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The Lexington Herald.....Wednesday, November 26,1919
(Headline) .....KIWANIS CLUB IS INAUGURATED HERE........
.....REGULAR OFFICERS TO BE SELECTED AT MEETING NEXT TUESDAY AT PHOENIX
The Kiwanis Club of Lexington was inaugurated Tuesday when fifty businessmen gathered at the Phoenix Hotel for a luncheon-conference for organization of a business men's club.
Senator Thomas A. Combs, temporary chairman, presided and R.J. Colbert acted as temporary secretary. This was the first regular session of the club although a number of preliminary and informal meetings have been held during the fall.
At the beginning of the session, G. Allison Holland explained in a brief address the purpose of the club. Mr. Holland stated that the Kiwanis Club was to upbuild the community, to maintain good fellowship among business men and to promote the welfare of business and business men of Lexington. Mr. Holland said that the Kiwanis Club was not a political or religious organization and was organized solely for the highest good of the community.
It had been the intention of the committee in charge of organization to elect officers at the opening meeting. After consideration it was decided to postpone the election until next Tuesday when the club will have the second regular meeting at the Phoenix Hotel. A committee on permanent organization and recommendation was appointed as follows: R.J. Colbert, Frank T. Justice, W.T. Congleton, J.T. Farmer and W.T. Woolfolk. This committee was instructed to meet this week and nominations for officers of the club and the Board of Directors for the first year. The committee will make its report at the next meeting.
Among those present at the luncheon were Senator Thomas A. Combs, Mayor-elect T.C. Bradley, James L. Watkins, Frank T. Justice, G. Allison Holland, J.R. Ruh, R.J. Colbert, Dr. E. Cronley Elliott, M. Kaufman, E.R. Redmon, W.T. Congleton, W.R. Embry, Charles B. Young, W.T. Woolfolk, R. Lee Cassell, Joseph J. Graddy, J.J. O'Brien, W.H. McCorkle, Higgins Lewis, John B. Milward, J.T. Farmer, C.M. Marshall, W.W. Estill, Maurice Loevenhart, Dr. Walter Matthews, L.M. Moore, W.M. Parrish, Martin S. Taylor, John Skain, Jess Rossell, E.R. Blackburn, W.P. Averit, E.B. Wrenn, Claud Spears, John R. Allen, Dr. L.C. Redmon, John T. Kincaid, C.R. Medaker, Waller B. Hunt, J.O.H. Simrall, Jacob Speyer, W.F. Klair. |
The Lexington Herald.....Wednesday, December 3, 1919
(Headline) .....J.W.MORRISON CHOSEN HEAD OF KIWANIS CLUB........
.....ORGANIZATION PLANS SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAM
J.W. Morrison, president of the Board of Commerce and secretary of the Lexington Roller Mills, was chosen head of the Lexington Kiwanis Club at the regular weekly meeting and luncheon of the organization Tuesday at the Phoenix Hotel. Other officers, chosen at a previous meetin, are: G. Allison Holland, vice president; Richard Van DerVeer, secretary; and Fred G. Stitz, treasurer.
Members of the club will discuss at the meeting Tuesday the location of the new municipal-auditorium building, $500,000 in bonds for which were approved at the November election. Everyone present will be asked to give opinions on the site for the building, and the sense of the meeting will be determined by a plurality of opinion.
Question of assessment of city property every two years will be discussed at he meeting December 23 by Mayor-elect Thomas C. Bradley. J. Will Stoll, Henry H. Barnes and Arch L. Hamilton, Lexington and Fayette county's representatives in the 1920 Legislature, will be invited to be present.
To arrange a holiday program for the club, at which wives and guests of members will be present, the following committee was appointed by Thomas A. Combs, chairman of the meeting: Dr. E. Cronley Elliott, Thomas C. Bradley, Maurice Loevenhart, C.R. Blackburn and John Milward.
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The Kiwanis Club of Lexington was chartered on January 8, 1920, by a small group of Lexington professionals and businessmen meeting at the old Phoenix Hotel on East Main Street. (The Lexington Public Library and Phoenix Park now occupy the former site of the Phoenix Hotel.) The original charter was made up of sixty-five members. Membership in 2005 stands at eighty dedicated men and women in the club's 85nd year. |
