Vocational Service Committee
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THIS VERY OUT OF DATE PAGE IS AWAITING INPUT AND REDEVELOPMENT FROM THIS YEAR'S VOCATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE.
Throughout this Rotary year, in the Rutherglen tradition, we have held meetings in members homes to share the fellowship of Rotary and to organise activities which include :-
Our annual Public Speaking Competition for local schools, for the award of our founder President, Robert Pollock’s cup and to select a team for the District public speaking competition.
Also in order to give our members the opportunity to see other vocations at work and to develop interests and contacts, various “Vocational” visits such as those to the National Air Traffic Service, Scottish and Oceanic Air Traffic Control Centre at Prestwick and the Rolls Royce Heritage Centre at Hillington combined with a visit to the Royal Air Force, 602, City of Glasgow, Squadron, museum were arranged.
Further visits are planned to the Linn Products, high tech sound equipment manufacturing plant, the Barrs Irn Bru bottling plant, combined with a fellowship visit to the Rotary Club of Cumbernauld, plus a visit to the Glasgow Science Centre followed by a meal out to enhance the fellowship between our members.
Additionally we enjoyed a very fine Fellowship Weekend at the Caley Palace hotel in Gatehouse of Fleet which was enjoyed by a considerable number of our members accompanied by their wives and in some cases their children.
We have also been working with one of our local schools, Trinity High, towards finding a suitable winner for a sponsored trip to the Faraday Lecture in London, as part of the RIBI Excitement of Science project.
Partly to commemorate the memory of a recently deceased member, Mory Wilson, who had considerable nautical interests, we have again this year identified a suitable young man to sponsor on a Tall Ships Adventure holiday, aboard the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s, Sail Training Vessel, the Lord Nelson.
Consideration is also being given to the granting of a Rotary Civic Award to some local person or organisation but to date no suitable candidate has been identified.
Finally part of the remit of this committee has been the creation of this web site and if you are reading this we have, in some small way, succeeded.
The entire committee have worked well together throughout the year and have had and are still having a great deal of fellowship fun and satisfaction in the true Rotary spirit of “Service Above Self”
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