District Information - District Governor for 2007-2008

District Governor 2007-2008
Marion and Norm Watts
 

Norm joined Rotary in 1985. He immediately took on responsibilities in the Rotary Club of Wolfville Nova Scotia and served as President in 1993-94. Within District 7820 Norm was involved as a conference organizer and as a district trainer. With a move to Vancouver Island he has became a member of the Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach, serving as a committee chair, as a director, and as President in 1998-99. In the year 2000 he was appointed Assistant Governor in District 5020.

For twenty years Norm worked as a university teacher at Acadia University in Atlantic Canada and previous to that he taught at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia Norm's career focused on education; he has also taught within the public schools as well as worked as a curriculum consultant for the Nova Scotia Department of Education.

Norm has always contributed to his community within and outside of Rotary. He has served on town recreation commissions, worked as a volunteer fireman, served as chair of curling and golf organizations, and volunteered as an elder and a steward within his church.

He was raised on Montreal Lakeshore, Quebec. There he met his wife Marion and married in 1962. Marion, who is also a Rotarian, and Norm reside in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. Their daughter, Linda, lives in Vancouver BC and she works at St Paul's Hospital in that city.

When Norm is not involved in service you might find him on a golf course, at a curling or hockey rink, or perhaps running his garden railway in his back garden.

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