RCMS has been a vibrant Club well known in the district for its hospitality and fellowship, award-winning bulletins, rewarding projects in all avenues of service. A brief note of our projects and other activities is provided in the pages under the link 'Projects'. More detailed information is available in the Golden Jubilee Commemorative Volume. Please Click Here to access the book.

Rotary Club of Madras South [RCMS] was chartered on 30^th June 1960. It was the second club in Chennai (earlier known as Madras). The first Club in the city, Rotary Club of Madras (fourth club in India), was chartered in July 1929. It was only in 1960, the then Governor, Gopal Rao, of the then District 320, strongly supported by P.N. Ethiraj, R.P. Sarathy, S.S.T. Chary, PDG D.C. Kothari and others, finally succeeded in getting Madras Club to cede territory south of Adyar River to form the second club. The Rotary enthusiasts of the south met on the 17^th June 1960 in the Library Room of the Guindy Industrial Estate under the Presidentship of Governor K. Gopal Rao and the provisional Rotary Club of Madras South was inaugurated at the meeting. It was chartered on 30^th June 1960 with 24 members; most of them were small scale industrialists with their factories at the Guindy Industrial Estate. The Charter was officially presented on 1st September 1960 at a function presided over by PDG D C Kothari.

Frank Bradbury Pratt of English Electric Company was chosen as President, J.K. Mullick as Vice-President and Ramakrishnan Raja as Secretary. Among the professional leaders were Dr. S.K. Baratf( CLRI), A.K. Parameswara Rao  (Chartered Accountant), E.N Narayanaswamy (Industries Department), Chandramouli (Horti-culturist), Muralidhar (Jeweller) and Veerappa Chettiar, (Quarry owner). During the first few years, the members concentrated on Club Service and International Service.

The District 320 then covered all clubs of Madras, Kerala and Sri Lanka. Most of the members attended District Assemblies and Conferences, Seminars and One-day Institutes. They organized several inter-city meetings and fireside meetings. This massive involvement was necessary for them to understand the Rotary movement. Not only this pre-occupation but, the slow tempo of resource mobilization restricted their community service activities in the early years. They met in Hotel Oceanic on Fridays before moving to Hotel Savera. The first few years of Madras South were devoted to consolidation, indoctrination, publicity and public relations all of which gave our Club a distinct stamp and made it very popular in the District.