Banner Exchanges
Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
Left-to-right: Leatherhead RC President Ken Prentice and John Miles PHF, also from Leatherhead RC and currently I & F Chair as well as Awareness and Fundraising Coordinator for The Guildford Rotary Eye Project.
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Monday, August 14, 2012
(Please see the following two pictures.)
Past Rotary International Director, PDG Dr. John G. Thorne of Tasmania was our guest speaker at the weekly Skype meeting November 16, 2011 and gave us his “Insights into the Board of Rotary International”.
Since then, we have gotten our own club banner designed and mass produced, and who deserved our banner more than John Thorne - though several months had passed – having had to get up in the middle of the Australian night to talk to us at an evening Skype meeting London time?
Well, John could finally present our banner to President Ruth Brown (1th picture) of Rotary Club of North Hobart at a meeting August 14, 2012. By good luck, at this particular meeting, Rotary Club of North Hobart was hosting an official visit of District Governor James Wilcox of D-9830 and Mrs. Kathy Wilcox (2nd picture).
“Our members were delighted to receive the banner and impressed with its design,” John G. Thorne wrote back to the London E-club.
And since the London E-club banner was snail-mailed from a post office in Denmark, the envelope was decorated with Danish post stamps carrying a picture of a famous Tasmanian woman, Mary (nee Donaldson), now the Crown Princess of Denmark, who will become queen when her husband, Crown Prince Frederik succeeds his mother on the throne as the monarch of the Kingdom of Denmark.
“You would realise that Mary was born in Hobart and lived near where we live now. She went to the same High School our girls attended,” John G. Thorne stated in his mail to the London E-club.
Editor’s footnote: Dear John, the London E-club banner, which you have received, is unique in more than one sense: In the first edition of the banner, the word of was inadvertently left out in our club name, which really is: Rotary E-Club of London Centenary. Your club thus is in possession of a true collector’s item.
Click here to view John G. Thorne’s Rotary profile.
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July, 2012
(Picture below)
Norman Allington from Felixstowe Landguard Rotary Club visited Rotary E-Club London Centenary at our Skype meeting July 12 as speaker for the evening.
As a token of gratitude for his talk, “Sailing Chay Blyth Challenge Yachts in the Canary Islands”, Norman received the E-club’s banner (in the mail) and he presented it at a following meeting in his own Rotary club to President Paul Newman (left).
Having received the E-club's banner through the mail, Norman wrote back to the sender: Your club banner is very nice, one of the best I have seen.
Norman started sailing about 40 years ago and showed slides of some of his boats and the rough seas he had to experience, during the Challenge.
