Speaker - Fraser Booth - Memory

President John Spittal announced final details of the Charter Dinner celebrating the Club’s 21^st anniversary which takes place tonight (Friday September 25) at the Scores Hotel, St Andrews.

Members will be joined for the formal evening by a large number of guests, representing other Rotary clubs, and District and Regional officials. All will be entertained by the Madras College Pipe Band, other musical entertainment and a photographic exhibition by George Rees - Rotary Young Photographer 2016.
Guest speaker is Jim Brown MBE.

The remainder of this week’s meeting was a fascinating pictorial display by member Fraser Booth. His subject was “Memory” and how it impacted on all our lives.

Fraser opened his remarks by suggesting that no-one really has any idea how the millions of neurons in the brain can organise themselves to retain then release memories.

In a question and answer format backed by an impressive photographic array of world events from 1956 – the year of Fraser's birth – to the present day, members were urged to accurately guess in which years these events had taken place.

They ranged from the first arrest of Nelson Mandela is 1956 to his release from prison in 1990, through moon landings, the Ibrox disaster of 1966, launch of the QE2 on the River Clyde in 1967, the birth of Red Nose Day in 1988, to the “Happy Games” – the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

In proposing a vote of thanks, Fiona Roger reckoned it really was amazing that all of the members could recall in such detail each and every one of the events described