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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
1997-98
Glen W. Kinross
 (Brisbane, Qld, Australia)
Show Rotary Cares for your community for our world for its people
1998-99
Follow Your Rotary Dream
1999-00
Rotary 2000: Act with Consistency, Credibility, Continuity
2000-01
Create Awareness Take Action

 2001-02

Mankind is Our Business

 Barcelona, Spain
June 23-26  17,000+
 2002-03
Sow the Seeds of Love

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.

(Shades Valley, Ala., USA)

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

 2006-07

William Boyd

(Pakuranga, New Zealand)

  

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

June 24-28 2007
 2007-08

Wilfrid J. Wilkinson

(Trenton, Ontario, Canada)

  

Los Angeles, CA USA

June 15-18 2008
2008-09

 

Dong Kurn Lee

(Seoul, Korea)

  

Birmingham, UK

June 21-24 2009
2009-10

John Kenny

Grangemouth, Central, Scotland

  

Montreal, Canada

20-23 June 2010
2010-11    

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

2011
2011-2012      

Doug Rudman  Rotary History Fellow
1997 Kinross • 1998 Lacy • 1999 Ravizza • 2000 Devlyn • 2001 King • 2002 Rattakul • 2003 Majiyagbe • 2004 Estess • 2005 Stenhammar • 2006 William B. Boyd • 2007 Wilfrid J. Wilkinson • 2008 D. K. Lee • 2009 John Kenny

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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