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Fellowship of Rotarian Editors and Publishers
Welcome to the Fellowship of Rotarian Publishers and Editors
history page, provided by RGHF. If you are a Rotarian editor or
publisher for your Rotary club, district, fellowship, or other
Rotary group, we invite you to join our discussion group and
participate in fellowship and service activities.
The group was chartered on June 23, 2003, the International
Fellowship of Rotarian Editors & Publishers operates in
accordance with Rotary International, but is not an agency of,
or controlled by, Rotary International. In 2002-2003 Ray Taylor
(Pinehurst, NC) was Chairman of Rotary International’s Rotary
Fellowships committee. Ray asked Phil Morris (RC Furnitureland,
D7690, NC) to design and publish a website for Rotary
Fellowships. Together they developed
www.rotaryfellowships.org . Why Phil? In the early
1990’s Ray asked Phil to serve as their District’s club bulletin
committee chairman and years later, their district website was
started.
Backtrack to 2000, when a Rotarian in the neighbouring district
expressed interest to Ray Taylor for developing a fellowship for
club newsletter editors, he called Phil again to see if he would
be interested in supporting this effort… that is how Phil came
to know Ken Scheffel(RC Chapel Hill,D7710)
Ken Scheffel served IFREP as Charter Secretary/Treasurer and
launched Volume I, Number I of PEN (Publishers & Editors News)
IFREP’s online newsletter on July 1, 2003
The acronyms IFREP and PEN were suggested by Don Higgins of RC
Pinellas Park, Florida, along with other suggestions from
members. In October 2002, by a two to one vote, the fellowship
became IFREP and the newsletter, the PEN. Don Higgins has been
IFREP webmaster from 2003 to present.
Designs for a fellowship logo were submitted by four member and
after a thorough exchange of views and some fine-tuning, the
artist’s palette quill and mouse was selected to represent IFREP.
Jack Tanner(RC North Fort Mayers, Florida) started the IFREP
yahoogroups forum as moderator in May 2002 until 2007 when Jack
made Giovanna McKay co-owner and co-moderator. She has since
then appointed Robin Chapple also as co-owner and co-moderator.
She has also made Madhumita Bishnu co-owner and co-moderator.
The group is interested in getting to know other editors and
publishers, sharing ideas and information about editing and
publishing Rotary documents, and helping each other promote
Rotary. Please visit the site web pages with sample District,
Rotary Club, and Fellowship publications and feel free to send
request to add links to your own published documents in PDF or
HTML format. And be sure to read our own IFREP Pen fellowship
newsletters with lots of tips on Rotary publications.
The purpose of this Group includes the following:
Provide easy method to contribute, distribute, and search for
ideas and information for bulletin editors.
Encourage more club members to accept the opportunity to be
bulletin editor.
Improve retention of current bulletin editors.
Improve club member's knowledge of Rotary.
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