By Inner Wheel Narre Warren club correspondent Erica Peck
The Inner Wheel Club of Narre Warren celebrated their change of leadership and committee members at a special ladies luncheon in July.
It was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate and highlight the dynamic commitment of women in this vibrant organisation.
The theme for the day was “A Gathering of the Clans”. It represented our incoming president Linda Wallace’s heritage, our outgoing president Margaret Sansom’s heritage, and other members who had Scottish backgrounds.
President Linda also acknowledged and celebrated all the strong women from the past who had made us who we are today.
Outgoing president Margaret Sansom inducted the new president Linda Wallace in front of 60 members and guests.
As the theme for the luncheon honoured both Linda and Margaret’s Scottish heritage, everyone dressed in a Scottish theme.
The luncheon started with both ladies being piped in by a Scottish Piper, Deborah Clarke, who has performed overseas and in the Edinburgh Tattoo.
Margaret Sansom in her final speech for the year outlined that 2020 -2021 was the club’s 40th birthday and a challenging year for all, as we balanced the ‘ups
and downs’ of Covid.
To celebrate the club’s 40th birthday and raise funds for cord blood research, the club produced a recipe book, which has now gone to many clubs around the world. The book is in its third print.
The clubs focus of service and friendship held us all together during Covid as all our members took up the communication challenge by keeping in contact
through Zoom, newsletter and constantly calling each other.
Our community service efforts did not suffer either as the club managed to raise over $12,000 and support charities such as Harkaway Primary School, Lebanon Disaster, local food kitchens, St John of God Wig Library, ovarian and brain cancer, cystic fibrosis and the 3D hands project in Phillip Island.
Our new president Linda finished the lunch by acknowledging that she felt privileged to follow in the footsteps of Marg who has given so much to this
club over many years – they will be hard shoes to fill.
In her role as president Linda will focus her leadership on the long-standing traditions of friendship, personal service and international understanding and to work with members to continue the great work of our “wee clan”, The Inner Wheel club of Narre Warren.
