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Royce Abbey

President, Rotary International 1988-89 

In July, 1967 I received a telephone call from a Victorian Rotarian who introduced himself as Royce Abbey, recently-appointed youth committee chairman of the then District 280 (now 9890) and who had been told that I could impart some information about RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) and perhaps arrange for him to visit a RYLA seminar. I promptly invited him to the District 275 (9750) seminar to be held in October of that year and he, equally promptly, accepted.

 

During the course of his two-day visit to the camp we were able to exchange information about Rotary youth activities in general and RYLA in particular; and, after meeting and talking with the awardees, he needed no convincing that RYLA was a valuable program, worthy of sponsorship in his own district. In the following year we were both chosen to serve as members of the newly-established Australia-New Zealand RYLA Committee; and our paths continued to cross in various Rotary assignments in which I always found his unfailing good humour admirable, his boyish enthusiasm infectious and his quick intelligence invaluable in all our deliberations.

 

When Royce was elected to serve his district as governor he invited me to participate in his conference. As a member of the R.I. Youth Activities Committee in 1975-76 he found himself the recipient of my unsolicited advice. As a member of the R.I. Board and in subsequent years he served as a member and chairman of the Rotary Down Under Committee of which I was secretary; and when he was chosen to be Rotary International President he honoured me with an invitation to write the brief biographical article for the Rotary World Press (The Rotarian, Rotary Down Under and all the other Rotary regional magazines).

 

Because of our long friendship and my admiration for Royce Abbey, I welcome the opportunity afforded by this assignment to tell my fellow Rotarians a little more about him.

 

ROYCE ABBEY

President Rotary International, 1988-89

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