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www.welcomeclubs.org
Thirteenth Biennial International Conference
Sunday evening, May 18 to Friday evening, May 23, 2014
Moin Moin, Hamburg!
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Welcome Clubs International held its 13th biennial conference in Hamburg from May 18 to 21, 2014. This time, Welcome to Taipei International Club’s representative Mrs. Vera Chang attended the opening ceremony together with other 130 club presidents, liaisons, members and guests in total.
At the conference, Mrs. Chang first expressed the heartfelt greetings from Mrs. Quenny Lin, the President of WTIC, to the International President Mrs. Caroline Dimmers and also thanked the Hamburg club’s President Mrs. Kim Riedel and representative Mrs. Elizabeth Baars for their hard work of organizing the conference. Secondly, Mrs. Chang made an interesting PowerPoint presentation to introduce WTIC’s colorful annual events, various interest groups’ activities and informative website, which made a very deep impression to the club presidents and liaisons.
International President Mrs. Caroline Dimmers made a special announcement: Starting with July 1, 2014, an interim Advisory Council, which is composed of 3 senior WCI members, Eshrat Demougeot, Margaret Dudas and Pamela Bansbach, will take the full responsibilities of WCI President for directing WCI affairs until a new International President is elected.
During the meetings, Mrs. Chang participated in the discussion for various issues, including the future of WCI, the financial report, website editorial and new member recruitment. With her husband, Taipei Representative Office in Germany, Hamburg Office Director-General Chang, she hosted a beautifully arranged dinner for the distinguished guests from WCI. During the dinner the couple extended a warm invitation for visiting Taipei, Taiwan in the near future. International President Mrs. Caroline Dimmers conveyed her most sincere greetings to WTIC President Mrs. Queeny Lin and Executive Supervisor Mrs. Julie Chien. Other members also sent their praise and gratitude to WTIC for organized a very successful Biennial Conference in 2002. They all appreciated Director-General Chang and Mrs. Chang’s kind hospitality and generosity.
The purpose of Welcome Clubs International is to unite a worldwide network of independent international women’s clubs around the world, which shares a common goal of cross-cultural interactions through friendship and understanding.
The Biennial Conference Minutes will be disseminated to all the sister clubs shortly.
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