President Ravi asks CoL to be trustees of Rotary’s tradition and also its future

President Ravindran addressed the COL and asked it to be trustees of Rotary’s tradition and also its future. The text of the full speech is given below.

A couple of months ago, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia, passed away.

Among all of the coverage of that in the media, there was one article I found in the New York Times which fascinated me–  his unlikely personal friendship with his fellow justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

He was on the right, she is on the left.

Whatever her opinion, he dissented.

Equal pay for women, same-sex marriage, voting rights, abortion—they disagreed on every one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics.

And yet. Their families vacationed together, celebrated the New Year together every year, and Scalia once said … Read more