AUTHOR/ATHLETE TO ADDRESS LOCAL ROTARY, THURSDAY

  

International athlete and author Roberta Scholdan will address the next meeting of the Rotary Club of Washington County, Thursday afternoon.

Scholdan represented the U.S. in the 1947 European Figure Skating Championships.

She is also the author of Echoes of My African Heart, a collection of her personal experiences and reflections of 12 years of volunteer work at the Kenya Museum Society, memorable safaris and travels in 11 Africa countries.

She has journeyed from the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic and to the Mediterranean by truck, canoe, raft, camel and mule, and sometimes on foot.

The public is invited to attend Thursday’s luncheon at Cannery Kitchen, 314 East Alamo Street. Attendees who want to eat lunch should check in at the Rotary table just inside the dining hall. Cost for the buffet lunch is $10.