District Governors

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Past District Governor Carl Tymm died in 2015 at the age of 84. Carl joined the Penticton (B.C.) Rotary club in 1971, and served as the club president in 1977. In 1989-90 he served as District Governor. In addition to Rotary, he was a longtime member of Penticton Freemasons and Shrine.

His friends in those organizations remember him for his favourite motto, “do good, be good, and have fun doing it.” He was an extremely positive individual who loved being of service. He greatly enjoyed being a greeter at Rotary events such as the club’s fall wine festival. He also represented the Penticton Rotary club on a goodwill trip to South Korea.

Carl was a Canadian Army reservist and a member of a local ham radio club. He had three children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Dr. Stojowski was born and raised in New York City. His Father was a concert pianist in New York and taught at the Julliard School in New York, the famous musical academy known for setting the standard in musical education worldwide. His Mother was from Peru and was a linguist. She also had an interest in Piano. She travelled to the US and while in New York, sought out the country’s most renowned concert pianist at the time and asked him who she should study with. His recommendation was to his student there in New York, Dr. Stojowski’s father. Eventually, the two were married. Dr. Stojowski can correctly boast that his parents were set up by the Nation’s most renowned concert pianist.

Dr. Stojowski attended prep school, college, and medical school at the distinguished Columbia University in New York.
He was married to Alice Stojowski, a former Nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, for 63 years before her passing in 2009. He has three children, Peter, Pam, and Jorden.

While in medical school, he befriended another medical student, from Wenatchee, Washington. His friend became an orthopedic surgeon while Dr. Stojowski became a thoracic surgeon. A thoracic surgeon required additional years of residency than orthopedics, so his friend was finished with his schooling first. He returned to Wenatchee and reached out to Dr. Stojowski, recommending that he consider locating to Wenatchee after his residency was finished. Dr. Stojowski came west to see the area fell in love with it, and has been here ever since.
At his friend’s recommendation, Dr. Stojowski moved to Wenatchee and set up a practice at the Wenatchee Valley Clinic. He was the only thoracic surgeon in the Valley at the time.

Dr. Ed Cadman (Rotary Titan, member for over 40 years, not only local chapter president but Rotary International President) suggested that Dr. Stojowski join our local Rotary club. Dr. Cadman was his sponsor. In 1961 Dr. Stojowski joined the Wenatchee Rotary. Dr. Ed Cadman started the Rotary Polio Plus movement to eradicate Polio around the world. The project became the focus of the global Rotary International Organization. Today, it has taken what was the epidemic that was polio and virtually obliterated it from the globe. Dr. Stojowski was a vital part of the initial project efforts with Dr. Cadman – launching the global project here from Wenatchee. From 1967-68 Dr. Stojowski was the president of the Wenatchee Rotary Club and later became District Governor (1988-89).

While District Governor, he spoke at a Rotary International meeting in Canada. To give you an idea of the kind of man he was, during his speech, he addressed the future of Rotary. At the time, Rotary accepted only male members. He told the crowd that the next essential step for Rotary was the admission of women Rotarians. He was booed off the stage. What happened shortly thereafter? Women members.
He attended multiple rotary international conventions, including those in Munich and Korea. There he learned another Rotary lesson. While attending the function in South Korea, this is after the Korean War, even though the countries were staunchly separate and opposed, there were North Korean Rotary members and delegates in attendance. This speaks volumes for the collegial fellowship of Rotary worldwide.
He is a Paul Harris Fellow and Wenatchee Rotary Foundation Paul SCEA Fellow.

Dr. Stojowski believed in actively participating in and working for the betterment of the community. Not only was he a busy thoracic surgeon, the only one in the valley for many years, and took on leadership roles in Rotary, he was a member of the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce as well, and even served a term as its president. He was also a longtime and accomplished participant in the local Wenatchee Musical Theatre. He had hoped to make age 100, which he did. He passed away on October 19, 2019. Read his amazing obituary HERE.

From his memorial service, read the handout listing 36 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT AL – PAGE 1  PAGE 2.

Owner of the North Kamloops Pharmacy since 1965, Chuck joined the Rotary Club of Kamloops North in 1967. In 1971-72, he was the club president. He served as district Secretary in 1975-76 and was the District Governor’s special representative for the formation of the Kamloops West Rotary Club.

His community activities included five years as a School Trustee, a member of the Kamloops, Recreation and Culture Commission and many more. When not involved in community, business or Rotary endeavours, he enjoyed athletics and travel. Chuck served as District Governor in 1987-88.

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Julian Agranoff was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 9, 1927 and moved with his family to Southern California in 1931.  In 1938 the family relocated to Soap Lake where Julian’s father managed a resort hotel.

He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering. During World War II Julian served in the Navy Air Corps. Following the war, he and Sylvia Cutler were married in 1948.

They are the parents of three daughters and have nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Julian’s career has included work with the US Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers.  He was also the Grant County planning Director for 21 years and had a State Farm Insurance Agency for 16 years.   He also served on the Ephrata Port Commission and Ephrata School Board.

Julian has been a member of the Ephrata Rotary club for 55 years, serving in almost every office in the club.  He was Governor of District 506 in 1986-1987. His Rotary service has included leading a GSE team to England. He was chair of the district GSE Committee for 5 years, and served on Rotary’s Council on Legislation three times.

