Life Membership - Fiona Macmillan

At the AGM Fiona Macmillan was awarded a life membership for her services to the Dante. Fiona has been a member of the Dante since its inception in 1960. She was the Dante Librarian for nearly thirty years and she has also been the Treasurer and the President. Her first period as librarian was from 1960-1963, before she left to live overseas. She took up the position again in 1978 and carried on through to the end of 2003. For many years she stored the library books in her house, and she would bring a selection of books to the monthly meetings. Older members can remember Fiona arriving at the meetings with several bags of books and taking them home again afterwards. In 2004 after she had retired as librarian she helped with a project to catalogue the library, and did most of the cataloguing work.

Fiona was presented with two certificates at the AGM, one in English and one in Italian. The text of the Italian version was:

La Società Dante Alighieri di Christchurch è lieta di conferire a Fiona McMillan il titolo di membro onorario a vita del Comitato Dante di Christchurch. Fiona ha svolto varie ruoli nella Dante come Membro del Comitato, Tesoriere, e Presidente. Ma è soprattutto con la sua ventennale attività di Bibliotecaria, che Fiona ha conquistato la riconoscenza e l'affetto di tutti gli Amici della Dante, andando ben oltre quanto richiesto da tale carica.