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After coffee, the conference was enthralled by a Orpheus Centre in Surrey, where young, disable
presentation on the Shakespeare Schools’ Festival people prepare for independent living through
by actress Jenny Agutter. The festival allows performing arts courses.
young people to perform the playwright’s work in Seen at Bournemouth – pushing for Polio
professional theatres, and a special school in Gordon & MacPhail, a family owned firm of whisky
Surrey performed a Midsummer Night’s Dream. distillers, has tied up with Elgin Rotary to bottle,
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. distribute and sell a 10-year-old single malt,
known as The Fellowship. Proceeds of each bottle
Later on Saturday, there were amusing insights sold pays for 10 vaccinations against polio. In the
into the sporting world by Geoff Miller, the former four years it has been available, The Fellowship
England cricketer and chairman of selectors. He Malt has generated £39,500, equivalent to
was brave enough to have roomed on five tours 500,000 vaccine doses.
with Sir Ian Botham, although he didn’t see much
of him. He talked about how the game has Just in case you missed last month’s clip,
changed. The game had to evolve to bring in the here is a new video from Bournemouth:
crowds. He pointed to the success of 20-20 (30:01 mins)
games, which attracted young people. A lesson
for Rotary, he wondered? https://youtube.com/watch?v=p
-bc2P_IHHo
After lunch came the break-out sessions -- a new
concept for the Rotary conference -- and the
Annual Business Meeting (report on page 17).

On the Sunday, we were treated to the life story
of Rev Richard Coles, an award-winning
broadcaster, a former pop star (with the
Communards) and now a man of the cloth.

Later, Lou Moss, chair of Rotaract in GB&I, gave
an upbeat presentation. One day, she will make a
great Rotarian. And then we were led down the
full length of the Mississippi in a kayak by Ken
Robertshaw, who was a district governor in the
same year as Peter Davey was. He did offer Peter
a ride on a tandem, but his was politely declined.
The conference closed with a presentation from
Sir Richard Stilgoe on his work for his charity, the