Celebrating 100 Years!
on May 5, 2025

The Rotary Club of Center was chartered in 1925! One Hundred years of history helping the community!

On May 5, 1925, fifteen Center business and professional men met at the Polley Hotel in Center to discuss plans to form a Rotary Club. Nacogdoches Club and their special representative, Eugene H. Blount, and District 13 Governor Harry H. Rogers, the organizational meeting resulted in electing R.S. Sanders as the Center Club's first president; J.C. Hurst, vice-president; W.W. Mayes, secretary and treasurer; and M.H. Voss, sergeant at arms; W.C. Windham, board member. Charter members: J.C. Blake, C.E. Hall, T.L. Hurst, O.F. Metz, F.E. Parker, Roy Payne, W.J. Rogers, S.H. Sanders, L.C. Smith, and M.M. Weaver.

On May 26, 1925, Rotary Club of Center was admitted to membership in Rotary International!