New Rotary boss

NEW president of Dover Rotary Club is Dover-born retired schoolmaster Philip Janaway who took over this week from plastics factory owner David Pike.

Phil, 70, an old boy of Dover Grammar School, retired in 1994 as deputy head of Astor secondary school of which he was acting head for a spell. He spent the first two years of his educational career at Elvington primary school.

The River resident is a former president of Dover Operatic and Dramatic Society, the organisation through which he met his wife Jill, a fellow teacher. At one time he played for Dover Rugby Club and Cosmopolitan cricket club Phil, whose grandfather was Commodore of the Dover and Folkestone cross-Channel fleet, joined Dover Rotary Club in 1983.

For six years he and Jill ran the Rotary Club bookshop in the Charlton Centre that raised thousands of pounds "for local charities." He has a busy year ahead when Rotary clubs around the world will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the international organisation in America.

Handing over the reins, retiring president David Pike recalled that during the last 12 months the club, with others, had raised £13,000 for charities.