BEALETON-REMINGTON RURITAN CLUB
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Fellowship, Goodwill and Community Service
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Welcome to the Bealeton-Remington Ruritan Web site.
We are located in Bealeton, VA. This is a source of
information about the Ruritan Club as well as a link to
information about events and news affecting our
community. If you have ideas or information you would
like to see on this site, or if you would like to contact us
for any reason email us by CLICKING HERE.
After clicking on the map link, hit your back arrow
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Our Annual Beef & Shrimp Dinner will be held Saturday,
September 29th, from 4-8pm at Liberty High School. Menu
will include Beef, Shrimp, green beans and potatoes,
coleslaw, dinner rolls, and various deserts
Click here for more details
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BRIEF HISTORY OF BEALETON-REMINGTON
RURITAN CLUB
We were organized and have remained intact since 1936.
The membership report to Ruritan National for the
meeting of September 11, 1936 noted the election of
officers on August 11, 1936, with September being the
second meeting with 42 present and a "special meeting"
Charter Night with 39 present. Our Charter No. 26 is
dated September 16, 1936, and could well be the
"Special Meeting" at which the charter was presented.
From the beginning the club began to function with the
appointment of a finance committee which reported in
December to raffle a radio and hold a box supper and
bingo party. Also, delegates to the National Convention
were appointed which signaled the early participation of
the Club in the National organization. To see the full story
CLICK HERE
Would you like to be part of Ruritan?
Does fellowship, goodwill, and community service sound
like something that you would want to be involved with?
If so Ruritan is for you. Below are links to
information about Ruritan. If you would like further
information on how to become a member please fill out
this FORM
About Ruritan
Ruritan National Website
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Ruritan History
Ruritan began in Holland, Virginia in 1928. Tom Downing
of Suffolk, Virginia and Jack Gwaltney of Holland, Virginia
are known as the co-founders of Ruritan. Downing and
Gwaltney recognized the need for an organization where
community leaders could meet and discuss ways to make
their communities better places in which to live. Daisy
Nurney, a reporter for the Virginian- Pilot newspaper in
Norfolk, suggested the name "Ruritan". The new
organization unanimously adopted "Ruritan" for its name.
Since then, the Ruritan tradition of local community service
has expanded to include more than 34,000 Ruritan
volunteers. This continued tradition has earned Ruritan the
reputation of "America's Leading Community Service
Organization" in more than 1,200 communities across the
nation.
