President Dianna Reviews Progress

President Dianna introduced several guests at the meeting including a visitor  - Veit Hirche and his son Moritz -- from Wiesbaden Germany.  Viet gave a short presentation about his 100-member club and his year as president in which he introduced the new concept of women members.  They now have many contributing women serving Rotary and it has been a good change.  He invited both Hans Doge and Lydia Marston-Blaauw to take advantage of his knowledge of Hamburg City and allow him to show them the sights when they attend the International Convention there is early June.  There are 40,000 Rotarians registered so far!

 

Dianna then led a discussion about how we are doing as a club in achieving our goals for the year.  In most cases we are on target, though membership continues to be a challenge.  Sadly, member Cyril passed away recently.  We plan to induct new member Donna Patterson in early April, and are very happy to have her.

 

Our attendance has been good and members are enjoying the new, temporary venue at Amica.  Meetings have been lively - before, during and after any official business and the fellowship has been pleasantly noisy!