The Rotary flags in front of RI World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and Rotary offices around the world flew at half-staff for a week as friends and colleagues mourned President-elect Sam F Owori, who died on July 13 from complications after surgery.
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Though I had met RIPE Samuel Owori few times earlier, my real acquaintance with him happened when we attended the Directors Elect orientation programme at San Diego and Evanston. Most of the time we were sitting together and I found in him a true Rotarian, lawyer-turned-economist, and above
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After the concluding session at the 2017 International Assembly, all African DGEs and other leaders were assembled in the suite of RI President Nominee Sam Owori. I was one of few privileged non-Africans in the crowded room; when I commented on the privilege of being there even though not born African,
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She was initially reluctant to join the IPS, “being more interested in dance, dramatics, debates and didn’t fit the stereotype of a police officer, being neither athletic nor masculine.” But her father convinced her
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Ask Juliet Riseley what her husband, Rotary International President Elect Ian Riseley, enjoys the most about Rotary, and without a moment’s hesitation she says: “It is clearly the people. There is a New Zealand saying (a Maori proverb) he tangata, he tangata, he
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At the age of 22, in 1985, after graduating in Commerce, he left his home because his father gave him an ultimatum: either join as a clerk in the school where he had studied in his village in Kerala, and where
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It was a walk down memory lane for this centenarian during a felicitation meet to mark his 100th birthday at RC Moradabad Midtown. And for over 60 years, this physician, affectionately called the Bhishm Pitamah, strived to deliver healthcare to the poor with a humane touch through his club in D
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Please don’t make anything of it. I only did it out of goodwill,” says Captain Mohan Bir Singh when I call him. He is a bone marrow donor and a member of RC Chandigarh, his donation has
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He is an AKS member and has been regularly donating to The Rotary Foundation over years for the sheer “joy of giving. It gives me joy to see
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He comes from a modest family background; his father was educated only up to the 8th grade, and though born in the US, his parents took him back to Austria at a very young age. John’s father returned to the US, as
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His reason for joining Rotary was simple. “Because my father was a Rotarian. I joined his law firm and he made me join his club,” says incoming TRF Vice Chair Thomas Thorfinnson. That was in 1980 and the club in Minnesota, USA had
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