On Dec. 9, the Rotary Club of the San Juan Islands proudly presented a $7,000 check to the San Juan Island School District’s STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) program.

A century ago, Ketchikan formed Alaska’s first Rotary Club. In the fall of 1924, Harry C. Nunan, the Ketchikan manager for the New England Fish Company, had the idea of bringing the then 19-year-old ...