{"id":76,"date":"2020-07-29T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T15:59:43","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/?page_id=76","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"76\" class=\"elementor elementor-76\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a00f933 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a00f933\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-95cf4fe\" data-id=\"95cf4fe\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dbf653b\" data-id=\"dbf653b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6f3e55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e6f3e55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">History...<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1a2778 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f1a2778\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/06\/Gyro_group_historical-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Some historical information about District 1 compiled from documents on the Gyro International site<\/b><br \/><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Gyro Club of Cleveland was formed\u00a0 in 1912, by three friends Paul Schwan, Edmund Kagy, and Jimmie Hubbell,<br \/>with\u00a0 the\u00a0 mission\u00a0 to\u00a0 be\u00a0 a\u00a0 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.<br \/>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\u00a0 proximity\u00a0 to\u00a0 join\u00a0 together. Immediately,\u00a0 those\u00a0 districts\u00a0 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,\u00a0 the\u00a0 council\u00a0 tinkered again\u00a0 and\u00a0 again\u00a0 with\u00a0 the\u00a0 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\u00a0 another\u00a0 in\u00a0 a\u00a0 district.\u00a0 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\u00a0 the\u00a0 time\u00a0 the\u00a0 districts\u00a0 were\u00a0 first formed in 1922, the districts were set up\u00a0 with\u00a0 constitutions\u00a0 and\u00a0 district officers.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Links to documents:<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/06\/Youre-Among-Friends-Brochure.pdf\">Youre-Among-Friends-Brochure<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/06\/Founders-Binder1-1.pdf\">Founders<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/06\/Timeline-Binder1.pdf\">Timeline<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c904c93\" data-id=\"c904c93\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a18af2f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a18af2f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e781ba9\" data-id=\"e781ba9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History&#8230; Some historical information about District 1 compiled from documents on the Gyro International site The Gyro Club of Cleveland was formed\u00a0 in 1912, by three friends Paul Schwan, Edmund Kagy, and Jimmie Hubbell,with\u00a0 the\u00a0 mission\u00a0 to\u00a0 be\u00a0 a\u00a0 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 &#038;hellip <i><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/?page_id=76\">read more<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/district1.gyro.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}