Posted on Dec 07, 2019
Dear $NICK_NAME$,
 
A motion was presented to the Whyte Avenue Rotary Club Executive Board on the nomination of Jennifer Laughton for membership in the Rotary Club of Edmonton Whyte Avenue. Jennifer Laughton has been nominated by Tamara Larson under the classification of Physical Anthropologist.
 
Please indicate within seven days (7), by email to the Club Secretary, Mike Greaney, if you have any knowledge that prospective member, Jennifer Laughton, does not meet the Rotary Four-Way Test and you object to the admission as a new member (transfer from Rotary Club of Ottawa Metro) or if you require additional information regarding this candidate.
 
Thank you,
 
Kathy Strobl
Membership Chair 
Rotary Club of Edmonton Whyte Avenue
 
 
Bio 
Jennifer is currently a PhD student at the University of Alberta in the Department of Anthropology. Her specialization is Physical Anthropology and her research will focus on a group of Neolithic hunter-gatherer skeletons from Siberia. She has worked as a Physical Anthropology Consultant at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, and with commercial archaeology companies in Ontario. She has lived in five countries and has developed a love of travel, hiking, history, and languages (of which she speaks five fluently). She was a Rotary long-term youth exchange student to Siberia, Russia and has been back twice to further explore her second home and once to assist on an archaeological excavation. She was a member of District 7040 Youth Exchange Committee and is the secretary of the Canada-Russia Inter-Country Committee. Jennifer’s ‘rotary family’ includes host sisters from Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, and Russia, and brothers from Columbia and Russia.