Trumansburg Rotary Club celebrating 90 years

Tompkins Weekly Staff
TRUMANSBURG – In a year where history is in the spotlight in Tompkins County, it is fitting for a service club to be marking a milestone of its own.
The Trumansburg Rotary Club will be celebrating its 90th anniversary on Sunday, April 23.
To mark the occasion, there will be a short program and a chicken barbecue at the Arthur Bouton American Legion Post 770, located at 4431 Seneca Road (north of the village, off Route 96) in Trumansburg. The Legion will offer a cash bar at 4:30, followed by one of the club’s famous chicken barbecues with all the sides, and a 90th anniversary cake.

The cost is $10 for dinner, which includes a half “Cornell recipe” barbecued chicken, coleslaw, salt potatoes and bread, to be served at 6 p.m. The barbecue recipe was developed by Rotarian Bob Baker, a member of the Ithaca noon club.
The Trumansburg Rotary Club was chartered in 1927, a time when the First National Bank at Trumansburg had assets of $1,212,005.78, Rothschild’s Department Store was selling girls’ shoes on sale for nine cents, licenses were first officially required for hunters, and the local newspaper bemoaned the decline in the farm horse population as the animals gave way to trucks and tractors.
And that year began the Trumansburg Rotary Clubs nearly a century of service to the local and world communities.