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1910-11 Paul P. Harris, (Founder of Rotary), (law) Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA – Date of Birth: 19 April 1868 Date of Death: 27 January 1947

1911-12 Paul P. Harris, (Founder of Rotary), (law) Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA – Date of Birth: 19 April 1868 Date of Death: 27 January 1947

1912-13 Glenn C. Mead, (law – private practice) Rotary Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Date of Birth: 12 January 1870 Date of Death: 24 May 1954

1913-14 Russell F. Greiner, (lithography) Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA – Date of Birth: 17 October 1868 Date of Death: 4 June 1961

1914-15 Frank L. Mulholland, (law) Rotary Club of Toledo, Ohio, USA – Date of Birth: 20 April 1875 Date of Death: 7 June 1949

1915-16 Allen D. Albert, (journalist) Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – Date of Birth: 3 October 1874 Date of Death: 1 July 1964

1916-17 Arch C. Klumph, (lumber) Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio, USA – Date of Birth: 6 June 1869 Date of Death: 3 June 1951

**1917-18 E. Leslie Pidgeon, (religion – Christianity) Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – Date of Birth: 1873 Date of Death: 1 February 1946

1918-19 John Poole, (banker) Rotary Club of Washington, DC, USA – Date of Birth: 17 May 1875 Date of Death: 17 August 1940

*1919-20 Albert S. Adams, (real estate) Rotary Club of Atlanta, Georgia, USA – Date of Death: 31 December 1926

1920-21 Estes Snedecor, (law-general practice) Rotary Club of Portland, Oregon, USA – Date of Birth: 21 December 1887 Date of Death: 15 May 1974

*1921-22 Crawford C. McCullough, (surgery) Rotary Club of Fort William, Ontario, Canada – Date of Death: 25 March 1963

*1922-23 Raymond M. Havens, (manufacturer of stationery products) Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA – Date of Death: 2 December 1934

1923-24 Guy Gundaker, (educator, attorney, restaurateur) Rotary club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Date of Birth: 5 June 1873 Date of Death: 26 August, 1960

1924-25 Everett W. Hill, (refrigeration plant owner) Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA – Date of Birth: 10 January 1884 Date of Death: 22 May, 1978

1925-26 Donald A. Adams, (casualty insurance) Rotary Club of New Haven, Connecticut, USA – Date of Birth: 7 September 1881 Date of Death: 13 July 1971

1926-27 Harry H. Rogers, (law) Rotary Club of San Antonio, Texas, USA – Date of Birth: 24 May 1877 Date of Death: 3 December 1957

1927-28 Arthur H. Sapp, (law) Rotary Club of Huntington, Indiana, USA – Date of Birth: 13 January 1883 Date of Death: 9 August 1946

1928-29 I. B. Tom Sutton, (hardware wholesaling) Rotary Club of Tampico, Mexico – Date of Birth: 29 April 1884 Date of Death: 24 July, 1963

1929-30 M. Eugene Newsom, (owner of book and stationery company) Rotary Club of Durham, North Carolina, USA – Date of Birth: 4 March 1884 Date of Death: 14 September 1948

1930-31 Almon E. Roth, (law practice—industrial relations) Rotary Club of Palo Alto, California, USA - Date of Birth: 31 July 1886 Date of Death: 1 January, 1964

1931-32 Sydney W. Pascall, (sugar confectionery; manufacturing) Rotary Club of London, England – Date of Birth: 12 February 1877 Date of Death: 4 August 1949

1932-33 Clinton P. Anderson, (insurance – Casualty) Rotary Club of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA – Date of Birth: 23 October 1895 Date of Death: 11 November 1975

1933-34 John Nelson, (magazine writer) Rotary Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada – Date of Birth: 8 March 1873 Date of Death: 24 January 1936

**1934-35 Robert E. Lee Hill, (bankers associations) Rotary Club of Columbia, Missouri, USA – Date of Birth: 1890 Date of Death: 24 April 1957

**1935-36 Ed R. Johnson, (Railroad commissary contractor) Rotary Club of Roanoke, Virginia, USA – Date of Birth: 1882 Date of Death: 12 April 1960

