The PDC's Circle
It would be wrong to call this a Club within a Club, but this a group of ladies meet three times per year, September, pre-Christmas and then at the end of the I.W. year. to maintain their links of friendship. Each one has given her time and expertise to maintain and develop the ethos of District 12 and each one has treasured memories of her time in office. We can boast a present membership of 23 dating back to 1976. We also have an associate member of D12 PDC's, who is Pat Brockman, who had been a DC in another area before retiring to Eastbourne in D12. We are often asked what we find to talk about - but talking has never been a problem for us! The truth of the matter is that we talk about virtually anything OTHER than Inner Wheel. In 2024 we met at Little Silvers Country Hotel and the Great House. The meeting in June 2025 was held at Bartellas, in Meopham.
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| Christine Davies and Sheila Cragg joint organisers of the club for 2024 to 2025 at Bartella's, Meopham |
Hazel Hedges, Ruth Portway and Valerie Martin at Bartella's, Meopham |
Joan Styles, Hazel Hedges and |Betty Selfe MGA |
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| Judith Cooper, Jane Styles and Betty Selfe MGA at our Christmas Lunch |
Liz Jackson, Liz Weaver MGA, Christine Davies, Joan Styles, Ruth Portway and Hazel Hedges at our Christmas lunch |
Margaret Hawkins, Lynn O'Meara and Pat Brockman at our Christmas lunch |
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| Pat Brockman, Jane Styles, Wendy Smith and Chris Head-Rapson at our Summer lunch |
Pat Sanford, Sheila Cragg, Valerie Martin and Liz Weaver MGA at our Summer lunch |
Christine Davies, Liz Jackson, Margaret Hawkins and Judith Cooper at our Summer lunch |
The chairman for 2025 to 2026 is Pat Sanford.
District 12 Chairmen from 1932 to the present day
1932-1934 Mrs. Webber
1934-1936 Mrs. Price
1936-1938 Mrs. Billingham
1938-1939 Vera Rice
1939-1942 Mrs. Valon
1942-1943 Mrs. Austen
1943-1945 Mrs. Lumley-Robinson
1945-1946 Mrs. Wilkinson
1946-1947 Mrs. Lack
1947-1948 Mrs. Fletcher
1948-1949 Mrs. H. Featherstone
1949-1950 Mrs. A.F. Mullock
1950-1951Mrs. J.T. Davison
1951-1952 Mrs. T.C. McIlroy
1952-1953 Mrs. H.E. Kettle
1953-1954 Mrs. H. Lester
1954-55 Mrs. Sylvia Moore
1955-56 Mrs H Cloke
1956-57 Mrs C.M. Bradley
1957-58 Mrs L.A. Gripper
1958-59 Mrs. L. Lack
1959-1960 Mrs. D.C. Hammond-Williams
1960-1961 Mrs. Ivy Bowen
1961-1962 Mrs. K. Campbell-Mackenzie
1962-1963 Mrs. D. Anderson
1963-1964 Mrs. F. Newman
1964-1965 Mrs. D.S. Maclachlan
1965-66 Mrs. Violet Barden
1966-1967 Mrs. H. Smith
1967-68 Mrs. Elsie Kean
1968-69 Mrs. Thelma Heddle
1969-1970 Mrs. Lena Morton
1970-1971 Mrs. R. Proudler
1971-72 Mrs. Sybil Hole
1972-1973 Mrs. H. Hail
1973-74 Mrs. Freda Oakes
1974-1975 Mrs. M. Chatfield
1975-76 Mrs. Eda Lord
1976-1977 Betty Selfe
1977-78 Audrey Hammond
1978-1979 Audrey Sarjeant
1979-80 Jean Jolliffe
1980-81 Kay Polley
1981-82 Min Gutteridge
1982-83 Jan Wicks
1983-84 Ann Smith
1984-85 Valerie Blackman
1985-86 Kathleen Vesey
1986-87 Rita Walsh
1987-88 Valerie Martin
1988-89 Yvonne Khan
1989-90 Barbara Barber
1990-91 Aline Boswell
1991-92 Joan Pettit
1992-93 Wendy Smith
1993-94 Elizabeth Weaver MGA
1994-95 Pat Stokes-Mason (Robson)
1995-96 Joan Knight
1996-97 Edna Bennett
1997-98 Gwen Banks
1998-1999 Diana Taplin
1999-2000 Ann Dunmore
2000-2001 Barbara Bingham
2001-2002 Freda Hampson
2002-2003 Pauline Knill
2003-2004 Marion Luckhurst
2004-2005 Valerie Procter
2005-2006 Elizabeth Jackson
2006-2007 Patricia Fletcher
2007-2008 Beryl Pendlebury-Green (Simmonds)
2008-2009 Sheila Cragg
2009-2010 Margaret Hawkins
2010-2011 Frances Allen
2011-2012 Elizabeth Martin
2012-2013 Lynn O'Meara
2013-2014 Judith Cooper
2014-2015 Sheila Grainger
2015 -2016 Hazel Hedges
2016 -2017 Dot Boardman
2017-2018 Ruth Portway
2018 - 2019 Joan Styles
2019 - 2020 Elizabeth Lister
2020 - 2021 Christine Davies and Sheila Cragg (jointly)
2021 - 2022 Pat Sanford
2022 - 2023 Judith Cooper, Elizabeth Weaver, Elizabeth Martin and Betty Selfe (jointly)
2023 - 2024 Chris Head-Rapson
2024 - 2025 Rosemarie Barnes
Margarette Golding Award (MGA)
In 2025 Elizabeth Weaver, who was Association Treasurer, was awarded a MGA for her
services to music in the district.
In 2019 Betty Selfe, who was International Inner Wheel Secretary, was awarded a MGA for her
services to the Magistrates Courts and the Prison Service.
We are very proud of both these ladies.
Manchester Convention 2024
International Convention 2024 held in Manchester celebrated 100 years since Inner Wheel was formed on 10th January 1924 in Manchester.
'Golden Girls' (ladies who had been in Inner Wheel for 50 years or more) were acknowledged and the longest serving member of Inner Wheel, PDC Betty Selfe MGA, from the Gravesend club, who has been a member of Inner Wheel for over 70 years was applauded by all the audience and awarded a special certificate as the longest serving member of Inner Wheel in the world. Here she is with International President Trish Douglas and Immediate Past International President Zeni.
