Jimmy Macgregor

Wed, May 14th 2025 at 12:40 am - 2:00 pm

A Second Childhood

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The speaker was Club member and former President Jimmy MacGregor with a talk illustrated by photos entitled 'A second childhood’. He looked back to his youth, ‘a different age’, when as a member of the Scouts he had walked, climbed mountains, camped. He has continued to do this over the years and, in 2010, set up a group of like-minded fellow Rotarians who walk, visiting places of historical interest en route, climb (not so steeply now as they once did!) and enjoy the social aspect of being together. Jimmy is Honorary Secretary of the group, a ‘constant’ presence. Over the years the group have walked together, climbed together, socialised together in, among other places, Torridon, Raasay (on ‘Callum’s Road’), Ghia and Knoydart (both of which underwent a community buy-out), the Pentlands and the Cairngorms, Dunkeld, St Abbs, Coll, Jock’s Road from Braemar to Glen Clova, and recently to Rutland to visit a former member of the group now living there. A highlight came in 2013 when Jimmy, then Rotary President of this Club, walked the Rob Roy Walk (which runs between Drymen and Pitlochry) raising £2,500 for charity. This entertaining talk was well received by the members present. Gordon Wowk gave the vote of thanks.