Roding Rotary Club

Rotary is a world-wide fellowship and on this page we can record our contacts with other clubs. Please let Bob have details of any contacts you make.

Visit to Hand-over of Rotary Club of Snaresbrook
On 25 June Joe Hill visited his old club for the Hand-over to their new president. Frank White was the retiring President and Parmeet Singh the incoming one. The meeting was held at The Mallinson Room, at Waltham Forest College. The restaurant is run by the trainees on their catering course and Joe says the food was very, very good. Snaresbrook usually meet Thursday lunchtime at the County Hotel in Woodford Green. They managed a turnout of about 50 people and it was an excellent evening.

Contact with the Rotary Club Frankfurt/M. International
At his niece's wedding recently Bob wore his Rotary badge and was approached by Ludolph van Hasselt, a member of the International Rotary Club of Frankfurt am Main which like us is a breakfast club. Unfortunately we were not able to get him to visit our club in the time available. However, contact has been made and he has just sent this message:

'Dear Bob,

Thank you for your e-Mail. I am sorry that we did not manage to connect in time for me to attend your meeting. But I shall put this into my schedule next time I come to London.

I have now also studied the web site of your club, which is impressive and clearly up to date. I am afraid we have it only as a sign post at this stage.

If you or other members find themselves in Frankfurt, do come and look us up. We meet Friday mornings for breakfast at 7:30am in the Hotel Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof. This is right in the centre of town opposite the head quarters of Commerzbank and is widely known. For visits on other days, there is a lunch meeting on each weekday (but on three different locations), plus a dinner meeting on Thursday evening. Given that Frankfurt is small this makes it easy to take part in a meeting.

I hope that we'll meet again soon, until then, best wishes,

Ludolph'

Visit by Members of the Rotary Club of Billericay

For our Club Assembly on 3rd June we were fortunate to be visited by six member of the Rotary Club of Billericay. Apparently they have as one of their annual goals the prize for the club totting up the greatest number of miles visiting other clubs. Groups of members go off on club bagging expeditions to the far corners of Britain and even further afield. Recently they visited a Danish Club and were a little surprised to find that most of the meeting was conducted in Danish although most of the members did speak English and made them very welcome. Your president felt much the same when sitting through an interminable sermon in Danish at the Danish Church in Regent's Park (well worth a visit). On the day in question they were visiting three different clubs and travelling a couple of hundred miles. After breakfast with us they were off the far side of Norfolk! Anyway their ambition was our gain because they added enormously to the liveliness and sense of occasion of our Club Assembly.

Scholar Talk by Student sponsored by Rotary Club of Johnson City, Tennessee
On Tuesday 4 March we were visited by Jonathan Barry, an ambassadorial scholar from the Rotary Club of Johnson City, Tennessee. You can find his blog report of his visit by clicking here.