Brantford News
Posted by Rita Marie Hadley
DG KEVIN VISITS
The Rotary Club of Brantford was highly honoured to host District Governor Kevin Crosby twice during this past month! The first occasion saw Kevin introduce Julia Phelps, Rotary International Director 2014-16. Julia’s early service in Rotary included hosting several Ambassadorial Scholars and her career was in education system leadership. It was fitting that Kevin’s return engagement also continued the thread of education. With Kevin having a significant tie to education, being a founding board member of the Buffalo-based Girls Education Collaborative, we were delighted he made the trip to celebrate support for higher education.
Shefali Clerk, Chair of the Rotary District 7090 Scholarship Committee and past president of the South Amherst New York Rotary Club, joined District Governor Kevin in presenting a $2000 District scholarship for 1st year university studies to Maggie Kyle. Maggie was one of our club’s 2013-14 outbound Youth Exchange students. Following her year hosted in France, Maggie has completed high school and is currently studying at York University in Toronto.
Members were pleased to see a local student benefit from Foundation Donation dollars coming back to support further education.