RI Convention Seoul, Korea May 28 to June 1, 2016

       Members had the pleasure of hearing from the District's Rotary international Chair David Long at their regular noon meeting at Prante's on Tuesday, February second.  David is the Foundation Director and Vice President of the Detroit Lakes Noon club.  Though a relatively new Rotarian he has already experienced one international convention, Sao Paulo May 2015.

                      David Long

       David spoke of the amazing experience of being a part of an international body and attending the great plenary sessions.  One of the secrets are the world class entertainers who present before and after plenary sessions.  In the U.S. tickets for these performances alone would be over one hundred dollars.  He spoke of the Seminars and the pre-convention meetings such as the Peace Symposium and the Water and Sanitation Symposium where one learns of the magnitude of some of these world problems.  David took the opportunity of traveling to South America to go to places other than Brazil.  He was able to visit the water dams built in Bolivia by Mano a Mano with help from D 5580 and see how these dams have improved the water and agriculture of many people in the area.  He spoke of the House of Friendship all of the Rotary vendors and the multiplicity of Rotary Fellowship organizations connecting like minded Rotarians about everything from stamp collecting, bird watching, motorcycles to yatching.