1936-37 Will R. Manier, Jr., (law) Nashville, Tennessee, USA – Date of Birth: 3 January 1885 Date of Death: 31 January 1953

1937-38 Maurice Duperrey, (abrasives manufacturing) Rotary Club of Paris, France – Date of Birth: 13 August 1878 Date of Death: 29 May, 1972

1938-39 George C. Hager, (law) Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA – Date of Birth: 1 January 1893 Date of Death: 1 September 1958

1939-40 Walter D. Head, (education) Rotary Club of Teaneck, New Jersey, USA – Date of Birth: 17 September 1881 Date of Death: 26 January 1967

1940-41 Armando de Arruda Pereira, (industrial engineering) Rotary Club of Sγo Paulo, Brazil – Date of Birth: 28 September 1889 Date of Death: 18 March, 1955

1941-42 Tom J. Davis, (law) Rotary Club of Butte, Montana, USA – Date of Birth: 30 January 1888 Date of Death: 22 October 1953

1942-43 Fernando Carbajal, (civil engineering) Rotary Club of Lima, Perϊ – Date of Birth: 1 March 1880 Date of Death: 5 November, 1965

1943-44 Charles L. Wheeler, (intercoastal shipping) Rotary Club of San Francisco, California, USA – Date of Birth: 20 August 1888 Date of Death: 30 August 1982

1944-45 Richard H. Wells, (hardware – retailing) Rotary Club of Pocatello, Idaho, USA – Date of Birth: 21 October 1896 Date of Death: 6 January 1947

1945-46 Thomas A. Warren, (education – general administration) Rotary Club of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England – Date of Birth: 10 May 1882 Date of Death: 13 November, 1968

1946-47 Richard C. Hedke, (chemicals & dyestuffs distribution) Rotary Club of Detroit, Michigan, USA – Date of Birth: 16 October 1885 Date of Death: 28 February 1969

1947-48 S. Kendrick Guernsey, (capital investments) Rotary Club of Jacksonville, Florida, USA – Date of Birth: 11 March 1892 Date of Death: 9 November 1977

1948-49 Angus S. Mitchell, (manufacturer) Rotary Club of Melbourne, Australia –
Date of Birth: 1 April 1884 Date of Death: 16 August 1961

1949-50 Percy Hodgson, (novelty yarn manufacturing) Rotary Club of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA – Date of Birth: 16 December 1901 Date of Death: 1 January, 1986

1950-51 Arthur Lagueux, (investments) Rotary Club of Quebec, Quebec, Canada –
Date of Birth: 21 June 1901 Date of Death: 17 October, 1957

1951-52 Frank E. Spain, (insurance-law) Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama, USA – Date of Birth: 11 October 1891 Date of Death: 22 October 1986

1952-53 H. J. Brunnier, (structural engineering) Rotary Club of San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Date of Birth: 26 November 1882 Date of Death: 10 December 1971

1953-54 Joaquin Serratosa Cibils, (tire distribution) Montevideo, Uruguay – Date of Birth: 5 September 1884 Date of Death: 22 October 1958

1954-55 Herbert J. Taylor, (cooking utensils) Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA – Date of Birth: 18 April 1893 Date of Death: 1 May 1978

1955-56 A. Z. Baker, (law) Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio, USA – Date of Birth: 17 November 1890 Date of Death: 16 March 1976

1956-57 Gian Paolo Lang, (produce exporting) Rotary Club of Livorno, Italy – Date of Birth: 1 July 1894 Date of Death: 29 January 1978

1957-58 Charles G. Tennent, (nurseries) Rotary Club of Asheville, North Carolina, USA – Date of Birth: 5 April 1894 Date of Death: 22 February 1979

1958-59 Clifford A. Randall, (general law practice) Rotary Club of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA –
Date of Birth: 16 September 1905 Date of Death: 17 September 1984

1959-60 Harold T. Thomas, (furniture and furnishings - retailing) Rotary Club of Auckland, New Zealand – Date of Birth: 22 July 1891 Date of Death: 5 August 1992

