Pilot Club of Freeport Continues its Service of Excellence

Mon, Jun 18th 2012, 11:24 AM

Pilot Club of Freeport Continues its Service of Excellence

The Pilot Club of Freeport will chart what it has termed “an adventurous course through service” with the installation of its new slate of officers for 2012/2013. The 33-year-old service club held its installation dinner Saturday night at the Taino by the Sea Restaurant.

Club president Linda Williams, 31, is an Operations Support Supervisor at RBC Royal Bank Bahamas Ltd. She holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Huddersfield and is currently completing an LLM in International Finance and Banking Law from the University of Liverpool.

2012/2013 president of the Pilot Club of Freeport, Linda Williams.

A Pilot member for the past three years, Miss Williams previously served as Treasurer and President-Elect of the Pilot Club of Freeport. Installation guest speaker Senator Kwasi Thompson, lauded the ongoing community and civic-based initiatives of the Pilot Club of Freeport, and highlighted the importance of sound leadership.

Senator Kwasi Thompson addresses the annual Installation Dinner of the Pilot Club of Freeport.

“I take seriously anyone who is courageous enough to step forward in a position of leadership,” Senator Thompson said. “Leadership is not an easy thing [but] there is personal fulfillment in knowing you did something to make this place better than you met it. Serve with excellence – you do not know how many lives could benefit from your service.”

It is an admonition the Club’s new president pledges to follow. “Tonight, I take pride in leading such a diverse and talented group of individuals as we continue to carry out our service platform-raising awareness about brain related disorders and traumatic brain injuries,” Ms. Williams noted. “Indeed I am both humbled and thankful that our membership has demonstrated the confidence in me to lead them as we carry out this objective together, in Pilot friendship and service."

The Pilot Club of Freeport was chartered on April 18, 1979, and is made up of business and professional leaders who work together to improve the quality of life in communities throughout the world. The Freeport Club furthers programs that benefit persons affected by developmental disabilities, brain-related diseases including dementia, Alzheimer’s, stroke and autism as well as accident-related brain injuries.

The Pilot Club of Freeport’s 2012/2013 officers are Linda Williams, president; Lynette Bain, president-elect; Vanessa Smith, vice-president; Marlene Knowles, recording secretary; Camesha McSweeney, corresponding secretary and Loretta Parris, treasurer. Directors and coordinators are Roshan Smith, Donna Jones, Muriel Bowleg, Lakeisha McPhee, Lynette Bain, Katie Nixon, Maquella Smith and Gemini Cooper.

The newly installed officers of the Pilot Club of Freeport are pictured at the Club's Installation Dinner held at the Taino by the Sea Restaurant.

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