Rotary International President Nominee 2006-07  Wilfrid J. Wilkinson, of the Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario, District 7070.
Wilf Wilkinson has held the following positions in Rotary: Trustee The Rotary Foundation 1997-2001 /2002-2003 Vice-President of Rotary International 1993-94 Director of Rotary International 1992-94 District Governor 1971-72 President of The Rotary Foundation (Canada)
Wilf Wilkinson was a founding partner of Wilkinson & Company, Chartered Accountants. Wilf Wilkinson was the founding Chairman of the Belleville Cheshire Home for Physically Handicapped Adults. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Loyalist College and as President of the District Council of the Boy Scouts of Canada.
A Rotarian since 1962, he was a Health, Hunger and Humanity Program volunteer to India and has visited that country for Rotary on seven occasions. He has also had Rotary assignments in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia and Pakistan as well as the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and many parts of the United States and Canada. He has served on numerous District and International committees as well as chairing several conferences. In 1997, he participated at the National Immunization Days in Kenya and Tanzania, in 1999 in the slums of New Delhi, India
He is currently a member of the PolioPlus Partners Task Force and a member of the PolioPlus National Advocacy Advisors.
He married Joan Hogan in 1953 and they have four sons. In 1961 he moved to Trenton, Ontario to establish an office for the practice of public accountancy.
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