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Show NEW LEADER of Kiwanis International is Reed C. Culp of Salt Lake City, who is the first Utah-Idaho Kiawnian to achieve this honor. He was elected president in San Francisco Fran-cisco last week. Salt Lake Man Is Hew President Of Kiwanis Group Reed C. Culp, Salt City businessman, busi-nessman, has been named President Presi-dent of Kiawnis International. He was elected to the number-one Kiawnis post Wednesday K June 20, by delegates attending the 41st annual convention of Kiawnis International In-ternational at San Francisco, California. Cali-fornia. Assisting in the election of the new president were two local Kiwanians, Pres. Orson Stevens and Cliff Memmott, who represented the local club as dee-gates. dee-gates. As head of Kiwanis International, Interna-tional, Culp will be official spokesman for a quarter million Kiwanians in 4200 clubs located througout the United States and Canda, and in Alaska and the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands. He succeeds Dr. J. A Raney, Director of the Indiana Indi-ana State School for the Deaf, in Indianapolis. Raney has held the Kiawanis post since August of 1955. Mr Culp, who is a life-long resident of Utah, operates a wool-livestock wool-livestock brokerage firm. He is a member of the National Wool-growers Wool-growers Association, the Salt (Continued on Back Page) 1 NEW KIWANIS HEAD . . . (Continued trom page one) Lake City Chamber of Commerce and all Masonic bodies, He is currently a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Utah. Kiawnis' president-elect has been a member of the organization organiza-tion since 1937. Immediately prior to' his selection to the number-one Kiawnis post, he was treasurer of the organization. During his career, ca-reer, he has risen through the Kiwanis ranks, holding the positions posi-tions of club president, governor of the Utah-Idaho Kiwanis District, Dis-trict, and as a member of a number num-ber of district committees. He has served two terms as a trustee of Kiwanis International, In 1946, and again in 1947, he was chairman chair-man of the International Committee Commit-tee on Vocational Guidance. In 1951, he was chairman of the International Committee on New Club building for the United States. Other Officers i Delegates to the San Francisco convention, Kiawnis' 41st, numbered num-bered apprximately: 14,000 to make the convention the organization's largest. In addition to naming Club president, the delegates also chose two vice-presidents, a teasurer and six international trustees. They are: H. W. Driver, Cleveland, Ohio and Kenneth Lo-heed, Lo-heed, Toronto, Ontario, vice-presidents; H. Park Arnold, Glendale, California, treasurer; Harold Dool-en, Dool-en, Billings, Montana, Hal J. Fras-er, Fras-er, Prince Albert, -Saskatchewan, Cecil L Morris, Springfield, Illinois, Illin-ois, Armand J. Rodehorst, Sr., New Orleans, Louisiana, J. O. Tally, Tal-ly, Jr., Fayetteville, North Carolina Caro-lina and I. R. Witthuhn, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Culp is the first Utahn as. well as the first Kiwanian form the Utah-Idaho district to gain the highest post in the International Interna-tional organization. I |