IWC Hospitality's Archive

Annual Report - Club Year 2005/2006

 

This 2005-2006 Club season we worked diligently to offer our New Comer Coffees and Teas. We also continued a new event for our members and new comers called Coffee Talk ! where members enjoy each other’s company in a private home and listen to a stimulating talk. We discovered this season that many of the newest members in recent years are not able to attend most daytime events due to family and work commitments. In November, Anita Wegelius Bergström and I started The Blue Hour – a very special time between day and night when the sky turns intensely blue – as a monthly gathering after work or before dinner to meet friends in a casual setting for a drink of wine or juice. This event has been well received and offers members a chance to meet in the evening.


September:
Coffee Morning. Mrs. Patricia Bivins, American Ambassador’s Residence, with piano music by Joan von Segebaden

Tea Talk ! A tea ceremony with Grace Guo at home of Mary Beth Connor

October:
Afternoon Tea. Home of Designer Debora House-Bengtsson, with poetry by Nanna Aida Svendsen & tasty fare by Jayne Berggren

Talk ! with H.E. Mrs. Victoria Popescu, Romanian Ambassador

November:
Midmorning Tea. Home of Former IWC President Ishrat Lindblad

Talk! Graphic designer Terry LeBlanc at home of Anna Fechner

The Blue Hour at The Diplomat Hotel

December:
Lucia Coffee Morning. Home of Gudrun Westin Göransson, Eva Häussling & Kukase Garba leading songs. Co-host Renate Pfeiffer

The Blue Hour at Scandic Park Hotel

January:
Coffee Morning. Home of Mrs. Kate Wacz with a special fundraiser for victims in Pakistan – co-hosted with Inga Rumert and Caroline Wallin

The Blue Hour at Café Opera

February:
Coffee Morning. Home of Anita Wegelius Bergström

The Blue Hour at Hotel Kung Carl

March:
Afternoon Fashion Show and Buffet. Mrs. Fauzah Bahauddin, wife of the

Malaysian Ambassador. Co-organized by Rosinah Ismail-Clarke

The Blue Hour at The Diplomat Hotel

The Anniversary Luncheon. Hospitality slide presentation, assembled by Inga Rumert, Anita Wegelius Bergström, design by Debora House- Bengtssson and special gift wrapping by Diane Gilbert.

April:
Coffee and Tea Morning. Home of Mary Beth Connor

The Blue Hour at The Grand Hotel

May:
Talk ! with Maria Faxander on Women and Sailing

The Blue Hour at The Grand Hotel

A very special thanks to the remarkable Hospitality Committee. A heartfelt thanks to those committee members who gave their time, ideas and support this season, especially Inga Rumert, Kate Wacz, Debora House Bengtsson, Anita Wegelius Bergström, Anikó Balogh, Diane Gilbert, Caroline Wallin, Mary Beth Connor, Kate Graham, Grace Guo and Maria Faxander who worked on several projects. Thanks to all the ladies who contributed to the Kate Wacz Coffee Morning Appeal to help build permanent housing for victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. We raised over SEK 5,500.

I joined the IWC to spend time with women from different backgrounds and beliefs. It has been a pleasure to meet so many more of you this season. I have been honoured to serve as the Vice President in charge of hospitality – defined as a gracious openness to ideas and opinions. It has been truly rewarding to uphold this Club principle through my work with you all this season.

Respectfully submitted,

Lauren Dyer Amazeen
Vice-President