LINK WITH FRANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27079, 13 May 1949, Page 6

LINK WITH FRANCE

ROTARY GREETINGS

PENNANT PRESENTED

A link between the Dunedin Rotary Club and a branch of the movement in France was provided yesterday when M. Rene Thevenot, a new lecturer at the School of Home Science, presented a pennant to the president, Mr R. H. Stevenson, from his club in the town of Vichy. He also brought a letter of introduction from the Vichy president, M. Louis Debord. The pennant, which is attractively designed in royal blue and gold, bears the Rotary International symbol in yellow and the words, “ Rotary Club, Vichy, France.” At the foot of the pennant is a symbolic square worked in gold, blue and silver.

“The Rotary Club of Vichy seeks the privilege and pleasure of introducing one of its young countrymen travelling in your distant land,” stated the letter of introduction from M. Louis Debord. “Rene Thevenot was the first president of a branch of our club endeavouring to unite all young men in the same spirit and with the same ideal as the Rotarians. “He succeeded very well in his mission and we consider him as our youngest member and our ambassador among you. We ask our Rotary friends in New Zealand to facilitate his mission, diminish his loneliness and make easier his apprenticeship in the art of inverting his outlook to harmonise with his new surroundings. “ Thanking you in anticipation of your kind hospitality, I beg you to accept very cordial greetings from the club of Vichy and the expression of my personal faithful Rotary feelings.— The president, Louis Debord.”