More than 80 farmers of the district were entertained at a joint meeting of the Rotary, Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce at a banquet given at the Congregational Church Gymnasiumon the evening of February 28, 1939. Moving pictures of the Sixth World Poultry Congress were shown by Merle Wagoner of the club. In as much as the Seventh World Poultry Congress was to be held in Cleveland in July the pictures were especially interesting to the farmers in attendance.
Portage County elected a Kent Rotarian to the Ohio General Assembly in Columbus when it named Griff Evans as its representative. He was reelected to three more terms.
There was but one death in the Kent Rotary in the year but a significant one. William W Reed, a charter member of the club, and Past Rotary President passed away March 30, 1939. Will Reed was a man of multitudinous activities and connected with so many civic enterprises it would be difficult to list them all and have the summary complete. He was founder and head of the W W Reed insurance company, past postmaster, and served as President of the Chamber of Commerce for eight consecutive years. it’s most appropriate that the chamber in recent years named its annual Kent Public Service Medal in his name, the W.W. Reed Medal. He was also instrumental in developing the University Heights residential area.
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Jim Myers
