CHARLES L. WHEELER
(intercoastal shipping)
President, R.1I.

461 Market Street

San Francisco, Calif., U.S.A.

 

Charles L. Wheeler is vice-president and
general manager of the McCormick Steam-
ship Company and Lumber divisions of
Pope and Talbot, Inc., with headquarters
in San Francisco, California.

Among the civic and trade associations
in which he holds office are the following:
American Bureau of Shipping, American
Maritime Council, California Society for
Crippled Children, Douglas Fir Export
Company, International Society for the
Welfare of Cripples, Mills College Advis-
ory Committee on Pan American Studies,
National Society for Crippled Children of
the U.S.A., Propeller Club of the U. S.,
Sea Scouts of America, United Seamen’s
Service.

Charlie has been a member of the Rotary
Club of San Francisco since 1925, and is a
past president of that club. He has been
active in Rotary International as district
governor, committee member and chair-
man, and as third vice-president.

CARLOS M. COLLIGNON
(valves manufacturing)

1st Vice-President, R.I.

P. O. Box 109

Guadalajara, Jal.,; Mexico

 

Carlos M. Collignon is vice-president
and general manager of a brass goods com-
pany in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is direc-
tor of ‘Editorial Guadalajara,” the Banco
Industrial de Jalisco, the National Cham-
ber of Commerce of Guadalajara, the
Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo del Cen-
tro y Occidente, and also the Mexican
Automobile Association. He has taken an
active part in the leadership of many so-
cial, sport, and business organizations, and
is president of the Comite de Turismo
(Tourist Committee) for the State of
Jalisco.

Charlie is a past president of the Rotary
Club of Guadalajara of which he has been
a member since 1929. He has served Rotary
International as district governor and as
a committee member.

SINCLAIR J. McGIBBON
(accounting)
2nd Vice-President, R.1.

209 St. George’s Terrace
Perth, Australia

 

Sinclair J. McGibbon has been a prac-
ticing chartered accountant -in Perth,
Australia, since 1900. He is a foundation
member and senior vice-president of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Aus-
tralia. For many years he has served on
the general council of the Commonwealth
Institute of Accountants and is a past
president of that Institute.

1943-44 General Officers of Rotary International

He is a governor of the Hale School in
Perth, the principal secondary school in
Western Australia. During World War I,
he was a member of the Australian Wheat
Board. A keen tennis player, he has been
president of the Lawn Tennis Association
of Western Australia for over thirty years.

Sinclair is a charter member of the Ro-
tary Club of Perth, organized in 1926, and
served that club as president. He has
served Rotary International as district
governor and committee member.

 

HARRY C. BULKELEY
(senior active member) _
3rd Vice-President, R.1.
510 W. Adams St.
Abingdon, Ill., U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

Harry C. Bulkeley has been president of
the American Sanitary Manufacturing
Company of Abingdon, IIl., since 1918. He
is president and director of the Abingdon
Finance Co., president and director of the
Reliable Agency of Abingdon, and a di-
rector of the Abingdon Bank & Trust Co.

Harry is a charter member and past
president of the Rotary Club of Abingdon,
which was organized in 1923. He served as
governor of the 146th district in 1939-40.
In 1942-43 he was a member of the com-
mittee which administers the special Ro-
tary Fund to provide emergency relief
to Rotarians or members of their fami-
lies, anywhere in the world, who are suf-
fering because of war conditions.

P. H.W. ALMY

(general law practice)
Director, R.I.

Bank Chambers, Fleet Street
Torquay, England

 

P. H. W. Almy is a solicitor in the city of
Torquay, England. He is a charter mem-
ber of the Rotary Club of Torquay, which
was organized in 1920, and is a past presi-
dent of that club. He has been active in
Rotary International in Great Britain and
Ireland as district chairman, director, vice-
president and president, and has served
Rotary International as a director and as
a committee member.

SHAPOORJEE B. BILLI-
MORIA (auditing)
Director, R.1.

113, Esplanade Road, Fort,
Bombay 1, India

 

Sir Shapoorjee B. Billimoria is the
founder and senior partner of the firm of
S. B. Billimoria & Company, registered ac-
countants and auditors of Bombay, India.
The Government of India in 1910 placed
the accountancy profession on a recog-
nized footing through his untiring efforts.

