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DISTRICT CHAIRMAN VERA ’S DIARY DATES FOR 2017- 2018 S JULY U 4th-6th Leicester Assembly 13th District Assembly Officers Meeting - Evening M 17th Induction Day - Eastwood Hall M AUGUST E 2nd Warsop Club Visit 9th Bolsover Club Visit R Inner Wheel SEPTEMBER 1st Chesterfield Club Visit 2 12th Sutton-in-Ashfield Club Visit 13th Mansfield Club Visit 0 14th Retford Club Visit 21st Dronfield Club Visit 1 26th Church Wilne Club Visit 7 29th – 30th Rotary Conference - Llandudno OCTOBER 1st Rotary Conference - Llandudno 5th Clay Cross Club Visit 6th Bolsover Charter 8th Bingham Charter 10th Wollaton Park Charter 11th Matlock Charter 12th Ravenshead Charter 16th Beeston Club Meeting 19th Retford Charter 20th Melbourne Charter 24th International Rally - Eastwood Hall 25th Kirkby-in-Ashfield Charter District Chairman NOVEMBER Vera Dilks 1st Warsop Charter 2nd Alfreton Club Visit 6th Long Eaton Club Visit E 11th District Meeting - The Post Mill Centre, D South Normanton Chosen Charity 13th Heanor Club Visit I 2017-2018 19th Chesterfield Scarsdale Charter 21st Sherwood Forest Club Visit T I Derbyshire DECEMBER and 11th Kirkby-in-Ashfield Club Visit O Nottinghamshire 13th Carlton Club visit 13th West Ashfield Club Visit N YOUNG CARERS 17th Inner Wheel and Rotary Carol Service - Trent College 2018 1 3 JANUARY Personal copy for ___________________________________ 9th Wollaton Park Club Visit 5 10th Keyworth and Ruddington Club Visit 36 The Smile Virus - Author unknown Your District Executive 2016 - 2017 Smiling is infectious You catch it like the flu 1st Vice-Chairman District Chairman 2nd Vice-Chairman Linda Elkin Vera Dilks Anne Lyons When someone smiled at me today I started smiling too I passed around the corner And someone saw my grin When he smiled I realised I’d passed it on to him I thought about that smile Then I realized its worth A single smile just like mine Could travel round the earth So if you feel a smile begin Secretary Member of Council Treasurer Don’t leave it undetected ? Gloria Humphrey Elaine Hopkins Lets start an epidemic quick And get the world infected Thank you D10 What did one flea say to the other? “Shall we walk or take the dog?” “ It is such a lovely evening, let’s walk” Dear Friends Thank you one and all for the contributions that have gone into the Summer edition 135 of our News in 22. As always it represents our wonderful, Editor Immediate Past International Service District and I hope you enjoy reading it as I have producing your work. This Jacquie Chapman District Chairman Committee Chairman is my farewell as Editor and my heartfelt thanks go to you and Membership Officer Marion Tasker all for making the past three years so exciting for me. What Di Hylton a lot I have learnt! It was a pleasure and honour for me to be your Editor and represent District 22 especially at Conferences, a role I thoroughly enjoyed. To my successor Jacquie Chapman my best wishes and know that you have my support. Have an enjoyable Summer. Cheerio all! Diann The Autumn Edition 136 will soon be upon us so kindly note the deadline date 10th SEPTEMBER 2017 . All articles on or before that date please to our NEW Editor Jacquie Chapman of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. e-mail: [email protected] 2 35 DISTRICT CHAIRMAN 2017 - 2018 Bereavements Mrs Vera Dilks Alfreton Club email: [email protected] The Executive Committee and all members of District 22 offer their sincere condolences to the family and friends of: Dear Friends How time flies! It hardly seems two minutes since I thought what a good idea Cynthia Beetham Ashbourne it would be to take on the role of District Secretary. It is an office that covers all aspects of Inner Wheel and as a result, would teach me so much more Paula Hammond Church Wilne about our wonderful organisation. Time moves on whether we want it to or not, and here I am taking on the role of your District Chairman for 2017/2018. Yvonne Davenport Mansfield It is a great honour to be doing so and I look forward to working alongside all of you. As my year starts, we will be saying goodbye to several of our Executive team. Immediate Past District Chairman and Membership Officer And our thoughts and condolences go to: Di Sardesai, Member of Council Sue Curley, Treasurer Lyn Woolmer and Editor Diann Jacobs. Having worked alongside these ladies for many years IPDC Di Sardesai - Heanor now I know how much effort and commitment they have put into our District, on the death of her husband Subhash for which we are very grateful. For the remaining members of the team the work goes on with Di Hylton as our IPDC and Membership Officer, Linda Ann