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Until the
Houston convention
in 1914, Rotary had celebrated all its conventions in August. After the
convention in
Buffalo, 18-21 August 1913, the dates of the
Houston
convention were changed to 22-26 June 1914. Subsequently, the conventions of
San Francisco (1915) and
Cincinnati (1916) were celebrated in July. At that
point, Rotary established a tradition, programming the convention for a date
near the end of the Rotary year, in May or June.
Although the present practice to identify the salient
president of Rotary International with the convention that is celebrated at
the end of his or her year of office, does not necessarily apply to the
conventions celebrated during the term of office of
Frank L. Mulholland,
1914-15. He was chosen by the delegates of the Houston convention, and he
participated in the convention of San Francisco, 18-23 July 1915.
Russell
Greiner, 1913-14, and
Arch Klumph, 1916-17, celebrated two conventions
during their terms in office; they shared these conventions with their
predecessors and successors.
Trivia: The smallest convention was the first,
1910, with 60 attendees. The largest registration number,
to date, was 43,381 at the 2004 convention in Osaka,
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