Rotary Club
Karlovac
District 1910
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Dear Friends
Daniel Butala - Panoramic View
Of Karlovac
A group
of honourable people has started the big wheel of Rotarian Ideals again
after almost 62 years of intermission. It has taken us 3 years of strenuous
endeavor to celebrate today the foundation of the newly reestablished RC
Karlovac.
Motivated
by thc initiative of our dear friend from Karlovac, Davor Juretic, the
member of the RC Zagreb, we have gathered for the first time in the Citadel
Dubovac on 10th November, 1993. The first nucleus of RC Karlovac had 6 members
and as such became the part of the Table of RC Zagreb. At the beginning
of 1996 the number of members increased to 28.
Those were
the days of Karlovac's struggle for freedom against the Serbo-chetniks
agression. The Rotarian Ideals of service and aid were just the right thing
for this suffering town bordering the enemy territory. Being open to the
heavy artillery, it has fought its way to freedom, in blood and destruction,
finally in 1995.
Hundreds
of tons of the Rotarian Aid have been constantly coming to Karlovac from
all over the Europe: Wales, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy and
many others.
All the
time we have acted in favour of our milieu. Together with othcr RC clubs
we have provided substantial help for the numerous refugees, children,
as well as those wounded in the war, for the Institution for the Retarded
Pcople, for the hospitals in Karlovac and many others who needed our help.
Still our
goal is to provide means and ideals for the establishment of the new democratic
country; to improve the conditions we are living in, and as a part of a
big Rotarian Wheel, we want to serve and support the Ideal of Truth, International
Understanding and Respect, Friendship, Tolcrance and the Responsibility
in Private, Professional and Public Life.
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