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Rotary International is a professional service organization that was founded in the year 1905 by Paul H. Harris in Chicago, Illinois. It was originally known as the Rotary Club. It was called the Rotary Club due to it's members practice of rotating the location of meetings between the offices of various members. In 1925, the organization consisted of 108,000 members spread across six continents and over 2,000 clubs. In the year 1922, the name was changed due to the international character of Rotary Club's. Rotary International's charitable arm, the Rotary Foundation, has donated thousands of dollars to various causes such as the quest to eradicate polio worldwide.

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Seckatary Hawkins is a character from a series of children’s novels published between 1921 and 1932 written by Robert F. Schulkers. Seckatary Hawkins and his adventures were also broadcasted on a national NBC radio broadcast. In larger urban areas, numerous Seckatary Hawkins clubs, called “The Fair and Square Club”, were established. The slogan of the club was “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits”. 

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The Native Daughters of the Golden West (NDGW) was founded in Jackson, California by Lilly O. Reichling during the fall of 1886. Jackson was a small mining town southeast of Sacramento. By the early twentieth century, NDGW had orders across northern and central California. It moved its headquarters to San Francisco and spread to southern California thereafter. From its earliest days, the NDGW was interested in preserving Anglo landmarks throughout the state.  Its mission expanded to include childrens’ charities, environmental issues, and the restoration of California’s Spanish Missions. This button is unique in that it is also a locket.  

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Founded in May 1922 by businessman Oscar Huelsman, KFIZ was one of the first radio stations in Wisconsin. Huelsman originally purchased the station to advertise his business selling cars.  Broadcasting out of Fond du Lac County, KFIZ is an AM station airing news, sports, and talk programming. In 1932, one of the programs featuring local entertainment was “Mites of the Mike”. 

KFIZ has expanded through the decades and is now owned by Yellow Dog Broadcasting, a division of Mountain Dog Media. Today, KFIZ owns multiple radio stations, a small newspaper, and a sign company. KFIZ also created a website at kfiz.com, where listeners can access the station.

Made of three main sections located in the center: The top section is an illustration of two gold lions facing each other, the middle section is a clear spot where a name tag sheet should be placed, and the bottom section is a gold ring with ion faces on the left and right side.  Everything is set on a white background and surrounding the main sections are a small gold ring and a larger blue ring with gold text. 

Lion Clubs International is a community service organization that was founded in Chicago in 1917 by Melvin Jones, a local businessman. He invited leaders of business club throughout the United States to participate in a meeting devoted to founding a community service organization led by local business leaders. The Lion Club is devoted to eradicating blindness and other health-related programs such as increasing diabetes awareness, in addition to environmental causes and a slew of other programs. Lion Clubs International has clubs in over 200 countries located throughout the world.

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The Lake Placid Club was a social and recreation club founded 1895 in a hotel on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, New York, under Melvil Dewey's (inventor of the Dewey Decimal system) leadership and according to his ideals. It was instrumental in Lake Placid's development as an internationally known resort. The Club had been an active center of skiing ever since the 1910s, including various attractions such as ski jumping, ice skating, ski-joring, carnivals, and cross-country ski lessons. Melvil Dewey's son Godfrey was involved in bringing the Winter Olympics to Lake Placid in 1932. Without the club's facilities and its national profile, Lake Placid would not have qualified to host the Games. In the 1930s, a group of students from the Yale School of Drama performed at the Club's Lakeside Theater during the summer months.

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This button is identifying a member of an I Can Take It Club; it may be a button that was packaged with a Shirley Temple look-a-like doll.  "I Can Take It Clubs" were popular during the 1930s and 40s and their membership was usually recorded on posters in doctors and dentist offices when children were well-behaved during their appointments. Temple was born April 23, 1928 and had her first acting role in 1932. 

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Corliss F. "Grandpa" Bulger was a radio personality, cartoonist, lecturer, entertainer, and homing pigeon expert. He was the host of the "Grandpa Bulger's Children's Hour program, in addition to being head of the Skippy's Secret Service Society (S.S.S.S.) Club as well as the Our Gang Radio Club.

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