An individual is designated a Paul Harris Fellow when the Rotary Foundation receives a donation of $1,000 in the name of that person. The Rotary Club of Galveston awarded its first Paul Harris Fellow to 90-year-old Wilbur Goodman in March 1978. A past president, Wilbur had been a member of the club for 63 of its then 65 years. By the close of the 1997-98 Rotary year, the club had named 92 Paul Harris Fellows: 81 members and former members, ten wives of members and former members and one nonmember Galvestonian.