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William Raymond “Bill” Fennell joined the Rotary Club of Kelowna Capri East in 1971. In addition to publishing the Kelowna and Area Five Club Roster, Bill also served on the executive committee of the club as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, and President. He was the District Governor’s Special Representative for the formation of Rotary Clubs in Okanagan Mission and Westbank, District Rotary Information chairman, area coordinator for Group Study Exchange and District 506 Extension Committee Chair.

Bill was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1931, and was educated there and in Manitoba. He received a Professional Engineer designation in 1960 and worked for some time in the oil industry. Following that, he entered the accounting field, studying in the United States and England. He then established a public accounting firm known as Fennell, Horton, Butler and Schneider.

He and his wife Shirley Anne had two children, Pamela and Jonathan. Bill was the District Governor in 1985-1986. He passed away on February 15, 2021, in Kelowna, BC. Read Bill’s obituary HERE.

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Dr. Arthur Ernest Walter (Art) Borchardt was born Aug. 21, 1918, in Ramona, S.D. to Albert Borchardt and Olga (Hannemann) Borchardt, and died October 25, 2009, in Yakima. He was raised on a dairy farm with six siblings. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a doctor and left home to attend Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery.

He began his medical practice in Lidgerwood, N.D., during WWII. Art often made house calls by a horse-drawn sleigh in the harsh winters, delivering babies in farm homes. In 1946 he and his wife Muriel moved to Seattle, where he practiced at Waldo Hospital. They moved to Sunnyside in 1948 with their three-week-old daughter, Judy. Daughter Kay joined the family in 1950. Art practiced in Sunnyside, Washington until he retired from active practice in 1984. He remained active in the profession until the age of 80. As the first osteopathic physician in the Lower Yakima Valley, Art was responsible for bringing other doctors of Osteopathic medicine to the Valley, splitting his practice several times as he mentored the new physicians.

He was instrumental in founding and building Sunnyside General Hospital, and Sunnyside Medical Center and founded Lower Valley Hospice. Art also was a past president of the Washington Osteopathic Medical Association.

Always active in community affairs, he was a Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow and also served as Governor of District 506 in Rotary year 1984-1985. He and Muriel sponsored and mentored Rotary Exchange students from Chile, Paraguay and Denmark, who lived with the family and attended high school in Sunnyside.

He was an avid hiker, enjoying backpacking trips into the Goat Rocks area of the North Cascades.

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PDG Gordon D Richardson August 12, 1928 – July 26, 2018

Gordon was from the Rotary Club of Vernon which he joined in 1970. He was their club president in 1972-1973. In 1983 he became District Governor of District 506. There were 40 clubs and they appreciated all their club visits at that time. They had a wonderful district conference with over 800 in attendance. Gordon supported the Rotary Foundation and was a Paul Harris Fellow. He was a Rotary International President’s aide to RI President Rep and Past RI Director Theodore D. Griley II. The Rotary Club of Vernon made him an honorary member in the last four years.

Gordon and his wife Sunny loved to downhill ski at Silver Star Mountain and golf at Hillview Golf Course. Gordon will be missed by all.

Gordon was born on August 12th, 1928 in Vegreville, Alberta and passed away on July 26th, 2018 in the North Okanagan Hospice at the age of 89 years. Gordon will be lovingly remembered by his wife Sunny, to whom he was married for 66 years; two sons, Dale (Sonja) and Wayne; one daughter, Lynn (Ian) Cobb; seven grandchildren, Isaac (Lindsey), Trevor, Adam (Erin), Riley, Kyle, Clark and Lee; two great-grandchildren, Jacob and Emily; two brothers, George (Keitha) and Jimmy; one sister, Lorraine; and numerous nieces, nephews and extended family members. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Elwood and Lloyd; and one daughter-in-law, Susan.

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Ray Levi Shutt was a graduate of Lincoln High School in Seattle where he met the love of his life, Ruth Hillock. They were both born in Seattle, in 1916 and she was a year later in 1917. They were married in January 1943. Later that year they moved to Wenatchee where both lived the rest of their lives. Ray was a member of the Wenatchee Rotary Club and was its president in 1978-79. He went on to serve as District Governor in 1982-83.

He and Ruth enjoyed travel and took many trips to Europe, Asia, and around the United States. Their favorite vacation spot however was Hawaii. Somehow in addition to Rotary, travel and other community activities, Ray found time to serve as the Director General of the Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festival in 1973. He died in Wenatchee on December 29, 1990.

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Peter Wing was born in Kamloops, B.C. and lived there most of his life. In 1934 he became a member of the Kamloops Board of Trade. In 1996 he became the first person of Chinese descent in North America to be elected mayor when he started a three-year term as mayor of Kamloops.

During his term as mayor, Wing was also President of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. Wing was also the first native-born mayor of Kamloops and served as District Governor of Rotary District 506 in 1981-1982. In 1976, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1990. In 1999, the city of Kamloops was renamed the Peter Wing Rotary Rose Garden in his honour.

On 27 December 2007, he died of a stroke at the age of 93 in Vancouver.

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F. Edgar (Ed) Johnson was born on December 23, 1912, in Magrath, Alberta Canada. At the age of 10, he moved with his family to Yakima, Washington; where he spent the remainder of his life. He was extremely active in the LDS Church, where he had several leadership positions including Branch President, Bishop, High Council, and Stake President. Married in 1934, he first entered the fruit business with J. M. Perry and C. M. Holtzinger. In 1948 he became a partner in a fruit processing brokerage, and became full owner after a fire destroyed the plant in Sunnyside in the early 1950s; the firm then became known as Johnson Fruit & Cold Storage until he retired in 1986.

