{"id":669,"date":"2012-10-11T23:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=669"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:59:53","slug":"past-presidents-lunch-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2012\/10\/11\/past-presidents-lunch-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Presidents &#8211; Lunch with Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Past presidents of SI South Lancashire gathered at Statham Lodge Hotel, Lymm, for their annual lunch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-671\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2012\/10\/Soroptimist-Regional-Presidents-from-1960s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-671\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2012\/10\/Soroptimist-Regional-Presidents-from-1960s.jpg\" alt=\"soroptimist regional presidents from 1960s onwards\" width=\"301\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six decades of SI South Lancashire presidents. Back row l-r: June Wilson (1967\/8), Pauline Birkett (1971\/2), Alison Hall (1985\/6), Margaret Emsley (1998\/9), Julia de Sousa (2000\/1). Front row: Denise Baldwin (2011\/2) and guest speaker Elizabeth Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senior past presidents from as far back as the mid-1960s mingled with successive generations, as well as with those who are \u2018in line\u2019 for the regional presidency. This is always a happy occasion \u2013 good company in comfortable surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Messages from past presidents who couldn&#8217;t attend was followed by the toast to &#8220;absent friends&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The current president, Denise Baldwin, introduced her guest speaker Elizabeth Williams, who is Vice-Chair of the Gaskell Society&#8217;s &#8220;<a title=\"link to the gaskell society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaskellsociety.co.uk\/grove.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of 84 Plymouth Grove<\/a>&#8220;. Elizabeth gave an informative and entertaining after-lunch account of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell&#8217;s life and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of this relaxed and most enjoyable event the guests dispersed &#8211; as always, in friendship.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-678\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2012\/10\/Soroptimist-Regional-Presidents-from-SI-Manchester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-678\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2012\/10\/Soroptimist-Regional-Presidents-from-SI-Manchester-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"soroptimist regional presidents from si manchester\" width=\"233\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Past Regional Presidents from SI Manchester: l-r Kathleen Beavis (1989\/90), Val Moss (2007\/8), Yvonne Mullen (1978\/9)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past presidents of SI South Lancashire gathered at Statham Lodge Hotel, Lymm, for their annual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Past Presidents - Lunch with Friends | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Past Presidents - Lunch with Friends : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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