This is my half brother PDG Bob Button who lives in New Jersey USA. In March 2019, Bob posts this picture with the caption: So in the small world department, I was talking with past Rotary International VP Jennifer Jones and she said she was recently in Melbourne, knew my brother David and spent a couple of hours touring his nursery! Go figure.
While it did make the world that little bit smaller at that moment, it also broadened my take on Rotary. I was very fortunate to be invited to lunch with a few others at a restaurant in Berwick and had an opportunity to have a good talk with Jennifer about all sorts of things from photography, the struggle of women in Rotary, flowers and plants, Rotary projects in Cambodia and Jennifer's travels around the world.
Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history.
A current Rotary Foundation trustee, Jones has been a member since 1997 and has served Rotary as vice president, director, training leader, committee chair, moderator, and district governor. Read more on the nomination: https://on.rotary.org/2DDj58H
Jones will officially become president-nominee on 1 October if no other candidates challenge her.
It is also exciting that the 2023 Rotary International Convention, to be held in Melbourne, will be chaired by Jennifer. Congratulations Rotarian Jennifer Jones.