Our speaker today made Rotary history, being one of the first women to join a Rotary Club. In 1987 Sylvia Whitlock also became the first woman to serve as a Club President. She was an engaging and entertaining speaker, talking about the long fight to get women accepted into Rotary, fighting all the way up to the Supreme Court. For 11 years her local club was un-chartered as the case made its way through the court system.
Her club was incredibly supportive during this period, calling themselves an X-Rotary club, even having pins made of the Rotary Symbol covered by a big X. It was a great presentation and I encourage anyone that missed it to check out one of her many interviews online. Here is one :
https://www.oneworldrotary.org/stories/program-women-in-rotary-dr-sylvia-whitlock. You can also read about the fight to allow women into Rotary in her book
Women Also Serve. (Note, she did not mention either of these during her talk.)
Until next week,
Wes Willett
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