Rotarian Billimoria is the founder of the
Society of Professional Auditors and Ac-
countants of Bombay; chairman and pres-
ident of the Sydenham College of Com-
merce Union, and has been an active mem-
ber and official in many other business and
professional societies. Likewise, he has
taken an active part in the charitable en-
deavors and movements in his community.

Many honors have been conferred upon
him by his own country and by England,
chief among which is a knightship with
which he was honored in 1928 by His Maj-
esty the King-Emperor.

He is a member and past president of
the Rotary Club of Bombay, and has
served Rotary International as district
governor and as a committee member.

RICARDO CALATRONI
(past service member)
Director, R.I.

Avenida Lucero 666,

Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

 

Ricardo Calatroni retired recently after
many years of service as the head of the
department of biological and analytical
chemistry in the National University of
Argentina and as chief of the clinical lab-
oratories of the University Hospital. He is
the author of numerous articles on chem-
istry.

Rotarian Calatroni has been a member
of the Rotary Club of Rosario since 1928
and has served that club as secretary and
president. He has been active in Rotary
International as district governor and
committee member.

FERNANDO CARBAJAL
(civil engineering)
Director, R.I.

P. O. Box 315, Lima, Peru

 

Fernando Carbajal is vice-president of
the Peruvian Telephone Company in
Lima, Peru; director of the Industrial
Bank of Peru; and vice-president of the
Crandall Engineering Company of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He is a mem-
ber of the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers and of the Pan American Society of
the United States.

From 1909 to 1912, he was State Engineer
of Peru in charge of public works. He was
head of the commission appointed to settle
the Peru-Bolivia boundary dispute in
1912-13. From 1913 to 1920 he was again
State Engineer of Peru in charge of the
construction, repair and maintenance of
the Peruvian coastal docks. In 1920 he be-
came general manager of the Peruvian
Telephone Company of which he is now
vice-president.

“Ferdie”’ organized the Rotary Club of
Lima in 1921, and is a past president of
that club. He is editor of “El Rotario Pe-
ruano” (The Peruvian Rotarian), official
Rotary publication in Peru. He has been
active in Rotary International as district
governor, member and chairman of nu-
merous committees, as first vice-president,
and as president in 1942-43,

JAMES EUGENE CONKLIN
(insurance annuities)

Director, R.I.

P. O. Box 8,

Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S.A.

 

“Gene” Conklin is Field Assistant of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society in
Hutchinson, Kansas. He is president of the
Hutchinson Board of Education, vice-
president of the Kansas State Association
of School Boards, past president of the
Hutchinson Life Underwriters Associa-
tion, past president of the Kansas State
Association of Life Underwriters and di-
rector of the county chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.

“Gene” is a member and past president
of the Rotary Club of Hutchinson and has
served Rotary International as district
governor and as committee chairman and
member.

GEORGE W. HARRIS
(photography)

Director, R.1.

1313 “F” Street, N. W.,
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

 

George W. Harris is president of Harris
& Ewing, photographers of Washington,
D.C. During World War I he attended
the Peace Conference in Paris and he ac-
companied President Woodrow Wilson on
his tour of the allied countries. He is a
member of the White House News Photog-
raphers Association, past president of the
Photographers Association of America,
and president of the board of trustees of
the School of Photography at Winona
Lake, Indiana.

A charter member of the Rotary Club
of Washington, which was organized in
1912, George is a past president of that
club. He has served Rotary International
as district governor and as chairman and
member of numerous committees. He has
been sergeant-at-arms at almost every
international assembly of Rotary Inter-
national.

HAROLD WILSON McKIEL
(education—mechanical
engineering)
Director, R.I.
Mount Allison University
Sackville, N.B., Canada

 

“Harry” McKiel is Dean of the Science
Faculty of Mt. Allison University in Sack-
ville, N.B., Canada. He has been president
of the Engineering Institute of Canada,
the Association of Professional Engineers
of New Brunswick and the Maritime
Chemical Society, vice-president of the
Canadian Institute of Chemistry and
chairman of the Maritime Branch of the
Canadian Institute of Chemistry. He has
served as chairman of the Sackville war
savings, war service and salvage cam-
paigns.

“Harry” is a past president of the Rotary
Club of Sackville and served as governor
of the 192nd district in 1942-43.

BART N. PEAK
(Y.M.C.A. secretary)
Director, R.I.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Ky., U.S.A.

