News Archive July 2015

News Update July 2015

The Rotary year runs from 1st July through to 30th June. It's been an exceptionally busy month for our club. On July 1st we celebrated our new year on the hottest day of the year (so far) with the installation of our new President for 2015-2016 Joan Greening at Batchworth Park Golf Club.  As well as a splendid dinner we entertained ourselves after dinner with Karaoke - a few great voices amongst us!

Only a few days later our Immediate Past President Mike Udall and his wife Brenda invited us all round for a barbeque - and the weather stayed dry!

More seriously, the highest award a Rotary Club can bestow on one of its members is the award of a Paul Harris Fellowship.  Named for our founder it recognises true "Service Above Self by an individual.  We recognised our member Gillian Pearce for her tireless work in support of Rotary's international service, most prominently leading a team of midwives and doctors on a succession of visits to Kamuli Mission Hospital, Uganda, where she's been helping local midwives to reduce infant and maternal mortality.

Every year we also recognise our stalwart attenders by presentation of a shield - this year it was Brendan O'Rourke that picked up the salver - well done Brendan!!

As if that weren't enough for the month, Tuesday 14th July saw us run our 20th Annual Golf Day, also at Batchworth Park.  34 teams of 3 took on the challenge in mostly great weather for golf, with the winners being Bushey Hall Ramblers, first-time entrants to the event.  Of course the big winner was RNLI to whom we donated the proceeds of the day, raising more than £9.000