He was noted for his love of his community, church, worldwide travel, a family that eventually reached 25 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren before his death, and Rotary. He was President of the Yakima Rotary Club in 1976-77, District Governor in 1980-81, and other leadership offices in the organization. Having suffered a heart attack in 1968, he also was a charter member of CAPRI, the special exercise program at the YMCA for heart attack survivors.

He passed away on September 12, 1996, in Yakima.

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Thomas MacRea Alexander (Tom) Watt was born in North Vancouver, BC in 1919, and married Yvonne Louise Wrench in 1946. They had three daughters, Judith, Lynda and Diane. In addition to world travel, he and Yvonne could regularly be found dancing at the Palomar Supper Club and the Panorama Roof Ballroom in Vancouver.

Tom was President of the Penticton Rotary Club in 1970-71 and served as District Governor of District 506 in 1979-1980. He worked as a pharmacist and both he and Yvonne were Paul Harris Fellows. He died in North Vancouver on June 8, 1991.

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Bert Christianson was a native of Council Bluffs, Iowa and received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Dakota. He later earned a Master’s degree in music from the University of Idaho. In 1944 when he was stationed at Vancouver Barracks, Washington he met Shirley Beckett and they were married the following year in Vancouver.

In 1947, they moved to Ellensburg, Washington where he was director of bands and professor of music for 31 years at Central Washington University. At Central he taught Woodwinds, conducting, and music education and led several different bands. He was a member of the American Band Masters Association and was the recipient of several awards. They included induction into the Washington Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.

Bert and Shirley were very active in the Ellensburg community and were longtime members of Grace Episcopal Church. After his retirement, they moved to Leavenworth, WA and later relocated to Wenatchee. He died in Cashmere in 2004 at the age of 90. Bert was a longtime member of the Ellensburg Rotary Club and served as District Governor of Rotary District 506 in 1978-1979.

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Henry A. (Hank) Shaw was born in British Columbia in 1908 and died in Kelowna, BC in 1993 at the age of 85. He was a member of the Kelowna Rotary Club although he first joined Rotary in Shanghai, China in 1947. He was a member of the Shanghai club until its termination due to political strife in 1949 and was in attendance at the last meeting of that club.

Originally with the American Confectionary Export firm in Shanghai in 1933, Henry was appointed manager of a bakery, restaurant and airport catering company in 1946 and held that position until all foreign operations were terminated in 1949. He and his wife Mary and their three daughters then moved to Kelowna. There, he was self-employed with feed manufacturing, cattle raising and turkey raising operations in Kamloops.

Hank was President of the Kelowna Rotary Club in 1957-1958 and District Governor in 1977-1978.

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James T. “Jim” Adamson Sr. was active in the Moses Lake and Leavenworth Rotary Clubs for over 50 years and served as Governor of Rotary District 506 in 1976-1977.

He was born and raised in Chehalis, WA, and attended Central Washington College of Education where he captained the varsity basketball team and was president of the student government. He earned his bachelor’s degree in education in 1948 and a master’s degree in 1955.
For most of his life, Jim was involved with sports and education. He was both a high school PE teacher and a multi-sport coach at Leavenworth and Moses Lake High Schools. He also was principal of Peshastin Dryden High School before returning to Moses Lake where he worked until his retirement in 1979.

He was an Eagle Scout in his youth and served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946 in the European Theater of Operations.
Jim was a founding member of the Cascade Medical Center Foundation and its president from 1992-2006. He was a long-time member of the Moses Lake Presbyterian Church and the Plain Community Church.

One of Jim’s favourite hobbies was woodworking, and many people and charitable organizations, including Rotary, have been recipients of his handiwork. He also enjoyed classical music, oil painting and travelling with friends and family. Jim was married for 68 years to Carol Burgess Adamson and they had three sons, six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

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Toru (Thomas) Kobayashi was a member of the Kamloops North Rotary Club when he was selected to be District Governor of District 506 in 1975-1976. He and four other members of his club appeared in an article in The Rotarian in 1960 when they were recognized for planting 100 trees in Kamloops Centennial Park. 75 of the trees were to recognize the 75th anniversary of RI and 25 recognized the 25th anniversary of their club.

Tom was born in Stevenson, British Columbia in 1918, and died in Kamloops in 2005. He and his wife Rose operated the Kamloops Optical Company. In addition to Rotary, he enjoyed all sports but particularly loved curling, badminton and fishing.

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Although “Lev” Craven was named Leavitt after his mother’s family, throughout his life, he was known as “Lev.” Leavitt Homer Craven was born on September 9, 1911, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He managed J. C. Penny stores for 38 years, and for 23 of those years was the manager of the Wenatchee store. He married Mary Maude Galloway in Weiser, Idaho on the 4th of July, 1936.

Lev joined the Wenatchee Rotary Club in 1952 and was its president in 1959-1960. He was District Governor of District 506 in 1974-1975. As a member of the Wenatchee club, he served on several committees and was appointed by then District Governor Ed Cadman to determine if there were enough businesses to start another club. He reported back that there was tremendous potential for another club and on December 12, 1968, the Wenatchee North Club was born. Lev died on January 18, 1990, in Wenatchee, Washington. In 2018, Wenatchee North was renamed Wenatchee Confluence Rotary.

