What do we mean by ‘district‘? I remember that question being asked of me almost six years ago. “It’s an administrative unit” was my feeble and banal reply. Yet, I also knew, for a surly few, it was the bete noire within Rotary: the perceived enemy within.
The idea of the ‘district’ came about in 1915 thanks to H J Brunnier of the Rotary Club of San Francisco whose prescient idea of using a railway schedule map to divide the original…
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