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St Andrews in Focus - Issue 39 - March / April 2010

From the Editor

I know the snow and ice already seem a long time ago, but I really do want to thank Elspeth of Guardbridge and her team for distributing St Andrews in Focus as quickly as they could following the unexpected adverse conditions last January. Elspeth refused to allow any of her helpers to be endangered, and I’m sure all the magazine’s readers respect her for it, as I do.

Idly watching a vapour trail crossing high up in a clear blue sky one day, it struck me that there were a seemingly impossible 200 or 400 people sitting in that tiniest speck of an aircraft. And that set me thinking how truly insignificant we are within the vastness of our universe. Largely because it suits us, we forget that. Or maybe it’s because that vastness, and what it might really mean, frightens us and we’d rather not know. All the same, I think we should dim our street lights at night (as they do in Germany and other countries) not just in order to save electricity, but because it would allow us to see the stars again. Seeing that immense beauty, that infinity of wonder, would be a salutary reminder of who and where we are – it could even bring back some much-needed humility.

Back to our earth: spring is here, with all its promise! Let’s look ahead to what I trust will be happier times for all of us.

Flora Selwyn

Press Release - Rotarians honour magazine founder

From The Courier 24th June 2009

THE FOUNDER and editor of the award-winning St Andrews in Focus magazine, Flora Selwyn, has been honoured by local Rotarians.

At a ceremony in the Best Western Scores Hotel, Mrs Selwyn was presented with the 2009 Community and Vocational Service Award -- the highest accolade given to a non-Rotarian -- by Dennis Hopper, president of St Andrews Rotary Club.

Mrs Selwyn first came to St Andrews as a student in the 1950s and her love of the town brought her back almost four decades later following the death of her husband. It also inspired the St Andrews in Focus magazine that she founded six years ago. Read More >>

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