Ted Hall

One hundred years ago this month, business and industry leaders in Belmont were working to organize a new Rotary Club.A few weeks earlier, Belmont attorney Harley B. Gaston and two friends, Arch Lineberger and Henry Jordan, had visited the nearby five-year-old Gastonia Rotary Club, and they returned excited about forming a club in their city. After weeks of planning and preparation, the Belmont Rotary Club was elected to membership in Rotary International on Dec. 14, 1925, as club number 2182. (Today, there are more than 46,000 Rotary clubs with over 1.4 million members in 200-plus countries.) Nineteen charter members were inducted, and Harley B. Gaston became the club's first president. The Gastonia Rotary Club sponsored the membership for the neighboring Belmont club. Under the leadership of President Ken Pahon, the Belmont Rotary Club has been celebrating the centennial all year with banners on the website and weekly bulletins.

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