| The Rotary Club of Guildford District Archive : Social Activities |
| Postings June 2009 |
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Cricket/Boules Evening Turns Into A Social Event Because of inability to raise sufficient players on the opposing team, the event at the Horsley and Send Cricket Club on Wednesday 17th June, was changed into a boules challenge. However the weather had ideas of its own, just as boules got underway blustery wind and rain ensued, so all took cover in the pavilion and a social evening was enjoyed instead. Our guests for the evening were Argentinian Rotarians on a Foundation exchange visit. Thanks to all involved in arranging the evening, to Geoff for his short introduction on the history of the Cricket Club and to the Cricket Club for their hospitality. |
(Posted 20.06.09)
| Postings July 2009 |
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Gordon and Bebette's President's Night Saturday 27th June saw the President's night at Peter Webbs barn. In a break with tradition, Members came casual for an informal evening to dine alfresco. |
45 Members, guests and Partners enjoyed a relaxed celebration of another successful year in the history of the Rotary Club of Guildford District.
After pre dinner cooling drinks, with the option of skittles and giant jenga, all enjoyed one of Peters excellent BBQ's followed by entertainment.
After singing and dancing, the evening concluded with the traditional 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' to which President Gordon responded by singing a song to us in Welsh!
Our thanks to Peter and his family for all their hard work and warm hospitality which helped make the evening so special.
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(Posted 04.07.09)
| Postings August 2009 |
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Bill and Sue's President's At Home Saturday 1st August : St Catherine's Village Hall Our thanks to Bill and Sue for the kind invitation to their incoming President's 'At Home' on Saturday 1st August at St Catherine's Village Hall. |
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A large contingent of Members, family and friends gathered for fellowship and a fine meal. President Bill expertly took on the role as wine waiter and ensured no guest's glass remained unfilled. |  |
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At the close Vice President James, on everyones behalf, thanked our hosts for their splendid hospitality and presented Sue with a bouquet as a token of our appreciation.
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The webed's thanks to Don for the report and photographs.
(Posted 08.08.09)
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Freiburg Film Evening Became A Talk On The 2008 Rotary Mission Challenge to Kenya On the evening of 19th August Rotarians, partners and guests came together for an excellent meal at the Guildford Golf Club, followed by a showing of the DVD made by one of the Freiburg Rotarians of their recent visit. |
All went well with the viewing for just five minutes when the computer decided to stop showing the DVD! Despite the combined efforts of many experts the disc drive flatly refused to cooperate.
The computer belonged to Peter and Pat O'Keefe, and as luck would have it, Pat's overhead presentation of her Kenya trip was accessable from the hard drive. Therefore Pat valiantly stepped into the breach and gave us a fascinating talk on the 2008 Rotary Mission Challenge to Kenya.
All enjoyed it and President Bill thanked her for her excellent presentation so professionally delivered at such short notice.
Our thanks to Don for this report.
(Posted 22.08.09)
| Postings September 2009 |
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Chichester Festival Theatre's Performance Of Oklahoma A jolly party of Members and guests attended the Chichester Festival Theatre's matinee performance of Oklahoma on Thursday 27th August. All enjoyed this wonderful musical in which many found themselves humming along to the abundance of well known songs. |
Our thanks to President Bill White for making all the excellent arrangements.
(Posted 05.09.09)
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Annual Golf Afternoon and Prize Giving Dinner On Wednesday 9th September, five teams of three took to the links at Guildford Golf Club Golf in our annual Stableford golf challenge for the Sam Bannister Cup. The weather was overcast with strong gusts of wind. However when entering back to the club house some fine team score cards were presented. The winning team were our Noel Sutcliffe, past member Rolf James and from the Rotary Club of Guildford Brian Arbuckle. |
The team of close runners up were our Tony and and his son Dominic Marchant and from the Rotary Club of Guildford Mike Wills.
In the evening non golfers, partners and friends joined the participants for a fine dinner and presentation of the cup and consolation prizes.
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Thanks to Don for the report and photos.
(Posted 12.09.09)
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District 1250 Conference Jersey : 18th to 20th September All Conference sessions and entertainment took place in the Hotel de France, St. Helier. It was an extremely good Conference which was much enjoyed by all of the 16 representing our Club who joined our President Bill White and Sue. |
The speakers were outstanding and two groups warrant special attention. The Starfish Project for training people with the problem of stammering and also for the youngsters especially the young women from Farnborough Hill School who competed in the Youth Speaks competition. On both occasions there was not a dry eye in the Hall. One felt proud of the youngsters, rather than the ones we read about in the newspapers.
