President-elect Ray Klinginsmith
Excerpted from Rotary International, June 23, 2010
As the 2010 RI Convention in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, drew to a cose on 23 June, RI President-elect Ray Klinginsmith outlined his plans for his term, which begins 1 July.
Participants also got a peview of next year's big event in New Orlleans, Louisiana, USA where the Host Organization Committee has planned fun for the whole family.
Klinginsmith will ask Rotarians to apply "cowboy logc" and make Rotary clubs "bigger, better, and bolder."
The fundamental principles of cowboy logic are taking pride in your work, talking less and saying more, doing what has to be done, and remembering that some things just aren't for sale, he explained during the closing plenary session.
"I believe the way for Rotary to remain viable and vibrant in the next century is to help our clubs to be biggr, better, and bolder," Klinginsmith said, "The clubs are the life and breath of Rotary. Therefore, it is clear to me that my job is to help the district governors to help the clubs. We can do it, and we will do it, if all of us follow the smple solution of cowboy logic."