June 9, 1945.

Mr. Ramon T. Garoia, Presidente,
Rotary Club de La Plata, |
Casilla De Correo 111,
Republica Argentina.

Dear Distinguished Presidente Garoia:

I feel very guilty in not answering your very splendid
letter of November 20, 1944. My successor, President Gerald Hesse,
took office on July 1. Our administration in ow Rotary Club elects
officers every July and they function for one year.

I am the Governor-elect of our Rotary pistrict #123, and
go to Chicago on Sunday to attend a small meeting of Rotary Internat-
ional which meets in that city from June 11 to 14. We are limited to
less than fifty members at a meeting, so they plan to have four of these
- 49-member meetings. I am hoping that this terrible war will be over and
that we may have our old and wonderful meetings such as we had before the
Ware

I acknowledge with thanks your bulletin. It certainly was '
interesting. In our University of Kansas here we had Miss Maude Elliott,
oux Spanish teacher, translate yow good letter, and I want to assure you
that 1t was nice for you to express the sentiment regarding friendly and
cordial relations between Rotarians of other countries. Please do not
feel that my failure to write you sooner reflected anything other than
the fact that I am engrossed in war work continuously. I happen to be
secretary of our Selective Service Board and chairman of our War Nursery
Board; also have headed up the War Bond drives and the Commmity Chest
drives for our University, which has a normal enrollment of 5,000. As
head of the Department of Physical Bducation we handled ten thousand man
hours per week in our department in building better bodies for our boys
of the enlisted forces. We had both Army and Navy personnel here who were
carrying on their work of higher education, and at the same time condition-
ing themselves for war efforta. Things are looking so decidedly better
that we can at least see the end in sight. :

| Again thanking you and trusting that in the not too distant
future we may have the pleasure of breaking bread with you, I am

Sincerely yours,

Governor-elesct, District pias,
FOA:AH — : - Rotary International.