July 1, 1926 - June 30 1927

President: D. A. Shiner
Vice Pres: C.E. Stewart
Secretary: W.A. Luce
District Governor: Tom Davis, Butte, Montana

Attendance: 87.47%
New Members: 10
Members Lost: 8
Members end of the year: 62

The first Club Roster was printed for this Club year. It shows Wenatchee Rotary "meets every Monday noon, Elk's Club Dining Room."

Much discussion was devoted to whether service clubs should disband and concentrate on the Chamber of Commerce. In fact, one service club did disband in early 1927. The Rotary Club of Centralia proposed a resolution to the District Conference, in part as follows:

"Whereas, duplication of effort by service clubs defeats the purposes for which they were organized and tends to develop jealous rivalries rather than wholesome fellowship and friendly competition, Be it Resolved that Rotary will not enter the smaller cities or towns having a population of three thousand or less, already adequately serviced by similar club organizations."

Our president was fearful that the whole membership might resign and the club disband "to be more helpful to the Chamber of Commerce." But nothing of the sort happened. The club held its own, functioned normally and profitably, and continued to be a real asset to the community. Thoughts of discontinuing were soon forgotten. Ins spite of the President's fear of resignations, the club better than held its own.

We had some interesting meetings. Wellington Pegg's August 2, 1926, address to the new members was a classic. Martin Warren's George Washington address was a masterpiece. An interesting visitor at the meeting of December 26 was H. V. Gates of Hillsboro, Oregon, an 84 year old engineer in charge of the East Wenatchee water system and system for the golf club. He had assisted in building the railroad across the Andes. At the meeting of January 10, Tom Pybus reviewed the speech of William Green, President of the A F of L at the Denver Rotary International Convention.

On February 2, District Governor Tom Davis, Butte, Montana, visited our club. He later went on to become President of Rotary International. Other outstanding Rotarians who visited us in early 1927 were Marshall Dana, Portland, and Randall Williams, Tacoma.

We again sponsored a Rotary float in the Apple Blossom Festival parade. Boys' and Girls' work was stressed. Each member of the girl's high school basketball team was given a silver basketball. It was stressed during the year that sponsors of new members should stick with the new member until he was acquainted with all members.