Council at 5.45, then Business Meeting, District Governor Agnes Ritchie visiting
Thu, Sep 6th 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Members discuss Club business with DG Agnes Ritchie attending
Several important visitors were welcomed
to last week's meeting of the Rotary Club by President Mairhi
Trickett.
District Governor Agnes Ritchie, a member
of Bathgate Rotary Club, who was accompanied by fellow club member Jill
Cockerell, had the pleasant task of presenting RYLA student Amelia Kench, whose
mother Marianne was also present, with her certificate for attending this year's
RYLA camp.
Also present was Anna Gabriela Casalme
from Los Angeles who was hosted by the Hawick club on her Global Grant
Scholarship year at Edinburgh University where she will graduate shortly having
submitted an 80 page dissertation on her chosen subject "childhood studies
in health." During her studies she had visited Kenya for a month's study
and also Rwanda. She had also used her time to see as much of Scotland as
she could and had a particular liking for ceilidhs! - which was entirely new to
her and she only had happy memories of the country and its peoples, so much in
fact, that she has arranged an extra year's study.
District Governor Agnes gave an inspiring
address and complimented the club on their achievements and wished them every
success in the coming year and follow this year's motto "be the inspiration"
which encouraged ordinary people to do extraordinary things in so many diverse
ways.