I9AA Rotary International Convention

Drastically Reduced In Size

Due to constantly increasing transportation difficulties and congested hotel facilities
in Chicago, and with world-wide military activities being greatly accelerated, the
board of directors of R.I. has drastically reduced the size of the 1944 Rotary

International convention.

To transact essential business required by the R.I. constitution and by-laws. a
convention with representation primarily by proxies will be convened at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, May 18, concurrently with the international

assembly. Features not required by provisions of the by-laws will be abandoned.

Accommodations are available for only international officers (including the outgoing
district governors, or their designated alternates, as members of the council on
legislation), R.I. committee chairmen, past international presidents, and district

governors nominee all of whom are participants in the assembly.

In meeting the current emergency realistically, the board is confident that every .
Rotary club, in the spirit of loyal and patriotic cooperation, will agree wholeheartedly
in the limitation of attendance only to those mentioned above. Each of these should be

designated a delegate by his club. He can also carry proxies of the clubs in his district.

Each Rotary club is urged to be represented by proxy through designating any of the
foregoing, especially the outgoing district governor or the incoming district governor.
as proxy for its club delegates. Credential certificates for such proxy representation

will be mailed to club secretaries by April 8.

All requests to the housing committee for hotel accommodations during the previously
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planned international conference (convention) are hereby cancelled, and full refund

of hotel deposits therefor will be made at an early date.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF R.1.

Charles L. Wheeler, President

MARCH 31, 1944