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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
1955-56

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

Develop our Resources
 
1956-57
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
Enlist-Extend-Explore-Serve
1958-59
Clifford A. Randall
 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Help Shape the Future
1959-60
Vitialize!  Personalize!  Build Bridges of Friendship
1960-61
You are Rotary -- Live It!  Express It!  Expand It!
1961-62
Act
Aim for Action
Communicate for Understanding
Test for Leadership
1962-63
Kindle the Spark Within
1963-64
Meeting Rotary's Challenge in the Space Age
1964-65
Live Rotary
1965-66
Action, Consolidation and Continuity
1966-67
A Better World Through Rotary
1967-68
Make Your Rotary Membership Effective
1968-69
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Doug Rudman  Rotary History Fellow
1955 Baker • 1956 Lang • 1957 Tennent • 1958 Randall • 1959 Thomas • 1960 McLaughlin • 1961 Abey • 1962 Laharry • 1963 Miller • 1964 Petengill • 1965 Teenstra • 1966 Evans • 1967 Hodges • 1968 Togasaki

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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