{"id":484,"date":"2016-11-26T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/?p=484"},"modified":"2016-12-13T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:29:54","slug":"soroptimist-international-si-scotland-south-region-celebrates-80-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/2016\/11\/26\/soroptimist-international-si-scotland-south-region-celebrates-80-years-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimist International (SI) Scotland South Region celebrates 80 years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soroptimist International (SI) Scotland South Region recently celebrated 80 years of Soroptimist service to women and girls locally, nationally and across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Past Regional Presidents were invited to attend the celebration and 22 women were in attendance along with Regional President Melanie. Immediate Past President Marian identified that the Past Presidents had given over 600 years of service as members of Soroptimist International to women and girls. SI Glasgow<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-485\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/2016\/11\/26\/soroptimist-international-si-scotland-south-region-celebrates-80-years-of-service\/cutting-birthday-cake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-485\" src=\"\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/Cutting-Birthday-cake-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Past President Sheila from SI West Lothian and President Melanie cutting the birthday cake.\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/Cutting-Birthday-cake-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/Cutting-Birthday-cake-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/Cutting-Birthday-cake.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Past President Sheila from SI West Lothian and President Melanie cutting the birthday cake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/2016\/11\/26\/soroptimist-international-si-scotland-south-region-celebrates-80-years-of-service\/president-melanie-and-ipp-marian-with-handbags-going-to-dress-for-success-charity\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-486\" src=\"\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/President-Melanie-and-IPP-Marian-with-Handbags-going-to-Dress-for-Success-charity-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Handbag donation to \u2018Dress for Success\u2019 with President Melanie and IPP Marian\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/President-Melanie-and-IPP-Marian-with-Handbags-going-to-Dress-for-Success-charity-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/President-Melanie-and-IPP-Marian-with-Handbags-going-to-Dress-for-Success-charity-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/President-Melanie-and-IPP-Marian-with-Handbags-going-to-Dress-for-Success-charity.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handbag donation to \u2018Dress for Success\u2019 with President Melanie and IPP Marian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-487\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/2016\/11\/26\/soroptimist-international-si-scotland-south-region-celebrates-80-years-of-service\/si-ssr-past-presidents-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-487\" src=\"\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-SSR-Past-Presidents-1-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"SI SSR Past Presidents with President Melanie\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-SSR-Past-Presidents-1-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-SSR-Past-Presidents-1-768x374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/glasgow-city\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-SSR-Past-Presidents-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SI SSR Past Presidents with President Melanie (on floor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>City has 7 Past Regional Presidents within the present membership.<\/p>\n<p>A speaker, who is also a Soroptimist, gave a talk about the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/scotland.dressforsuccess.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dress for Success<\/em><\/a> whose mission is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and life.<\/p>\n<p>The photos show the Past Presidents with President Melanie, Past President Sheila from SI West Lothian and President Melanie cutting the birthday cake and the handbag donation to \u2018Dress for Success\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soroptimist International (SI) Scotland South Region recently celebrated 80 years of Soroptimist service to women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-activities","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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