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Rotary Global History Fellowship Activities
RGHF at the 2007 (Rotary's 98th) Convention in
Salt
Lake City, Utah, USA
(photos and video by RGHF's Carlos Calzada, Mexico) |
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Also see our public presentations |
Salt Lake City was a special gathering for RGHF. It was
the first time that the five founders were together. Many very
active members met others with whom they had worked for years, but never
been in each other's presence. What was most remarkable was that we
really needed no introduction.
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Plans for Salt Lake City, from the January 2007 issue of
The Rotarian |
The Salt Palace Center |
Salt Palace Windmills |
Listen to the amazing sounds as
described below |
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Salt Palace hallways |
RGHF booth 936 |
Booth |
Booth with RGHF secretary Ray MacFarlane |
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Teamwork (Kagle, Selway, and Lewis) |
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and MacFarlane |
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Dar Treese, USA; Anne Kagle, USA; Tim Tucker, UK; and Rev
Ryofu Pussel, Japan |
RGHF Founding member and past Chairman Matts Ingemanson, USA;
with Ron Nethercutt, ROTI president, Philippines |
2006/07 president Calum Thomson, Scotland |
Ellen and Secretary Ray MacFarlane |
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Recognition of RI Director Elect Phil Silvers, USA |
PDG Jim Aslin, Arizona, USA, left; Past ICUFR Chair and RGHF member Carl Cardey (center) |
64 Rotarians attended our breakfast |
Calum Thomson presides |
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Kagle and friends |
Invocation by ReCSWUSA president Ryofu Pussel, Japan |
Donna and Don Murphy, second and third from left. |
Founding member PDG Eddie Blender |
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Selway opened the meeting by singing "Granada"
which he had learned while song leader for the 1991 Convention in Mexico
City |
Selway then gave a background of the
founding of RGHF |
Guests included leaders of several Rotary fellowships |
as well as RI officers and the editor of the German Rotary magazine |
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RGHF was also joined by many of the members of Rotary eClub
of the Southwest USA many of whom are also RGHF members |
Three members were inducted into the
"1905 Society." |
RGHF founding member and Secretary/Treasurer Emeritus Dick
McKay, USA, assists founder Selway with the three presentations. |
RGHF Senior Historian Basil Lewis, UK |
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Founding member PDG Geri Appel |
Founding member PDG Eddie Blender |
ReCSWUSA past president Karen Naranjo was recognized for her
assistance with the RGHF Forum,
www.rghfforum.org
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Incoming RGHF president Joe Kagle |
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Founder Jack Selway is recognized by the 2006/07 board |
for being the founder, |
in 2000, of RGHF |
Secretary Ray presents special awards... |
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to all
five founding members. Matts Ingemanson shown on the right. |
Members of the board at a planning session |
Joe Kagle's Report on SLC |
Kagle and Selway |
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PRIP
Dochterman |
PRIP
Devlin |
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07 President Thomson, 04 President Ingemanson, and webmaster Murphy |
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ICUFR's Carl Cardey |
Members John Sheehan, PDG Ron Sekkel, Cindy Sekkel, PDG Linda Cobble |
Maria Eugenia Nozari Morlett, Founding member McKay, Carlos Calzada, and
Jose Fernandez Mesa |
Ellan and Ray |
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Basil Lewis and future RID director Phil Silvers |
"M's" McKay and Mesa |
Selway sings Granada (music file is linked
here) |
Selway receives award for founding RGHF.
The five
founders are together for the first time. 3rd from left Selway,
Blender, Appel, Ingemanson, and McKay. Far left Kagle and Thomson |
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Thomson, Kagle, Selway, and Calzada |
Lewis, the MacFarlane's, Selway and new member Adewunmi Oyewole |
Lewis meets members from Africa |
These Rotarians were friends of RGHF member "Chief" Dortie of Nigeria |
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06 Board Member DGE Albert Wong and Ingemanson |
American Indian goes to his medicine man. "Some days," he says, "I feel like
a wigwam, other days like a teepee." The medicine man tells him: "Your two
tents." (in front of our booth) |
RGHF Board Meeting |
Planning the future |
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(Present and future leaders) Blender, MacFarlane, Mesa, Appel, Kagle,
Selway, Thomson, Ingemanson, and Calzada |
Photos and Video by Carlos Calzada |
Visit our booth, next year, in Los Angeles |
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