Friendship Link Correspondent visits SI Joondalup

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Mair Pinnell was delighted to meet members of SI Joondalup and their partners at a BBQ in January. Jennie van Driel and husband Keith organised the evening and hosted a total of 17 Soroptimists and their husbands who were all pleased to meet Mair and exchange information and friendship. She has been coming out to Western Australia from Leeds in England for many years to spend Christamas with her brother and his family and to re-connect with SI Joondalup. Mair has a long association with Joondalup; when we were chartered as a club in 1978 a member of Leeds came out to accompany the President of GBI and a Friendship Link was formed between the two clubs with Mair as the correspondent.

Mair went on to become the Federation Friendship Link for GBI and she has continued being a stalwart correspondent and friend to SI Joondalup. During the evening President Elect Kate Haydock welcomed Mair and gave her a gift of a silk purse made by the women of the Tabitha Foundation of Cambodia. The women who weave the silk and make the purses are widowed mothers, landmine victims street women and Aids Suferers, and this project gives them dignity and an income. In return Mair presented two of her dear friends and foundation members of SI Joondalup, Verna Ramm and Noreen Biffen each with a single red rose. She said how pleased she was to meet with the members of SI Joondalup again and she congratulated them on their Programme of Service.