Throughout the weekend we experienced a great deal of fun, fellowship, good food and excellent beverages!
Use this direct link to view the full portfolio of photographs: 1250 Conferance Jersey : September 2009
Thanks to President Bill for the report and photographs
(Posted 26.09.09)
| Postings October 2009 |
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Special Treat Fundraising Dinner : Guildford Golf Club On Wednesday 21st October some 50 members, partners and friends had a great evening at Guildford Golf Club and in the process raised over £500 for Rotary charities. After an excellent meal we were superbly entertained by the singing of the very talented Natalie accompanied by David (Rotary Club of Farnham Weyside Junior Vice President). |
Natalie and David had previously wowed the audience at last year’s Cardiff District Conference and certainly did so again with us.
A raffle was organised by Hector Goss with prizes generously donated by Chris Parker. Prilla Denley also very kindly donated one of her lovely paintings of a little boy which was the subject of a silent auction.
At the end of the evening President Bill thanked everyone involved in organising such a good event with particular mention of Tony Marchant who put in an immense amount of work to ensure a successful evening.
Use this direct link to view the full portfolio of photographs: Special Treat Fund Raising Evening
The WebEd's thanks to Don Raffin for the report and the photographs.
(Posted 24.10.09)
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Skittles and Social : Wednesday 28th October 14 Members and partners took on the clients of the Lockwood Centre for the annual skittles. There were two rounds with everyone having a go; and for the first time ever we won! 155 points to 130. The individual final was won by Valerie Connelly, from Jane Hindley, with Valerie throwing a maximum 9 points to win. |
Afterwards we enjoyed a delightful buffet provided by Lockwood whilst the energetic had fun to a disco.
The organiser was Tony Gorham who we hope will join us as a Member when he retires at the end of March.
Our thanks to Tony and his wonderful helpers, also Rotarians Geoff for co-ordinating and Don for the report.
(Posted 31.10.09)
| Postings November 2009 |
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Visit To Disability Challengers In Farnham On Wednesday November 18th we were invited to see the stunning facilities at Disability Challengers in Farnham. Following a buffet lunch and short talk of the support given to the children and their families, we were given a conducted tour and for the energetic opportunity for play. All in attendance offer thanks to the staff at Challengers for giving of their time and for their warm welcome and hospitality. |
Use this direct link to view the full portfolio of photographs: Tour Of Challengers Farnham
(Posted 21.11.09)
| Postings December 2009 |
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Christmas Party : Friday 18th December The annual Christmas party with some 60 Rotarians, family and friends in attendance was held At Guildford Golf Club with much festive fun and fellowship. After an excellent meal of beef not turkey, there was a fascinating quiz devised by Bill in which we had to to identify various Guildford landmarks. The winners were on the O'Keefe table but as they only got 18 out of 30 you can imagine how successful the rest of us were! |
Our thanks to Vice President James for organising, Bill for the taxing quiz and the staff of Guildford Golf Club for the fine meal and such excellent service.
Use this direct link to view the full portfolio of photographs: Christmas Party 2009
(Posted 26.12.09)
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Presentation Of Paul Harris Fellowship To Pat O'Keefe At the Christmas party President Bill had the pleasure of surprising Pat O'Keefe with formal recognition of her outstanding humanitarian works. Pat is supporter of so many works helping to improve the lives of those finding themselves by war or poverty in a desperate situation. |
Not one to sit back, Pat is a believer of going that extra mile, a charity walk from London to the Netherlands to raise funds and even hands on, spending time in Sierra Leone physically helping construct a hospital.
At the presentation Pat, a truely worthy recipient of this 'Service Above Self' award, was overwhelmed.
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(Posted 26.12.09)
| Postings Februuary 2010 |
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Landmarks Lunch Time Quiz Our lunch guests on Wednesday 3rd February were Don Franklin and Arthur Andrews Members of the Rotary Club of Ripley and Send who ran a quick action quiz projecting on screen images of local landmarks. Sounds simple but the photos were deliberately challenging and had one and all donning their thinking caps. |
(Posted 06.02.10)
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Debate Evening With Guildford Ex-Round Tablers Club On Tuesday evening 23rd February we were guests of Guildford's Ex-Round Tablers 41 Club, at Guildford Golf Club, where we took on their members in a debate on: "The high incidence of tennis elbow in Chinese rickshaw men is entirely due to the complete absence of aniseed in their diet". |
Chairman Christopher Bell thanked us for coming and for such a well reasoned arguments and our President Bill in response thanked them for such an enjoyable fellowship evening.
