Reference
X895/5/2/2
Title
Photocopy scrapbook of Presidential Year of W.Noel H.Silkstone
Date free text
1963-1964
Production date
From: 1963 To: 1964
Scope and Content
Including, amongst other things:
- list of members (names, professions, addresses);
- newspaper cutting regarding new president, with photograph;
- Rotarian Club Speaking Contest, with photograph of winners P.Rooney, R.Mallcott and M.Brunt;
- attack by William C.Carter, president of Rotary International for Great Britain and Ireland on falling national standards, with photograph also including W.N.H.Silstone and A.C.B.Martin;
- 500 for Mayor of Bedford's Freedom from Hunger Fund from two night presentation by Rotary Club, with photograph showing W.N.H.Silkstone and wife, Mayor and Mayoress of Bedford and Mr & Mrs.J.C.Hamson;
- presentation of tankard to Stanley Harris of Bedford Amateur Operatic Society, photographs also show Mayor G.R.Bailey, W.N.H.Silkstone and D.Wells;
- speech to Rotarians by Beryl Northcott of Royal Institute of International Affairs;
- solemn high mass for President J.F.Kennedy at Midland Road Roman Catholic Church, with service order and photographs, including exchange of Rotary banner with Ralph Simester of Urbana (Ohio) Rotary Club;
- speech to Rotarians by Colonel Robert W.Relfe, Base Commander of USAF 6950 Security Wing, Chicksands;
- speech to Rotarians by Mayor G.R.Bailey;
- Rotary Ball with photographs of Sandra Cleaver, W.N.H. and Mrs.Silkstone, Mayor and Mayoress;
- speech to Rotarians by former Bedford Rotarian Joseph Godber, Minister of Labour and MP for Grantham [Lincolnshire] with photograph also including W.N.H.Silkstone, Mayor and Mayoress;
- speech to Soroptimists by Petrina Macdonald, photograph also showing K.Bell, B.J.Bellaar Spruyt, E.H.Bray, Mrs.Lucas and Mayoress;
- speech to Rotarians by W.H.Daniels regarding refusal by Bedford Meat Company to export meat;
- entertainment of Rotary Club of Baldock [Hertfordshire] at Swan Hotel, Bedford, photograph shows W.N.H.Silkstone, Gordon Taylor of Ilkeston [Derbyshire] and Edgar Greenwood of Baldock;
Level of description
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