Oristano February 21, 2011
Dear friends,
Saturday 19th we worthily celebrated our 43rd anniversary, the qualified representative of the other service clubs operating in Oristano (Lions and Soroptimist) and delivery to several Past-President, the Treasurer and the Secretary of the Club "Paul HarrisFellow.
This year it was possible to assign a good number of these "awards" in virtue of our commendable effort to provide the Rotary Foundation the last means to declare officially closed and won a difficult battle against polio in the world.
I've been in transit for a PHF as Past President of the Club, but since mine was "a little different" from others delivered (I had previously received other PHF by the district for district offices held), not a few members who do not know the history of this award have asked me some explanations.
This fact has prompted me to report on this online newspaper, the long and prestigious history of the establishment and spread worldwide recognition of "Paul Harris".
is the story.
The highest award that Rotary International gives its supporters through its most important operating arm, the Rotary Foundation, is the "Paul Harris Fellow, whose acronym also identifies the PHF in non-Rotarians, given its unusual distribution.
stems from what this prestigious recognition that the world has been given to the most important people both political and economic and social changes that have been shown to recognize the values \u200b\u200band ideals of Rotary? It was founded after the death of our founder, Paul Harris, and accompanies the birth and evolution of its maximum operating arm: The Rotary Foundation.
few years after the founding of Rotary, as we all know took place in Chicago February 23, 1905, Paul Harris is increasingly convinced of the validity of his far-sighted idea of \u200b\u200bthe growing number of accessions and by the strong expansion of the association also outside of the United States. This growth, in some ways unexpected, leads to the Rotary quickly become "international", thus enhancing its value as a "service", coming from the goodness and the quality of his ideas, in short his "philosophy of service."
This year it was possible to assign a good number of these "awards" in virtue of our commendable effort to provide the Rotary Foundation the last means to declare officially closed and won a difficult battle against polio in the world.
I've been in transit for a PHF as Past President of the Club, but since mine was "a little different" from others delivered (I had previously received other PHF by the district for district offices held), not a few members who do not know the history of this award have asked me some explanations.
This fact has prompted me to report on this online newspaper, the long and prestigious history of the establishment and spread worldwide recognition of "Paul Harris".
is the story.
The highest award that Rotary International gives its supporters through its most important operating arm, the Rotary Foundation, is the "Paul Harris Fellow, whose acronym also identifies the PHF in non-Rotarians, given its unusual distribution. stems from what this prestigious recognition that the world has been given to the most important people both political and economic and social changes that have been shown to recognize the values \u200b\u200band ideals of Rotary? It was founded after the death of our founder, Paul Harris, and accompanies the birth and evolution of its maximum operating arm: The Rotary Foundation.
few years after the founding of Rotary, as we all know took place in Chicago February 23, 1905, Paul Harris is increasingly convinced of the validity of his far-sighted idea of \u200b\u200bthe growing number of accessions and by the strong expansion of the association also outside of the United States. This growth, in some ways unexpected, leads to the Rotary quickly become "international", thus enhancing its value as a "service", coming from the goodness and the quality of his ideas, in short his "philosophy of service." 
To better fulfill this function of "service" in 1917, Rotary's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, decides to establish a financial reserve aside, a separate "endowment fund" reserved for humanitarian and educational initiatives. This forward-looking idea, it is only the beginning of a great adventure and will prove to be the "seed" of the more robust structure that is realized in a short time. Ten years later, Congress in Minneapolis in 1928, the endowment fund became something more concrete, an internal structure, financially independent, who took the name "Rotary".
initial appropriations and donations were not very fruitful. After the death of Paul Harris, which took place in Chicago in 1947, however, the huge donations made in honor of the Foundation did the real arm of Rotary in the World. On that occasion Rotarians contribute a verse to The Rotary Foundation of $ 2 million.
The force of the Foundation with the great availability receipts rose. For young people launched a special program called "Ambassadorial Scholarship", starting to call the participating students "Paul Harris Fellow.
The operation was a success. The level of awareness and dissemination of the title "Paul Harris Fellow" encourages the Foundation to use it better. In 1957 his visionary directors created an official statement that acknowledged the title of "Paul Harris Fellow, Foundation donors who pay $ 1,000.
To encourage the repetition of donations, whether by individuals, the initial recognition, consists of a scroll and a badge with the portrait of Paul Harris, was enriched with the inclusion of some of the distinctive gemstones: sapphires and rubies, reflecting the repeated donation. Today
PHF have 10 degrees, 10 levels of value, from the simple to the first payment of 1,000 (thousand) dollars in the last one that shows the payment of 10,000 (ten thousand) dollars.
Here is the sequence:
first • $ 1,000 - $ 2,000 from distinctive
• - •
a sapphire from $ 3,000 - two sapphires
• from $ 4,000 - three sapphires from
• $ 5,000 - four sapphires
• from $ 6,000 - five sapphires
• from $ 7,000 - a ruby \u200b\u200b
• from $ 8,000 - two rubies
• from $ 9,000 - three rubies
• from $ 10,000, is awarded the title " Major Donor "or a" major donor ". For
"great gift" means a minimum contribution of $ 10,000 paid by an individual or a couple. All donations paid to the Foundation by a donor or a pair are counted in order to receive this award, regardless of cause or mode of payment ..
donors who so request can enrich the badge with a diamond.
There are different levels of recognition, depending on the donation:
Level Contribution (USD)
1 - 10,000 to 24,999
2 - 25,000 to 49,999
3 - 50,000 to 99,999
4 - 100,000 to 249,999
Arch C. Klumph Society.
Level Contribution (USD)
Circle Foundation and more than 1 million
Club President from 500,000 to 999,999
Circle of directors from 250,000 to 499,999.
Today awarded the PHF are over one million.
Here are the figures at 30 June 2008 (latest available).
Paul Harris: 1,126,784
Benefactors: 77,776
Major Donors: 10,105
In all these years, thanks to continued contributions, the Foundation has implemented important initiatives is that local application of Thick world.
The most famous and important, as we all know, the one dedicated to the eradication of Polio from the world that our District will celebrate in a few days with great joy!
The most famous and important, as we all know, the one dedicated to the eradication of Polio from the world that our District will celebrate in a few days with great joy!
The history of PHF is a great and beautiful story!
Thank you, dear friends, your always welcome attention.
Mario Virdis
Mario Virdis
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