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Frank J. Devlyn: Biography
Unique, Easy, Fast Reading Books That Will Help Rotarians Promote Their Rotary Club And Convince Non-Rotarians That Rotary is the Organization Entrepreneur and president of Latin America's leading optical company Frank Devlyn was the 2000-2001 world president of Rotary International, the network of 29,000 community-based service clubs in 159 countries. He was the third Rotarian from Mexico to lead the
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Ray Klinginsmith: Biography
Is an attorney in Kirksville, Missouri, USA, who now works primarily in the areas of commercial and corporate law, real estate, and estate planning. He retired in August of 1995 as General Counsel and Professor of Business Administration for Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State University) in Kirksville after 22 years of service.
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Sydney W. Pascall: Biography
Of the Rotary Club of London and a famous manufacturing confectioner was the first British and European President of Rotary International in 1931. His achievements far surpass that interesting statistic.