Rotary Club Hermanus Community Page

Name	Year
J P De Villiers	1948-49
A Van Harmelen	1949-50
A N Maugham-Brown	1950-51
A Grant	1951-52
N Northy	1952-53
R Rechtman	1953-54
V De Kock	1954-55
B I Figg	1957-58
N Northy	1952-53
B I Figg	1955-56
B I Figg	1956-57
B I Figg	1957-58
F Swingler	1958-59
L Lawrence	1959-60
A Grant	1960-61
A Grant	1961-62
J Smith	1962-63
J E Seeliger	1956-57
J P De Villiers	1963-64
A Stewart	1964-65
CGW Gillespie	1952-53
J Christie Smith	1966-67
P Wannenburg	1967-68

Community Page

YOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

Our first incoming student was Kim Hastwell from Busselton, W. Australia. She arrived in February 1970. Other incoming students have been: Claire Neil, Adelaide, S. Australia; Marta Salasporras, new mexico, U.S.A. ; Olivia Lizagabow, Adelaide, S. Australia; Rob Janus, Cessnok, N.S.W. , Australia; Colin Smith, New York State, U.S.A. ; Jessica Conoplia, Queensland, Australia and Renata Aubreu, from Brazil, S. America

At present we have Luke McDonald with us, from Brisbane, Australia. Cheryl Mcfarlane who went to slippery Rock U.S.A. was the first outgoing student followed by: Lynn Christie-Smith, muncy, U.S.A.; Annatjie Scheepers, Timaru, New Zealand; Vicki Erskine, Arizona, U.S.A.; Cecile Burger, Busselton, W. Australia; Dirk Currie, Denmark; bevan Pope, Colorado, U.S.A. ; and Elizabeth Lambrechts who is in Brazil, S. America

GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE TOURS

We have hosted teams from Israel, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Nigeria, Sweden.

FELLOWSHIP EXCHANGE TOURS

The Club has been involved with these tours since 1990. We have hosted incoming tours form Missouri, U.S.A.; Worcestershire/Gloucester; Derbyshire; Devon and Austria and have taken part in tours to Austria, Worcestershire/Gloucester, Australia and New Zealand.

INTERACT CLUB

A club was formed in 1989 with pupils of the Hermanus High School but it did not last very long. It was revived by Lizette Louw in 1997 and is going well at present.

BENEFACTORS

Our Club has been most fortunate to have had three main benefactors over the years, namely HR HILL, AB MOLLERGREN and Rehna Cloete. One of the Clubs main benefactors was Mr HR Hill and this was due to the considerable influence of Cyril Gillespie. A large sum of money was left in trust with one of the Banks, with the direction that a proportion of the income had to be paid to the Club to provide amenities for the people of Hermanus. He was a brilliant Consulting Mining Engineer with Union Corporation and moved permanently to Hermanus in the 1940's. He had 3 children 2 sons and a daughter. One son was killed during the last World War and the other died tragically afterwards. Mr Hill died in 1964.

Rehna (known as Tiny) Cloete was the wife of the renowned author, Stuart Cloete. She was very fond of animals and spent many years working for the Animal Welfare Society. She left a large sum of money to the club to be used for the Aged in town.

Mr AB Mollergren was a retired owner of an engineering business in Benoni during the early 1940's. He used to drive a different one each day to Pretoria and back home to Benoni.