Rotary Club of Northlakes Toukley In Touch April 2014 | Page 4

RI President Message

is a local, community-based entity, engaged in a truly
global network.
This organization is incredibly large and diverse, and
as much as we all have in common in Rotary, we are
not a place where one size fits all. Our expectations
of a magazine, both culturally and linguistically, are
naturally going to be different. With our regional publications, Rotarians in Bulgaria can find out what's going on in Rotary in Bulgaria, and what's going on elsewhere in the Rotary world, along with the latest
news from Evanston. Because each one of our Rotary
publications belongs to the family of Rotary magazines – each one is, like every Rotary club, both fully
local and fully part of our international identity.
One of the greatest privileges of being RI president is
the ability to speak directly, every month, to every
one of our 1.2 million Rotarians. It's awe-inspiring to
me, as I write this, to think of all of you, sitting down
in your living rooms or at the breakfast table or

Rotary International President

maybe on the train to work, reading these words,

Ron D. Burton

and then turning the page to find out what's new in
Rotary. And overwhelmingly, that is exactly what

APRIL 2014
Like attending a Rotary club meeting, reading Rotary
magazines is an essential part of the shared experience of being a Rotarian. When you pick up a Rotary
publication, whether it's Rotary Down Under in Australia and New Zealand, or The Rotary-No-Tomo in

each of you does. Not just because your Rotary
magazine turns up in the mailbox, or because you feel
you have to – but because Rotary magazines are good
magazines. I hope that when you pick up your publication – whichever one you're reading right now –
you get the same feeling of pride, and ambition, that I
do.

Japan, you'll find that every single one does just what

Rotary magazines remind us that as Rotarians, we are

it's meant to do: It infor