Alison Pilgrim, left, being welcomed into Kiwanis by her co-worker Karen Barnett.

At a recent luncheon meeting at the Britannia restaurant, Kiwanis inducted Lache Francke, Carlo Ylagan, Twyla Southwick, Scott Cummings and Alison Pilgrim into their service club.

Ms Francke is a citizen of Australia but was born and raised in Durban on the east coast of South Africa. She arrived in the Cayman Islands in January 2004 to teach at Grace Christian Academy in West Bay.

After Hurricane Ivan, she managed to secure a teaching position at St Ignatius Catholic School where she joined the St Ignatius Key Club as faculty advisor in January 2005. She was first introduced to Kiwanis and Key Club through a colleague and team leader at a public school in North Carolina, who was the leader of Builder’s Club, eight years ago.

Mr Ylagan and his wife, Twyla Southwick, have been living in Cayman for five years now. Prior to moving to Cayman, they lived in the Turks and Caicos Islands and Vancouver, Canada.

He joined Scotiabank in April after 12 years at Royal Bank of Canada.

Ms Southwick, who is from Vancouver, Canada, works as a Senior Fund Accountant at Goldman Sachs. The couple has two young daughters.

Mr Cummings is the Dean of the International College of the Cayman Islands (ICCI).

He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas with a degree in Government and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas. While attending law school, he worked in the paramedical industry in the fields of customer service and insurance investigations. As a part of that work, he was licensed as a private investigator.

After receiving his Juris-doctorate, he practiced as an attorney for 11 and a half years in Texas, focusing primarily on insurance, commercial and tort law.

In June 2007, he was appointed as the Dean of ICCI where he is the chief academic officer and is responsible for the administration of all academic and related matters.

Ms Pilgrim is a Barbadian who relocated to the Cayman Islands in January to join her husband who has been working here since early 2007.

She first became interested in Kiwanis when she volunteered as a K-Kids facilitator at the last school where she worked as an elementary school teacher. She has served over the years as a Camp Counsellor, Sunday School teacher, elementary school teacher and youth facilitator.

Kiwanis says it is a global organisation of volunteers changing the world one child and one community at a time.

For more information on Kiwanis, call Ruud at 947-9956 or Paul at 916-6331.