Rotary Engagements since July 1 221
No, I’m not talking about hours lost watching the curling
from Sochi! Just that I went to a couple
of meetings this week which brought the summer of 2012 all back again. Monday Joan & I were lucky to be invited
to Maidenhead Thames, not because we were there officially but we wanted to go
and hear their speaker, Dr Katherine Granger, the most be-medalled female rower
in Olympic history. Really lucky to sit
on the same table at dinner and discover what a super lady she is – wicked sense
of humour – there are real perks with this job!
Tuesday we took our District Executive Committee all the way
up to Bicester – continuing our policy of seeing the corners of the District in
force. Much to discuss this meeting with
the updates from General Council the previous week and looking forward, in
projecting our budget for 2014-2015.
Wednesday it was back to 2012 again – this time for the Paralympics. Mike Reilly, CEO of Goalball and Michael
Sharkey, a visually impaired competitor from the GB team, talked to my club (RC
Elthorne-Hillingdon) about the sport and their ambitions to start 5 Goalball clubs
in the London area this year, the first of which has started in Ickenham, just round
the corner from where our club meets.
And Friday we were both off to the Metropole Hotel in
Birmingham for the annual RIBI Assembly where we start to prepare for the 2014-2015
Rotary year (lasting thru Sunday). In
some ways this might be seen as a step back, as I’m helping out by acting as
Assistant Governor for the clubs in Burnham, Slough, Langle, Windsor &
Maidenhead but I see it as a challenge to focus on a great area and see where we
can increase our Rotary service. Great
fun weekend including meeting incoming Rotray International president Gary Huang
from Taiwan (seen with RI Director Mike Webb) and after launching the World’s
Greatest Meal 2012 District 1140 Governor Mukesh Malhotra, with his Dsitrict
1090 counterpart Niall Blair offered advice to our incoming DG Tim Cowling –
not sure how Tim’s taking the advice judging by his expression!
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