Formal engraved invitations were mailed, and the Nome Club's charter presentation ceremony was held in the Bering Sea Club at 7:30 PM on November 14, 1946. Guests included the Commanding Officer and Quartermaster of the Nome Army Garrison with their wives, the mayor of Nome and his wife, and Nome's professional and business elite and their spouses.

Fairbanks Club President Dan Lhamon, who was manager of the Northern Commercial Company Cat Department, served in the role of special representative to District 101 governor Fletcher, and was featured speaker. Lhamon's round trip fare from Fairbanks was "about $186.30." The program began with an invocation by Nome Rotarian Rev. Murlin Day. President Harper accepted the club's charter, following a dinner of roast turkey with all the trimmings, including lettuce salad, ripe olives and "crisp celery," some accomplishment in the frontier Nome of the 1940's.

In his report to District Governor Fletcher, Lhamon wrote that "the ceremony closed with the presentation of the Canadian and American flags and the entire party raised their voices in singing the Star Spangled Banner." "You may be sure," Lhamon wrote, "that this group will grow in strength and importance, that the Fairbanks organization will continue their interest, and that you may well be proud the Nome club was added to District #101 during your tenure." The club was only Alaska's 8th, and by far its most remote. To Ketchikan and Juneau, during the war years Rotary had grown into Fairbanks (1940), Anchorage, Sitka and Petersburg (1941) and Kodiak (1942).

On August 1, 1947, Nome received its first visit by a District Governor, Frank Doherty of Victoria, British Columbia. Doherty described the club as "inexperienced but willing and is on its way...they needed a lot of explaining as they did not know what it was all about." According to Doherty's August 7, 1947 report to R.I. the Nome club in the previous year "raised $2,500 for Boy Scouts and they intend to carry on. In this group they are made up of native, halfbreeds and whites." "They are doing wonderful work," Doherty wrote. His impression of the club's officers was "a fine type."

"This club is at the end of the line," wrote Governor Ed Warner in August 1948. "Good officers and interested members, fine standing in the community, intense desire to accomplish something," despite "for some reason which seems to be hidden - a hostile attitude on the part of the local Catholic priest which disturbs smooth operation of the club."

The Tacoma-based District Governor described "Boy and Girl Scout work" as the clubs most outstanding activity. "In their own town the Rotary club has made it possible (for the Scouts) to own their own building," Warner wrote, though "finding scout leaders is quite a problem..."

Nome's Maynard Columbus Hospital, on the northwest corner of 2nd and West C Streets, burned to the ground on March 11, 1948. In his report on August 10, 1948, Warner noted that after the structure burned, "the Rotary Club obtained options on a site for a new one and did other pre-organization work and had the whole so liquid that when the Board of the Methodist Ladies who operate the hospital came to look over the situation, they decided to rebuild at once. Their own statement (unsolicited) was that if the Rotary Club had not done what they did -- the hospital would not have been rebuilt. I saw the new building -- beautiful and seemingly adequate for the whole territory thereabouts, at least sixty percent complete and a full crew of men on the job."

This new hospital, Maynard MacDougall Memorial, served the town for almost thirty years. The Nome club was "100% fellowship" but with only 12 attendees at the annual club assembly in 1949, according to the governor's report. Since the previous year, the club had been meeting Thursday noons at the Pioneer Grill. "Does this club adhere strictly to the classification principal?" asked the form. "No," answered Governor F. Jackson. "To the standards of Rotary club membership?" "No," he wrote. The club, nonetheless, was "very active in the community's various youth associations," especially the Boy and Girl Scout troops, and there was some involvement with the Red Cross into the early 1950's.