Vocational Talk

President Mark mentioned the sad news on the passing of Leven PP George Barbour.

President Mark gave an update from the previous evenings committee meeting which included; mention of the Bi Annual fundraising dinner to be held on the 21^st April, guest speakers are Jim Leishman and Sheriff Lindsay Wood, tickets are on sale for £55 each or a table of 10 for £500. The Club has 61 members with a further 3 potentials in the pipeline, the Friends of Rotary is due to launch on the 1^st March and it would be good to get as many as 12 participants, Mark urged everyone to contact as many prospects as they could. The Euroscola headed off to Brussels today and we look forward to hearing from her when she gets back. The Club has 3 RYLA candidates.

PP Dave MacLauchlan was pleased to announce that the Past Presidents dinner was to be held later this week with Dr. Anthony Payne as the speaker.

Secretaries announcements – the Primary school quiz was a great success and the winners were Kirkcaldy West, Kirkcaldy will be hosting the finals.

Mark Garland had visited both West Fife and Dunfermline Carnegie in the last two weeks.

The Guest speaker was new Member Caroline Nolan giving her vocational speech. Caroline’s family descended from Ireland, however they had moved to Norfolk where she grew up. She had a great childhood with all the benefits of village life. Her family holidays involved extensive travel throughout UK and up to Scotland. Her Dad was a keen sailor and she has fond memories of sailing along the Norfolk coast. Caroline attended college in Norfolk studying Hair and make up, after graduation she was quick to get a job in the industry and spent the next 20 years working for the same business. She and her colleagues were very social and pursued a number of ingenious charity fundraising events including abseiling off the local library.

Caroline always intended to move to the Med when she left Norfolk, however she took a wrong turn and ended up in Scotland. She has lived in Kirkcaldy for 13 years most of which time was spent working at Anderson French, more recently she took a step back from the salon business establishing her own businesses, as well as working with JMC Real Estate.  Caroline has two loves in her life, her Bull Dog who was a rescue case ten years ago and more recently Stephen who proposed to her over New Year.

President Mark gave the vote of thanks mentioning how pleased he was that Caroline would be bringing her enthusiastic and energetic fundraising efforts to Rotary.