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On Tuesday 24th May, Philip and Laila Dew came
to St Christopher’s to be present at the memorial service for
Heather. Despite the inevitable sadness of the occasion this was
designed as a thanksgiving particularly for Heather’s life, work and
influence here in Bahrain. The Bahraini community was well
represented and participated appropriately and meaningfully.
This process of gathering up Heather’s life continued up to the
point of the Annual Dinner Dance or Summer Ball on June 9th at the
Regency Hotel. Heather was instrumental in instigating the Summer
Ball some 6 or 7 years ago. It has now become an annual event in the
local calendar.
This year’s after dinner speaker was His Excellency Robin Lamb, the
British Ambassador, who shared some well chosen diplomatic stories
to entertain the diners before the dancing began. Our thanks and
appreciation to him and his wife Sue for their support. His
participation in the evening was particularly appropriate as he and
Philip Dew had started out their life together in the Middle East
many years ago at MECAS – the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in
the Lebanon. Tribute was paid to Heather and to all the hard work
and inspiration she had put into the dance and similar events
throughout her life both in Bahrain and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
Left: ‘Rachel and her Team!’
Unfortunately a conflict of events had been arranged for the same
night depleting our usual numbers a little. Nonetheless it came up
to its usual standard both for dinner, dance and raffle draw. The
consensus seemed to be at the end of the night. (or early next
morning!) “a good time had been had by all!”
Our thanks and gratitude to Rachel and her team for creating such a
well organised smooth running event; to ‘Nighshades’ for their
entertainment; the manager and staff of the Regency Hotel for their
quality food, care and attention; and to those who donated prizes
for the draw.
Keep your diaries open for the St Christopher’s Ball in June 2006
and let’s keep up that great tradition so ably started by Heather
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