RICHARD H. WELLS
(senior active member)
President, R.I.
P. O. Box 1591
Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A.

 

Richard H. Wells is the proprietor of
the Idaho Lumber and Hardware Com-
pany and the Idaho Coal and Ice Com-
pany, and is vice-president of the Idaho
Bank and Trust Company in Pocatello.

Dick is president of the Idaho State
Society for Crippled Children, area chair-
man for the Victory Bond Drive, member
of the Selective Service Board, and his
State Defense Council. He has served as
chairman of the Pocatello Board of Edu-

cation, president of the Chamber of Com- .

merce, and director of the State Mental
Hospital, and has been active in work
for the Community Chest, Boy Scouts,
Parents-Teachers Association and the
Y-M.C.A.

‘Dick Wells has been a Rotarian for 22
years. He is a senior active member and
past president of the Rotary Club of
Pocatello, and has served R.I. as a direc-
tor, district governor, committeeman and
committee chairman.

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
company in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is
director and secretary of the Banco In-
dustrial de Jalisco, the National Chamber
of Commerce, president of the Chamber
of Metallurgical Industries and director
of the newspaper, “Editorial Guadalajara.”
In 1939 he was appointed vice-consul of
the Royal Swedish Government in Guad-
alajara.

Charlie is a past president of the Rotary
Club of Guadalajara of which he has been
a member since 1925. He has served RI.
as district governor and as a committee
member. In 1943-44 he was elected first
vice-president serving the first year of his
two-year term as director of R.I.

JOHN M. A. ILOTT
(advertising service)

2nd Vice-President, R.I.
G.P.O. Box 1491

Wellington, C.1, New Zealand

 

John Ilott is governing director of the
advertising agency of J. Ilott, Ltd., with
offices in Wellington, Auckland, Christ-
church, Dunedin, New Zealand; Sydney
and Melbourne, Australia; and London,
England. His business interests include
directorships of numerous New Zealand
industrial and financial organizations.

1944-45 General Officers of Rotary International

John has been closely associated with
philanthropic and cultural organizations
in New Zealand for many years. He is
well-known in New Zealand as a collector
of books, manuscripts, and etchings.

He is a charter member of the Rotary
Club of Wellington, organized in 1921, and
a past president of that club. He was
governor of his district in 1934-35, and in
November, 1943, was elected as a director
of R.I., to succeed Vice-President Sinclair
J. McGibbon of Perth, W. Australia,
deceased.

CHARLES W.
PETTENGILL

(civil law practice)
3rd Vice-President, R.I.
P. O. Box 1250
Greenwich, Connecticut

 

Charles W. Pettengill is a partner of the
law firm of Hirschberg, Pettengill, Strong
and Deming.

- He is a Past President of the Green-
wich Bar Association and Chairman of
the Board of Delegates and Chairman
of the Real Estate Section of the -Con-
necticut State Bar Association. He is a
Past President of the Captain Matthew
Mead Branch Sons of the American Revo-
lution, a Past President of the Greenwich
Y.M.C.A., a Past Vice-Chairman of the
Connecticut Committee and a former
member of the National Council of the
Y.M.C.A. At present he is Chairman of
the Committee of Standards of the Town
of Greenwich and President and Direc-
tor of Brunswick Schools Inc.

Charlie has been a member of the Ro-
tary Club of Greenwich for twelve years
and is a past president of the club. He
has been active in R.I. as district governor
and as committee member and chairman.

ROBERT J. BOYD
(insurance)

Director, R.I.

P. O. Box 805

Panama City, Panama

 

Robert J. Boyd has been active in the
importing and exporting business in
Panama since 1921. As president of Boyd
Brothers, Inc., of Panama City, Panama,
he is an agent for steamship, insurance,
office equipment, and mail order com-
panies, and a manufacturers’ agent and
importer.

Bob is a former president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce at Colon, Panama, and
is a past director of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Panama City, and has been
active in the Panama Canal Department
of the U.S.O.

He has been a Rotarian since 1926, and
is a past vice-president of the Rotary
Club of Cristobal-Colon, Panama, and a
past president of the Rotary Club of
Panama City.

DOANE R. FARR

(motor freight lines)
Director, R.I.

101 E. Choctaw

Clinton, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

 

Doane R. Farr is owner of the Clinton
Transfer and Storage Company of Clin-
ton, Okla.

He is a director of the Last Frontier
Council of the Boy Scouts and a member
of the Boy Scouts National Council, direc-
tor of the Associated Motor Carriers of
Oklahoma, chairman of the Oklahoma
City Area Negotiating Committee for the
trucking industry, and vice-president of
the United War Chest of Oklahoma.

Doane has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Clinton since 1921, and is a past
president of that club. He has served RI.
as district governor and as a committee
member and chairman.

THOMAS R. HOOD
(drugs—retailing)
Director, R.1.

Hood’s Drug Store
Dunn, North Carolina

 

Thomas R. Hood is co-owner of Hood’s
Drug Store in his native town of Dunn,
North Carolina. He was educated at the
University of North Carolina Pharmacy
School, the Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy and Science, and the Struby School
of Pharmacy at Macon, Georgia.

Tom was a member of the Board of
Commissioners of Dunn for eight years,
and was Mayor pro-tem for four years.

He has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Dunn for twelve years and is a
past president of that club and a past
governor of his district.

