President Philip Highley is inaugurated as President of the Rotary Club of Kenilworth on July 4th 2006, here seen accepting the charter of the club from Immediate Past President Maurice Holden accompanied by the President’s Lady Kay Prentice and Janet Holden. More photos here.
The Rotary Pavilion at the Royal Show, organised by Kenilworth Rotary heading a team of local clubs working together, Sunday July 2nd – Wednesday July 5th. More photos here.
Using funds collected from charity activities, Kenilworth Rotary Club has joined with the Rotary club of Jamshedphur in India to fund treatment for Thalessemia, a hereditary desease prevelant in the region in which the patients have a deficiency of haemoglobin which requires blood transfusions and other treatments. More information here.
Kenilworth Rotary is hosting Agnes (Agnieszka Kostrzewska) from Warsaw as she participates in the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Scheme. More pictures here.
Chris Fitzgerald, who has been chosen as the District Ambassadorial Scholar for the next academic year, speaks to the Club on July 24th. Most ambassadorial scholars seek the bright lights of the United States, Australia, or some other top class venue. Chris has decided to spend his time in Morocco getting to know the arabic moslem view of the world. We offer him our good wishes in his insightful enterprise!
The Kenilworth Lads get the pictures up and ready for the Art Show at the Town and Country Festival over Bank Holiday Weekend, August 26-28th in the British Charolais Building on the Royal Show Ground. More pictures of the Exhibition here.
A great strength of Rotary is its international links and opportunities to visit clubs in many countries around the world. Here Rotarian Russell Bennett from Brisbane, Australia, presents a banner from his home club to Kenilworth Rotarian David Pettifer on a visit to the Rotary Club of Kenilworth. Likewise, Kenilworth Rotarians travelling abroad will take the opportunity to visit other clubs and share an evening of fellowship with other Rotarians.
One of the four avenues of Rotary Service is:
the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
Here Rotarian Doug Leaf gives a ‘My Job’ talk, explaining how the company he works for are using gas produced from land fill sites to provide energy from waste.
The Rotary Club of Kenilworth has produced Greeting Cards suitable for Christmas or any other occasion to enable those in need to have cards to send to those that help them and to provide an opportunity for Rotary and other organisations to raise funds for charity. More information here.
The Rotary Club of Kenilworth presented an evening of music and stories from the life of contralto Kathleen Ferrier on Saturday 14th October 2006 to provide an evening’s entertainment for the people of Kenilworth and its environs and an opportunity to raise funds for Rotary Charities.
This proved to be a moving evening of words and music as two contrasting contraltos sang from the repertoire of Kathleen Ferrier and told her story in a way which honoured her while maintaining their personal styles. There were so many highlights, with folksongs such as Dance to my Daddy and Blow the Wind Southerly, the touching What is life without thee and the magnificent solo from Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. Rosalind Roberts made the piano trip lightly in some pieces and glow like a full symphony orchestra in others, working as one with both the soloists Christine Lockwood and Susan Cullen.
A memorable event indeed!
The Rotary Club of Kenilworth
presents
Klever Kaff An Evening with the music of
Kathleen Ferrier
Saturday 14th October 2006
at 8.00 pm
St John’s Church Kenilworth
Tickets £7 [including interval drinks]
Tickets in advance:
Tel: 01926 8555927
or on the door
Christine Lockwood Mezzo Soprano
Susan Cullen: Mezzo Soprano
Rosalind Roberts: Piano
Still described as England’s greatest contralto, her brief but incandescent singing career and tragic early death have made Kathleen Ferrier an irreplaceable treasure in the hearts and minds of music lovers everywhere.
Klever Kaff, as she signs her paintings, was full of life, humour and spirit.
Anecdotes from her friends, extracts from her letters and diaries, have been woven into a programme of music that celebrates Kathleen’s unique gift and Kaff’s sparkling personality.
The Rotary Club of Kenilworth, as part of its commitment to Community Service, holds an annual lecture on subjects of important public interest.
The inaugural lecture was on a subject of global concern:
World-renowned virologist
Professor Nigel Dimmock
THE THREAT OF AVIAN FLU
Monday 16th October at 6.30 for 7.00pm
at the Quality Hotel Chesford Bridge Kenilworth
The lecture took place at a normal Rotary Club meeting evening and was attended by an audience of Rotarians and members of the public who shared a full two-course meal with coffee.
Presenting the lecture ...
Presentation of a commemorative plaque from President Philip Highley (left) and Rotarian David Zane-Morris (right) who organised the evening.
President Philip Highley (seated centre) is here photographed attending the Rotary District 1060 Conference at Bournemouth 27-29 October, with Kenilworth Rotarians, Philip Southwell, Bernard Beadle, Colin Sallis, Jeremy Duckett, Richard Lemberger (standing) Peter Roberts (front left) and Maurice Holden (front right).
President Philip poses with the ladies, June Duckett, Pamela Roberts, Judith Sallis, Joy Southwell (standing), Kay Prentice, Janet Holden.
The Rotary Tree of Light takes pride of place at the switch-on ceremony of the Kenilworth lights.
