THE SA Country Women’s Association will have a new president from next month.
Darke Peak member Roslyn Schumann will take the president’s chair once again.
Below, she shares some of her experiences with the association.
Name: Roslyn Schumann
Occupation: Retired farmer/Primary school teacher
Where are you from: I have lived on Eyre Peninsula nearly all of my life except for a few years in Adelaide completing high school and attending teachers college
What SACWA branch do you belong to: Darke Peak
Why did you get involved with the SACWA: My mother was a member of this branch too so I knew a bit about the association. When I married, I was invited to a craft session and learnt to tie knots in string so macrame was the bait. The wide range of activities that the association provides was the hook that kept me. My first meeting was the Annual Meeting so I obviously like meetings.
What do you most enjoy about the SACWA: The opportunities to learn new skills, participate in all sorts of activities and to know that SACWA can and does make a difference for women and their families in our communities. The friendships made over the years are a real bonus and form a very strong support network.
What are you most looking forward to about being SACWA president: Working with members across the state and seeing, firsthand, local initiatives and projects. Being part of a large team of volunteers who can make a difference.
What is something you'd like to influence within SACWA: The dissemination of knowledge about the association’s processes and policies so that members, old and new, can achieve and participate to the fullest extent possible. If members are active, happy and aware of the possibilities within SACWA then that augurs well for SACWA.
Besides SACWA, what are your other interests: My family and caravan trips with John (my husband), handicrafts, reading, jigsaws and crossword puzzles. Visiting friends and watching my grandchildren play sport as they grow up into lovely young people are to be looked forward to as well.
If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be: It is so often said that we can’t/shouldn’t live in the past but we should be applying the lessons we can learn from the past.
What's your favourite place to visit in SA: That’s too hard to say – Eyre Peninsula’s beautiful beaches, the Gawler Ranges, Flinders Ranges, the Murray River, the Barossa Valley, South East, the Far North, the list goes on. I can recommend SA as a great place to visit.
If you could sit down and chat with anyone in the world, who would it be and why: A hard choice but I think that I would like to talk with another woman who is also living in a small rural community somewhere else in the world. I suspect that we might have many hopes and concerns in common.
