{"id":5231,"date":"2024-04-25T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:34:58","slug":"bridgend-welcomes-a-new-soroptimist-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/2024\/04\/25\/bridgend-welcomes-a-new-soroptimist-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgend welcomes a new Soroptimist President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #212121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2024\/05\/240424-President-Ruth-IPP-Lesley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5232\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2024\/05\/240424-President-Ruth-IPP-Lesley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2024\/05\/240424-President-Ruth-IPP-Lesley.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2024\/05\/240424-President-Ruth-IPP-Lesley-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a>Bridgend Soroptimists held their AGM at the Heronston Hotel last night and welcomed their new President, Ruth Davies-Kemp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #212121\">Outgoing president Lesley Davies thanked the members for their support over the last year and said what a privilege it has been to be President. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #212121\">Lesley then presented Ruth with the chain of office, wishing her every success for her year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #212121\">President Ruth said it was an honour to be taking up this role and she looked forward to continuing to promote Soroptimism with a busy programme. Her theme for the year is the Homelessness \u2013 the crisis on our doorstep and we would be working closely with Emmaus and other local organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #212121\">Find out more about President Ruth\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/presidents-message\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #cd894e\">https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/presidents-message\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #005596\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"temp-fix-brad\" style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif'\">President Ruth then welcomed Sue Newton as President Elect giving her the President Elect insignia of the Williamsburg brooch. The gold brooch is a replica of the Mace of the Colonial City of Williamsburg in Virginia, USA and was given to a past member of SI Bridgend, Dr Kath Snell, by SI Williamsburg one of our friendship links. When the brooch was bequeathed to the club after Kath\u2019s death, it was decided to use it as the President Elect\u2019s insignia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;background: white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emuseum.history.org\/objects\/52383\/mace-of-the-city-of-williamsburg-partially-reconstructed\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif'\">https:\/\/emuseum.history.org\/objects\/52383\/mace-of-the-city-of-williamsburg-partially-reconstructed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 0cm 0cm 15.6pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif';color: #005596\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Nunito Sans','serif'\">Following the business of the AGM, members enjoyed friendship and chatter over coffee as we look forward with interest and anticipation to the coming year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgend Soroptimists held their AGM at the Heronston Hotel last night and welcomed their new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,286],"tags":[169,12,211,17,13],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-news-2024-2025","tag-bridgend-soroptimists","tag-club-president","tag-fun-and-friendship","tag-programme-action","tag-si-bridgend"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bridgend welcomes a new Soroptimist President | News | Blog | Events | SI Bridgend and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bridgend and District : Blog &amp; News : Bridgend welcomes a new Soroptimist President : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bridgend and District . 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