OLIVER C. MCINTYRE
(wooden boxes mfg.)
Director, R.I.

c/o Capital City Box Co., Ltd.
Edmonton, Alta, Canada

 

Oliver C. McIntyre is general manager
of his firm, which manufactures wooden
boxes.

He is a director of Northwest Purchas-
ing, Ltd., of the Edmonton Flying Train-
ing School, Ltd., and of the Edmonton
Flying Club. He has served as president
of the Edmonton Y.M.C.A., and as vice-
president of the Community Chest.

Oliver has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Edmonton since 1926 and is a
past president of that club. He has served
R.I. as district governor and as a member
of the Canadian advisory committee.

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 has been active
in R.I. as a governor and committee mem-
ber. In 1943-44 he served the first year of
his two-year term as director of R.I.

 

HERBERT J. TAYLOR
(aluminum cooking utensils)
Director, R.I.

1250 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

 

Herbert J. Taylor is active in a number
of business and civic enterprises. He is
President of the Club Aluminum Com-
pany, President of the International
Emulsifiers, Inc., Director of the Chicago
Federal Savings and Loan Asscciation—
all of Chicago; Director of the Monarch
Aluminum Manufacturing Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, Director of the First Na-
tional Bank of Barrington, Illinois, Mem-
ber of the Board of Governors of the
Illinois Society for the Crippled, and
Member of the National Hi-Y Committee
of the Y.M.C.A. He is a Member of the
Illinois War Savings Staff Committee, and
in 1943 was Vice-Chairman of the War
Department Price Adjustment Board.

“Herb” has been a Rotarian for 21
years. He is past president of the Rotary
Club of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and a
member and past president of the Rotary
Club of Chicago. He has served RI. as
district governor and as committee mem-
ber and chairman.

CARL HARALD TROLLE
(commercial banking)
Director, R.I.

Storgatan 16

Kalmar, Sweden

Carl Harald Trolle is managing director
for the Commercial Bank of Sweden’s
branch offices in the Province of Kalmar
and adjacent parts of other provinces.
From 1907 to 1917 he was in the diplo-
matic service of the Swedish government,
and represented his government at a
number of different cities in Europe. He
retired from the diplomatic service in 1917
to enter the banking field and has held his
present position since 1930.

Harald is the author of historical books,
many articles on commercial affairs, and

 

a number of articles in the Swedish Ency-
clopedia. He is a town councillor of
Kalmar and a member of the board of
directors in several commercial compa-
nies.

He is one of the founders of the Rotary
Club of Kalmar, organized in 1934, and is a
past president of that club. He has served
R.I. as district governor and as committee
member, and chairman.

CHENGTING T. WANG
(past service member)
Director, R.I.

Bank of Communications
Chungking, China

 

C. T. Wang studied at the University of
Michigan and was graduated from Yale
University. He returned to China in 1911,
took an active part in the revolution, and
assisted in organizing the provisional gov-
ernment. He was twice elected vice-pres-
ident of the Senate, and has served his
government as Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, Acting Prime Minister, Minister of
Justice, Minister of Finance, and as
China’s Ambassador to the United States.
He is now a member of the Central
Executive Committee of Kuomintang,
member of the Central Political Council,
and member of the National Government.

Rotarian Wang is president of the China
University of Peiping, chairman of the
board of directors of the Kiaochow-
Tsinan Railway, chairman of the board
and managing director of the Liu Ho Kou
Mining Company, and chairman of the
National Good Roads Association. He is a
past president of the Chinese Red Cross
Association and is now serving as an
honorary vice-president of that Associa-
tion.

A Rotarian since 1920, Dr. Wang is a
past president of the Rotary Clubs of
Peiping and Shanghai, and is now a mem-
ber of the Rotary Club of Chungking. He
has ‘served R.I. as honorary commissioner,
as governor, and as a committee member,
and as administrative adviser for the
Rotary clubs in Free China.

CHARLES L. WHEELER
(intercoastal shipping)
Director, R.I.

461 Market Street

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

 

Charles L. Wheeler is vice-president
and general manager of the McCormick
Steamship Company and Lumber divi-
sions of Pope and Talbot, Inc., with head-
quarters 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 Ro-
tary Club of San Francisco since 1925,
and is a past president of that club. He
has been active in RI. as district gover-
nor, committee member and chairman, as
third vice-president, and as president in
1943-44,

T. D. YOUNG

(linen distributing)

Director, R.I.

Royal Arcade

Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England

 

Tom Young is the managing partner of
Thomas Young & Sons, Ltd., linen mer-
chants, the fifth member of his family to
conduct the linen business established by
his ancestors in 1786.

He has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Newcastle-upon-Tyne since 1921
and is a past president of that club. He has
served R.I. as committee member and as
district representative. In R.I.B.I. (Rotary
International in Britain and Ireland), he
has been director, vice-president, and
president from 1939-40 to 1941-42.

PHILIP LOVEJOY
Secretary, R.I.

35 E. Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Tll., 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 has held numerous educational posi-
tions 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.

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
committees 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
retirement, he was an officer of the First
National Bank and the Union Trust Com-
pany of Chicago.

“Rufe” has been a member of the Ro-
tary Club of Chicago since the spring of
1905 and has served as committee member
and chairman, director, vice-president,
treasurer and president.