BRENHAM ROTARY CLUB DISSOLVING

  

One of the oldest civic organizations in Brenham is holding its final meeting tomorrow (Tuesday).

The Brenham Rotary Club, which was chartered in 1921, is being dissolved after their noon meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Cannery Kitchen. Brenham Rotary Club members just celebrated the club’s 100th anniversary last fall. Civic organizations across the US have seen dwindling attendance and membership recently, especially since the COVID-19 epidemic. At one time the Brenham Rotary Club had over 200 members, often with almost 100 showing up each Tuesday for their weekly luncheon meetings. But in 2009, a second club was formed in Brenham from the membership, the Rotary Club of Washington County.

A few years ago an attempt was made to merge the two clubs again under the name Brenham – Washington County Rotary Club. That merger never happened as Members of the Washington County Club did not want to assume the Brenham club’s charter date of 1921. There was also disagreement over the combined name for the club.

The Brenham Rotary Club’s charter members in 1921 included many familiar local names: T.A. Adams, F.L. Amsler, H.W. Arp, The Rev. S. Moylan Bird, W.A. Darter, E.P. Davis, W.J. Embrey, E.A. Eversburg, W.G. Grebe, A.W. Hacker, W.F. Hasskarl Sr., W.R. Jahnke, Abe Klein, J.J. Marek, Henry Mueller, George Neu, R.E. Nicholson, William Seidel Jr., William Stuckert, A.A. Wangemann, R.R. Wells, C.L. Wilkins, and Henrey Winkelmann.