Harris honour for hard work

BERWICK’S Kay Rankin received a well-deserved Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary Club of Berwick president Sjaak Kusters at the club’s most recent meeting.
And everyone agreed that the resilient, hard-working volunteer was more than deserving.
Kay retired from full-time work in 1991 after her third battle with cancer. It was then that she directed her energies to community work.
Kay has been on boards of various charities and worked for various community organisations including Guides Victoria, Berwick Hospital committee of management, the Cancer Council of Victoria’s genetics advisory committee and Save the Children Toorak branch
Kay held two balls at the Berwick Leisure Centre, raising more than $50,000 for the Royal Women’s Hospital, was instrumental in setting up a number of Mentor Breakfasts for young women in Victoria, and was founding chairwoman of the Girl Guide Casey Mentor Breakfast, now in its 16th year.
Her present involvement in community affairs is primarily with Inner Wheel, holding positions as president, secretary and treasurer of the Berwick club.
For her services to the community she was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2002, “The Emu” from Girl Guides in 2001, the City of Casey Non-Resident Citizen of the Year for the 2005 Australia Day Awards and she can now add “Paul Harris Fellow” to the list.