{"id":1927,"date":"2015-04-09T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T08:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:15:48","slug":"new-president-takes-up-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2015\/04\/09\/new-president-takes-up-post\/","title":{"rendered":"New President takes up post"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1929\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/1-IMG_2343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1929\" src=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/1-IMG_2343-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"outgoing President Lesley, incoming President Pat\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/1-IMG_2343-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/1-IMG_2343.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">outgoing President Lesley, incoming President Pat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1930\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/2-IMG_2342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1930\" src=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/2-IMG_2342-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"2-IMG_2342\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/2-IMG_2342-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2015\/04\/2-IMG_2342.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">incoming President Elect Mary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the AGM last night, members said a &#8216;thank you and job well done&#8217; to outgoing President Lesley and welcomed President Pat.\u00a0She in turn, passed the chain of office of President Elect\u00a0to Mary.<\/p>\n<p>President Pat said she was delighted to take up the post and looked forward to working with us in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>In her opening speech, President Pat said that she had heard the Mayor&#8217;s Lady of Shrewsbury recently say that she was intending to have a new outfit for each event in the year &#8211; but she would make sure that each outfit came from a &#8216;previously loved&#8217; outlet.\u00a0 Linked to this, President Pat said she would like us to start each meeting with a piece of news as, despite our best efforts at business meetings, we did leave at the end of the night without having had the chance to speak to everyone there.<\/p>\n<p>President Pat also likened us each to cogs in\u00a0the Lichfield Soroptimist wheel &#8211; with the Federation focus on membership, she hoped that we would be able to be open about any concerns we had so that the whole club had a part in moving forward in friendship.\u00a0 She said we continued to be ably guided by Founder President Angela and are a well regarded club and she wanted us to make ourselves known in the wider district around Lichfield.<\/p>\n<p>President Pat will share her vision for the coming year at our next meeting &#8211; the focus will be on mental health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the AGM last night, members said a &#8216;thank you and job well done&#8217; to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New President takes up post | News | Blog | Events | SI Lichfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Lichfield and District : Blog &amp; News : New President takes up post : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Lichfield and District . 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