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Woody was born in Prosser, WA, on November 29, 1916, and passed away on May 28, 1992, in Yakima, WA. After attending Prosser schools and graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in transportation, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy during WWII and eventually retired from the Navy Reserves with the rank of Lt. Commander. Following the war, he moved with his wife, Anne, to Yakima where he was employed by Bell Wyman Chrysler Dodge, and later owned Yakima Transfer and Storage. He joined the Yakima Rotary Club in 1951, was club president in 1959-60, and served as Governor of (then) District 506 in 1973-74. In 1977, he was awarded the District Citation for Meritorious Service. Along with his Rotary service, Woody was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Yakima, a long-time board member of the Salvation Army, and a member of the Board of Yakima Memorial Hospital. He is survived by three daughters, all married to Rotarians, and a grandson Rotarian.

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Dick Pritchard was born in Worcestershire, England in 1912 and moved to Canada in 1914, settling in the Okanogan Valley. After completing school in Armstrong, B.C., he received a teacher training diploma from Victoria Normal School and a B. A. degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Before retirement in 1969, he served as supervising principal of Penticton Secondary Schools for 25 years. His wife’s name was Jean. He was very active in his community’s life. Dick joined Rotary in 1957 and was president of the Penticton Rotary Club in 1961-1962. He served as Governor of District 506 in 1972-1973.

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Perry Howard Mitchell was born on a farm near Weiser, Idaho 1903, one of ten children of Alonzo and Olive Mitchell. He grew up in Idaho and Washington. In 1925, while still a student in Bellingham, Washington, he met and married Dorothy A. Asher. At the time, she worked as a telephone operator. Perry died in May of 1978 in Coupeville, Washington. In 1971-1972 Perry Mitchell served as the District Governor of Rotary District 506.

His career in Education included a teaching position in Renton, Washington in 1940, where he eventually became a school principal. His choice also led him to Central Washington College (now Central Washington University) where he worked for many years as the Registrar. From 1958 to 1961, he was the acting president of the college.

Morgan French was born in Alberta, Canada in 1910 and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1934 with a Bachelor’s degree in commerce. He became a Chartered Accountant in 1937 and moved to Kamloops in 1944. A year following his arrival in Kamloops he joined the Kamloops Rotary Club and in 1948-49 was the club’s president. In addition to leading the club, over the years, he served as its secretary, treasurer and accountant. He was involved in the District and served on several committees. In 1970-71 he was Governor of District 506. Morgan and his wife Mildred had two children.

They then moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where John was a member of an accounting firm. He later worked in accounting for firms in Boise, Idaho and Moses Lake, Washington. While living in Moses Lake, he was elected mayor and was largely responsible for an arrangement with Japan Air Lines to train their pilots at the old Larson Air Force base, located there. He was a member of the Moses Lake Rotary Club and elected to be District Governor of District 506 in 1969-1970.

Following retirement in 1976 John lived in Elkhorn, Nevada, Boise, Idaho and finally in Sun City, Arizona. Again, he was active in Rotary in all thee locations. During his retirement years, he spent much time playing golf and participating in the activities of his Rotary Clubs. John died at his home in Peoria, Arizona on October 29, 2006.

Dr. Ed Cadman, Rotary International President, and a leader in the creation of Rotary’s PolioPlus initiative. Dr. Cadman was president of Wenatchee Rotary 1962-63, PDG ‘68-69, RIP ‘85-86. The photo was from the cover of The Rotarian magazine.

Read more in The Rotarian, July 1985 cover story. Watch the video of Ed’s year as RI president HERE.

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A member of the Rotary Club of Kelowna since 1950, Harold was club President in 1955, District 5060 Governor 1967-1968, Director of Rotary International 1976-1978, a Nominating Committee member for President of Rotary International 4 times and Third Vice-President of Rotary International in 1977-1978. In addition to outstanding service to Rotary, Harold was recognized in the community and country, awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal (National award) in 1977, the Key to the City of Kelowna in 1986 and in 1997 was named the Male Citizen of the Year for Kelowna. PRIVP Dr. Harold Henderson passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 30, 2014, at the age of 94 with family at his side.

Bill was a charter member of the Yakima Pomological Club and helped form the Northwest Dwarf Tree Association. After his retirement, he worked as an orchard consultant and columnist for the Good Fruit Grower. From 1952 to 1968 he had a three-acre hobby and demonstration orchard in Yakima. In 1972 he published a book entitled Washington State Tree Fruit Industry… A Brief History.

Bill was awarded the American Pomological Society’s Wilder Medal in 1962 and served as president of the Washington State Horticultural Association in 1964. He was a long-time member of the Yakima Rotary Club and served as District Governor of District 506 in 1966-1967. At the time of his death in 1994, he was survived by his wife Barbara.

The Bill Luce Memorial Scholarship fund was created by the Washington State Horticultural Association Research and Scholarship Foundation in 1990. Scholarships from this fund are awarded to students enrolled in Washington State University’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape, pursuing a career in the tree fruit industry.

He soon turned to commercial production and what began as a fundraising effort grew into a retirement project and blossomed into Summerland Sweets! The business he founded is still in operation, selling candy, syrups, nuts, fruit snacks and more. His granddaughter and her husband now operate Sleeping Giant Winery on property adjacent to the company.

