Business at the 13th October meeting included a brief mention of the evening’s later Council meeting, which will be discussing the upcoming Casino night and this year’s ‘Rotary Post’. We were also pleased to hear that Colin Campbell, who has retired from active club membership, will become an honorary member. During his active membership years Colin made significant contributions to the work of Rotary.

Speaker for the evening was club member William Duncan who entertained us with his usual ‘slabbers’ as he calls it. It was nonetheless very interesting to hear his anecdotes of the early days of the club. He started off by mentioning where Anstruther Rotary first met (in Elie) before moving to the Smugglers Inn. He went on to speak of some early members and their involvement in WW2. He had a fund of anecdotes about quite a few members from past times.

For more recent members it was interesting too to hear about the club’s ‘Christmas Post’. Now long established, it was originally started in order to raise funds for the Rotary Polio Plus campaign. Started in 1985, this remains an active campaign, that over the years has raised $2.1 billion from countless volunteer hours, to help eradicate this dreadful disease for 3 billion children in 122 countries.  

In response to this entertaining talk, President Ian Brunton proposed a vote of thanks noting William’s memorable quote that ‘Behind every successful man is  a very surprised Mother-in-law’!! - we may hear more of this.