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VISIT TO PERTH BY INTERNATIONAL INNER WHEEL
PRESIDENT KAMALA RAMAKRISHNAN
MARCH 2008

L to R: His Worship, Mayor of Melville, Russell Aubrey, IIW President, Kamala Ramakrishnan, IWA President, Liz Ralston, and
Olive Lovitt, A40 IW District Chairman

In March 2008, the International Inner Wheel President, Kamala Ramakrishnan, from Chennai, India, made a week longofficial visit to Perth, at the invitation of Inner Wheel Australia President Liz Ralston and members.

The varied itinerary included visits to the Rotary WA Cord Blood Bank project and the Wheelchairs For Kids , a project of the Rotary Club of Scarborough , overwhelmingly supported by Scarborough Inner Wheel members who have produced in excess of 13 000 wheelchair cushions for worldwide distribution.

The Inner Wheel Club of Melville, were joined by Rotarians for a ‘Sundowner’ at the environmentally sensitive area, Piney Lakes. Following the welcome to IIW President Kamala by His Worship the Mayor of Melville, Russell Aubrey, who is an Honorary Rotarian, Rotary Club of Applecross, District 9460, a tree planting was arranged along with a plaque to commemorate this significant visit.

Although unclear in this photo, IIW President Kamala is wearing the beautiful gold presidential chain presented to International Inner Wheel in 1977 by Past IWA President, Gwen Davies, on behalf of Australian members. It was purchased with funds left over from the International IW Convention held in Sydney in 1975 (the first international convention to be held outside Great Britain and Ireland). IIW then attached the beautiful symbolic blue and gold medallion of the world which existed prior to the gold chain. (Mrs Marie-Claire Cronstedt of Sweden was the first IIW President to wear the chain.)


L to R: IWA Vice President, Joan Beech-Jones , IWA President, Liz Ralston, IIW President, Kamala Ramakrishnan, IWA Secretary, Margaret Minton and IWA National Representative, Val Corva	The IIW Presidential Chain

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