Rotary Luncheon May 29, 1956 THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE Mr. Chairman and Members of Rotary International: It is a great pleasure and, more important, a fine opportunity. to talk to you, members of an illustrious and international civic group. Today, I would like to bring you the greetings of another distinguished civic group, the oldest Chamber of Commerce in the West. I would like to tell you how proud our group is to have worked side by side with you in San Francisco's forward march. And to tell you thzt we are even prouder of the fact that many of your members are associated with the Chamber of Commerce - -our general manager, Lewie Fox, for example - - and a number of our directors. Our two organizations share to a high degree the civic responsibilities peculiarly American, which have played such a major role in our civic and national development. Today I would like to talk to you about the Challenge of Change, the problems that progress brings with it, and an approach through common effort to solve those problems. We live in a world of change, but here today we need not concern ourselves with the imperceptible changes of geology and evolution or even the violent changes of nature on the rampage. Rather I would like to discuss with you the changes that are man-made, changes that are the symptoms or sometimes the by-products of man's constant quest to improve his lot. Each of us in his own business is working unceasingly to find