The Del Rio Club was organized as club number 1285 in 1922. Arthur Mayhew of Uvalde Rotary Club came to Del Rio and induced Phil B. Foster to call a meeting of local businessmen in the St Charles Hotel the night of October 12, 1922. Seventeen men were present at this meeting and these seventeen men organized and became the charter, members of the Del Rio Rotary Club. The club got its charter on November 22, 1922.