SECTION 1
ASSOCIATIONS.
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The history of all RT Associations (more than 100 countries). In this section, I did cover the active RT Associations and the ones that have closed (like RT Iran, RT Lebanon, and RT Ghana). I include information on the history before the charter, the history of the charter (and in some cases recharter, like RT Australia, RT Canada, RT Nigeria), and information on the charter of some numerically important Tables as well as information on the Association’s important anniversaries.
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The International events organized by each Association (i.e. WOCO, RTI WM, regional meetings) and the international extensions
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The Personalities of each Association (tablers that were members of the RTI and WOCO board and other honourable members) and a list of all National Presidents.
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The main Community Service Projects with emphasis on the most important ones as well as the ones that received RT international awards
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Also, in this section, I added some nice to know information, some even unique, like RT France having tables thousands of miles away, the stories of Captain Tom and Prof. Rafique Parkar, and RT 68 Ghent and the restoration of the Ghent Rabot.
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SECTION 2
ROUND TABLE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.
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Information on all RTI AGMs, RTIWM, and WOCO meetings.
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History of both the old RTI (1948–1961) as well as the current one (since 1991)
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List of all RTI Presidents
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SECTION 3
OTHERS
In this section, I included everything else that I thought was important to be included in the book. I included:
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Information on other RT Books, Magazines as well as articles on Round Table work in the media
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RT Family
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RT Regions, including lists of all RT Regional meetings, logos, as well a list of all Regional Chairmen
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History of WOCO and WOCO Foundation
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As well as short history on WMC, Buffalo, Tabler World, Movember and other
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICOS ZEVLARIS
“Once a Tabler — Always a tabler”
My name is Nicos M. Zevlaris, and I was born on 14th January 1962 in Nicosia, Cyprus. I became a member of RT 5 Nicosia in 2000. I served as Chairman of my Table RT5 (2002–2003), National IRO (2006–2007), EMA Chairman (2007–2008), and as a member of the extended RTI Board for the next three years (2008–2011) as an advisor. I also served as 41 Club National IRO (2014–2015), and in 2018, I successfully rechartered 41 Club Number 5, mainly with ex Round table members that did not join 41 Club to that date.
I have also helped to organize several Round Table and 41 international events from various positions, the most important being:
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- The Charter of RT Greece in 2004 as Vice Convenor
- The RTI World Meeting 2007 in Paphos as Vice Convenor
- The 41 International AGM 2015 in Limassol as Convenor
I was rewarded with several local as well as international awards, including:
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Life Honourable chairman of my Table, RT 5 Nicosia
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Honourable Member of RT 1 Athens, Greece
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Member of the Richard Du Bois PLC. To date, may be the only non RTBI member to hold a position of an RTBI President’s PLC
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