RI Presidents 1969-1982

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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

1969-70

James F. Conway
(Sun City, Arizona, USA)

Review and Renew

Atlanta, GA, USA
May 31-June 4 (10,803)

1970-71

William E. Walk
(Upland, California, USA)

Bridge the Gaps

Sydney, NSW, Australia
May 16-20 (16,646)

1971-72

Ernst G. Breitholtz
(Nybro, Sweden)

Good Will Begins With You

Houston, TX, USA
June 11-15 (13,287)

1972-73

Roy D. Hickman
(Birmingham, Alabama, USA)

Let's Take a New Look -- And Act

Lausanne, Switzerland
May 13-17 (17,187)

1973-74

William C. Carter
(Old Windsor, Berkshire, England)

Member: RC of Battersea, London

A Time for Action

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, USA
June 9-13 (10,015)

1974-75

William R. Robbins
(Miami, Florida, USA)

Renew the Spirit of Rotary

Montreal, PQ, Canada
June 8-12 (12,975)

1975-76

Ernesto Imbassahy de Mello
(Rio de Janeiro, RdJ, Brazil)

To Dignify the Human Being

New Orleans, LA, USA
June 13-17 (13,935)

1976-77

Robert Manchester II
(Youngstown, Ohio, USA)

I Believe in Rotary

San Francisco, CA, USA
June 5-9 (14,168)

1977-78

W. Jack Davis
(Hamilton, Bermuda)

Serve to Unite Mankind

Tokyo, Japan
May 14-18 (39,834)

1978-79

Clem Renouf
(Nambour, Queensland, Australia)
Video

Reach Out

Rome, Italy
June 10-13 (14,429)

1979-80

James L. Bomar, Jr.
(Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA)

Let Service Light the Way

Chicago, IL, USA
June 1-5 (18,309)

1980-81

Rolf Klärich
(Helsinki, Finland)

Take Time to Serve

São Paulo, Brazil
May 31 - June 4 (15,222)

1981-82

Stanley E. McCaffrey
(Moraga, California, USA)

World Understanding and Peace Through Rotary

Dallas, TX, USA
June 6-9 (13,222)

1982-83

Hiroji Mukasa
(Nakatsu, Oita, Japan)

Mankind is One -- Build Bridges of Friendship Throughout the World

Toronto, ON, Canada
June 5-8 (16,250)

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