1960-61 J. Edd McLaughlin, (banking) Rotary Club of Ralls, Texas, USA – Date of Birth: 1 February 1894 Date of Death: 27 September 1979

1961-62 Joseph A. Abey, (newspaper publishing) Rotary Club of Reading, Pennsylvania, USA –
Date of Birth: 21 June 1894 Date of Death: 12 March 1972

***1962-63 Nitish C. Laharry, (foreign motion pictures – distributing) Rotary Club of Calcutta, India – Date of Birth: 4 February 1892 or 1895? Date of Death: 1 July 1964

1963-64 Carl P. Miller, (journalism) Rotary Club of Los Angeles, California, USA – Date of Birth: 30 October 1897 Date of Death: 29 August, 1990

1964-65 Charles W. Pettengill, (civil law practice) Rotary Club of Greenwich, Connecticut, USA – Date of Birth: 16 February 1901 Date of Death: 27 November 1974

1965-66 C. P. H. Teenstra, (institutions and hospitals) Rotary Club Hilversum, The Netherlands –
Date of Birth: 21 October 1903 Date of Death: 13 September, 1973

1966-67 Richard L. Evans, (broadcaster, family magazine editor, and writer) Rotary Club of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA – Date of Birth: 23 March 1906 Date of Death: 1 November, 1971

1967-68 Luther H. Hodges, (textile manufacturing) Rotary Club of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA – Date of Birth: 9 March 1898 Date of Death: 6 October 1974

1968-69 Kiyoshi Togasaki, (newspaper publishing) Rotary Club of Tokyo, Japan – Date of Birth: 24 September 1895 Date of Death: 7 February 1992

1969-70 James F. Conway, (law) Rotary Club of Rockville Centre, New York, USA –
Date of Birth: 7 January 1903 Date of Death: 27 August 1986

1970-71 William E. Walk, Jr., (law) Rotary Club of Ontario, California, USA – Date of Birth: 7 April 1917 Date of Death: 17 October 1989

1971-72 Ernst G. Breitholtz, (carbide and oxyacetylene welding) Rotary Club of Kalmar, Sweden – Date of Birth: 9 February 1905 Date of Death: 11 January 1991

1972-73 Roy D. Hickman, (printing and publishing, photoengraving) Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama, USA – Date of Birth: 27 January 1902 Date of Death: 21 July 1993

1973-74 William C. Carter, (law – general practice), Member, Rotary Club of Battersea, London – Date of Birth: 23 September 1906 Date of Death: 17 April 2005

1974-75 William R. Robbins, (citrus fruit growing and roofing construction) Rotary Club of Miami FL, USA – Date of Birth: December 29 1910 Date of Death: 23 April 1998

1975-76 Ernesto Imbassahy de Mello, (law) Rotary Club of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil –
Date of Birth: 25 July 1908 Date of Death: 12 June 1993

1976-77 Robert A. Manchester II, (utility law) Rotary Club of Youngstown, Ohio, USA –
Date of Birth: 14 December 1901 Date of Death: 11 February 1982

1977-78 W. Jack Davis, (transportation company) Rotary Club of Hamilton, Bermuda –
Date of Birth: 29 October 1908 Date of Death: 1 April 1981

1978-79 Clem Renouf, (accounting services), Member, Rotary Club of Nambour, Queensland, Australia – Date of Birth: 19 April 1921

1979-80 James L. Bomar, Jr., (general law practice), Rotary Club of Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA – Date of Birth: 1 July 1914 Date of Death: 25 June 2001

**1980-81 Rolf J. Klδrich, (confectionary manufacturing), Member, Rotary Club of Helsinki-Helsingfors, Finland – Date of Birth: 5 February 1922 Date of Death: 20 January 2005

1981-82 Stanley E. McCaffrey, (associations – regional civic and economic development) Rotary Club of Stockton, California, USA – Date of Birth: 26 February 1917 Date of Death: 3 March 2002

1982-83 Hiroji Mukasa, (neuro-psychiatry) Rotary Club of Nakatsu, Oita, Japan – Date of Birth: 9 November 1911 Date of Death: 5 October 1992