All present agreed that we had such a good time that we should do it again.
(Posted 27.02.10)
| Postings March 2010 |
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Annual Past Presidents Dinner : Monday 8th March Sixteen of the Club's Past Presidents met for lunch at the Drummond Arms, Wonersh. Old friendships were renewed and fond memories rekindled. Our thanks to Don Flack for making all of the arrangements. |
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(Posted 13.03.10)
| Postings April 2010 |
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Lunch and Wine Tasting : 7th April Roger Gillett a previous Member and Past President invited members and partners to tasting of his Bacchus Cavovin finest South American wines. Our venue was the atmospheric Stag Inn, Balls Cross. |
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A short explanation of region, grape and finer points of each wine was given with each tasting.
At the end of lunch President a big thank you to Peter who took the role of mini coach driver, thereby missing out on tasting the many and diverse wines on offer to Don Raffin and Roger Gillett for making all of the arrangements, also the kitchen and serving staff for such a fine meal.
With glassy eyes and happy countenance all agreed to having enjoyed a great lunch of fellowship and hospitality.
Use this direct link to view the full portfolio of photographs: Wine Tasting at The Stag
(Posted 10.04.10)
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Farewell Dinner for GSE Team from District 5060 On the evening of 15th April, the farewell dinner for the visiting GSE team from District 5060 took place at Guildford Golf Club. GSE are Rotary Foundation awards made to paired Rotary Districts for a team from a variety of vocations from each country to visit each other for an itinerary of educational and cultural interest. |
After a delicious meal there was an excellent presentation from Team Leader Jim Adamson, School Counselor/Youth Training Consultant, a past 5060 District Governor and a member of the Rotary Club of Wenatchee Sunrise, Washington State.
This was followed by presentations from each of the other four participants:
Bradley Haberstock an administrator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
Scott Van Horn a Pharmacist,
Kevira Voegle a newspaper journalist and
Cam Rauschenberger a financial planner.Each told us about themselves, giving their reactions and impressions of the visit.
Since inception over 45,000 individuals (10,000 teams), from over 100 different countries, have participated in the programme, at a cost near 100 Million US Dollars.
To find out more on the GSE initiative use this direct link: RI Foundation web index page.
Thanks to Don Raffin for the photographs and report.
The GSE team blog, detailing their trip is: http://district5060gse.blogspot.com/
(Posted 17.04.10)
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Unscheduled Visitor At Club Lunch Scott Van Horn, one of the Group Study Exchange Team from District 5060, found himself with an unexpected extended stay in Guildford following the volcanic eruption in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier. The volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe. |
As all good Rotarians, Scott wishing to keep his attendance record high, took the opportunity to become our guest at Club lunch on Wednesday 21st April.
Pictured is Scott handing to President Bill a bevy of Club banners from fellow GSE Members. President Bill returned the compliment handing Scott our Club banner.
(Posted 24.04.10)
| Postings May 2010 |
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Ladies Annual Lunch : Thursday 22nd April |
Wives, Partners, Guests and Members of Guildford Inner Wheel were invited by President's Lady Sue White to attend a presentation on the Starfish Project.
It began with a most moving account of how Anne, a trained speech therapist, and previous participants on the course help people to overcome their stammer and regain a more normal life, eg pursuing a chosen career which otherwise would be difficult with a stammer, or reading a bedside story to their children.
There was a short DVD on Trevor Campbell at the beginning of his course. He then spoke to us for about 10 minutes clearly demonstrating how much his speech had improved since the course and telling us of the changes he had been able to make in his life which included starting his own business.
At the close we were able to give them a cheque for £450, comprising £200 from Guildford District funds and £250 from donations from those ladies in attendance and also from those who were unable to be present.
Anne Bright (Starfish founder) thanked everyone for the wonderful and very generous donation which will help set up a bursary scholarship for applicants, of limited resources, to obtain therapy to control their stammer.
(Posted 01.04.10)
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