RI president declares directors-nominee

It’s official. As of the 1 December deadline, the RI general secretary had received no proposals challenging the selections of the zone nominating committees. In accordance with the RI Bylaws, RI President Wilfrid J. Wilkinson has declared the following eight Rotarians as the sole official directors-nominee from their respective zones. The directors-nominee will be elected at the 2008 RI Convention in Los Angeles, and will begin their two-year terms on 1 July 2009. They are:

Zone 1:                  Masahiro Kuroda, Hachinohe South, Aomori, Japan

Zone 6:                  K.R. Ravindran, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Zone 9:                  Kyu Hang Lee, Anyang East, Gyeonggi, Korea

Zone 14:                Ekkehart Pandel, Bückeburg, Germany

Zone 19:                Antonio Hallage, Curitiba-Leste, Paraná, Brazil

Zone 23:                John T. Blount, Sebastopol, California, USA

Zone 27:                Thomas M. Thorfinnson, Eden Prairie Noon, Minnesota, USA

Zone 29:                Frederick W. Hahn Jr., Independence, Missouri, USA

The name of one more director-nominee, from Zone 18, will be announced at a later date.