JCI European Conference 2008
Photos courtesy of JCI London available here:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/JCILondon/EuropeanConference2008
Dear members!
I am very proud to announce that at the JCI European
Conference 2008 in Turku, Finland, in the face of strong competition:
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Simon Bucknall of JCI London won
the European Public Speaking Competition;
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Joe Richardson of JCI Hull & East Yorkshire, Andrew Morton of JCI Hull &
East Yorkshire and Joanne Baldwin of JCI Doncaster won the European
Debating Competition. It is worth noting that this is the second
year running that JCI UK have won the European Debating Competition and
Joanne was on both teams!
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Graeme Forrester of JCI Manchester was named as the Most Outstanding
President in Europe (in the category of 50-100 members in a chamber).
Heartfelt congratulations to all of our winners, who will represent JCI
Europe at the Word Congress in New Delhi, India in November;
In
addition, I would like to recognise:
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the JCI UK football team were runners up in the European Football
Competition to JCI Switzerland. This was an absolutely fantastic
result particularly as there were a series of injuries to our team due
to throwing themselves 110% into the competition!
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Lesley Young of JCI London and JCI UK International Director for all her
hard work in organising our delegation, ably supported by Angela Chapman
of JCI Hull & East Yorkshire and Andrew Baxter of JCI Sheffield;
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Over 50% of our delegation attended the international level for the
first time, four of whom were assisted by a Senate Bursary;
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Senate Bursary recipients were invited to the Senate Bar and enjoyed a pimms or two!
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UK Senator,
Claire Ashton was voted in as the Chairman of the European Senate;
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Adam Woodhall of JCI Leeds presented three training sessions before and
during the conference;
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Five of
our members participated in and graduated from JCI Presenter;
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Jason Smith of JCI Boston and JCI UK Finance Director judged part of the
European Awards;
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JCI UK had 11
award entries in the European Awards;
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Charlotte Best of JCI Doncaster and JCI UK Deputy National President had
the honour of presenting one of the awards during the Awards Ceremony;
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And last, but not least, the great
photographs to record such a great event – check these out on the JCI UK
website: coming soon.
My thanks to all who participated in the
European Conference and who contributed to making it such a great
success!
Kind regards
Sarah-Jane Mills
2008 National President
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