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Joy Greasley is a DEWI member, Denman College Tutor, Trainer of Trustees, WI Advisers and members, and WI Adviser for Surrey Federation. Until 2009 Joy was Vice Chair of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Joy has been a member of Dormans Evening WI since 1985 and has been Secretary, Press Secretary and President. In the Surrey Federation of WIs she sat on sub-committees, chaired the Organisation Sub-committee, was Denman representative, Vice-Chairman and Chairman. Co-opted on to the NFWI Board in 2004, she was Chair of the Training Committee and NFWI Vice-chair until 2009. She trains Federation Trustees, WI Advisers and individual members. She is Denman College tutor for the Public Speaking course, "Can you hear me at the back?", whilst her outside interests include gardening, jigsaws and people-watching.
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Enid Marten joined Dormans Evening WI in 1966 to make friends when she was a newcomer to Dormansland. She was soon on the WI committee, first as Secretary, then as President. She was co-opted on to the Surrey Federation Organisation Committee and appointed a Voluntary County Organiser in 1974, where she was responsible for the formation of new WIs in the county. She was Surrey's Denman College Representative and also Surrey Press Officer. She was co-opted on to the National Federation Organisation in 1977 and on to the teaching panel at Denman College, which involved training of VCOs and helping with committee work and public speaking. She retired as a VCO in 1987 but went on to become a Justice of the Peace in 1988, sitting at Redhill, Dorking, Guildford, Epsom, and Staines Magistrates Courts. She found adjudicating on family matters particularly rewarding, where she felt she could really make a difference in children's lives. She is married with two grown-up children. She loves reading, walking, cooking and talking. She is a Governor of Dormansland Primary School, helps with Meals on Wheels, The League of Friends of St John's Church, is Joint Editor of The Village Voice parish magazine, and is a Trustee of Lingfield United Charities.
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Marlene Hughes returned from 22 years of living and working in California in 2002. While there she ran a preschool and children’s centre for 12 years, and then worked in an inner city high school helping administer an early education programme to newly arrived refugees from war-torn Somalia, as well as being attendance and truancy officer. Once back in the UK and newly retired Marlene joined DEWI in an effort to integrate into her new community and make new friends. She was elected onto the WI committee and later served as joint president for two years. Through DEWI she is involved in walking, mahjong, reading, looking after the Memorial Flowerbed and assisting with the Dormansland Carnival. She became involved with local volunteering opportunities and cooks for Meals On Wheels. She is also secretary for CARE in East Grinstead and Lingfield, and The Monica Cantwell Trust which provides homes for life for young adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy, and she is Clerk to the Trustees of the Lingfield United Charities. She is married with three grown stepsons and enjoys reading, walking and, especially, gardening.
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Gudrun Cundey was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She met her English husband in Paris and they settled down in Lingfield in 1968, and had two children - Simon and Sarah - and they now have four lovely grandchildren. Gudrun has lived in the area for over forty years, divided between the villages of Lingfield and Dormansland. In Lingfield she was involved in St Bernard's Playschool and ran two keep fit classes for adult education over many years in Smallfield and Lingfield during the 1970s. Since moving to Dormansland in the 1980s, Gudrun has enjoyed the local Horticultural Society and the WI, which has provided her with friendship, fun and forward thinking. Gudrun is also a volunteer at the local Red Cross shop and is a room guide at Standen, a National Trust property near East Grinstead.
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Back in December 1999 Carol Hunt was looking to join a local WI to make friends and to be involved within a community. Having found Dormans Evening WI, she joined on her own and was made to feel very welcome and quickly found that WI was a place where friendship spanned the generations. She was later to be known as "Young Carol a breath of fresh air" or some would say "Bossy Boots". Carol enrolled on the committee as Treasurer for two years and gladly got involved in organising the annual floats and other subcommittee events, which she found great fun. She met her husband in South Croydon in 1978 and has been married for 29 years and has two lovely sons, Greg and Paul. She started her life as a baby in Blindley Heath.... years ago, lived and travelled all over the South East and ended up back in Horne (they say life is a circle). Carol started a local keep fit class in the local hall for all ages where she was given the nickname of "Hitler". But to her surprise the ladies kept coming back, so the class went on for a few years until she had to stop to have her first child. She has worked in the travel industry and Human Resources. Her interests are walking, cycling, gym, water colour painting and travel. |