In 1949, Mr. Alexander Sawaya brought the idea of establishing a Rotary club in Tripoli.
He and twenty eminent people from Tripoli composed the first foundation committee.
The Charter members were :

M. Mainland
M. Tisserand
Toufic Batache
M.A Souvestre
A. Niedrer
Wahib Nawfal
Dr. Joseph Faddoul
N. Bort
Nazem Miskawi
Najib Monla
Abdulhamid Awaida
Dr. Wahib Nini
Walid Sawaya
Elias Nahhas
Iskandar Sawaya

In 1950, the first official president, Dr.Wahib Nini was elected. The meeting was held at Alfred Hakim hotel.
Since then, all meeting were held on Tuesday evening and at : Alfred Hakim Hotel then Al-Muntazah Hotel, Chalet Du Petit Suisse, Silver Coast, Naoura Resort, Miramar Resort, Palma resort, Quality Inn and lately at Union Sportive).
A none exhaustive list of past Presidents follows :

Rachid Monla                                 1975-1976
J. Lenicky                                      1976-1977
Gustave Khlat                                1978-1979
Georges Karam ,Hazem Finge         1979-1980
George Lotfi                                  1979-1980
Rachid Monla                                 1980-1981
Amine Chabtini                              1982-1983
Hassan Issa                                  1983-1984
Mohamad Zok                               1984-1985
Bchara Karam                                1985-1986
Walid Mawlawi                               1986-1987
Dr. JeanPaul Kandlaft                     1987-1988
Dr. Christo Nejm                           1988-1989
Walid Mawlawi                               1989-1990
Joseph Issa el-Khoury                    1990-1991
Dr. Joseph Rachkidi                       1991-1992
Dr. Bachir Zok                               1991-1992
Edgar Habib                                  1993-1994
Marcell Taleb                                1994-1995
Seoud Alameddine                        1995-1996
Saadallah Issa                              1996-1997
Dr. Nabil Akkari                             1997-1998
Dr. Fouad Minkara                         1998-1999
Fawaz Foz                                    1999-2000
Samir Massad                               2011-2002
Spiro Rouhana                              2002-2003
Fayez Kobersi                               2003-2004
Ousama Zok                                2004-2005
Randa Zok                                   2005-2006
Nadim Khouri                                2006-2007
Rachad Miskawi                             2007-2008
Dr. Ola Ahdab                               2008-2009
Roni Azar                                     2009-2010
Layla Karami                                2010-2011

The club bell was offered to the club by Mr. Jean Fattal from R.C. Beirut.
Two members from the club were chosen as 2450 district governors:

- Dr. Wahib Nini (1973 - 1974).
- Dr. Hazem Finge (1992 - 1993).

The club founded the first Rotaract and Interact clubs in Lebanon.

In 2010, and during the presidency of P.P Rony Azar, the club was registered as an official Lebanese NGO (Reg# : 798).

Sixty three years passed, and the Wheel still rotating !