PRIP Wilf Wilkinson, left, and past chair Calum Thomson, right spoke
at the 2009 RGHF awards event. Here presenting recognitions to
RIBI's PE and Rotary's RIPN. Details...
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RGHF Chairman of the Board & President 07/10 Joe
Kagle spoke about
RGHF's mission on 2 June, at Rotary
Club of Kingwood, Texas, USA.
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Official photo of participants from District 3450 at the
Taipei Zone Institute 2008 where RGHF zones 09-10 board member PDG
Tony Chiu Man Wong was standing in the front roll, right of RI
President D K Lee.
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Dr. Vimal Hemani, India, presents fellowship and RGHF information
to a district
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Pietro Brunoldi -
RGHF Board Member - was interviewed by the Italian Rotary's Magazine
on December 2008 and he spoke about RGHF (Italian language)
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Zone 32 RGHF board member PDG Helen Reisler leads
"Rotary/UN Day 2008"
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I just heard PDG Eddie* speak at the World Peace
Symposium online at
rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter
/Audio/Blender_1-2.mp3
a typically great speech from a passionate Rotarian, Calum Thompson, RGHF past president
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A POWERHOUSE OF FOUNDATION SUPPORT
A
recent RI publication highlights our founding member PDG Eddie
Blender (PDF)
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Tim Tucker spoke at
the RI
pre-convention Rotaract Meeting at Los Angeles
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Coordinator for Health and the Fight Against
Hunger in zone 19 of Latin America, RGHF
board member and PDG Jaime Ceballos (Chile), PRI Dong Kurn Lee
(Korea), District Instructor, Pamela Moreau (Chile), and the
Director of RI, Zone 19, Themistocles Pinho (Brazil)
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On May 27th Tim
Tucker spoke at the Rotary
Club of St Ives on
the early years of Rotary
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RGHF Board Member Abbas Lavingia, D3270 Pakistan hosted
an RGHF sign up and information booth at
the 2008 District Conference
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RGHF Member and PDG Bill Ballou recently represented
Rotary Global History at
High Country PETS in Denver, CO, USA. At that event he was presented
with the Service above Self award from Rotary International.
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RGHF Member and RC Metro Lipa President
Arnold R. Capuloyintroduces
RGHF to District
3820 in the Philippines.
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Tom and Cindy
Shanahan comfortably at work for RGHF at the RI
District 9820 Conference
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RGHF member, PDG Dave Ewing with Richard
Farson, D6650 Club Avenue of Service Chair, at a PETS Booth
promoting the Ohio License Plate www.ohrotaryplates.org and
also RGHF
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RGHF DIRECTOR EMERITUS EDWARD “EDDIE” BLENDER IS
PRESENTED THE
ROTARY FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD AND
THE SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD
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My presentation in
the past Seminar on Recruiting and Retaining Members in Santiago de
los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. August 26, 2007
Saludos cordiales,
Zhema
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District 5150 (San Francisco) 21 April 2007 (The
entire speech is onine)
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RGHF member and webmaster, Pietro
Brunoldi,
presenting RGHF in Italy inMay 2007
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Basil Lewis speaks
about RGHF at UK and USA clubs
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RGHF Past Chairman MattsIngemanson is
seen here together with Two Times Past District 7230 Governor Chuck
Katze, President Jim Kushner, President Elect Flora Holderbaum,
Matts' wife Sundra Lee and members of the Rotary Club of Inwood,
Manhattan in early 2007
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A
January 2007 article, in The
Rotarian, about RGHF's
efforts to collect
history.
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An April 2007
article in The
Rotariancrediting RGHF with their work on trees. www.friendshiptrees.org
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Approximately 250 Rotarians listened to Matts Ingemanson's
speech about Paul Harris' Exciting Youth during the Rotary District
5170 Conference in Santa Clara, CA. On the left picture, Matts is
congratulated for his speech by District Governor Ron Sekkel, who is
also a member of Rotary Global History. On the right picture, Matts
is congratulated by (from left to right) by Rotary Foundation's
Holger (Hogie) Hansen and Rotary International Past President
1986-87 M.A.T. Caparas.
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RGHF Treasurer and President's Representative to District
5500 Conference, PDG
Geri Appel, presented DG Jim Aslin with a "What Paul Harris
Said" written especially for the conference. 10/20/06.
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RGHF Senior
Historian Dr.
Wolfgang Ziegler, and his many articles in Der
Rotary Magazin, including this 2006 tribute
to Ziegler.
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Matts spoke 2
Dec. 2004, to the Rotaract Club at the United Nations in New York.
The Rotaractors were very interested in Paul Harris and asked Matts Ingemanson many
questions about both Paul Harris and Rotary.
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Centennial Celebration of the Rotary Club of Chicago(ROTARY/One)
attended by both RGHF Chairman Matts Ingemanson and RGHF Director
Dick McKay as speakers.
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Matts O. Ingemanson
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The Rotary Club
of Philadelphia was founded in 1911 as the 19th Rotary Club in
History. Matts Ingemanson is
seen here, 11 Nov. 2004, together with President Joan Batory and
Program Chair Richard Trivane, who is also Past President of the
Rotary Club of Philadelphia.
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Banner exchange
before Matts Ingemanson's
speech at the Rotary Club of Stockholm International. Because it is
an International Rotary Club, Matts gave his speech
in English. From left Matts, Rotary Club President Ronald Pavellas
and Rotary District 2350 Webmaster Tord Elfwendahl, who designed the
banner for this Rotary Club. Tord also designed the Swedish Flag
Emblem that the Rotary Club of New York used for Sweden Day on
January 27, 2004.
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Matts Ingemanson spoke
about Paul Harris at the Rotary Club of Stockholm, 17 Feb 2004,
which is the oldest Rotary Club in Sweden. It was founded in 1926.
Matts gave his speech in Swedish and is here together with Rotary
Club President Birgit Erngren Wohlin (right) and Incoming President
Thomas Franze'n (left). Birgit is holding up the New York Rotary
Banner. Matts (middle) is dressed in his New York Rotary Club tie.
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Don Murphy, managing webmaster, addresses the mid year assembly
for D5220 in California
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Matts
O. Ingemanson,
Two Times 7320 Past District Governor Chuck Katze ...(Story)
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