History:

The Twenties

In February of 1922, Walter Mayo, an Ashland Kentucky Rotarian and a frequent business visitor in Pikeville, began conversations with Norman A. Chrisman concerning a Rotary Club in Pikeville. These talks continued and later included J. Frank Record, then president of Pikeville College. Norman and Frank became enthused about the possibility and as a result, in early April of that year, Rotarian Mayo met with Chrisman, Record and 15 other Pikeville business and professional men at the Jefferson Hotel. At that meeting the seventeen Pikeville men agreed to form a Rotary Club by signing a charter application with the Ashland Club to act as sponsor. On April 20, 1922, twenty-two members of the sponsoring Ashland Rotary Club came to Pikeville for the formal organizational meeting. Thus began "Service Above Self" in Pikeville. From its' beginning the Pikeville Rotary Club has been an active influence for progress in the community. The club was admitted to Rotary International on May 1, 1922.