History...
Some historical information about District 1 compiled from documents on the Gyro International site
The Gyro Club of Cleveland was formed in 1912, by three friends Paul Schwan, Edmund Kagy, and Jimmie Hubbell,
with the mission to be a Fraternity of Friendship, but also embraced the Service Club concept wherein the members were into networking. The International Association was formed in 1917, along with the GyroScope magazine under copyright law.
At an executive meeting in 1922 in Toronto, the council decided that all Gyros would be better represented if North America were divided into five districts. Accordingly they set loose boundaries that would allow clubs in close proximity to join together. Immediately, those districts held elections and chose officers.The first Board of Governors thus met in Detroit on December 7, 1922.As more and more clubs joined the organization, the council tinkered again and again with the district boundaries over the next forty years.Upon review, it can be seen that this was an orderly process to make sure that the selected clubs could support one another in a district. The International Border was never taken into consideration with the result that five of the eleven districts have clubs both in Canada and the United States. At the time the districts were first formed in 1922, the districts were set up with constitutions and district officers.
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