Also at the Kenilworth Lights ceremony on Friday 24th November, Kenilworth Rotary presented Pudsey Bear, a Soup Kitchen, a fair organ, free lollipops for all, greetings cards on sale, in addition to the Kenilworth Rotary Tree of Light. Click the triangle on the movie above to see Pudsey, or click here for more pictures.
When Rotarians travel, they relax by visiting other clubs, often interchanging club banners as a memento of the occasion. Here Rotarian Steve Tattersall presents a banner from his home club to President Philip Highley.
John Backhouse receives his award of Citizen of the Year, under the watchful eyes of Mrs Backhouse and the Mayor of Kenilworth, Michael Coker.
President Philip Highley and the Rotary Club of Kenilworth wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, presenting the award of Citizen of the Year to retired cancer specialist John Backhouse, who, among his many accomplishments, was instrumental in the founding of the Myton Hospice.
For more information about the presentation and pictures of the fun and games at the Kenilworth Christmas Party, click here.
Double-click the picture to see Kenilworth Rotarians having Fellowship and Fun.
Can you recognise our President and the Town Mayor doing their thespian bits?
Rotarian Arnold Bolton shakes hands with President Phil Highley. Arnold is responsible for numerous activities in the club, including masterminding the Blackpool holidays that the club offers to local residents and the award for Kenilworth Citizen of the Year.
Rotary builds its service to the community on the basis of Rotarians working together in Fellowship and Fun, then translating that easy fellowship between members into service. At the Club Meeting on 22nd January, Rotarians were joined by friends and guests, including several member of Solihull St Alphege Rotary Club on a ‘scatter night’ visiting other clubs. The speaker for the evening, Rotarian Geoff Burrows is due to give a ‘my job’ talk, but tells instead of the time he was a folk-singer and is joined by his colleagues from the folk group Romany Pie. Here the two accountants in the club are invited to take part in the entertainment.
Rotarians setting accountancy to music
The club meeting on Monday 19th of February involved a fellowship visit from the Leamington Club and those present had the pleasure of listening to Bernadette Halton speaking of her eighteen years as a tennis umpire at Wimbledon and elsewhere. Highlight of the talk was her display of the uniforms she wore at various times, particularly when the sponsors were ‘Boss’, which suited her just fine.
Bernadette tells of the time she changed her call at Wimbledon and was verbally abused by Sampras. It happened that she was right to do so...
President Elect Arnold, Secretary Bernard, the Boss, and President Philip Highley line up for a photo call.
The Easter Grocery Grab is around once more, with tickets on sale at 50p each at Kenilworth and Warwick Sainsbury’s. First prize is the chance to run around the Warwick Store to grab up to £250 of goods in two minutes.
Here President Phil Highley (centre) explains the system to customer Mike Tuckey with Rotarians David Tall (left) and Bob Kelly (right) looking on.
Rotarian Bob Kelly with the winners Noel and Joanne Ashmore at Warwick Sainsbury’s about to do ‘the grab’.
Rotary clubs throughout the land join together to make the public aware of the problems linked to high blood pressure and the likelihood of strokes. On Saturday, May 28th, The Rotary Club of Kenilworth held a clinic in Talisman Square to provide free measurement of blood pressure and pulse rate for the general public, More photographs here.
President Phil Highley enjoys his President’s night, not only presiding at top table, but also performing a monologue as part of the Talisman Palace of Varieties and singing along with the Kenilworth Rotary Barbershop Singers. More photos here.
The 25th Two Castles Run, from Warwick to Kenilworth, on June 10th 2007 had 2,500 registered runners – the largest Two Castles Run in the twenty five years since our first run in 1983. Photographs of the run are here for you to download freely at your leisure. The list of winners is here. The full list of runners and their times may be downloaded in pdf format here.
President Phil ready to start the run with the Mayor of Warwick.
Ready to present the prizes at Kenilworth with the Mayor of Kenilworth and representatives of our two main sponsors, Richard Thornton of Blythe Liggins and Richard Smith of Opus Land. More pictures here.
Fellowship is a fundamental aspect of Rotary and Rotarians take the opportunity of visiting other clubs. On Monday June 18th Kenilworth Rotary had several visitors including Peter Meldrum, Past District Governor from District 1140 who had acted as a taxi driver to bring friends attending the Stratford Theatre while he took time out to visit us.
Here he exchanges banners with President Phil.
The evening was also distinguished by the visit of Kamaljit Dhillon and his wife Balwinder who masterminded the team of over 100 runners from the Sikh community to raise funds for their new temple.
President Phil presented Kamaljit with a cheque towards their appeal. A cheque will also be presented for the team raising funds for the Meningitis Trust on behalf of Sally Woodhouse who died of Meningitis last October.
On Saturday, 30th July, President Phil Highley introduces a concert by his friends Romany Pie to raise funds for the rebuilding of Kenilworth Cricket destroyed by fire.
The venue was the Kenilworth Wardens Cricket Club who made their premises available free of charge to support their local rivals. The sale of tickets plus the raffle on the night was rounded up to a cheque for £2000 to be presented to the Cricket Club on behalf of the Rotary Club.