1983-84 William E. Skelton, (university extension administration), Member, Rotary Club of Christiansburg-Blacksburg, Virginia, USA – Date of Birth: 10 January 1919

1984-85 Carlos Canseco, (medicine – allergies), Member, Rotary Club of Monterrey, Mexico –
Date of Birth: 17 March 1921

*1985-86 Edward F. Cadman, (orthopedic surgery), Rotary Club of Wenatchee, Washington, USA –Date of Birth: 9 December 1918 Date of Death: 17 April 2002

1986-87 M.A.T. Caparas, (labor law practice) Member, Rotary Club of Manila, Philippines –
Date of Birth: 28 December 1923

1987-88 Charles C. Keller, (corporate law practice), Member, Rotary Club of California, Pennsylvania, USA – Date of Birth: 17 June 1923

1988-89 Royce Abbey, (window shades manufacturing), Member, Rotary Club of Essendon, Vic., Australia – Date of Birth: 8 June 1922

1989-90 Hugh M. Archer (electrical engineering), Member, Rotary Club of Dearborn, Michigan USA – Date of Birth: 22 June 1916 Date of Death: July 15, 2005

1990-91 Paulo V.C. Costa, (architecture) Rotary Club of Santos, Sγo Paulo, Brazil –
Date of Birth: 23 January 1930 Date of Death: 10 April 2000

1991-92 Rajendra K. Saboo, (needle manufacturing) Rotary Club of Chandigarh, India –
Date of Birth: 11 August 1934

1992-93 Clifford L. Dochterman, (university administration) Rotary Club of Moraga, California, USA – Date of Birth: 13 December 1925

1993-94 Robert Barth (beverage industry) Member, Rotary Club of Aarau, Switzerland – Date of Birth: 25 October 1922

1994-95 Bill Huntley (education), Member, Rotary Club of Alford & Mablethorpe, England – Date of Birth: 3 January 1929 Date of Death: 21 February 2006

1995-96 Herbert G. Brown (furniture retailing) Member, Rotary Club of Clearwater, Florida, USA – Date of Birth: 22 November 1923

1996-97 Luis Vicente Giay (certified public accountant), Member, Rotary Club of Arrecifes, Buenos Aires, Argentina – Date of Birth: 4 August 1938

1997-98 Glen W. Kinross (furniture manufacturing) Member, Rotary Club of Brisbane, Australia – Date of Birth: 9 January 1931

1998-99 James L. Lacy (investments), Member, Rotary Club of Cookeville, Tennessee, USA – Date of Birth: 14 October 1930

1999-2000 Carlo Ravizza (architecture), Member, Rotary Club of Milano, Italy – Date of Birth: 10 December 1925

2000-2001 Frank J. Devlyn (optical stores), Member, Rotary Club of Anahuac, Distrito Federal, Mexico – Date of Birth: 22 September 1939

2001-2002 Richard D. King (law), Member, Rotary Club of Niles (Fremont) California, USA – Date of Birth: 2 November 1938

2002-2003 Bhichai Rattakul (pharmaceutical manufacturing), Member, Rotary Club of Dhonburi, Bangkok, Thailand – Date of Birth: 16 September 1926

2003-2004 Jonathan B. Majiyagbe (general law practice), Member, Rotary Club of Kano, Nigeria – Date of Birth: 10 July 1934

2004-2005 Glenn E. Estess (personnel consulting), Member, Rotary Club of Shades Valley Birmingham, AL, USA – Date of Birth: 9 April 1927

2005-2006 Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar (food broker) Member, Rotary Club of Gφteborg, Sweden – Date of Birth: January 16, 1935

2006-2007 William B. Boyd (magazine distribution) Member, Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand – Date of Birth:

2007-2008 Wilfrid J. Wilkinson (public accounting) Member, Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario, Canada – Date of Birth:

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*** Only day of birth is available from our records.

Rotary International Archives
[Mar. 2007]
Robin K. Dillow
Reference Archivist
Rotary International Archives


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