PP Stuart Williams with Fran Bumpus and Prseident Paul Lockley
This year’s winner of the Bob Lampitt prize for the best engineering student Fran Bumpus, told us her interesting story. As a girl she was interested in technology, building a radio set at 15 for example. When it came to university time she was persuaded to study history at Cambridge. History was alright and she met her husband, an archaeologist. When her second child was approaching secondary education she went back to technology and enrolled for a Wolverhampton University engineering degree in Mechatronics – she had done physics, maths and further maths at A Level. She was one of three girls in a cohort of 90 and is the first mature female engineering student of the university. We found her story interesting and she tolerated our struggle to understand Mechatronics – think of a controlling device between a power source and a motor. A worthy winner of the prize. Stuart Williams
to the Kingswood Trust continuing our support for a local organisation that gives children a stimulating environment in which to develop and learn.
The second grant for £602.50 comes from funds raised by a Club member and will go towards replacing equipment in order to ensure a full range of environmental activities can be undertaken. 
The Tree of Remembrance has raised over £100,000 since its start in 2004. This year’s charities include; Compton Care, The M.S. Therapy Centre, The Haven (Wolverhampton), Help for Heroes and The Rotary Club of Wolverhampton’s Rotary Charities.
Remembrance Day has been observed since the en
d of the First World War and on Sunday 11th November, members of Wolverhampton’s Rotary Clubs joined service men and women and representatives of ex service and civic societies to pay respects to the fallen by the laying of wreaths of poppies at the City’s War Memorials.
Wolverhampton, to add to the 40,000 from previous years to help raise public awareness of Rotary’s campaign to eliminate the scourge of polio from the world. When we started the campaign over 30 years ago there were 1000 new cases everyday, somewhere in the world. This year to date, there have been just 25 – confined to 6 in Pakistan and 19 in Afghanistan.
