| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2059 | | TITLE: | Edmonton Glenora Rotary Club fonds | | CREATOR: | Edmonton Glenora Rotary Club | | DATE RANGE: | 1990 - 2006 | | EXTENT: | 2.55 m of textual records and other material.
The fonds also includes 489 photographs, 17 negatives, and 7 floppy discs. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Edmonton Glenora Rotary Club, a faction of District 5370 of Rotary Clubs International, formed in 1990 in Edmonton, Alberta. In connection with its International association, the club operates "to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders." In pursuit of their objectives, the Edmonton Glenora Rotary Club has sponsored charitable programs such as Habitat for Humanity and the Have Heart Foundation. The club also and provides annual scholarships at the University of Alberta, and publishes a newsletter, The Gazette . | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of the operational and administrative records of the Edmonton Glenora Rotary Club including meeting minutes, annual financial statements, memberships lists, correspondence, publications, newsletters, photographs documenting club activities, constitution and by-laws, and agendas dating from 1990 to 2006. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | For more material on Rotary Clubs International, please see the Rotary International Archives in Lincolnwood, Illinois. | | RELATED RECORDS: | For more material on Rotary Clubs in Edmonton, please see the Edmonton Rotary Club fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the fonds and Rotary International, http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/RotaryInternational/GuidingPrinciples/Pages/ridefault.aspx (Accessed Feb. 13, 2008). |
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