In July, 1967 I received a telephone call from a Victorian Rotarian who introduced himself as Royce Abbey, recently-appointed youth committee chairman of the then District 280 (now 9890) and who had been told that I could impart some information about RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) and perhaps arrange for him to visit a RYLA seminar. I promptly invited him to the District 275 (9750) seminar to be held in October of that year and he, equally promptly, accepted.
During the course of his two-day visit to the camp we were able to exchange information about Rotary youth activities in general and RYLA in particular; and, after meeting and talking with the awardees, he needed no convincing that RYLA was a valuable program, worthy…
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