RI Presidents 1941

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This is your connection to presidents, their home clubs, themes (multiple languages), convention host clubs and convention histories. All of this at links above, here and below. The presidents of Rotary International from 1910.

Rotary Year

RI President/

(Pres- Home Club)

Theme

Graphics on the themes page

Conv. Host Club/

Conv. Web Page

1941-42

Tom J. Davis
(Butte, Montana, USA)

None

Toronto, ON, Canada
June 21-25 (6,599)

1942-43

Fernando Carbajal
(Lima, Perú)

None

St. Louis, MO, USA
May17-20 (3,851)

1943-44

Charles L. Wheeler
(San Francisco, California, USA)

None

Chicago, IL, USA
May 18-22 (403)

1944-45

Richard H. Wells
(Pocatello, Idaho, USA)

None

Chicago IL, USA
May 31, June 5, 12, (19,141)

1945-46

T. A. Warren
(Wolverhampton, Staffs, England)

None

Atlantic City, NJ, USA
June 2-6 (10,925)

1946-47

Richard C. Hedke
(Detroit, Michigan, USA)

None

San Francisco, CA, USA
June 8-12 (14,678)

1947-48

S. Kendrick Guernsey
(Jacksonville, Florida, USA)

Enter to Learn, go forth to serve.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 16-20 (7,511)

1948-49

Angus S. Mitchell
(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

None

New York, NY, USA
June 12-16 (15,961)

1949-50

Percy Hodgson
(Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA)

Objectives of Our Team for 1949-50: 1. Each new member admitted into a Rotary club to be adequately informed about his duties and obligations BEFORE his induction -- properly introduced to the club -- and effectively assimilated into the work of the club during the first year;

Detroit, MI, USA
June 18-22 (6,949)

1950-51

Arthur Lagueux
(Quebec, Quebec, Canada)

Goals for 1950-51: 1. In club service we must beget our heirs; 2. in vocational service honesty is still the best policy; 3. In community service we can plan for the future; 4. In international service we must reexamine our world; 5. And finally we can extend the influence of Rotary.

Atlantic City, NJ, USA
May 27-31 (8,453)

1951-52

Frank E. Spain
(Greensboro (Birmingham), Alabama, USA)

None

México City, México
May 25-29 (6,804)

1952-53

H.J. Brunnier
(San Francisco, California, USA)

None

Paris, France
May 24-28 (10,107)

1953-54

Joaquin Serratosa Cibils
(Montevideo, Uruguay)

Rotary is Hope in Action

Seattle, Washington, USA
June 6-10 (8,015)

1954-55

Herbert J. Taylor
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Six Objectives
for 1954-55:
1. glean from the past and act;
2. share with others;
3. build with Rotary's 4-Way Test;
4. serving youth;
5. international good will; 6. good Rotarians are good citizens.

Chicago, IL, USA
May 29-June 2 (14,312)

Doug Rudman Rotary Global History Fellow

In the August 1931 issue of The Rotarian, RI President Sydney W. Pascall of Great Britain wrote an article called "Consolidate, Investigate, Translate." He was the first European to be elected RIP. In his think-piece he talks about the need for RI to be able to communicate with all its members in their own languages. His third paragraph reads as follows: "I have no slogan to suggest, no motto for the year, and Rotary needs no motto other than "Service" - "Service" unqualified, unconditional. "Let him that would be great among you be servant of all"; that is the Rotarian's high aim." My first response is that there are three great mottos here, (1) Consolidate, Investigate, Translate, (2) Service and (3) Service, Unqualified, Unconditional. Second, he embraces the universal concept of service, and everything else in Rotary is a subset. Doug Rudman