Rotary club in our town was founded on 28 January 1934th , and chartered 18th May next year. The founder and first president of the club was Arthur Burda (1894-1984), a prominent citizen of Banja Luka, businessman and honorary Polish consul. The club was active until the Second World War, that in 1941 spreaded in our country. The last president of the club at that time was a famous painter, ethnologist and director of the Museum Spiridon Spiro Bocaric (1876-1941).
The Rotary Club members, in that period, were:
- Spiridon Špiro Bocarić, painter and director of Museum of Vrbaska banovina
- Dušan Boberić, Head of the main branch of the State Mortgage Bank
- dr Georgije Bukinac, doctor
- Artur Burda, owner of the fish pond and honoured consul of Polish Republic
- Rudolf Cisač, pharmacist
- Pavle Fišer, hardware merchant
- Makso Đurković, The administrator of wood processing company "Bosna-boa"
- Gojko Guteša, director of financial directive
- Dragutin R. Jelačić, head of State Mortgage House agency
- dr Kosta Kondić, vet. inspector
- dr Jakov Levi, dentist
- Rajko Malić, solicitor
- Vladimir Malić, merchant from Bosanska Gradiška
- Lazar Marković, head of Department of Agriculture of Regional Administration and winegrower
- dr Stevo Moljević, solicitor and district officer
- Borivoje Nedić, professor, translator, Shakespeareologist, playwright and theater manager
- Milan Popović, milk manufacturer
- Vojislav Pravica, head of National Bank branch office
- Fedo Šlajmer, director of "Elektrobosna" in Jajce
- Miroslav Vilhem, Director of wood processing company "Bosna-boa"
