NEW GENERATIONS AT ROTARY
The Rotary Club of Donaghadee’s weekly meeting in the Stables Groomsport on 10 November 2011 was devoted to New Generations. The Alf Buchanan Memorial Trophy was presented to Lydia McMullan, winner of the Donaghadee heat of the Rotary Youth Leadership competition. Past President Bill Best explained, for the benefit of the new members that the trophy was donated in memory of Past President Alf Buchanan. Alf who sadly died in the year 2000 had worked all his life with young people. This year’s winner Lydia McMullan, a Senior Prefect and House Captain at Glenlola College was described as a person with enthusiasm, passion and outstanding commitment. Lydia is involved with a local GB company and has obtained her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. She is involved in church work and assists the younger members of her school. The club members wished her well in the next round, confident that she would represent them well.
The speaker for the evening was an Ambassadorial Scholar Woody Hanson. The Rotary Club of Belfast is hosting him, while studying Urban and Rural Design at Queens University. He began his presentation by asking "Who Am I"? After answering this question he then asked "Why Am I Who I Am"? He explained that he was from Skekoygan Wisconsin Minnesota, on the edge of the Great Lakes. He studied Architecture at university. He then told how he wanted to become a professional Basketball player, but did not gain the height or the athletic ability. He then described "What He Did Not Want to Become". After this he described what he has done thus far. He spent a year in Cyprus working with the Re-Unifying Heritage in Nicosia, the last divided capital in Europe. While in Nicosia he lectured and discussed how the Nicosia Master Plan could be used to unite the people of the capital. President David Cochrane thanked Woody for his presentation and hoped that his time at Queens would be useful.
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