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Lambert held a luncheon meeting with four of Manila's prominent businessmen (Alfa Walter Beam, Fred Neal Berry, Edwin Emil Elser, and James Geary) to form an organizing committee. Another meeting later resulted in the formation of a Manila Rotary Club. The 38 charter members were men heavily involved in the sociopoliticoeconomic life of the country and active in many socio-civic endeavors. They included 35 Americans, 2 Filipinos, and 1 Chinese. Elected as officers were President Leon Lambert, Vice President Alfonso Sy Cip, Secretary Edwin Emil Elser, Treasurer Alfa Walter Beam, and Directors Fred Neal Berry, Gregorio Morente Nieva, and James Geary.
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Edwin Emil Elser (21 Feb 1867, Hartford, Connecticut – 17 Jul 1962): Arrived in Manila in 1901 as agent of E.C. McCullough & Co. Became the leader in the
Philippine insurance business, and an officer in some 20 companies and the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands. Rotary Club
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Chicago about the possibility of organizing Rotary in the Philippines. In response to Lambert's proposal, Rotary sent Roger D. Pinneo of the Seattle Rotary Club to the Philippines to help set up a club in Manila. On
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Community Chest Foundation, the Philippine Band of Mercy (1937), the Philippine Safety
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Alfa Walter Beam married Lydia Hart McKee (1 Oct 1881, Kansas–18 Oct 1934, Los
Angeles, California) on 12 Jun 1913 in Leavenworth, Kansas. They had a son, Alfa Walter Beam, Jr. (born 14 Oct 1916, Manila), and a daughter, Eugenia Beam Reynolds (8 Dec 1920, Manila–25 Oct 1945, Washington
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Philippines in 1902 to take up assignment at Post Office. Later became President of Benguet Consolidated Mining
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International in Chicago that the Manila Club had been formally organised. In June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila heard from what became
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Philippines in 1898; served in the Spanish–American War. Clerk, Records Division, Civil Service of the Philippine Islands, 1904. Became agent of
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