He was married to Inez (Ina) Newstrom. and served as Governor of Rotary District 506 in 1965-66.

He was manager of the Washington Growers Clearing House Association in Wenatchee, Washington. As a member of the Wenatchee Rotary Club, he served as it’s president in 1946, and was District Governor in 1963-64.

In 1944 Jim and Clara moved to Kamloops where he was engaged in business until his retirement in 1950. In 1944, he was introduced to the Kamloops Rotary Club by its founding president, Robert W. Irving. Jim served as president of that club from 1952 to 1953 and as District Governor from 1962-1963.

In addition to Rotary, he enjoyed golf and his volunteer time with several service organizations including The Canadian Red Cross, The Salvation Army, The Thompson Valley United Appeal and The Canadian Cancer Society. He

Oscar Lesley Boose was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania on March 10, 1882. After completing high school, he was a country school teacher for three years so that he could save enough money to go to college. He enrolled at the University of Michigan and graduated from there in 1908. While in law school, he worked for one summer for the Consolidated Coal Company and for two summers as a surrey driver in Yellowstone National Park.

He and a school friend, V. O. Nicholson, were admitted to the Michigan State Bar Association in 1908, and then travelled west by railroad, stopping for the summer to work for the Yellowstone Transportation Company. They then continued on west by train to Yakima, where they took a spur down to Sunnyside, Washington where Oscar’s brother, Harvey, worked for the local bank.

Harvey convinced Oscar and Nichoson to stay in Sunnyside and the pair opened their law practice there on November 4, 1908, as the State of Washington did not then require a separate examination for lawyers who had been already admitted to the bar in another state. Nichoson moved on in two years, Oscar stayed on in solo practice until he was later joined by Roger Garrison. He was Governor of Rotary District 506 in 1961-1962. Oscar retired from active practice on July 1, 1958, and passed away on September 23, 1976.

Dr. Lyman was a member of the Fort Simco Executive Council of the Boy Scouts of America and received the Silver Beaver Award from that council in 1962. He led the first Group Study Team from District 506 to New Zealand in 1959 and was District Governor from 1960-1961.
He and his wife Louise later moved to Los Alamitos, California where he again served as District Governor of District 532 in 1971-72.

During World War I, he was an officer in the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Air Force and the Canadian Air Force. After the war, he was a member of the regional advisory committee which placed retired personnel on the land under the Veterans Land Act.

[Note – only his high school photo is currently available.]

Larson was active in community affairs, serving as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church and the Board of the Chamber of Commerce. He was elected to the Yakima City Council in 1959 and during his 12 years on the council, he was instrumental in street improvements, saving the Metropolitan Parks District, the construction of a new sewage and wastewater treatment plant, and the creation of the Sister City relationship with Itayangi, Amori, Japan. Larson was elected Mayor by his fellow council members for nine years of his terms in office.
Joining the Yakima Rotary Club soon after he arrived in town, Jack was President of the Yakima Rotary Club in 1950 and Rotary District Governor in 1957-58. He passed away in December 1998 at the age of 94.

Jack was the first governor of District 506.

He served as District Governor of District 153 in Rotary year 1955-1956. During that year, he presided over the division of the district into two new districts. The Eastern portion became District 508 and the Western half became District 506. Those then eventually became 5080 and 5060 respectively.

Lillian died in 1940, and twenty-five years later in 1965, Bob remarried. His second wife was Doris Ella Muir who was born in Layton, England. Bob died in 1979 and is buried in Spokane, Washington.

After moving to Vernon, he developed a lifelong love for Curling and served as President of the Vernon Curling Club for 14 years beginning in 1936. In 1942 he ran for City Council in Vernon and served as Alderman for four years.

In 1953-54 Dolph served as Governor of Rotary District 153 which included Eastern British Columbia, Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho and part of Montana. As he travelled the district visiting clubs he was joined by his wife Florence, known as “Florrie” who was a musician. She often played the piano and sang for the clubs they visited. Dolph died on February 3, 1974, as they were leaving Vancouver for a vacation in Hawaii.

Edwin Smith was a member of the Wenatchee Rotary Club and was its president in 1939-1940. He was born in Lodi, New York in 1888, and died in Wenatchee, Washington in 1978. His wife Kathleen Philpott Smith was born in Dresden, Ontario in 1890 and immigrated to the United States in 1927. She died in Wenatchee in 1982.

Edwin was a horticulturist for the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agriculture Engineering. His principal responsibility was the handling, transportation and storage investigations of fruit and vegetables at the Wenatchee field station. Edwin was a member of the Wenatchee Rotary club and was its president in 1939-1940. He served as District Governor of District 153 in 1952-1953.

Shortly after arriving in Coeur d’Alene in 1921, Sidney became a charter member of the Coeur d’Alene Rotary Club. At the time of his death in 1969, he held 47 years of perfect attendance in that club. Sidney was District Governor of Rotary District 153 in 1951-1952. In addition to Rotary, he was active in the Presbyterian Church, Masonic Lodge, and Scottish Rite Shrine.

Harry was a member of the Nelson Rotary Club and served as Governor of District 153 in 1950-1951. He was a much sought-after Rotary speaker and spoke to Rotary and other service clubs across Canada and the U.S. In Nelson, he was very active in community affairs and served on the board of the Kootenay Lake District Hospital for 13 years, four of those as its president. He was also active in the Masons, Shrine, and was an honorary life member of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce.