 

After serving as second lieutenant in
World War I, Bart Peak farmed for a
year, then went back to school at Vander-
bilt University and the Y.M.C.A. Gradu-
ate School at Nashville, Tenn. He has
been Y.M.C.A. secretary at the University
of Kentucky since 1920.

Bart Peak is president of the Kentucky
Society for Crippled Children, past presi-
dent of the Lexington Community Chest,
and director of the Family Welfare So-
ciety and the Travelers Aid Society of
Lexington.

Bart became a member of the Rotary
Club of Lexington in 1922 and has been
secretary of that club since 1929. He
served as governor of his district in 1934-
35 and again in 1942-43.

JOHN B. REILLY
(pump manufacturing)
Director, R.I.

P: O. Box 64;

Los Nietos, Calif., U.S.A.

 

John B. Reilly is owner of the Fluid
Packed Pump Company, manufacturers of
oil well pumping machinery in Los Nietos,
Calif. He left high school to work as a
machinist in the oil fields. Later he in-
vented and developed oil production ma-
chinery and built his own factory and
marketing agencies which, before the
war, covered every oil field in the world.

John is: chairman of the War Savings
Bond and Stamp Committee for Whittier,
Calif., and a member of the High School
Education Board of that city.

He has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Whittier since 1928 and is past
president of that club. He served as gov-
ernor of the 108th district in 1940-41.

Cc. J. STEIGER
(overseas trade)
Director, R.I.
Seegartenstrasse 2,
Zurich, Switzerland

 

C. J. Steiger was engaged for more than
thirty-five years in the import-export
business in Winterthur, Switzerland, and
since 1938 has been managing director of
the Overseas Trading Company of Zurich,
Switzerland. Through extensive travels,
he has gained a thorough knowledge of
Continental European conditions and is
commissioned to lecture at the University
of Zurich on overseas trading.

“CIS” Steiger became a member of the
Rotary Club of Winterthur in 1930, and is
a past president of that club. He is now a
member of the Rotary Club of Zurich.
He has been active in Rotary Interna-
tional as district governor, committee
member and chairman, and as vice presi-
dent and director.

PHILIP LOVEJOY
Secretary, R.I.

35 E. Wacker Drive,
Chicago, I1., U.S.A.

 

Philip Lovejoy began his duties as gen-
eral secretary of Rotary International on
July 1, 1942, having been assistant general
secretary of the ‘organization since 1930.

Phil was a personnel officer in the Amer-
ican Expeditionary Forces in 1917-18. He
has held numerous educational positions
in the State of Michigan, U.S.A. He has
had extensive experience in various types
of business which he has served usually
as personnel officer or in an executive
managerial capacity. In serving Rotary he
has traveled widely in Europe, the United
States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba and has
spoken before hundreds of Rotary clubs.

Phil became a member of the Rotary
Club of Mt. Clemens, Mich., in 1924. He
has been a member of the Rotary Club of
Chicago since 1931 and has served as a
director for two years and on various com-
mittees of that club.

RUFUS F. CHAPIN
Treasurer, R.I.

1320 N. State St., Apt. A-1,
Chicago, Il., U.S.A.

 

 

Rufus F. Chapin, treasurer of Rotary
International since 1912, retired from busi-
ness life several years ago. Prior to his re-
tirement, he was an officer of the First
National Bank and the Union Trust Com-
pany of Chicago.

‘“Rufe” has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Chicago since the spring of 1905
and has served as committee member and
chairman, director, vice-president, treas-
urer and president.

 

A Message from MacArthur

General Douglas MacArthur sent
the following cablegram to Chair-
man Roy Weaver of the 1943 conven-
tion committee:

Appreciate deeply invitation to address
Rotary contained in your letter just re-
ceived. As an ardent Rotarian I could ask
no higher honor. It is impossible how-
ever for me to do so because of my oper-
ational duties in the field and the uncer-
tainties of the campaign. Most grateful
to you all for your generous thought of me.

MacArtTHuUR

 

To President Carbajal:

“In a world where death is, there is
no room for hate. In a world where
God is, men must be brothers, or lose
their high estate.”

May your work in your honored of-
fice hasten the day of amity, peace, and
concord among all peoples.

With cordial good wishes—

William L. Essex
Bishop of Quincy, Illinois