ROTARY INTERNATIONAL WORLD HEADQUARTERS:
One Rotary Centre, 1560 Sherman Ave, Evanston, Illinois, 60201, U.S.
Telephone: 847 866 3000. Fax: 847 328 8554.

General officers of R.I. for 2004-05
President, Glenn E. Estess, Sr., Shades Valley, Ala., U.S.A.; President-elect, Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar, Göteborg, Sweden; Vice President, John F. Germ, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S.A.; Treasurer, David D. Morgan, Porthcawl, Wales; Directors, Ronald L. Beaubien, Coronado, Calif., U.S.A.; Jocelyn I. Bolante, Parañaque South, Philippines; John J. Eberhard, London, Ont., Canada; Serge Gouteyron, Denain-Bouchain, France; Sushil Gupta, Delhi Midwest, India; Sölve Kernell, Kalmar, Sweden; David Linett, Somerville and Bridgewater, N.J., U.S.A.; Michael D. McCullough, Trenton, Mich., U.S.A.; Yoshikazu Minamisono, Hofu, Japan; G. Kenneth Morgan, Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.A.; Luiz Coelho De Oliveira, Limeira-Leste, Brazil; José Antonio Salazar Cruz, Bogotá Occidente, Colombia; Sakuji Tanaka, Yashio, Japan; Constant A.G.M. Tempelaars, Vianen-Vreeswijk, The Netherlands; Rodger W. Wagner, Scottsdale, Ariz., U.S.A. General Secretary: Edwin H. Futa, East Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

R.I. South Pacific – Philippines Office
McNamara Centre, Level 2, 100 George Street, Parramatta, N.S.W., 2150 or P.O. Box 1415, Parramatta, N.S.W., 2124. Telephone: (02) 9635 3537. Fax: (02) 9689 3169. Office hours: Open daily from 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. except weekends and public holidays. Administration: Manager, John Tucker; Co-ordinator, Leanne MacKenzie; Literature Clerk, Michelle Fuller; Receptionist, Gaye Small. Club and District Administration: Supervisor, Tony Quinn; Co-ordinator, Dele Riley; Correspondent, Sherrine de Silva; Finance Co-ordinators, John Jiang and Wendy Tran; Assistant, Felicity Fong; Junior Finance Assistant, Brooke Sanders. The Rotary Foundation: Supervisor, Terry Davies; TRF Assistant, Amabel Pante. How to e-mail staff: Start with the staff member’s last name (up to seven letters), then add first letter of the first name, except John Jiang (jiangx) and Tony Quinn (quinna) followed by @rotaryintl.org.
R.I. Internet address:www.rotary.org

Rotary Down Under – The Council
R.I. Past Director John Thorne, District Governors Axel Handevitt-Haar (D9450), John Iriks (D9460), Hugh Langridge (D9470), Katina Jones (D9500), Euan Miller (D9520), Trevor Williams (D9550), John Ker (D9570), Robert Jeffery (D9600), Des Lawson (D9630), Margaret Hayes (D9640), Harry Durey (D9650), Michael McNamara (D9670), Bruce Allen (D9680), Lloyd Roever (D9690), Bruce Barber (D9700), Bob Greeney (D9710), Robert Richards (D9750), Cathy Roth (D9780), Mani Seneviratne (D9790), Judy Nettleton (D9800), Denis Hyland (D9810), David Louden (D9820), Muriel Heron (D9830), Ken Linkhorn (D9910), Beryl Robinson (D9920), Bruce Scott (D9930), Barbara Williams (D9940), Alex Murray (D9970), Martin Chappell (D9980).

The Committee
R.I. Past Director Bill Boyd, R.I. Past Director John Thorne, R.I. Director Jocelyn Bolante (co-opted), Past District Governors Paul Gillett, Vance Hilton, Colin Thorniley, Terry Edwards, Peter Williams and Bob Aitken (secretary) and Rotarian Barry Antees (general manager).

Advisory Committee New Zealand,
Pacific Islands
R.I. Past Director Bill Boyd (chairman), R.I. Past Director Grattan O’Connell, Past District Governors Geoff Dainty, Rob Crabtree, Fergus Cumming, Allan Birrell and Stuart Heal and Rotarian Rex Morris.

Dear fellow Rotarians, In 1905, when Paul Harris founded the first Rotary club, he probably never imagined that he was planting the seed for the 1.2 million-member, internationally-respected organisation we are part of today. As we look back on the first 100 years of Rotary, and ahead to the next 100, we can’t know for sure what lies ahead, but we can do a great deal to ensure that Rotary International continues to grow and thrive.

Programs for young people are bridges to Rotary membership, and among the most important ways we keep Rotary’s future bright. The members of Rotaract are the cream of their generation, being community-minded students and professionals aged 18 to 30 who come together for fellowship and service.

Every Rotaractor has the potential to become an outstanding Rotarian, having already demonstrated an active commitment to Rotary goals and the ideal of Service Above Self. In my travels as president, I am constantly impressed by the commitment and creativity of Rotaractors.
On a recent trip to Russia, I met with Rotaract members in St. Petersburg who had come from Vladivostok, nine hours away by aircraft. These young people truly understood what Rotary volunteerism is all about, and Russia can only benefit from their work. I came away feeling confident that the future of Rotary was going to be with the next generation, and the future of Russia as well.

As I write this message, the members of a Rotaract club in San Diego are packing their bags for their first international service project, one for which they are uniquely qualified. The club’s members are all Sudanese refugees who, as children, fled their country’s civil war without parents or relatives. Now, these new Rotaractors are returning to the Kenyan refugee camp where they once lived to help other refugees find a better life. This is just one example of Rotaractors seeing a need and doing everything they can to make a difference.
Rotaract is flourishing around the world. With more than 7,700 clubs and 177,000 members, there is Rotaract in almost every country where there is Rotary. World Rotaract Week (March 7 to 13), is an opportunity for all of us to reach out to Rotaractors and make sure Rotaractors feel that they are part of the Rotary family.

Sponsor joint projects with your local Rotaract club. Invite Rotaractors to your club meetings, and propose them for membership. Rotaract is a path to Rotary, and it is our responsibility as Rotarians to keep that path clear and inviting. For my wife, Mary, and me, family always comes first. And often, we hear from members or prospective members that they have so little time to spend with their families, they cannot take on the commitment of community service.

Rotary was never meant to take members from their families. Instead, it should be a force to bring families together. Encourage your children or grandchildren to join Rotary, Rotaract or Interact, and involve them in your club’s service projects whenever you can.

There is no better way to teach service than by example and bringing generations together in service is one of the many ways we continue to Celebrate Rotary!

Glen E Estess Snr. President. Rotary International