As a young man in 1915, Roscoe rode for the first time in a Model T automobile, which had been introduced seven years earlier by Henry Ford. He subsequently joined the local dealership and made his living selling the cars to skeptical consumers wary about abandoning their horse-and-buggy habits. In his 1965 memoir, “Me and the Model T: The Great Race Across the U.S.,” Sheller wrote of his personal experiences with the iconic “Tin Lizzie” and his role in its groundbreaking success. He was the author of twenty-two books and numerous newspaper articles about the history of people and places in the Northwest.

He served as District Governor of District 153 in Rotary year 1949-1950.

Alfred was Governor of District 153 in 1948-1949. By coincidence, his adoptive father, William “Billy” Schuppel was Governor of District 510 in Oregon the same year. Continuing the family tradition, Alfred’s son Bill was president of the Spokane Rotary club in 1976-77.

He was elected mayor of Trail in 1924, serving for six years, until he retired in 1929. He again served as mayor of Trail from 1940 to 1946. For many years he was chairman of the Hospital Board and was very active in the Trail Masonic Lodge, as well as Rotary. Herb’s family remembered that he seemed to have some sort of meeting every night. He remained active in Rotary until his death in 1970 at the age of 85. In the 1947-1948 Rotary year, he was Governor of District 153.

He was appointed the first medical superintendent of the Tranquille Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Kamloops from 1907-1909. The facility was later called Padova City, and closed in 1953. In 1910 he founded the Irving Clinic which he operated for many years. He was also a member of the Kamloops School Board.

After leaving Kelowna, he moved to Victoria, BC and went to work for the Pacific Sheet Metal Works, Inc. and joined the Victoria Rotary Club. About 1964 he went to Scotland to assist in the settlement of the estate of a relative of his wife. While there he purchased a tract of land overlooking the Firth of Forth and built a western ranch-style home.

In 1967 he established the Rotary Club of North Berwick, Scotland and was its first president. Before he died in 1977 Robert was instrumental in planning and building homes for the elderly in the area. He described this as his “special Rotary project.”

Fred was a member of the Spokane Rotary Club, and served as its president in 1940-1941. In April, 1942 he was appointed Governor of District 101, to fill the uncompleted term of William R. Dowrey, and was on the Board of Rotary International in 1945-1946. He also served on the Rotary Council on Legislation in 1942.

Fred was a civic leader in Spokane serving as President of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce in 1933 and 1934. In that role, he presided over the opening bids for construction of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. In July of 1947, he suffered a fatal heart attack while walking to his office in downtown Spokane. In 1984, members of Jones’ family established the Fred K. Jones Memorial Award to honor the outstanding Rotarian of the Year in the Spokane Rotary Club 21.

After first joining Rotary in Grand Junction in 1919, he became a member of the Vancouver club when he moved to Canada in 1925. Dick was President of that club in 1934-35. He then served as District Governor in 1941-1942 and was elected a Director of Rotary International in 1946.

Like most District Governors of Rotary, he was a civic leader serving community organizations like the Y.M.C.A., the Community Chest (now the United Way), and the Chamber of Commerce. From 1948 to 1954, he was also the Mayor of Walla Walla.

A dedicated Rotarian, he joined the Walla Walla Rotary Club in 1921 and served a year as its president. “Nig” then went on to serve Rotary District 101 as Governor in 1940-1941. He was also a “field representative” for Rotary International in the Middle West during that time.
During his coaching years, he was approached regarding a position at Oregon State University in Corvallis. At the time he elected to remain in Walla Walla, explaining that he valued his Rotary classification more than a post at a larger institution where membership in Rotary might not be available. At the time of his death, he was manager of the Marcus Whitman Hotel in Walla Walla.

In 1947, Cornett, Oregon Governor-elect Snell, and the Oregon Secretary of State headed for a ranch near Kittredge, Oregon on a small plane for a goose hunting outing. They departed from Klamath Falls early one afternoon, and never arrived at the ranch. The plane encountered very stormy weather along the way causing it to crash. All three officials as well as the pilot were killed. A state funeral was held for the three at the State Capitol of Salem, Oregon. Cornett’s remains were interred near his birthplace in Burning Springs, Kentucky.

Dr. Fixott served on the Portland City Council in the early 1900s and was very active in Portland civic affairs. In addition to his 35 years as a Rotarian, he was a member of both Masons and The Shrine. He and his wife Eva Jane (Scott) were members of the Episcopal Church and he also served as trustee and treasurer of Good Samaritan Hospital.

As District Governor in 1940, he was the chair of a Rotary International Vocational Service Assembly in Havana, Cuba where he led a discussion of vocational service in clubs of 35 members or less.

Fred was a member of The Tacoma Rotary Club and was its president from 1932 to 1933. He served as District Governor of District 101 in 1937-1938. During his 30 years as a member of the Tacoma club, he maintained perfect attendance. Fred died in Los Angeles after a brief illness and his remains are interred in the family burial plot in Coupeville.

He was born in 1893 in Brechin, Ontario and died in 1970 in Victoria, BC where he was honored as “one of Victoria’s greatest citizens.” In 1910 when he moved to Victoria, Percy obtained an interest in a major clothing store and shortly after that, bought the business, renaming it Scurrah’s clothing Store. The store was a Victoria landmark until it closed in1962. In 1914 he married Mabel Dynes and they were married for 55 years.

