to join Mount Collinson, Boa
Vista, Mount Nicholson and towards Victoria Peak to a point
where it is intersected by a line drawn in a northerly
direction along the alignment of Arsenal Street, thence in a
northerly direction along that line to a point where it
joins the city boundary, thence in westerly direction along
the city boundary to a point where it is intersected by a
line drawn along the alignment of Queen Victoria Street to
Victoria Peak, thence in a south-westerly direction along
that line to Victoria Peak, thence a westerly direction to
the junction of Mount Davis Road and Pokfulam Road, thence
along Mount Davis Road to its junction with Victoria Road
and thence to the Western Coast where the harbour boundary
meets the coast.
Since the formation of the
Club our Community projects have been based on club
participation, where members personally become involved with
a particular project within the Community.
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