President's Year in Review

Outgoing President Malcolm noted that although this was a challenging year personally, professionally and in Rotary, it was also a year of firsts. Our club supported CALS - computer assisted learning systems - to teach literacy by computer. Since then other Rotary Clubs and the Vancouver School Board have followed our lead. We also were able to distribute $10,000 worth of Zany World games to schools to teach children respect for each other. We brought Holly Arntzen and her Voices of Nature concert to Carnarvon school, and other Rotary Clubs are again following our lead. And for the first time we set up a Shelterbox display in the Arbutus shopping mall to expose us to potential new members. Malcolm mentioned that this year we learned that we need to engage our members in projects - and that all of our members can participate at some level. Malcolm considered it a privilege to be our president this year and he is encouraged to see Boris come in with such enthusiasm!