Rotary Shares!

In the early 1900's, the City of Pueblo was hardly the unified, coordinated city it is now. In 1912, what is now Pueblo was four municipalities with two city halls, two water-supply districts, two city school districts, and lots of inter-community rivalry and competition. In 1911, local business man Bert Scribner happened to visit the newly formed Rotary Club in Salt Lake City where differing factions had come together in friendship "in Rotary." He brought that concept to his community. Pueblo was one of the first cities of under 50,000 to be allowed to join Rotary. Pueblo formed their own club and Rotary then allowed their charter to be granted on June 1, 1912 and Pueblo Rotary 43 was founded. 

 

That first year, twenty-two lines of business and professions were represented and they met at the Vail Hotel. The Club has encouraged and helped facilitate many improvements the City of Pueblo enjoys today - the paving of streets (1915), the placement of Memorial Hall near the river (1919), establishment of the Pueblo Therapy Center, the founding of the Pueblo Symphony (1923), support for the District 60 Stadium (1950) and many more! More recently, the Club's Dictionary project (2004) has provided thousands of third graders with their very own dictionary and the Club funded the Rotary 43 Centennial Pavilion at City Park (2012). The Club has been involved in projects as far as Venezuela, Mexico, Haiti, the Philippines and Vietnam.

 

Pueblo Rotary 43 members strive to live and serve using the Rotary four-way test: