Scatter Week is an annual event when Rotary
Clubs visit each other, often
outside their immediate area, and the quaint
country town of Uppingham in
Rutland was the well chosen venue for 11
members of the March Club on the
14th .
The Uppingham Rotary club
formed only some five years ago, meeting in the
Falcon Hotel, an ancient
Coaching Inn, and though the membership is small,
their impute into the
community is considerable.
Welcomed by President Phil Marston, after a
fine meal, March Rotarian,
George White was introduced, presenting a talk on
the English Speaking
Union, thorough whose assistance, he spent a year as a
young man, at the
Riverdale Country School, New York.
The E.S.U. is
an international educational charity which was founded by the
Sir John
Evelyn Wrench in 1918, to promote "global understanding through the
shared
use of the English Language'.
George travelled out on board the Cunard
Liner, Queen Mary, spending a year
in the USA. As one was only allowed to
take
back Press Reports