From the R. |. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago |, Ill., U. S.A.

No. 18—1943-44

 

ROTARIAN RICHARD H. WELLS
“The President Nominee”

 

In accordance with the procedure
provided for in the by-laws of Rotary
International, President Charles L.
Wheeler declares Richard H. Wells
of Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A., is now
“the president nominee” of Rotary
International.

The Rotary Club of Tuxpam,
Veracruz, Mexico, nominated Ro-
tarian Joaquin Serratosa Cibils of
Montevideo, Uruguay, for the office.

Rotarian Serratosa has advised that.

he does not accept the nomination
and the Rotary Club of Tuxpam has
withdrawn its nomination.

Therefore, Rotarian Wells, being
the only nominee for the presi-
dency, will be elected as president
of Rotary International in 1944-45
at the 1944 international conven-
tion of Rotary International, to be
convened in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.,

- on May 18, 1944.

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

He is president of the Idaho State
Society for Crippled Children, area
chairman for the Victory Bond
Drive, member of the selective serv-
ice board, and his State Defense
Council. He has served as chairman
of the Pocatello Board of Education,
president of the Chamber of Com-
merce, and director of the State
Mental Hospital, and has been ac-
tive 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 mem-
ber and past president of the Ro-
tary Club of Pocatello, and has
served Rotary International as a
director, district governor, commit-
teeman and committee chairman.
He is now serving as a member of
the 1944 convention committee of
R.I. Dick is married and has two
children.

 

Children of Chengtu

Underprivileged children loafing
in the streets of Chengtu, China,
created a serious problem. To help
meet the situation the Rotary Club
of Chengtu established a “play
school” which now has some 30
pupils. They come early each after-
noon to learn to read, to sing, to
play, and to be trained in good
health habits.

To finance this project, and to
secure help for undernourished stu-
dents from enemy-occupied areas,
the club sponsors concerts, football
matches, etc.

 

Do You Know
there are

5,159 Rotary Clubs
221,430 Rotarians

(Ot these 53 clubs with 1,600 members
in war-affected countries are inactive)

107 New Clubs in 22 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

 

 

 

Rotary Clubs—Appoint and
Instruct Your Delegates or
Proxies to 1944 Convention

Your club should arrange for a
proxy or proxies for its delegates to
the 1944 convention, unless one of
*those who will compose the conven=
tion is a member of your club, in
which case he should be designated
as a delegate from your club. If
your club is entitled to more than
one delegate, he can serve as proxy
for the other delegate(s). If none
of those composing the convention
is a member of your club, then ar-
range for your club to be repre-
sented by proxy by one of those
composing the convention who comes
from within your district, most probably
your district governor or the gov-
ernor nominee.

Each proxy should be instructed
as to the wishes of the club or clubs
he represents with regard to pro-
posed enactments and resolutions
which are scheduled for considera-
tion by the 1944 convention. (Text
of these proposed enactments and
resolutions was mailed to each club
on February 4.)

“officers of R.I. (the President, Vice-Presi-
dents and Directors of R.I., Secretary, Treas-
urer, District Governors, and Elective Officers
of the General Council and R.I. Representa-
tives in Britain and Ireland), R.I. Committee
Chairmen, Past R.I. Presidents, the Presi-
dent Nominee, Candidates for Nominee for
Director, and Directors Nominee of R.L, Dis-
trict Governors Nominee and others who
have been designated as participants in the
1944 international assembly.

Broadening Scope of |
Vocational Service

The aims and objects committee
of R.I. points out that much of the
program of vocational service in Ro-
tary has a far-reaching application
to Rotarians and non-Rotarians
alike. Rotary club activities dealing
with such matters as, for instance,
competitor relationships, or rela-
tionships between buyer and seller
or employer and employee are of
interest and concern to the entire
community.

For this reason, the aims and
objects committee recommends to
Rotary clubs that they take pains
to broaden the scope of the influ-
ence of their vocational service
activities beyond their own mem-
bership.