RI Presidents 1955 -1968

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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

1955-56

A. Z. Baker
(Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

Develop our Resources

Philadelphia, PA, USA
June 3-7 (10,003)

1956-57

Gian Paolo Lang
(Livorno, Italy)

3 Targets 1956-57:
1. Keep Rotary simple;
2. More Rotary in Rotarians;
3. Learn More About Each Other

Lucerne, Switzerland
May 19-23 (9,702)

1957-58

Charles G. Tennent
(Asheville, North Carolina, USA)

Enlist-Extend-Explore-Serve

Dallas, TX, USA
June 1-5 (14,035)

1958-59

Clifford A. Randall
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)

Help Shape the Future

New York, NY, USA
June 7-11 (15,475)

1959-60

Harold T. Thomas
(Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)

Vitialize! Personalize! Build Bridges of Friendship

Miami-Miami Beach, FL, USA
May 29-June 2 (11,354)

1960-61

J. Edd McLaughlin
(Ralls, Texas, USA)

You are Rotary -- Live It! Express It! Expand It!

Tokyo, Japan
May 28-June1 (23,366)

1961-62

Joseph A. Abey
(Reading #88, Pennsylvania, USA)

Act
Aim for Action
Communicate for Understanding
Test for Leadership

Los Angeles, CA, USA
June 3-7 (22,302)

1962-63

Nitish C. Laharry
(Calcutta, India)

Kindle the Spark Within

St. Louis, MO, USA
June 9-13 (10,779)

1963-64

Carl P. Miller (New)
(Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)

Meeting Rotary's Challenge in the Space Age

Toronto, ON, Canada
June 7-11 (14,661)

1964-65

Charles W. Pettengill
(Greenwich, Connecticut, USA)

Live Rotary

Atlantic City, NJ, USA
May 30 - June 3 (9,368)

1965-66

C. P. H. Teenstra
(Hilversum, The Netherlands)

Action, Consolidation and Continuity

Denver, CO, USA
June 12-16 (12,929)

1966-67

Richard L. Evans (New)
(Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)

A Better World Through Rotary

Nice, France
May 21-25 (19,362)

1967-68

Luther H. Hodges (New)
(Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)

Make Your Rotary Membership Effective

México City, México
May 12-16 (11,840)

1968-69

Kiyoshi Togasaki
(Tokyo, Japan)

Participate!

Honolulu, HI, USA
May 25-29 (14,453)

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