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R.I. President Bill Boyd 2006-2007 |
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New Zealand's William B. Boyd nominated to be RI president in 2006-07William
B. Boyd, of the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, District
9940, is the selection of RI's Nominating Committee for President
of RI in 2006-07, which met on 13 September. He will become the president-nominee
on 1 December if there are no challenging candidates. A Rotarian since 1971, former member and past president
of the Rotary Club of Wellington South, New Zealand, Boyd has served
RI as district governor, director, treasurer, member and chair of regional
and international committees, group discussion leader and moderator
at the International Assembly, and RI presidential representative to
local and international conferences. As a Rotary leader, he has conducted
training seminars in New Zealand, as well as Cook Islands, Fiji, and
Western Samoa.
Devoting much of his time to
supporting Rotary's PolioPlus program, Boyd has served as a member of
the PolioPlus Task Force, coordinator in the PolioPlus Partners program,
and consultant to the International PolioPlus Committee. He also chairs
the management committee of Rotary Down Under, a Rotary regional
magazine. He is a recipient of The Rotary Foundation's Citation for
Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award.
Before his retirement in 1995, Boyd was general manager
of Gordon & Gotch (NZ), Ltd., New Zealand's largest magazine distributor.
He is a trustee of New Zealand's Trees for Survival Trust. He was an
RI representative to the National Kidney Foundation and Intellectually
Handicapped Society, and is a former elder and youth leader in the Presbyterian
Church and a warranted Scout master. He was also a rugby referee for
31 years.
The nominating committee members are Keith Barnard-Jones,
England; Peter Bundgaard, Denmark; Moses Mo-Chi Cheng, Hong Kong; Hipólito
S. Ferreira, Brazil; Jack Forrest, USA; William G.B. Gant, Canada; Samuel
L. Greene, USA; S. Aaron Hyatt, USA; Umberto Laffi, Italy; Hans J. Müller-Rech,
Germany; W. Grattan O'Connell, New Zealand; Donald E. Osburn, USA; Louis
Piconi, USA; William T. Sergeant, USA; Antonio M. Serrano, South Africa;
Fumio Tamamura, Japan; and P.C. Thomas, India.
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