Davies - Mansfield Elkin as our 1 st Vice Chairman and Anne Lyons as our 2 nd Vice Chairman. on the death of her husband Dewi Marion Tasker continues in her role as International Service Committee Chairman for another year. I welcome three new members to the team. Gloria Penelope Richardson - Newark Humphrey (Warsop) as our Member of Council, Elaine Hopkins (Warsop) as on the death of her husband Bryan our Treasurer and Jackie Chapman (Kirkby-in-Ashfield) as our Editor. At the time of writing this the Secretary’s position has not yet been filled . The Association President this year is Liz Thomas (Great Yarmouth, District 8). The Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in G.B. & I. Her chosen Charity is Children’s Hospices 51 Warwick Square and Clubs will be asked to donate to their London SW1V 2AT local hospice. The International Inner Wheel Tel: 020 7834 4600 theme is ‘Leave a lasting Legacy’. email: [email protected] My chosen charity is Young Carers – Web address: www.innerwheel.co. uk Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and you will learn more about it at the November District Meeting. As we all know, our objectives are: NOTICE To promote true friendship To encourage the ideals of personal service DATA PROTECTION To foster international understanding These objectives are our backbone and if we take the letters U, F and N from the words ‘true friendship’, then we spell the word FUN ! Let us aim to have lots of it! Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland follows I look forward to meeting all of you when I visit your Clubs. the Data Protection Act 1988. All members’ details are used purely for Sincerely purposes within the Association of Inner Wheel and are not passed on to outside companies. Vera x 34 3 Welcome to the three new additions on the District 3rd March 2017 at Executive. Gloria Humphrey as Member of Council, East Midlands Airport Elaine Hopkins as District Treasurer and Jacquie Chapman as District Editor. I am so looking forward to being back on the District Executive, as Member of Council D22. I was your District Chairman 2007/8, which seems a long time ago now, but have still been an active member of my Inner Wheel Club at Warsop, where I have just finished my term as President. This is, of course, International Convention Year in Melbourne, where I hope to get more of an insight into the working of our International Organisation and come back brimming with fresh ideas. For the last five years, I have been a Volunteer for the NSPCC School Service, where I have been visiting Primary School children, talking to them about Speaking Out to Stay Safe, a very important message. This Charity has been a very important part of my life. As your Member of Council, I will be the link between our District and Association, so please, if you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact me, I will always be happy to help. I was born and brought up in Nottingham. At 16 years of age I went to catering college in Buxton and then went to London to work, before taking my final catering post with Boots as their area Catering Manager in Nottingham. I joined Nottinghamshire Police in 1977 and served for 38 years. I also met and married my husband a serving Police Officer in 1981, our first home was in Nuthall. Our son Timothy was born in 1984. Since retiring from the Police I have taken on a new role of community fundraiser, initially for the Royal British Legion and currently for Nottinghamshire Hospice. I joined the Inner Wheel Club of Warsop in 2012 and found out what fun and friendships I had been missing out on. I am just completing my second year as club treasurer, a role which I have really enjoyed. I am looking forward to a new challenge as District Treasurer and working hard on the District Executive, maintaining the high The walk was a joint event between the members of District 7 and District 22 standards you are all used to. for Association President Zena’s Charity. 4 33 I have been a member of Kirkby in Ashfield Inner Wheel club for three and a half years. During that very short time I have been President of the club and I am currently Secretary. I believe that Inner Wheel has a great deal to offer women of all ages and it is my hope as District Editor and webmaster, that I will be able to promote Inner Wheel both inside and outside of its organisation. I am married with three sons, two stepsons and one daughter. Three of our sons are married and we have three grandchildren. Our daughter is getting married in October. During my working life I worked in the Information technology industry mostly within the financial services sector, rising to senior management.