Percy joined the Victoria Rotary Club in 1924 and maintained perfect attendance for 46 years until a few weeks before his death. He served Rotary as District Governor in 1934-1935 and was a Director of Rotary International in 1937-1938. In 1955 he was elected mayor of Victoria and served in that capacity for three terms. Among his accomplishments in Victoria were pulling the city out of financial difficulty, replacing the “shaky” Point Ellice Bridge and bringing the BC Ferries to Victoria.

“Bill” as he preferred to be called was born in London, England in 1887. After emigrating to the United States, he settled in Seattle before moving to Aberdeen, Washington where he ran an oil distribution business. Following retirement, he moved to Tacoma where he and his golf-minded partner Sam Allen built the Allenmore Golf Course. The partners were a little immodest in naming the course after themselves….Allen-More. That course is now known as the Tacoma Elks (Allenmore) Golf Course.

In Aberdeen he completed the term of the previous club president in 1928 and then served a full year in 1928-1929. He moved to Tacoma in 1930 and held membership under the classification “Public Golf Links.” Bill was District Governor of Rotary District #1 in 1933-1934. Shortly after completing his term as Governor, he returned briefly to Seattle before living in Portland until his death in 1959.

William McGilchrist served Rotary District #1 as Governor in 1932-1933. During his year as Governor, there were 70 clubs in the District.

In March of 1932, District Governor Morgan Eastman requested a leave of absence and Lyman Trumbull was selected to complete his term. In 1941-1942 he was appointed by Rotary International President Tom J. Davis to be a member of the Canadian Regional Extension Committee of Rotary International.

He was educated in Indiana and made his way back to Vernon, BC where was manager of a department store in 1914 and 1915. He relocated to Vancouver in 1918 where he founded Eastman Advertising Company which he ran until 1931 when it merged with another advertising agency. As Vice President of that agency, he became established as one of Canada’s most respected advertising executives. After serving as president of the Vancouver Rotary Club, he was elected District Governor in 1931.

In March of 1932, Morgan found it necessary to be away from Vancouver for business reasons until June. During those four months, Lyman Trumbull of Vancouver was selected to be “Acting Deputy Governor,” completing Eastman’s term of office. Morgan Eastman died on January 6, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario. He was survived by his wife Flossie (Milligan) Eastman and his son Richard. He and Flossie were married in Victoria in 1909.

When in Spokane, Albert was on the staff of St, Luke’s Hospital.In addition to Rotary, Dr. Cunningham loved to play golf and was a member of two Spokane area golf clubs. He was also on the board of the Y. M. C. A., and active in the local medical associations. Under his leadership, the Spokane Rotary club established a fund to treat children with cleft palate and other conditions. He was District Governor in 1929-1930.

“Jack” Casper served a term as president of the Walla Walla chamber of Commerce and was president of the Rotary club in 1927-1928. The following year, he was chosen to be District Governor of Rotary District #1. In addition to involvement in The Shrine he was one of the founders of the Boy Scouts in Walla Walla and served as president of the Blue Mountain Council of the Scouts. He died in Walla Walla in 1949.

On December 29, 1927, Many and his wife Catherine took a ferry from his home in Hunts Point on Lake Washington to Seattle for dinner with friends. As the boat approached the ferry dock, Manny attempted to start the car. When the starter failed, he got out and cranked the engine to get it started. At the first turn of the crank, the engine engaged and the car lunged backwards, crashing through the chain at the stern of the boat, and plunged into forty-five feet of water. He yelled at his wife to jump but she was unable to get clear of the car. Manny then dived into the water in an attempt to rescue her but was unsuccessful. Henry Manny lived in Seattle, until his death on March 15, 1942.

He was born in Frankford on the Trent River in Ontario, and received his early education there and later in Colbourn and Toronto. He moved west in 1908 and became associated with the Sprott-Shaw School and Rockford Academy. While not a charter member of the Victoria Rotary Club, he joined it about three months after it was established, serving as President in 1924-1925.

Campbell was involved in several business investments in the Seattle area including the Linden Record Company and the Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. At one time, he served as President of the S&L. In October of 1931, he and his business partners were found guilty of embezzling funds from both S&L and Linden. Both Campbell and his partner were sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison. That sentence was reaffirmed on appeal.

Frank C. Riggs was a pioneer in the automobile industry and one of the first car dealers in the Northwest. After twenty years in the automobile industry, he transferred his interest to bulb raising and nut growing and became an outstanding figure in both industries.

Frank was born in Watseka, Illinois, in 1867 and started his professional career in the bicycle industry in Syracuse, New York. He then moved to the rubber tire industry from 1905 to 1907 and was vice president of the Fisk Rubber Company in Chicago. Riggs became vice president of sales for the Packard Motor Company until 1915 and eventually was general manager of the Willys-Overland Company on the West Coast.

In the 1920’s he became one of the first commercial growers of daffodils in the Pacific Northwest. Frank was one of the early sponsors of the Portland Rose Festival and served as a judge at the festival for many years. He was an active Rotarian and served as president of the Portland Rotary Club in 1912. In 1924-1925 he was District Governor of Rotary’s District #1. Frank Riggs died at age 81 in 1949 in Portland Oregon.

