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1910 - 1925 1926 - 1940 1941 - 1954 1955 -1968 1969-1982 1983 -1996
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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 to 2005.
Rotary Year
RI President/
(Pres- Home Club)
Theme
Conv. Host Club/
Conv. Web Page
1941-42
None
1942-43
None
1943-44

None

1944-45

None
1945-46
None
1946-47
None
1947-48
Enter to Learn, go forth to serve.
1948-49
None
1949-50
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;
1950-51
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
1952-53
H.J. Brunnier
 (San Francisco, California, USA)
None
1953-54
Rotary is Hope in Action
1954-55
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.

Doug Rudman  Rotary History Fellow
1941 Davis • 1942 Carbajal • 1943 Wheeler • 1944 Wells • 1945 Warren • 1946 Hedke • 1947 Guernsey • 1948 Mitchell • 1949 Hodgson • 1950 Lagueux • 1951 Spain • 1952 Brunnier • 1953 Cibils • 1954 Taylor

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

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