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Our Club's Founding & Early YearsPrevious page | Next pageThe Conway Kiwanis Club was founded in 1924. A sufficient number of potential members had signed up by July 23 (the date which would be used in the charter), and two days later an organizational meeting was held at the First (United) Methodist Church. A charter night meeting was conducted at the Revilo (later, Bachelor) Hotel on November 18. The local citizen primarily responsible for the founding of the club was Hendrix College professor and dean Charles Jerome Greene. Our Club's First
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C.J. Greene President |
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Victor D. Hill Vice-President |
C. C. Denney Trustee |
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G. Russell Brown Secretary |
George Shaw, Jr. Treasurer |
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C. E. Benefield W. H. Brummett B. Paul Clayton G. A. Covington Leslie Crafton Leo P. Crafton J. C. Davis Charles E. Durham** O. Oscar Florence Oscar E. Goddard |
Ivan H. Grove Frank H. Harrin B. M. Harton Cole Harton William Harton Henry W. Kamp Benjamin T. Laney* John E. Little A. J. Meadors J. B. Morris |
I. N. McCollum G. S. McHenry W. L. Thickston J. Hugh Pence Frank Robins, Jr. W. J. Short H. B. Simmons Thomas S. Staples W. B. Stark John Storch J. H. Thompson |
*Ben Laney would later serve as Governor of Arkansas (1945-1949).
** In 1946, the 83-year-old C. E. Durham was recognized as the oldest active member of Kiwanis International. (He died in 1951 at the age of 88.)
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