História do Rotary
Revista The Rotarian
Desde seu início como periódico de 12 páginas, a revista The Rotarian tornou-se uma publicação premiada, com uma tiragem de mais de 500 mil exemplares, inspirando a criação de uma série de revistas regionais do Rotary.
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A primeira edição foi publicada em janeiro de 1911, com o nome The National Rotarian, e incluiu notícias de clubes existentes, anúncios de clubes novos e um artigo escrito por Paul Harris. No texto, o fundador do Rotary falou sobre o propósito dos Rotary Clubs e imaginou qual seria a resposta se ele perguntasse a todos os rotarianos: "Qual é a filosofia do Rotary na sua opinião?".
Harris e o secretário Chesley Perry lançaram a publicação para compartilhar informações com um número crescente de rotarianos. Perry foi o primeiro editor da revista e ocupou o cargo até 1928.
A formação oficial de clubes no Canadá e na Inglaterra fez com que a revista mudasse seu nome para The Rotarian, a partir da edição de setembro de 1912.
No começo, a revista se concentrou em ética comercial, desenvolvimento de caráter e crescimento do quadro associativo. Ao longo dos anos, críticos e autores bem conhecidos, além de artistas e fotógrafos populares, contribuíram com seu trabalho para as capas e páginas da revista.
Na década de 1940, a revista publicou muitos comentários sobre os efeitos da guerra, feitos por escritores e líderes proeminentes, como Sherwood Anderson, Winston Churchill, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells, Mohandas Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, Pearl Buck e J. Edgar Hoover. Uma seleção desses artigos foi reimpressa em três folhetos de 1942 a 1947 .
À medida que os Rotary Clubs se formavam pelo mundo, surgiam revistas regionais, oferecendo notícias do Rotary com uma perspectiva local. A primeira revista regional foi publicada na Grã-Bretanha e na Irlanda em 1915.
Mais da metade dos rotarianos de todo o mundo recebem uma revista regional, em vez da The Rotarian. A Rotary World Magazine Press publica mais de 30 revistas regionais oficialmente licenciadas. Essas publicações são produzidas de forma independente por rotarianos, distribuídas em mais de 130 países e publicadas em mais de 20 idiomas.
• Consulte edições passadas da The Rotarian.