Past President Hedke wrote this just after the second world war. Hedke, from Detroit, Michigan, was born in Germany 61 years earlier and the great conflicts of the first half of the 20th century influenced him greatly.
 
As you will all know, the next year saw the death of our founder Paul Harris and the establishment of the Ambassadorial Scholarship program of the Foundation. But did you know that there is an earlier Rotary scholarship program?. The Georgia Rotary Scholarship Program was established in 1946 by Rotarians in that American state.