PP Ma. Christine "Tin" Toledo

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PP Ma. Christine "Tin" Toledo
RC Bacolod West
District Secretary

Digging through history to find out why the Rotary year starts July 1

Dollars and some good financial sense are why the Rotary year starts 1 July at least that’s what the RI auditors said, according to 1912-13 RI President Glenn C. Mead’s report in the September 1913 issue of The Rotarian.

The auditors found that the organization’s affair had been managed “honestly and carefully.” Still, RI was growing and had recently become an international organization, and its needs were changing.

The secretary and treasurer needed more time to prepare, audit, and check the organization’s financial statements by the end of the calendar year. The auditors recommended that the organization close its financial books for the year on 30 June, which was after the RI Convention. The Board of Directors agreed, and ever since, the Rotary year has begun on 1 July.

Reprint from Rotary International News

 

Reminders

  • Semi-Annual Report (SAR) on membership will due on July 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010. Refer to your Organizational and Administration Handbook for more detailed information.
  • Deadline for the Monthly Attendance Report (MAR) for July is August 5, 2009 for the GML publication while deadline for the revised MAR (together with make-up attendance from August 6 to 14, 2009) will be on August 15, 2009.
  • Please submit your club bulleting every first week of the following month.

 

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