The 2019 Council on Legislation (CoL) was an awe-inspiring event as 530 delegates filed into the impeccably organised chamber. Past RI presidents, directors and officers conducting the CoL were non-voting members of the Council. Outside, it was snowing in a freezing Chicago. Just the kind of weather
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Prerana, the District Conference of RID 3232, was unique in some
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A review meeting was held to analyse the performance of the District Governors of Zones 4, 5 and 6A by Director C Basker in
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My ambition, after graduation, was to earn money and become rich. During
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RIPE Mark Maloney, a member of RC Decatur, Alabama, USA, unveiled the 2019–20 presidential theme, Rotary Connects the World, to incoming district governors at the International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “The first emphasis is to
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The one clear takeaway from the World Magazine Press Editors biennial meet was the need for all the 33 regional magazines to adopt a more uniform look and feel, particularly on the magazine covers.
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The pioneering role played by the Rotary Club of Madras and the yeoman service rendered by its leaders in eradicating polio from this part of the world through partnerships with the government, NGOs and hospitals were recalled and appreciated at a glittering event held in Chennai to celebrate the club’s 90th anniversary.
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Anandotsav, the district conference of the newly formed 3054, hosted
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The biennial Asia Pacific Regional Editors’ conference of the Rotary World Magazine Press was hosted this year by Thailand at Bangkok. Editors from the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and India, and
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It was a gay and colourful twin birthday party that was celebrated at the South Asia Reception in Atlanta — Trustee Chair Kalyan Banerjee’s 75th birthday and The Rotary Foundation’s 100th. But while a celebration of the latter is what the Atlanta Convention was all about, at this well organised Indian
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Welcoming Bill Gates to the Atlanta Convention in a hall that was bursting to capacity, RI President John Germ said that Rotary’s fight against polio began when “every single year 350,000 children were crippled by it. We knew it didn’t have to be like this and we
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