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Show FRANK DR1GGS. OGDEN, NEW ROTARYGOVERNOR Outstanding: Convention Reported; Good Will Is Theme. Frank Milton Drig-gs, head of the Utah state school for the deaf and blind, was unanimously chosen cho-sen governor of the fifth Rotary district which includes Utah arid southern Idaho, at the convention in Boise last week. Ogden was selected as the next district convention con-vention city. An unusually interesting and educational convention is reported by C. W. Love, Jr., who represented repre-sented the St. George club at the .sessions. It -was brought out at the convention that St. George was one of two Rotary clubs orgunv ized in the United States last year; Shoshone, Idaho being the other. Fourteen were organized in the world. Delegates from 23 clubs in the state were present. A banquet ban-quet at which over 500 were seated seat-ed and a grand ball on the closing clos-ing night featured the entertain'-ment entertain'-ment program. Another entertaining entertain-ing feature was the Cedar City Junior band which gave several concerts. Speakers of national reputation urged the expansion of the Ro-tarian Ro-tarian ideal of service in business, which, they predicted, would generate gen-erate world-wide friendship in "business upon which a sound foundation for peace could rest. The work of Rotary in the national na-tional and international field was described, and its expansion to 71 foreign countries since its inception incep-tion 26 years ago was cited. Rotary clubs were advised to avoid scattering their efforts over too many fields, 'and that particu larly in the smaller communities the advanced thinking for the community should be done by the Rotary clubs. Rotary is more influential in-fluential toward world peace, they said, than all the reformers combined'. com-bined'. Mr. Love traveled with the Cedar Ce-dar City delegates to Salt Lake where they joined a special train to Boise. He returned to St. George Sunday evening. |