Robert A. Booth, one of the founders of a major Oregon lumber company and the son of a Methodist Circuit Rider, was born May 15, 1858, in Yamhill County, Oregon.  He graduated from Umpqua Academy in Wilbur, Oregon, in 1875 and attended Heald Business College in San Francisco.  He received honorary degrees from the College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, in 1922, Willamette University in 1923 and the University of Oregon in 1929.

Booth was more than a successful businessman.  He was a State Senator for two terms in the Oregon Legislature.  He was also the leader in formulating the Oregon highway system and was chairman of its Highway Commission.  His civic activities included involvement in the State Parks Commission, Rotary, the Boy Scouts, Portland and Eugene Chambers of Commerce and the Oregon Land and Livestock Commission.  He was appointed District Governor in 1924-1925 but resigned in July.  He was temporarily replaced by PDG Miles Higley, who served briefly as Acting Governor. Frank Riggs was then chosen to complete the term for the Rotary year.

Robert Booth married Clintona A. LaRout in 1881, and they had four children. He died in Eugene, Oregon, on April 28, 1944.

Higley was born in St. Charles, Minnesota on November 24, 1867, and married Mae Florence Shields in 1897. As a young man in Minnesota, he worked on his father’s farm when not fishing and hunting. He described his younger life by saying “I am a real Yankee, even if I was born in Minnesota and lived on a farm until I was 15. I did what the average farm boy does, getting up at five o’clock to do chores before going to school.”

After moving to Spokane in 1897, he worked at the Griffith Plumbing and Heating company as a bookkeeper. From that position, he moved to the business college and remained there for his entire career. He loved fancy cars, and at one time owned eleven of them. Higley always described Rotary as “one of the greatest developers of men of all organizations.” Miles Higley died in Seattle, Washington in 1940.

Pioneer timberman and industrialist from Hoquaim, Washington, Frank H. Lamb wrote a number of books, one of which contributed significantly to the study of “broad leafed trees” and their impact on temperate forests of the world. He also wrote a book in 1924 titled The Future of Rotary when he was Vice President of Rotary International. Frank was District Governor in 1922-1923.

He was born in Imslaytown, New Jersey in 1875 and moved to Houaim in the summer of 1897. He lived there the remainder of his life. In addition to his contribution to the timber industry, Frank Lamb was one of the key leaders that pushed the Washington State Legislature to adopt the Port District Act. This legislation allowed communities to form and own public port districts.

Frank Lamb studied Botany at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he met and married Alice Emmerson. He died while on family vacation in Imlaystown, New Jersey in 1951. His remains were interred in Hoquaim.

Ernst Skeel earned his law degree in 1906 at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and worked his way through law school as a football coach at the nearby College of Wooster. In 1908 he married Marguerite Willard who later said “the most outstanding thing I did in college was marry the football coach.”

Ernie Skeel was a founder of the Seattle Rotary club in 1909 and helped establish clubs elsewhere in the state and in Alaska. He served as president of the Seattle club in 1914, and finally was Northwest District Governor in 1921-1922. As one of the early leaders in the district he wrote much of the early Constitution and By-laws of Rotary International. Ernst Skeel died in 1952 after a long illness.

In Portland, he opened a photographic supply store known as Pike & O’Neill Photo Supply Company. He eventually sold the store to the Eastman Kodak company. Later for several years, he was vice-president of the Portland Trust & Savings Bank until his retirement in about 1941.

In 1916, Nelson was elected president of the Portland Rotary Club and served as district Governor in 1920-1921. At his District Conference, he introduced the delegates to the concept of a “wheel” to be used in defining the attributes of a Rotary Club. The presentation was repeated at the next international convention of Rotary. Nelson G. Pike died in Portland at the age of 78 in 1945

“Clayt” as he was known, was not only active in Rotary but was also a leader in the Elks club, the Chamber of Commerce, his church, the Boy Scouts and the school board. It was said at the time that there was nothing in Everett in which he was not involved.
He first became interested in Rotary in 1916 when he was elected the Charter president of the Everett Rotary Club. He and the Rotary Club were instrumental in starting the National Guard in Everett and having the Everett Armory built. After his year as club president Clayt’s interest in Rotary continued and he served as Governor helping form 16 new clubs. He also laid the groundwork for ten more to be chartered the following year.

Charles E. Cochran was a graduate of Oregon State Normal College in Monmouth, with a Law degree from the University of Michigan; he practiced law in Portland. He and his brother George of LaGrande, Oregon were partners in the Law firm of Cochran and Cochran. For several years, he represented Union Pacific Lines as an assistant general attorney. He was married to Nellie Virginia Ghormley in 1905 and they had two daughters.

Cochran was a Shriner and a Rotarian, having been a member of the Portland Rotary Club and was District Governor of Rotary District #1 in 1919-1920. He was on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Rotary in 1924-1925. He died at the age of fifty in Hot Lake, Oregon. Cochran was selected to be District Governor for 1920-1921 but resigned in December of 1920 and was replaced by Nelson Pike.

Alex had a distinguished career in Rotary and for his many contributions to the Rotary cause and his profound knowledge of Rotary, he was affectionately known as “Mr. Rotary.” He was president of the Vancouver club from 1915 to 1916, was district Governor of District 22 from 1918-1919, and was a director of Rotary International from 1924-1925. He served on the Rotary International Board as chairman of the Canadian Advisory Committee.