Magazine Committee in
Rotary Clubs

The attention of all Rotary clubs
is called to the following amend-
ment to the recommended Rotary
club by-laws which was made by the
board of directors of RI. at its
January 1944, meeting:

The board amends the recom-
mended Rotary club by-laws as fol-
lows:

a) by adding to the list of committees
which appears in Section 1(b) of Article
VII “magazine committee.”

b) by adding to Section 2 of Article
VUI a subsection (g) to read as follows:

(g) Magazine Committee. This commit-
tee is to be comprised of the club presi-
dent as ex officio member, three regular
members of staggered appointment, each
Serving for three years, and, wherever
feasible, the editor of the local club pub-
lication and a local newspaper or adver-
tising member of the club. The duties of
the committee are to include the stimula-
tion of reader interest in “The Rotarian”
and/or “Revista Rotaria”; sponsoring of
a magazine week; arranging for brief
monthly reviews of the magazines on
regular club programs; encouraging use
of the magazines in the induction of new
members; providing a copy of one of the
magazines for non-Rotarian speakers; se-
curing fourth object and other special
subscriptions for libraries, hospitals,
schools and other reading rooms; the send-
ing of news items, photographs, etc., to
the editors of the magazines and in other
ways making these magazines of service
to the club members and non-Rotarians.

Re-election to Office

In order to give more Rotarians
the opportunity to serve their club
as Officers, it is the policy in Rotary
that club officers should not be en-
couraged or expected to hold office
for two successive years.

The board of R.I. is in agreement
with this as a matter of general pro-
cedure. However, in view of the effect
of the war on manpower in Rotary
clubs, as well as in all walks of life,
the board suggests that, where cir-
cumstances warrant, clubs may find
it advantageous to elect an officer
for a second and successive year or
to re-elect, after an interim period,
some former officer of the club.

R. I. Director from Canada

Concurring in a recommendation
of the Canadian advisory committee,
the board of R.I. has amended para-
graph 1 of the terms of reference of
the committee by adding to it the
following sentence:

The RI. director from Canada shall be
an ex officio member of the committee.

The terms of reference of the
C.A.C. appear on pages 34 and 35 of
the “Manual of Procedure” (Pam-
phlet 35—October, 1942, edition).

Club Secretaries!

 

_ Names of Individuals

Required

The names of individuals who are
to occupy rooms must accompany
all requisitions for hotel accommo-
dations at the 1944 international
conference of R.I. to be held in Chi-
cago, Ill., May 15th to 18th, 1944.
Heretofore hotels would accept req-
uisitions for a certain number of
rooms for the members of a particu-
lar club. They will not do so this
year.

To insure the reservation of rooms
for the members of your club who
are planning to attend the interna-
tional conference, be sure to indicate
on the hotel requisition form the
names of all persons who will oc-
cupy the space.

Be Represented —
in Person or by Proxy

Since the by-laws of Rotary Inter-
national provide that a quorum for
a convention of R.I. shall consist of
delegates from 25% of the member
clubs, those clubs not planning to be
represented at Chicago by personal
delegates should arrange for their
proxies to be in the hands of some
Rotarian from within the district
who will be present — perhaps the
governor nominee or the outgoing
governor or someone else who is
known to be planning to attend.

Another Honor for
Charlie Burchell

Charles J. Burchell, long-time Ro-
tarian and well-known to Rotarians
in the U.S.A., Canada and New-
foundland, and Australia, has been
appointed High Commissioner for
Canada in the Union of South
Africa. Charlie has served his gov-
ernment as High Commissioner to
Australia and as High Commissioner
for Canada. with headquarters in
St. John’s. Newfoundland. In an-

nouncing the new appointment, the

“Ottawa Evening Citizen” said:

No better Canadian High Commissioner
could be sent to South Africa, where Mr.
Burchell will go at an early date. As a
pioneer Rotarian, perhaps it is the Rotary
spirit manifesting itself in work for which
Mr. Burchell is peculiarly fitted.

Charlie has been a Rotarian since
1913. He has held membership in
Rotary wherever he was stationed—
in Halifax, Canada, Canberra, Aus-
tralia, and St. John’s, Newfound-

. land. He has served R.I. as a gov-

ernor, committeeman, and as direc-
tor and third vice-president. Our
best wishes go with him in his new
assignment.

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Calgary Boys Town Club

In 1939 the Rotary Club of Cal-
gary, Alta., Canada, and several
other service clubs, organized a Boys
Town Club to serve the downtown
congested area of Calgary. During
the first summer 65 boys enrolled.
Before the year was out the service
clubs, other than the Rotary club,
withdrew their support of this pro-
ject, and the Rotary club decided to
carry on alone.

Since that time Boys Town Club
has grown in number and types of
activities, and in membership. Now
200 boys of from nine to sixteen
years of age, of many different na-
tionalities, are members.

When the club outgrew its quar-
ters, the Rotary club bought a build-
ing and converted it into a model
club house with workshops, stage,
lockers, showers, etc. Club activities
are model aeroplane building, wood-
working and belt braiding, swim-
ming, gymnasium and _ physical
training, hockey and soft-ball.

The boys manufacture toys, which
are sold, part of the proceeds going
to the boys, and part for the pur-
chase of materials.

Many of Boys Town Club’s best
members are boys who have com-
mitted offenses against the law and
have been in the juvenile court. The
work of readjustment in many cases
has been carried on through the
Boys Town Club. Calgary Rotarians
and law enforcement agencies be-
lieve that the fact that their city
has a declining rate of juvenile de-
linquency, when statistics show a 50
per cent increase in delinquency in
Canada, is significant evidence that
the Boys Town Club is filling an
urgent need. -

Director Nominee
Robert J. Boyd

In News Letter No. 15, dated 4
February, 1944, data was published
concerning the four Rotarians who
have been nominated by the board
of directors of R.I. to serve as direc-
tors of R.I. in 1944-45. The secretar-
iat has now received up-to-date bio-
graphical information concerning
Director Nominee Robert J. Boyd of
Panama as follows:

His classification is “insurance”; he is
president of Boyd Bros., Inc.; he has been
a Rotarian for 20 years (holding member-
ship from 1924 to 1929 in the Rotary Club of
Cristobal, Canal Zone—Colon, Panama,
and from 1929 to the present time in the
Rotary Club of Panama City):

 

All of your members “old” and “new”
will have a better knowledge of Rotary
if they will read

Kotary in 47 Minutes

Buy a copy for each member of your
club

50c a copy—45c in lots of 10 or more.