Joint Meeting with Rotaract Club of Tortola
On Friday 26th September our Club joined with Rotaractors for a joint meeting at the Government training centre, which was hosted by Rotaract President Antonio Maynard and his board. The meeting was well attended by both our Club members and Rotaractors. The joint meeting was an initiative of our Youth Services Director, Sonia Webster and was one of the activities in a month packed with youth related activities.
Members of both Rotaract and RCRT were able to enjoy some fellowship time, with the help of some snacks and drinks which provided us all the opportunity to get to know our Rotaractors better and vice versa.
During the meeting, our AG Delma Maduro took the opportunity to address both Clubs and talk about her objectives for the year and what she would like Clubs to focus on during the year and achieve. She congratulated both Clubs on the initiative of having a joint meeting.
As guests we were fortunate to have with us Lincoln Liburd and Michael Tubbs. Lincoln was born on St. John and is a director in the e-club of the Caribbean. Despite a very difficult childhood, Lincoln rose above all the hardships he had to endure and graduated from Stanford University. Michael, born in California had a similar difficult childhood, and thus it is not surprising they teamed up at Stanford. Both were down in the Virgin Islands to launch their “Visioning Your Life” programme which they rolled out through the secondary schools on St Thomas; in the BVI they addressed Cedar School students and it is the hope that during January they will be back to roll out the programme into the Elmore Stoutt High School. Both Lincoln and Michael addressed the meeting and everyone was impressed by how much they had both achieved, and they are only 23 years of age – impressive and definitely a role model.
We also welcomed back into membership a former Rotarian, Mrs. Margaret Penn. With our change to evening meetings, Rtn Margaret found the new meeting times much more convenient for her and thus wanted to re-join our Club. Sponsored by PP Courtney, Pres. Charles expressed his pleasure at welcoming back Margaret and after the formalities of installation, Rtn. Margaret gave a few remarks. Welcome back Margaret!
The meeting closed in traditional style with fines and happy dollars, only this time we had a tag team meting out some judicious fines. SAA Rotaractor Rockel and acting SAA IPDG Vance did a great job at teasing out cash from member’s pockets. Overall, a great meeting and our thanks to Dir. Sonia
