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Bulletin Board
Welcome Clubs International (WCI) Board of Director Meeting in London May 2015
The London trip was a wonderful combination of business and pleasure. The Welcome Clubs International Board of Directors meeting was led by Pam Bansbach, Welcome Clubs International President. Dee Phillips Medawar helped arrange the meeting rooms, lunches and events. The meetings were held at the Royal Automobile Club and lasted for two days. We had a dinner with one of the local London Clubs and a luncheon with the FIWAL Club. The usual business items were covered like the review of the WCI budget, WCI web site, the sites for the next meetings and the next Welcome Clubs International Convention. It was determined the next Executive Meeting will be hosted by the Berkshires Club in Williams Town, Mass., in October of this year. The meeting concluded with exciting news, the Prague Club is graciously hosting the next international convention in May 2016.
Sight-seeing in London included theatre in London. We saw, “Beyond Bollywood” and “Les Miserable”. We did have some time to visit famous historic places in London including, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Piccadilly, museums, etc. The London trip was a wonderful combination of business and pleasure. The post trip was a four day Scotland tour. So, ten of us took the train from London to Edinburgh. The train ride to Edinburgh was a pleasure, the train system is excellent, and the views of the countryside beautiful. We marveled at the endless rapeseed fields that bloomed bright yellow. Our Scottish guide met us at the train station and off we went to explore Scotland, umbrellas in hand. We went by mini bus across the island to Oban, the along the Loch Ness to Inver- ness, where the Ness meets the North Sea. We saw Urquhart Castle at Loch Ness and the views fulfilled every dream of the Scottish Highlands. A visit at a distillery gave us insight into the production of single malt whiskey.
As we approached Edinburgh we visited the Culloden Battlefield and saw the museum of this battle between the Scotts and the British. In 1746, followers of the house of Start made an attempt to regain the British throne, and lost in one of the bloodiest battles in history. Thus, the fate of Scotland was sealed, and as we know, the conflict is not over. We spent the next two nights at a hotel in Edinburgh and enjoyed the Edinburgh Castle, The Palace of Holyrod House, the Royal mile, The Scottish Museum, a literary tour and last but not least St Giles Cathedral including the amazing Thistle Chapel. This was a magnificent working vacation we will all remember because of the wonderful friendships we made with women from all over the world.
Debi Tepper
Bulletin Board
2014 WCI 13th Biennial Conference in Hamburg
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.
By Vera Chang
Wife of Director-General of Hamburg Office
Bulletin Board
2013 WCI Istanbul Board Meeting
The annual board meeting of Welcome Clubs International was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from May 11 to 16. The Presidents and Liaisons from the sister clubs and the members of WCI Executive Committee attended. WTIC Liaison Vivienne Shen and Treasurer Cecilia Sa were assigned to be the club representatives to the meeting.
At the meeting, the board approved the International Women's Club of Hong Kong as a new WCI sister club and reviewed current expenses. International Women's Club of Hamburg, the host club for the 2014 WCI conference, invited members from all the sister clubs to attend the conference on May, 19 ~ 23, 2014 by presenting their beautiful
WCI purpose is to unite a worldwide network of independent international women clubs which share a common goal of cross-cultural interaction through friendship.
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