Barcelona, Spain
June 23-26  17,000+

Brisbane, Australia
June 1-4

2003-04

Jonathan B. Majiyagbe

(Kano, Kano State, Nigeria)

Lend a Hand

Osaka, Japan

22-26 May 2004

2004-05

Glenn E. Estess, Sr. (Video)

Celebrate Rotary

Chicago, IL, USA

19-22 June 2005

2005-06

Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar

(Göteborg, Sweden)

Service Above Self

Malmö / Copenhagen

June 11-14, 2006

William Boyd (Video)

(Pakuranga, New Zealand)

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

June 24-28 2007

Wilfrid J. Wilkinson (Video)

(Trenton, Ontario, Canada)

Los Angeles, CA USA

June 15-18 2008

Dong Kurn Lee (Video)

(Seoul, Korea)

Birmingham, UK

June 21-24 2009

John Kenny (Video)

Grangemouth, Central, Scotland

Montreal, Canada

20-23 June 2010

Ray Klinginsmith

Kirksville, Missouri, USA

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

2011

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